First Day of School

Okay, so, no...it's not the first day of school. That was 6 weeks ago, but ever the procrastinator, I am just now posting this. For me, the first day of school is always hard. We always enjoy our time off from school...it's especially tough when we have a senior in the house. See that big guy in the middle...yep, he's our senior. Now, this picture taking deal is something we do every year. It's a tradition here as I am sure it is for most of you. This might possibly be the worst "first day of school" pic I've ever taken. Now, why is that? Seems my senior wanted to go out with a few of his friends to wrap the school, said he had senioritis. HA! Senioritis? I said...it's not allowed until around March or April...no, YOU are not going. But mom, all my friends are going, their parents are letting them. Hmmm, maybe I should call them? Yeah, right, mom. So this went on until 2:00 A.M. until I finally decided to confiscate the phone. I'm assuming the friends were sneaking out. My kids have a little bit of a hard time with that cuz their mom stays up until 1:00, or 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning! Well, as you can see in the photo, he's putting on a pretty brave front. Wants his phone back, doesn't he? He actually reminded me about pictures, sweet little boy that he is. I'm grateful for that because I can assure you the last thing that was on my mind was taking a picture. So, here we have it, last first day of school picture of my oldest son. Of course, I can follow him off to college with a camera...