Category Archives: Baby

Jeremy and I grew up together.  We met while I was in 5th grade and he in 4th.  Our families went to the same church.  I had 2 sisters and no brothers, and over time Jeremy became our “adopted brother.”  Even though we lived in different cities, we saw each other at least twice a week, if not more, as he hung out regularly at the Davis home.  As we grew up and graduated from high school, we still hung out; going on youth trips together as “counselors” (What a joke as we were only a few years older than the kids we were supposed to be mentoring),  hanging out together, me getting advise about guys from him and him receiving advise from me on girls.  Over time he met his amazing wife Elizabeth and Eva was born a few years after that.  This past weekend I had yet another chance to hang out with their family and do a session for them.  Being that we hadn’t seen each other in almost a year, and that I had just met his new son, we had to do coffee afterward, just to catch up.

One of the reasons I had not seen Jeremy for a year is because he is a soldier and was deployed during part of 2008.  We found this great tribute to the soldiers at the Coon Rapids Dam which fit their family perfectly.  (Elizabeth used to be on active duty too (as an officer), but is now retired!)

I almost thought of throwing up a photo from 1992 when my 2 BFF’s from 6th grade and I were doing what we called our “modeling shoots.”  This mainly consisted of throwing our most recently purchased clothes on and then photographing each other with our 110 mm camera’s!  (Maybe those days made me a photographer?!)  Whatever the case may be, I have spent many a day with this beautiful family.  They saw me through my grade school years as a Brownie in Girl Scouts, to my very ugly adolescent years ( remember those hideous red glasses? ) up until we  graduated high school together.  Cassie and I were able to stay in contact a bit through college, but life eventually got busy and we just recently reconnected this past summer to have our kids play together.  It was just one of those cool circle of life things.  Crazy that we were playing together in kindergarten and then to have OUR kiddos playing together at almost the same age we were when we met was almost surreal for me!

Many years passed and I STILL laughed a lot with the Smith family.  My second set of parents while growing up.

Cassie and her awesome husband Kiley

Henry had been practicing his funny face, so I thought it best to end this blog post with a smile!