Reunion

Whew! It's been a busy week. We're trying to get off for a last minute trip to the beach and have a lot to do to get ready. Sorry the blogging is suffering in the meantime. I'll get back to it more regularly soon.

We had a reunion this past Sunday with the group of homeschoolers we graduated with 10 years ago. We look like surprisingly normal people, don't we? I was the baby of the group, graduating at 16, and ten years later we are people in our mid to late twenties, married, with kids running around! It is hard to believe. John and I both loved our childhood and the relationships we had. It is wonderful to take time to look back on those great memories. We are still regularly in touch with several of our graduating group of twenty. They are the friends we grew up with, went on field trips with, spent the night with, played sports with, took classes with, and the list could go on and on. We love these guys! Now some of them are bringing their kids to our kids' birthday parties, one of them is John's boss, and, of course, John and I are married. When I pulled our yearbook out it was funny because I had written in John's that we should go skydiving together some day. We were thrill ride buddies at that point. Little did we know that we would be taking the ultimate plunge together four years later! It was a fun day! We think we should make it a yearly thing!

Left to right: Josh (John's boss), Jonathan (my adopted brother growing up), Chad (John's former co-worker who just returned from Iraq and he and his wife are now expecting their first child), me, John, Jamie (John's sister), Christin (she's going to have a spread in Woman's World's June issue because she recently lost 102 lbs. Go Christin!), Rebekah (one of my dearest and closest friends growing up and a wonderful nurse), and Chris (one of two brothers who graduated with us and were good friends of ours)

The Girls