Has It Really Been 20 Years?

Yesterday my best friend from college was in town and stopped by to visit. It seems like forever since those carefree days at BYU. Of course at the time they didn't seem so carefree....we were newly out on our own and it seemed like all of a sudden I had all of this new responsibility. Looking back now those were definitely the carefree days. I met Carrie not too long after I started school. She lived in the upstairs apartment in our dorm. I can't remember exactly how we met but I remember it was with some comment she made about me and my roommates being hermits. Anyway from that point on we were basically inseparable. When we weren't in class we were together. As I was looking through my old scrapbooks I found that there wasn't many pictures from my first two years that Carrie wasn't in. I have included a couple of scrapbook pages from then. You have to remember that this is the 80's and scrapbooking was glueing a picture to a page. On the first page is pictures of us and the christmas card she gave me that first year. Reading it makes me laugh and I realize I really haven't changed that much. All my kids are very familiar with Abba, Enya and the Messiah. I sing in the Messiah in my mom's stake almost every Christmas. I still wear mostly hoop earrings. I spend many hours straightening my kids hair but don't really have time to do my own. My ideal vacation is still Disneyland and when ever a song from the 80's comes on I make Craig guess who sings it and then I tell him what it reminds me of. (He hates that game.) I still love fortune cookies and Craig always lets me have his when we get chinese food. Since we bought our home 10 years ago there has not been a year that I have not made Craig get up on the roof and hang christmas lights and of course it isn't really Christmas unless there is snow. Last but not least my freezer always has a box of otterpops in it all summer long.

This next page is also from my scrapbook. It contains many pictures from pictures that we took in a booth at the mall to dances that we doubled on to Carried's wedding. All are great memories. College wouldn't have been the same without Carrie.

Before she left she suggested that we take a picture together. ( Notice that I am not the only one that is wearing hoop earrings!) Which gave me a great idea for a blog. So here we are 20 years later. Me with 4 kids and she with 5. Life has taken us different places but we are still good friends and it was fun to see our kids playing together and having a great time. It is not something I imagined when I was 18. But when you are 18 who ever thinks about what life will bring when you are 38.