A Tribute to Good Friends

This Summer is my ten year high school reunion. (scary!) To commemorate this event, my friends and I spent a weekend in Salt Lake together. We had such a blast! I am so blessed to have such good friends and to have been able to keep in contact with them for so many years. This post is dedicated to my friends and all the reasons why I love them!

Kami, Lisa, Shauni and Melanie (it took many tries to get this picture!)


Lisa shows off some of her purchases.


Kami was the good friend who agreed to give Melanie her shot.


Our "nice" hotel. (But it was a really good deal!)


40 reasons why I love my friends:

1. They listen to me even when I don't have anything interesting to say.

2. They will watch Steel Magnolias with me (and cry at the end).

3. They know me well enough to know that if I am in the hospital after having a baby, I would rather have them bring me ice cream than send me flowers.

4. We can go six months without seeing each other and when we get together we haven't missed a beat.

5. They will talk about things like body hair and stretch marks without getting grossed out.

6. They still hung out with my when I had tootsie roll bangs and the 80's haircut (in 1999).

7.We are almost thirty and we can still stay up until 3 am at a sleepover talking about boys (usually our husbands and kids, but boys all the same).

8.They can sing along with me to "Insensitive," "Sweet, Sexy Thing" and almost anything by Tom Petty.

9. Road trips.

10. Choir trips.

11. Drill trips.

12. Spring break.

13. I love that Lisa has 6 kids under the age of 5 and her hair still always looks perfect.

14. I love that Jen already thinks about how her 3 year old's wedding invitation will look.

15. I love that I can talk to Kami on the phone for 2 hours and still have more to say.

16. I love that Mel had enough self confidence to date a guy who wore overalls- in college.

17. I love that Lanae fell out of a moving vehicle trying to get a guys attention.

18. The world's best book club. (Thank you Jen!)

19. Our Senior trip and everything that went with it.

20. Melanie's condo at snowbird.

21. Between the six of us, we have 15 kids and 2 on the way (congrats to Mel on the twins!).

22. I love that I was at Lisa's house often enough to frequently see her mom in her bath robe.

23. I love that Lanae nicknamed her black and white car "Micheal Jackson."

24. I love how Melanie skis.

25. I love that Kami will tell me what she really thinks about the clothes I try on when we are shopping.

26. They know, and frequently call me by, my middle name.

27. I love that I know if they prefer to dip or crunch saltine crackers in tomato soup.

28. Our trips to Las Vegas, California, New York, Florida, Tennessee, Ensenada, Disneyland and St. George.

29. They all came to, and dressed up for, my Halloween parties.

30. Girls night outs.

31. Scrapbooking.

32. Our apartment.

33. Belly button rings and (almost) tattoos.

34. Play dates.

35. We all agree that you have to hold an imaginary microphone when lip syncing.

36. I love that Lanae doesn't hold a grudge that she was my "service project."

37. Twinkies and Twizzlers.

38. We can do better than "not ugly".

39. When I have a parenting question, one of them is bound to know the answer.

40. They make me a better person.