christie: senior session.

i love this girl like family. i remember it like it was yesterday... i walked in my front door from my last day of school as a senior in high school. i was STOKED. that is an understatement. i open the door and my sister and her best friend christie, who were fifth graders at the time, are sobbing on the steps right inside the front door. my heart sank. i literally thought someone died. if you know my sister, she... doesn't cry. like, if she broke both of her arms and all of her toes at the same time she'd be like "i'm good." but she was bawling. they were consoling each other and i was confused. i immediately cried out, "what happened?" and through their cute little fifth grader gasps and tears they said, "we... don't... want... to... leave... richie... elementary... school!" and then a flood of more tears. it was pretty much THE cutest thing i've ever seen. and if they knew then what they know now... this year they will be graduating from high school, and they are women in my book. they've stayed best friends, and even through different cliques and their (pretty much) opposite personalities, there is love like nothing else. through their friendship christie has become like a sister to me. she inspires me. she's creative, brilliant, free-spirited, hilarious, stunningly gorgeous and simultaneously so humble, and happy to be uniquely herself. i love it. we went out to dinner after this session and my shoulders and upper back were hurting from laughing so much. how does that even happen? meet christie.

i love you!