MadelineAwesome

still suped up about this scanner. i had a good time last night digging through a big box of pictures and finding the best pictures to upload to the intarwubz. here are a bunch with some explanations.

best year book picture i’ve ever taken i think. good sweater, good hair, decent smile. totally good. totally 6th grade.

in third grade my family went to Italy for spring break. here are some pictures:

the flickr caption on this one is “lollipop[e]s” i so clever.

little white speck in middle of all the commotion is pope john paul. holla. he is my favorite pope.

hey JP. sup?

this is in ireland. land of my father. actually, land of my great grandfather. he was born in the upstairs of this pub. (picture circa 6th grade/2001)

this is a picture of two girls completely psyched about getting their hair done for their first communion. (1998/2nd grade)

communion hairrr.

my gramma loves me.

dear american girl, you can make checks payable to ME.

so my backyard used to be a jungle. i love log. (circa 1995)

CUTEST TINKERBELL EVER. dont even try and refute that. (circa 1995)

before moving to the Chi, we lived in Burnsville, Minnesota. It snowed. that is not my house in the background. that is the babysitters house across the street.

uncle steve and aunt julie got married. These are all the cousins. before steve and julie had kids. i think i am going to use this picture as our facebook groups default. good idea madeline. and yes, my cousins and i have a facebook group.

first day of kindergarten.

my brother is an Ultra-Artist.

hey/hay/hei is for horses. i wish i still had that shirt.