You started high school in August and celebrated with an over the top fun slumber pool party that your friends are still talking about.
You finally got a new phone and have behaved with it long enough to enjoy it.
You enjoyed school immensely this year, after years of hating school.
You achieved A/B honor roll at a minimum every semester and straight A's a couple of times, earning the academic letter.
You signed up for dual enrollment/advanced diploma for the remainder of high school, because you started having goals. What amazing progress, going from not believing in a future to planning for a very bright future.
We took you and BFF to dinner theatre to see Beauty and the Beast. Not the Disney Version, but over the top crazy version, semi-redneck. Poor Beast, at the end, that mansion turned back into a double wide home.
We gave you tickets to see Carrie Underwood for your birthday and since your dad hates country music, we had a girls night and took your friend, K3. A was there too and we had an amazing time.
We took you and K2 to the Make America Rock Again concert and she loved it so much. K2 is such a respectful kid and we really enjoyed her. She was stunned to find out you weren't kidding about having a baby sister.
We took you and B to see Cirque du Soleil. B is insanely crazy and cute in small doses, but has no manners and would get on anybodys nerves long term. Not using utensils for a upper scale Mexican restaurant, really? Her parents said she talked non-stop about how fun it was though. It was nice to be able to share experiences with somebody not able to do that themselves.
We took you and BFF to see Santa and the Nutcracker. BFF is so adorbs. Moose sat on your BFF's head while y'all unwrapped your BFF hoodies.
You had 4 boyfriends this year, only 1 of which you wanted to "go OUT" with. We like him. The others, not so much. I didn't want you out with them anyway. I trusted them as far as we could throw them.
You went to several parties and even went out of town with BFF to trampoline park. All of that was a really big deal. You used to not even tell us about parties, not wanting to go, now you're a social butterfly.
You had your first "date", fishing with Z.
We took you and Z to see Blue Oyster Cult and him and dad had a great time at dinner talking about video games. Y'all shared a funnel cake and afterwards you said "Did you see Z feeding me? did you think it was sweet? I bet most people did, but I bet he did it to make sure I didn't eat the whole thing"
We went to VA Beach and you finally didn't hate it, with it being crowded. You got a henna tattoo of Tweety Bird.
You got a car--cute Beetle with your school mascot on the license tag and the car is your school main color. Your got your learners permit and driving me insane with the constant need to drive, even when we have nothing to do.
Your cousin got married and you handled the crowd, the change in schedule and the timing like a champ, we were so proud of you. We went to visit her a couple months before for the shower and you played with the little kids there.
We went to a water park with your sister and she has made enough progress that she let ME go on a water slide with her when you weren't interested in going. She also was nearly in tears when we left, showing that she's learning healthy attachments.
We went to the Broadway show of Rudolph for Christmas, which was insanely fun. You thought you were too old for it, until we got there and you found out how appropriate it was for all ages. You said you hoped that they were nearby this year too, so we could go again.
We went to see Cheap Trick, one of dads favorites, and you got another guitar pick for your collection. Your sister called while we were there and asked us to bring her home for Thanksgiving. We weren't able to, so we went to her for Thanksgiving and ate at Cracker Barrel.
We went to see Rick Springfield, moms teen heartthrob, and mom jumped out and hugged him and you couldn't believe it.
Mom went to Arizona and you handled mom being gone like a pro and video chatted with me a couple times. You sprained your wrist while I was gone though.
We went to the Broadway show of Cinderella. It was good, but I think you liked Rudolph tons better, probably partially for seating.
We took you and I to see Pat Benetar and John Waite in concert and you two were roasting all of us old people and having entirely too much fun with snapchat filters on random strangers.
Your uncle from Germany visited and we all went to a cajun festival together. I finally got to try alligator there, you stuck with your old standby, chicken nuggets.
We attended high school graduation together and you didn't sit with me, being a big high school girl, you sat with friends. I think I'm suppose to be offended, but I was nothing but proud.
15 was amazing and I'm so excited to see what 16 brings for you and us.
I love you baby bear! To the moon and back!!
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