Kelly...............

This is my friend, Kelly.... Not only do we have the same first name, but we also have the same middle name. Our friendship goes all the way back to elementary school....back to the days of being in Campfire Girls together and slumber parties. I remember camping out in a tent in the backyard one night, telling ghost stories and playing Light As A Feather....ooh! scary! Then we moved on to junior high and then high school together, where we graduated together. Then she went off to college for awhile, then came back and went to Highline Community College and completed their nursing program. She then married her high school sweetheart and moved in a few houses down, so we've been neighbors for years now. She is still one of my best friends today. She is an amazing person........she's accomplished, and the best mother and wife. She has the biggest, kindest heart and is always there for you when you need her. She has a strength from within that just blows me away, which she would have to have in her nursing career at Swedish, taking care of kidney patients and having to lose some of them to death. And now as a nurse dealing with cancer patients at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. I'm proud of who she is and who she's become and am lucky to still have her in my life and to be able to call her my friend..... Kelly, you are beautiful! Thank you for letting me capture you during this time in our lives.