Forever friends

I feel really blessed in many ways, one of those is that I have amazing friends. Even better, I have amazing friends that I have known since childhood and I am still in touch with them! How many people can say that? I count eight in my head right now that I met in gradeschool or before that I still keep in contact with. Sometimes contact is more sporadic than others, but still, we try and keep up with the basics of what's going on with each other.

Here's the crazy part: four of the girls (women, now, I guess, though it's hard NOT to call your friend a "girl" when you've known her since you were 5) had babies within a year of Sierra's birth (HI Kelley, Casey, Liz, Monica!). It's crazy. I still can't fully wrap my mind around how bizare that is. We got to see both Casey (and Colton!) and Kelley (and Kate!) while we were in Illinois. We missed Liz (and Ellie!) by just a week. Boo.

I digress ...

Casey lived down the street and was my first "best" friend. Oh, the antics ...

1985
1990: 4th of July; Casey not diggin' the fireworks
1994: 8th grade dance; what is up with those twirlies on the side of my head?
2003: helping me address wedding invites
2009: *Gasp* They let us reproduce!
The next generation of forever friends: Colton and Sierra
"Hey! That's mine!"
"Ha ha! Got it back!"