Friends

I'm amazed how every year Christmas shopping and Christmas decorations are pushed back earlier and earlier. It seems like we're not even out of Halloween before Christmas is knocking on our door. Unfortunately my mom and my step-dad have their birthdays the same week as Christmas. I can imagine at times they feel like they can be overlooked but not tonight.

Josh, Abby and I were invited to partake in what my parent's have referred to as "The Bunco Cult". A small group made out of four couples but filled with so much heart and soul. I know it feels great to find a great friend but in a way it warms me so much to see that my parent's too have found those friends. These are the people who will share so many milestones with us; the birthdays, the births of grandchildren, their son's deployments, and other obstacles that require strength of not only yourself but of others. I only pray that one day I can see that my daughter has found those friends that my parents have found and the friends that I found.

And on that note I will leave a picture of just one of those remarkable people we shared dinner with tonight. Our dear friend "Aunt Bonnie".

"But frienship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine."

~Thomas Jefferson

With Love,

Kristen