10 Year Friendiversary

 

(Starting off with this one because it's cute.)

 10 years ago (on November 2) we met up with some new friends at a local park.  I had known Rachel for a couple of years online through the FIAR boards and when we moved back we decided to get together.

 I wish we had known how much we were going to hit it off because I would have taken more pictures!

 The only close up I got was of the two littlest ones, now 10 and 12.

 So on November 2 of this year, we went back to the same park!

 It looks quite a bit different now, but they still had fun.

 We tried to recreate the one close up shot and I don't think we stopped laughing the entire time.

I'm so thankful for these friendships.  We have made so many wonderful memories over the last decade and I know we'll make many more!

Where I Am (Twelve Years Later!)

Twelve (!) years ago today I started this blog as I was preparing for my husband to deploy overseas, and I was pretty faithful to write until the last couple of years.  As my kids have gotten older it's been harder to find the time to sit down and write, but for the last several months I have been thinking more and more about starting up again.  There's no way to post about everything we've been doing, so I'll start with the biggest change.  Since the last time I posted we added two cats to our house!  In August of 2018 we started going to Street Cats each week to play with the cats who are waiting to be adopted and in January we brought home Beckham, a six year old Russian Blue.  In July our vet posted a picture of the most adorable little orange kitten and I texted a picture to Jay.  When he came home from work that evening he had Tycho with him.  These four keep us busy around the house and we're still involved in 4H and swimming and gymnastics and more. With all of that going on, I know some memories will get lost in the shuffle, so I hope to get back to posting a time or two each week so we can remember the details!