Thursday, May 8, 2008

Dear Friends

Courtney's 4 year old, Joshua, was our photographer (hence the tilt...and our laughing faces!)
Our boys - Jacob driving, Josiah in the middle, and Joshua in the back
Callie and Bailey

You'd think we went to a water park with how wet everyone was...oh well!! It was so fun!
Again, Joshua was the photographer, so who knows why this is blurry. I wanted a picture of our Odysseys with "Runner Girl" stickers on them. Courtney is a runner too, and got me my sticker before my race. One day soon we are going to run a race TOGETHER! :)

Here's the photographer...taking pictures of his own cute self!
This reminded me of the thing on the Eliminator of "American Gladiators" - that hand crank thing!


On Thursday, we met up with my dear friend, Courtney, and 2 of her 3 children (I always miss out on seeing Pat on these visits - the husbands are always working, and now I often miss out on seeing Rebekah because she's in school!! :( ) at a playground. I should have taken pictures of the playground - it was amazing!!! The weather was sort of iffy, but we decided to take a stab at it anyways. It ended up being pretty drizzly all morning, which didn't seem to bother the kids at all! We probably should be thankful, because we ended up with the playground mostly to ourselves! Courtney and I have been friends since high school, when we first met and planned a Christmas Banquet together. We have been through life together - dating, college, marriage, kids, job changes, moves, everything. We each have 3 kids, and the six of them are 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 year old!!! It is always so wonderful to pop in and reconnect with her. The blogs have been a great way for me to pretend that she lives next door (like we always planned to do!) and check in on her daily and see what they are up to! She is expecting her 4th baby this summer and looks FANTASTIC (I felt terribly guilty later when I realized that we were standing and walking around this huge playground all morning...) We had a great morning with them - it's never long enough, but we sure do love them!

3 comments:

anthonyandbeth said...

what a special friendship you two share!!! it looks like the kids had a lot of fun despite the weather conditions! :) love the picture of you two together! you both look GREAT! :) also love the one of Callie waving! too cute!

Mandy said...

What a cool looking playground! So nice that you could catch up with a good friend!

Judy said...

What a great playground!! How long have you and Courtney been friends now?? Is it decades yet?? It's so great that you guys get to see each other, encourage each other and watch your kids play together! Friends in Christ are priceless!