Nicole

My friend of 20 years came to visit the other day. Man, 20 years....that makes me feel quite oldish. Anywho...we had such a great time growing up. We did everything together, from playing Barbies on my faux grass covered front porch, going to Camp, wearing double-layered socks, getting California Spiral perms, wearing huge bangs, walking around town to get snow cones or subs at our favorite restaurants, talking about boys and going on all kinds of trips.

Here's one of my perms to demonstrate.... couldn't find any of us together, so here's me and my gramps instead...he doesn't have a perm...just to clarify.

And one variation of large bangs...I'm a cutie, eh?! Don't be jealous. Who could resist those braces, caterpillar eyebrows and two-foot swoop of bangs?

So, Nicole came over the weekend and my kids adored her. She wasn't here five minutes and it was "Nicole, check out my skills on this (Wii) game." and "Nicole, look at all 17 of my Webkinz...let me tell you all their names. Trumpet, Dixie, Scaley, Sprite, Flame......."...and so on. I could hardly get a word in edgewise. We went to the park, and she even had all the park kids eating out of her hand.

She is an amazing middle school teacher and does an awesome job teaching those kids English "outside the box". Anyway, it was great to see her and catch up and she even watched our kids so we could go on a quick date. What a friend. Thanks Nic!

As I said, we went on multiple trips together. Here we are at Disney World...




This is us in line for the Tower of Terror (Disney World)

We also went to Disneyland many times as well as Canada. And all because we were cloggers...yup....cloggers...but the COOL kind! That's us below, front and center, I'm on the left. We performed in Disneyland, Disney World, the Calgary Stampede, on a glacier in Canada, and for local city events. (once while I was 5ish months pregnant with Mr. C even!)

At Disneyworld...I'm on the right, she's on the left! (in the white circles)