Happy New Year all! To celebrate the end of a decade, we have these wonderful snapshots, which you shall receive about one a day! It's all the moments you might have wanted to see but couldn't be fit into the stories. Visits to Addison, friends meeting family, babys' firsts, and their meeting with Michael, it's all here! The timing is approximate, we planned this out after writing Heart Trouble, so we fit things in as best we could.

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Becoming a camp counselor - 2029 - 17/22 years old

"Well, this is one way to spend our summers." Carter dumps her bags at the foot of her bed, kicking her footlocker under her bed before going to help her brother take his things to the cabin across from hers. "Am I the only one that finds it a little ridiculous that we had to wait to become counselors?"

"Again?" Liam is beyond used to his sister making cracks about how they have to wait to do certain things because of their chronological age not matching up to their emotional and intellectual age. "It's the same as everything else we've had to wait for, Carter. The camp actually requires you to be 18 to be a counselor, but because we've been coming here for so long and because we have the experience of collegiate training and our mothers' signatures, they're allowing us to come on board a year early."

They had each been given permission by their coaches to miss out on summer training for their respective sports to work that summer. Provided they did some light scouting of the kids on their teams. They were both really looking forward to the summer coaching the kids at their former sports camp. Their photos still graced the mess hall walls for more than a few camp records that no one had been able to best them at and they looked forward to seeing if there were going to be any kids around this summer that could come close.

"Whatever," Carter dumps her end of the trunk, forcing Liam to drop his none too gracefully. He stacks his gear at the foot of the bed before slinging an arm around his sister, leading her out to her car so they can get the rest of their gear.

"It'll be good for you." Liam goes into supportive brother mode. "It'll be good for you to get away from Josh for a bit."

"Yeah, only for you to get to see him again in the fall, while I'll have to wait until Thanksgiving." Carter thoughts went to her brother's best friend. He'd gotten a scholarship to Harvard, same as Liam, so once again the pair could be the pitcher/catcher dream team they'd been in high school.

"You mean you won't be coming to our opening night? I'm hurt little sister."

"Stop calling me that." Carter reaches over to pinch her brother in retaliation. He'd often called her little sister in reference to her size, citing that 'tiny sister' doesn't have the same ring to it. "And if my schedule next year is anything like it was last year, I'll be lucky if I have the time to call you, let alone drive down to see you. Besides, I'll have my own training to deal with."

"You wouldn't think we'd have to work so hard in the fall seeing as our sports are technically spring sports." He unlocks the back, handing Carter her bedding before pulling his out and locking the car back up, handing her the keys.

"Hey, you're the one with the fall playing schedule, not me. But there's a reason Yale's soccer team is the best in the nation, we work our asses off so we can kick yours and everyone else's come spring. It will be hard to be away from Josh though. We're finally on the same coast and we won't even be able to enjoy each other's company. I do hope we make it."

"Sweetie, you two managed to maintain your relationship from 3000 miles this past year, what makes you think it'll be any harder from 120 miles?"

"Just because we managed, doesn't mean that it was easy."

"Nothing worth having ever is, little sister. We'll make it, we always do. And at least your boyfriend is close by; my fiancée is still 3000 miles away."

"Uncle Mark is finally letting you call Lauren that?"

"Yup, he said that as soon as I got her a ring, I could call her that."

"And mom let you have her ring." The Claddaugh ring that had been Arizona's wedding band had long since been promised to Liam, while Callie's had long since been declared taken by Carter.

"And since she and mama are retiring next year, mom finally let mama buy her a wedding set, so she gave me her wedding ring – even though she'll be taking the set off for surgery for the next year."

"Who would've guessed we'd find our soul mates in high school?"

"Yeah, given who raised us and how many mistakes they made before getting together, it's kind of funny." The pair shares a laugh while Carter shakes out her bedding and Liam helps her make her bed before they head over to his cabin to do the same.

"This will definitely be the summer of a lifetime, right?"

"Right you are, baby brother."