08/13/2026
I blinked. My little girl is a SENIOR.
I genuinely don’t know how the years can move so quickly. It feels like yesterday I was watching her take her first steps, holding those tiny hands, listening to those little laughs, and wondering how I could possibly love anything so much. I did this little mini session with her on the beach the day after her 17th birthday. 🎉 🏝️
While I’m incredibly proud to share them as her photographer, I’m even more proud to share them as her Mama. A lifetime of loving this girl…. Lord I don’t remember a world without Reese Green. Watching her grow, celebrating her, worrying over her, learning alongside her, letting go when I wanted to hold on, and trying my best to give her roots strong and deep enough to grow from and wings brave and graceful enough to carry her wherever God leads her.
Reese, I am so unbelievably proud of you. Not just because you’re beautiful—although, Lord knows, you are—but because of the person behind that beautiful face. Your heart. Your spirit. Your strength. All the things that make you uniquely you. Watching you become YOU right before my eyes has been one of the greatest privileges of my life.
Real talk….?
I’m not ready for this. 😂
I’m not ready for senior year. I’m not ready for graduation. I’m not ready for the little girl I thought I had so much more time with to be becoming a woman. Not just yet…
But ready or not, here we are and here it comes. 👩🎓
I hope you always know that no matter how old you get, there will always be a part of me looking at you and seeing that little girl I loved with every piece of my heart. And I’ll keep loving you with that same ridiculous, fierce, all-consuming love I had for you the very first time I held you.
Senior year.
I can hardly believe I’m saying it.
My baby is a senior, and I am THE luckiest mama in the world. 🤍
