Besties

Yesterday I had the pleasure of getting together with three of my "old" friends- Alecia (Glauser) Davis, Stacie (Schofield) Rogers, & Michelle (Arnell) Anderson. We all grew up together in the greatest neighborhood and ward of all time. We took our little kids to Discovery Gateway and then went to lunch together. Stacie & I rode down together, and we talked about how awesome it was to grow up in a neighborhood with so many girls that were the same age. Besides us, there were at least ten other girls our age. I remember sleep overs, getting in trouble for walking around the neighborhood at night, freaking ourselves out over Zack Davis, riding bikes to Hambiln's, playing city and church softball, shakes at the Ranch House after playing church volleyball at the stake center, helping Michelle's mom cater weddings, listening to Bryan Adams, playing soccer with the Sims' and Moyes' boys, neighborhood movies in the Moyes' backyard, playing in the Alfalfa field behind my house, walking along the frozen irrigation ditch and falling in, playing in the closets in Michelle's house and prank calling people-"Is your refrigerator running?..." Alecia's mom making Wassail at Christmastime, playing on the huge snake pillow Alecia had in her basement, Girls Camps, my annual Halloween party, eating Cool Ranch Doritos and Grandma's cookies out of the vending machine for lunch at CHS, Alecia's good-bye sleep over when she moved to Washington in 10th grade, I could go on forever...I really had (have) great friends.

It had been 4 years since I had seen Michelle, and 10 since I had seen Alecia! We didn't get to talk as much as we would have liked because we had the kids, but next time we're hoping to get together with the hubbies and leave the kids at home :)