Horse Chiropractor and a Cute Outfit

I'm not taking my sister's senior pictures.  I'm not taking them because I want her to have the experience of actually going to someone and doing the whole photo shoot thing.  And because really, I have been taking pictures of her since she was born so it seems she should have the chance to go to someone besides her sister for the big moment.  

But that didn't stop me from grabbing my camera when we stopped back at my house to kill time in between dinner and the movie on our sister date.  She, of course, had a cute outfit on and her hair done in a...well, I'm not actually sure what it was.  It wasn't a braid and it wasn't a twist.  It was a something.  And it was fun.   

I still can't believe that Sister Pister is heading into her last year of high school.  It seems like just yesterday she was sitting in her mini fold up lawn chair out in the field during harvest trying to cut up her ham like us big kids.  She swore like a sailor at the ham on her plate that night.  My mom was real impressed.  The rest of us couldn't help but laugh at the little three year old with the crazy fly away brown hair wearing a mismatched sweat pant outfit with moccasins on her feet.  

 

Yes, it seems like just yesterday.  But now instead of her being the little one who was always up to some kind of imaginative game like wearing socks on her hands being a "vet doctor" or turning old  mattress springs into jumping shoes, she is meeting me for dinner and we talk about real life.  

We have always been close, but now I feel like our relationship is evening out.  More like we are on the same plane in life.  Which makes our closeness different, it's turning into a real friendship instead of big sister and little sister.  

She has always beat to the rhythm of her own drummer that is for sure.  I only hope that as she heads into a major transition time in her life that she will keep her confidence and her willingness to simply go for it.  

I'm pretty sure she will.  She will keep living full and keep pushing herself and keep being funny and keep being independent.  Because when I went with her earlier that afternoon to take her horse to the chiropractor, she drove the trailer and took care of locating the place.  Then, she went in and found the guy and walked right up to him and stuck her hand out and introduced herself.  She also introduced her horse.  I think she forgets he is not a human.  Anyway, I purposefully stood back.  Watching her finesse her way around a business situation with ease and humor.  Before ten minutes had passed, she had the horse chiropractor laughing and giving her life advice.  He was wrapped around her little finger.  I thought to myself, "She's going to be fine in life.  Just fine."

 

I'm thankful that no matter where either of us are or what we are going through, we will always have each other to laugh with and be ridiculous with and solve the worlds problems with.

One self timer photo session at a time.   

Sisters.  There is something special about them.  I love mine.