Callahan ~ School Snapshot

Pre-K through 12th grade ... that first picture is pre-preK. I had taken Landon in for Kindergarten pictures, and hadn't really planned on getting the two little boys done too, but went ahead and got that classic Callahan photo. So cute to see how he changed and how he stayed the same through the years. Can't tell when he got his braces off for sure, with that closed mouth smile for several years. Love the spikey hair! Sometimes he had such a ridge there at the front, that he gained the nickname "shark-boy" ...

He attended Columbia Elementary, which was our boundary school. Supposedly walking distance, no buses, but it was a long and unsafe walk (I would walk it with Colton in the stroller during Cooper's Kindergarten year) so we carpooled for dropoff and pickup. Callahan had his older brother Landon a few grades ahead, and Keaton coming up behind. He had a couple years with both brothers there.

Callahan made some friends during basketball, and because of that we decided we wanted him on a path to Copper Hills High School (the boundary school when we moved in, but then the boundaries were changed ... a majority of kids in the neighborhood still planned on CHHS). We put in a permit to West Hills. It was the same distance as Elkridge (where Landon had gone) and Joel P (boundary school) and as we still weren't considered in the bus route, I would be driving him to/from school regardless. No carpools to WHMS though. As Callahan and Keaton overlapped, Keaton also was on the West Hills/Copper Hills track with permits. Callahan played on the 9th grade basketball team at West Hills, and on the Copper Hills team in high school. It was a West Hills and Copper Hills that he would meet his future wife and make lots of great friends!

Here's a look back at the school pictures from elementary ...

... I've tried to hang onto his yearbooks from middle and high school, as he just doesn't seem that interested in them. He might someday ... but he and Kate do have duplicates, as they went to school together all those years.   Check out the "school" label for more peeks at the past!