Photos of Michael and Steven and Me!
I scanned a few old photos from my photo album so I can illustrate a few faces. Make you guys be able to picture people's faces in your heads.
When I was in 5th grade / up until 5th grade, this is the house that I lived in, in Miami Beach. The one that Melanie Griffith and Don Johnston rented from us. These are also my maternal grandparents (both still alive):
I have a photo album with old photos somewhere, but since my house is under construction right now, all the albums are extremely inaccessible. So, I'm working with what I have, from the one photo album in my living room that has photos of me throughout the ages.
This is me, singing with the Lower School choir, in 5th grade. I'm the second from the right, in the middle row, next to the red-haired girl (Jessie Ball. I doubt I'll talk about her very much unless I give a story about my musical theater rivalries. Not likely to happen.):
I HAVE photos of Michael from when he was little, but I don't have any available, so I'm going to have to source from two years later, when he was in 8th grade, and I was in my second 7th grade. Chris Poon, whom I have certainly mentioned before, around the time I was attending Northwestern, is in the middle.
<-- I was in 7th grade, and Mike was in 8th.
So you can see Mike when I was in 7th grade (13 years old), as compared to Mike when I was in 9th grade (15 years old. This is the weekend before we started dating, at the national chess tournament in Chicago, IL). The the guy to the left of me is Matt O'Brien, and to the right of Michael is Erik Vangeloff (one of Kosta's older brothers).
<-- In 9th grade, Mike was in 10th. This was taken at Chicago O'Hare airport, right before our flight home to Florida. It was on this flight where Michael (in his superbly awesome almost-matching sweater) held my hand for the first time and kissed my cheek, which Mrs. Tague, our chess coach, witnessed.
Same tournament, the day before:
And to give perspective as to how Mike aged, here's Mike at age 17, in my living room, with my best friend Debbie, and her boyfriend at the time, Dom.
And Mike here is a little older, at my 20th bday party at Benihana's in Fort Lauderdale. Cherine and Steven were also there, but they're off-camera. The other two with us are Lizzie and Danny.
And here's the whole group. Steven is the guy in gray/above me. Cherine is wearing light blue. Everyone here is 20, except Lizzie, who is 19.
Later, age 24 (Mike, age 25). Photo is saved from Facebook. I have to find the original photo later on one of my old camera memory cards:
And here's a couple of Steven, as well:
Group shot with Patrick, Roman, and Danny:
Finally, a picture with the combined chess teams of 1998, when I was in 8th grade. Dr. Schmidt is the short-haired lady on the very far right. Mrs. Tague is on the far left, wearing red. Matt O'Brien is holding the red trophy in the front. Directly behind him, in stripes, and wearing a medal, is Jad Hoche.
When I was in 5th grade / up until 5th grade, this is the house that I lived in, in Miami Beach. The one that Melanie Griffith and Don Johnston rented from us. These are also my maternal grandparents (both still alive):
I have a photo album with old photos somewhere, but since my house is under construction right now, all the albums are extremely inaccessible. So, I'm working with what I have, from the one photo album in my living room that has photos of me throughout the ages.
This is me, singing with the Lower School choir, in 5th grade. I'm the second from the right, in the middle row, next to the red-haired girl (Jessie Ball. I doubt I'll talk about her very much unless I give a story about my musical theater rivalries. Not likely to happen.):
I HAVE photos of Michael from when he was little, but I don't have any available, so I'm going to have to source from two years later, when he was in 8th grade, and I was in my second 7th grade. Chris Poon, whom I have certainly mentioned before, around the time I was attending Northwestern, is in the middle.
<-- I was in 7th grade, and Mike was in 8th.
So you can see Mike when I was in 7th grade (13 years old), as compared to Mike when I was in 9th grade (15 years old. This is the weekend before we started dating, at the national chess tournament in Chicago, IL). The the guy to the left of me is Matt O'Brien, and to the right of Michael is Erik Vangeloff (one of Kosta's older brothers).
<-- In 9th grade, Mike was in 10th. This was taken at Chicago O'Hare airport, right before our flight home to Florida. It was on this flight where Michael (in his superbly awesome almost-matching sweater) held my hand for the first time and kissed my cheek, which Mrs. Tague, our chess coach, witnessed.
Same tournament, the day before:
And to give perspective as to how Mike aged, here's Mike at age 17, in my living room, with my best friend Debbie, and her boyfriend at the time, Dom.
And Mike here is a little older, at my 20th bday party at Benihana's in Fort Lauderdale. Cherine and Steven were also there, but they're off-camera. The other two with us are Lizzie and Danny.
And here's the whole group. Steven is the guy in gray/above me. Cherine is wearing light blue. Everyone here is 20, except Lizzie, who is 19.
Later, age 24 (Mike, age 25). Photo is saved from Facebook. I have to find the original photo later on one of my old camera memory cards:
And here's a couple of Steven, as well:
Group shot with Patrick, Roman, and Danny:
Finally, a picture with the combined chess teams of 1998, when I was in 8th grade. Dr. Schmidt is the short-haired lady on the very far right. Mrs. Tague is on the far left, wearing red. Matt O'Brien is holding the red trophy in the front. Directly behind him, in stripes, and wearing a medal, is Jad Hoche.