On The Edge of Seventeen...

      Just like the song Stevie Nicks sings... "Edge of Seventeen"... so is my beautiful niece (and Goddaughter) Brooke on the verge of, turning 17 in October.  Here she is practicing her driving skills in her little white VW convertible.  Funny story when I took this picture, she forgot to turn the car on and it was in neutral, she was just coasting backwards and she was yelling (in the most dramatic way that only a 16 year old could do), "Oh my God, there's something totally wrong with my car!"  We yelled back, "the engine isn't on Ding Dong!"  The only girl granddaughter born (until my girl came along 10 years later)  There were all boys before her.  She was the most beautiful baby, you know the kind...with the chubby little baby fat, the tannest olive skin and the most gorgeous green eyes and wild long brown locks with little highlights kissed from the sun.  One of those babies on the beach that always has a better tan than you!

     She wants to go to college in California.  No wait, maybe Florida or New York.  She wants to be an entertainment lawyer.  No wait, I forgot, today it's a singer.  So full of promise, future wide ahead...so young and beautiful on the Edge of Seventeen

Comments

[Lillian]

She looks beautiful, oh to be that young again and turn back time!

[Gypsy Purple-Chamara]

She is beautiful!!!

[Daisy Cottage]

Oh, she is just gorgeous!
xo,
Kim

[Steph D]

Love that car! She is beautiful!

[Natasha Burns]

Tara she is gorgeous! Love the car! How funny, when you said she was driving I looked at the front seat and saw someone who looked a little older than 17 without brown locks and brown skin and wondered if I mis-read it. LOL then I remembered we sit on the other side of the car and drive on the other side of the road in Australia, and I was looking at the passenger! LOL!!!

What a beauty! She looks like her beautiful Mom!!! What a fun car to have at 17!