My Family. The GREATEST people in my life.

When you grow up you learn things at different times. You learn your numbers, colors, abc's. You learn that the greatest tv shows on the planet exist such as reading rainbow, captain planet, and Doug. You learn that boys have cooties and you should run away from them at recess. You then begin to make your first set of friends, you form your group, your clique, your members only need a secret password to get in the club group of friends. You do everything with them. They become your world. They give you advice, and vice versa. You laugh together, cry together, get angry together. They experience relationships with you. You take a look at your friends and you realize how similar they are to you depsite how different they are from you. The phrase "your friends are a reflection of you" makes sense now! You learn that friends eventually become apart of your family. Where am I going with this?

I HAVE THE BEST FAMILY IN THE WORLD!! I have the most amazing parents who are so incredibly open and accepting and loving. They have always encouraged my brother and I to have our friends over the house. And that we did and still do. Our house has become "The Spot" for both my brother and my friends (ESP my brother because they are all broke asses haha) Screw kahala mall or alaz. My parents believed that being able to get to know our friends would be a great way to know who we are hanging out with and seeing our friends would give them an idea of who we were and what we were becoming.

Lately since I have moved back home I have been hanging out with my brother and his friends. They are 4 years younger than me. I am 24. (yikes to getting old!) I have had such a blast kickin it with them I had to write a blog about them. Each and every one of them are so artistically talented it blows my mind! You've got dancers, poets, photographer, singers, fashion/costume designer. They are people you just know will go places and can do anything they wish to do. Winter break is coming to an end and I am sad that my brother and his other half and other friend in his group will be going back to san fran for school. Its been a blast and I enjoyed getting closer to every one of his friends and getting to know what great people he has chosen to be apart of his life. BUT i wouldn't expect anything less from my amazing, talented, and can't forget FIERCE baby brother. haha Thanks for letting me tag along with your posse and sharing the secret password with me in order to get in your group. :D So glad to see you follow your dreams in sf. Your sis awaits for the text msgs and phone call updates while your up there and I can't stress enough how proud I am of you not just as a photographer but the man you are growing up to be. Love you Shane! I've never looked forward so much to summer!!