s e n i o r

It's hard to believe that I'm even writing this post.
Like where did the time go?
I really can't comprehend.

Anyway, here are a few senior photos from my first session with my sister.

xo,
Hannah Dorothy

Seventeen

In 2.5 hours my day of birth begins.
I was born at 2am on a Saturday Fall morning in the basement of a little house in small town Iowa.

That's right ladies and gents, I was a home birth.
A home birth whose midwife got caught up in a car accident so she did t actually make my entrance into the world. It was just my mom, dad and God. In the other room my Grandma waited with my two older sisters, who were 2 and 4 at the time.

So tomorrow ends my year of sweet sixteen.
It's bittersweet, that's for sure.
It's hitting me all at once as I lay here in bed that sixteen is about to hit the road and we were just getting to know each other.
It's really too bad.

It's hard to believe that my life has been thriving for seventeen years. Like what?!

In my last hours as a sixteen year old lady ill go to bed so I can drag myself out of bed tomorrow at 6am. See, I have jobs know, responsibilities that dont stop simply because its the day that marks another year of my life.

I'm in awe of all that my life has seen and bee. So far.
But I'm hoping this next year passes a wee bit slower, I want to breathe deeply in every moment. A lot of changes are ahead. A lot of choices and decisions.
So here's a tad bit of advice for my next year of life...
Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God?
Or am I trying to please men?
If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Galatians 1:10
xo,
Hannah Dorothy