This is Ryan. She was my very best friend growing up. I cannot remember a time in my childhood that she wasn’t a part of. I’m pretty sure we were friends in utero. At the least, shortly thereafter. If it was Friday night, we were spending the night together. We might have alternated locations and occasionally invited another girl or two, but there was never a question that we would be together. We survived on the original Nintendo, eighties movies and baby dolls. We swam and jumped on the trampoline to the soundtrack of Dirty Dancing. We wore biker shorts underneath holy blue jeans. We harassed her older brother and rolled his hair with Caruso rollers {remember those?}. We almost always headed to Smith’s for snacks which included some combination of chocolate chips, coconut, Clearly Canadian, sour cream and cheddar chips and cream cheese icing. I know. It’s a wonder we didn’t weigh 200 pounds.
Here we are at almost thirty. With two precious kids barely a month a part. We were pregnant together and it was so much fun going through the trauma of first time parenting at the same time. Wanna know what’s even funnier? We’re both pregnant now and only three weeks apart. It’s a little crazy, but we are VERY excited. Apparently we just make babies at the same time!
Although we don’t live but thirty minutes apart, life makes it difficult to spend a lot of time together. Despite the time between visits, however, we lose no time picking up where we left off. It would seem our kids have followed in those footsteps.
After the fancy tea party on Saturday morning, she and her sweet little boy came by for some one-on-one birthday celebration. They weren’t going to make it to the fancy soiree on Sunday night and let’s face it, Grey didn’t really want to be outnumbered at the tea party! He was big and strong and carried his gift all the way to the door by himself. He and Ella had a little impromptu tea party on the floor while Beemer paced back and forth and attempted to eat their cupcakes.
Following their little snack, Ella removed her tutu and they began to bounce off the walls. Quite literally. They jumped and climbed on the couch until they had both become casualties. Only then, would they sit down for some tv time while the mommies visited. They insisted on a “breakpast” of goldfish and juice and ended up snuggling with their loveys, Bunny and Blue Dog, and each other. These pictures are my favorite.
Thanks for spending the afternoon with us, sweet friends, let’s do it again soon!
