Tulip Time 1987

This is one of my favorite Tulip Time pictures!  I have been putting together a simple album featuring the yearly Tulip Time picture with the nieces & nephews.  This is one of the earliest ones I have right now but I hadn't looked at them in years!  This picture was taken during my very first year dancing during the yearly Tulip Time Festival.  My (future) sister-in-law is on the far end and my sister standing next to her are also dancers.  This would have been their last year dancing since they were both seniors.  My oldest sister is wearing her costume as well but might have been in the alumni dancers.  I am in the center holding my oldest niece.  She was about 18 months old at the time.  My mother made all the adult costumes.  I am not sure if it was my sister or my mom who made the little dress which was made to match my sister's costume.

Back to school!

Well, the kids went back to school this week, finally! For the first time every, the kids are in different schools with different start times. So the pictures I took this year are of them individually rather than together. That makes me a little sad :( We have four years before they will both be in HIGH SCHOOL together! Yikes!

As you can see, Peter wasn't thrilled with the photo and it was kind of dark still. Claire is almost always happy about pictures so she actually smiled!