20s Highlights, a picture-heavy post

In my 20s, I...

graduated from college.

I am honoring that memory here...it got eclipsed by a wedding 21 days later.

I got my first digital camera.

My photography professor in college said the world would never go completely digital.

I lived in a place where there were blizzards on Christmas.

I was a maid of honor and got my first sister.

I kept a pact to watch all the new episodes of Star Wars with these people.

I ate lots of lunches and dinners at this coffee table, watching lots of movies

with my new husband, who accumulated a vast collection during his time in China.

I hosted Thanksgiving dinner for our two families out of this minuscule kitchen. 

I prepared for my first baby, a girl.

I experienced labor pains and a great thankfulness to the Vietnam war vet

who gave me an epidural and told me stories and that everything would be alright.

I held my daughter for the first time.

I became a full-time, stay at home mommy to this little beauty.

I went on a Kentucky photo-shoot with my brother.

I saw my husband graduate seminary.

I moved back to Alabama and into the bosom of family.

I introduced Ella to the ocean.

I got to see my college roommate married.

That's the sweat of a South Alabama summer on our brows.  Gracious.

I saw a childhood best friend married.

took Ella to her first movie

got my first Murphy sister

I unraveled the mysteries of the island.

I had a son.

saw another childhood best friend married
(slightly out of order...I'm pregnant with James in this picture)

a family trip to Disney World

another new sister!

Wait, and then one more!

went camping with my husband

took pictures in the snow

took a week-long vacation just us girls

I got my hair highlighted for the first time.


And you guys remember I went to England, right?