There is something magical that happens when you shoot the beauty in the glimmering dews of a fall morning in Bellingham.
Seeing a childhood friend's baby for the first time gives me goose bumps, and I don't mean in the ushy gushy type of way when most see a baby. It's hard to explain, but I will do my best.
At 25 years old I am starting to see some of my truest friends starting their own journey as new parents. It's interesting watching them shift their lives into a more mature, a more loving, and conscious creature of the universe. I mean for god sakes, they are raising a human being!
I mean…we were once the kiddos who were running around as little tyrants. At birthday parties, school dances, and the neighborhood playgrounds. We had made those childhood memories last. Some stories stuck more than others, but what I do mostly remember was laughing about everything with my friends and the young ones around us.
Life is too short. I know that is the most over used cliche of all cliches, but its still damn near the truest one. When I am watching my childhood friends raise the people they love most in this life, it shows the truest person they are in those moments. These children will turn into an individual of their own, who will soon be playing with their childhood best friends at their birthday parties, their school dances and their neighborhood playgrounds…. Life just seems SO SHORT. How did I get here already?
I was trekking solo into the land of the official "National Training Center" for the Army, and had been driving 30 minutes deep into the desert hills of Fort Irwin. Someone I have had the pleasure of calling my best friend for the past 2 decades lives on the base with her 3 boys and her husband.
The little ones called out "Auntie Brie!" Look at me do this!!!", while I tried to capture every jump and skip they were making in those moments. Life I tell ya…. Where the heck does that time go?
when we were the kids playing on the playground, and now it was us playing with the next of kin on the playground.
From 14 to 24 years old. Where Did the TIME GO?
I remembered when this one was born. 22 years later and this girl is in the prime of her youth, with beauty and empathy as her sidekicks.