The Year I was 15 - Pictures!!

So I was gonna do a really long post on how sad it was that's I'll never be 15 again, and how I didn't really want to turn 16, and maybe a recap of how my life as a 15 year old was. But that inspiration only lasted about 5 minutes.
Then I suddenly had a much better idea! And so, I will post my favorite pictures that I took while I was 15, complete with titles/awards i.e: Happiest, cutest, best pose, coolest... etc.
I collected all my favorites, & there turned out to be 250-ish, so obviously, they're not all gonna be here. :)
Enjoy!

Happiest:

Mark & Aaron after some good defense

Prettiest:

Cherry flower

Cutest:

Aaron & Joel. Aww. :)

Randomest:

Bubba, the Italian trucker

Funniest:

A goofy group shot at Goodberrys

Coolest:

Sean playing baseball

Most Different:

A sunbow & power lines

Most Interesting:

A truck silhouetted against a sunset

Best Without People:

An orange sunset

Coolest Colors:

Bright blue & pink sunrise over the ocean

Coolest Focusing:

Wine glasses

Most Colorful:

Another run for the Hawks

Best Action Shot:

Jacob & Chris playing basketball

Best Portrait:

Joel at the beach

Best Light:

Shadow sitting in the sun

Best Pose:

Jordan & Reid after winning a close game

Most Candid:

Nathan & Jessica on the Sunfish

Most Descriptive:

A couple at the State Fair

Most Professional:

Reid playing basketball

Awesomest:

Eric playing basketball

Favorite of Me

me. :P

And 10 honorable mentions... ones I like just as much, but they just didn't get a title:

yay, there it is. I'm really thinking this should become a tradition for me... :)

Memory skillz

I used to be able to recall almost any interesting circumstance in the past 2 years or so with certainty. Someone could mention something that someone said at such and such a day, and I could say, "Oh yeah, so and so said..." and proceed to relate the entire conversation, who was there and what we doing. And then my friends would look at me as if I'd just played back a hologram video like R2-D2 does in Star Wars.

It's not that I cared that I was being compared to a droid from an unrealistic space movie. I didn't try to stop remembering so well. But somehow I did, and my memory is reduced to recalling adults first names (despite always calling them "Mr. ____" and "Mrs. ____" and only hearing their first names once or twice) and random telephone numbers.

Someday I'll probably be a parent asking MY child "What's so-and-so's mom's name?" and asking for someone's telephone number. Hopefully by then I will have forgotten my own former memory skills or else it will be very frustrating for me.

Actually, it's already frustrating. What WERE we doing when that person had an opportunity to say whatever it was that they said? And what was it that they said, and why was it so funny???

*sigh*
~Lizzie