…do I bake 40 cupcakes in one night …do my best friend and I host our own yard/garage sale …do I sell 25+ cupcakes at said yard/garage sale …do I go house/apartment/duplex shopping for when Neil and I move to Madisonville (oh, did I not tell you about that? story to come…) …do Megan and I find quite possibly the BEST HOUSE EVER! For my and Neil’s money and our life situation right now …do I get a meal at Olive Garden with my bestie and her family paid for …do I show my husband the BEST HOUSE EVER and him not like it. At all …do Megan and I talk Neil into at least waiting until the house is not under renovation to make up his mind about the BEST HOUSE EVER
Our puppies on the back of their couch: Precious, Benny, and Aly. They’re best friends too <3
We went to the pet store. Bad idea. I want the little white doxie and Megan wants the little brown doxie! WANT!
This was actually taken over 4th of July weekend at the lake BUT this is me and my bestie <3
Hair was doing amazing things this weekend
Saw this while out shopping for a place to live. No thank you!
Aly being completely and utterly adorable
*** Images and video were taken with my iPhone 4. Please excuse the poor(ish) quality
It’s days like these that make me want to blog even though nothing really astounding or exciting happened. I don’t know, I just feel really good today.
This past weekend was amazing, it was an OMG-I-love-my-best-friend weekend, and although I was really sad to leave Louisville it was good to be able to say “Next time I see you (in three weeks) it’ll be when I come to move you closer to me”!
Megan and I met in our first chemistry class our sophomore year in university; I was majoring in Pharmacy and she had just changed from Nursing to Pre-Med. It was fate I tell you! Had she not changed her major she would have never taken that class and we would have never met and OMG my life would be NOT AS GREAT!
It was also fate because she sat down next to me and she could have chose a seat across the room. It’s because we sat next to each other that first day that we began talking and that we clicked so fast and so well. That spring semester flew by because all of the sudden it was March and we were introducing our boyfriends to each other and they were becoming best friends (y’all, there’s just something about watching two males bond) and I was puppy-sitting for her while they were on a mission trip during spring break. A month later I bought a puppy of my own and she let me move into her house (that she rented with another girl) because I was still living in the dorms. A month after that we were moving into our own apartment together because her brother (who was just renting the house out to her) sold the house.
That summer Neil and I got engaged and she was the first person I called. Bryan (Megan’s boyfriend) was the first person Neil called…after his momma of course! Megan was with me every step of the way while my momma and I planned my wedding. That October started our first tradition with her family where the four of us would drive to her hometown and celebrate Halloween via cookout, bonfire and hay-bale rides. Summer 2007 we celebrated Bryan’s birthday at a Cardinals game in St Louis and Megan’s birthday a month later at Six Flags and the St Louis Zoo. We spent a weekend at Bryan’s mom’s house and Neil and I met his whole family. They would join my family for a lake day every once in a while and it was just a given that whatever they were doing, we’d do it too and vice versa.
She was the maid of honor at my wedding and I at her’s. Both Neil and Bryan have brothers but they were second in line in each other’s wedding party. The four of us have a relationship that I could have only dreamed of. We are best friends together and apart. Neil and Bryan text and talk constantly. Even though Megan and I got them together they don’t need to us to stay that way. I was really hard of both parties when they moved to Louisville so Megan could attend medical school. For the first year we saw them at least every other month. Either we’d go up there or they’d come down here. This past year, though, it became harder to get away from our jobs and we had to rely on the phone to keep connected. She of course made new friends and I got closer to others but I still considered Megan my best friend. It was one phone conversation that I know made both of us feel a lot better. She called to ask me if I had received a picture text from her earlier that day. When I said no I hadn’t she sighed in relief, confessing that she had thought I didn’t care or something. When I asked what the picture was of she simply stated that it was a picture of where she made a hole in one at mini golf. She said she was so excited and at the moment there was only one person she wanted to tell, and that was me. She also told me a story about a previous weekend get together with a bunch of friends where even though she knew everyone she didn’t feel completely comfortable and found herself wishing that I were there with her. She knew then that I was still her best friend and I assured her she was still mine.
There was a period where we had to rely solely on phone conversations like that because Neil and I just couldn’t make it up there for a full weekend. Before this past weekend it had been the end of November since we’d seen each other. In three weeks Neil and I will drive up to Louisville to Megan and Bryan’s house for the last time. We will spend all day Saturday moving them down to Madisonville, only an hour from the Lake House, where Megan will start the internship part of her medical school program. They will be there for at least two years and Neil and I are crossing our fingers that they stay longer.
We’re not promising to see each other every weekend but the fact that it’s definitely a possibility is so exciting I can hard contain myself. Now, I just have to convince them not to move to Owensboro in a few years!
