Theres No Place Like Home

So many reasons to love going home:) Catching up with the parents! Good food! One of the first things my parents ask when they know we are coming to visit is "What to you want to eat?" Honestly my parents always cook something good so most of the time I don't even bother requesting. This time got spoiled with bisquits and gravy, pork chops with mashed potatoes, indian fry bread. So yummy. Now its back to mac and cheese, chili stacks, and cookie dough. Its not that I can't cook but hard to find the motivation to cook for one.
Amber and I had a mission on this trip. 4 babies in 4 days. A couple of our friends were recently blessed with bundles of joy. So we did what we do best....went to visit, and snuggled those cute babies. Here is Beckys sweet girl. That tongue sticking out is the best!

Next stop Karen's place. She was blessed with not 1 but 2 bundles of joy. A boy and girl. How perfect is that. I'm sure they are going to be a ton of work but the snuggles and love make it all worth it. Amber and my favorite part about this stop... 2 babies means we each get one. No waiting for the other to stop hogging the baby. Anyone that knows us knows we can be quite the baby hogs and don't share well. My favorite part about a newborn? You can put them in any position you want and they snuggle up and go to sleep! 

One of the best things about going home is visiting best friends. You know the people that know you better than you know yourself? The people that would drop anything to be there for you. Know your faults and your weaknesses and choose to be around you anyways. The people that would never judge you. The people that support you even when they don't agree with you. I have been super blessed. I love that some of these people I get to call sister, some cousins and some friends. One of my friends, her husband and of course(here is the 4th) baby came into town last weekend. So it was a great excuse to get together with some good friends. I've known Daria since we were in 8th grade. I thought she was crazy when she planned her wedding date to a boy 3 years her junior. We were 13! I remember her decorating her binder saying Jeremy and Daria with a wedding date of some ridiculously far date into the future. Well here they are...13 or so years later. She married that boy she said she would in the 8th grade. They sure made a cute baby!

I love getting together with my high school girls!! Natalie I met my junior year. The first night we hung out we had a sleep over at Daria's place. That girl made me laugh so much koolaid came out of my nose on at least three occasions. She has kept me laughing ever since. Natalie has a 6th sense for when people need her. I can't count how many times she has called at just the right time. In fact after my last breakup, when I didn't hear from her within a day or two after, I thought maybe she had lost her touch;) Not possible! Natalie is one of the most positive people I know. She has also been cutting my hair for so long that when I have to go somewhere else I am speechless when they ask what I want done. I don't know, call Natalie she just knows!

Awww we are missing someone here. My bestie Erin. We were so sad she couldn't make this trip. Erin and I go back to 8th grade as well. Miss the days of high schoold football games, sneaking out so she could meet a boy (will I ever cease to be the 3rd wheel?), dancing around to Goo Goo Dolls or the oh so hot 259! I miss being so close to Erin. Most days off in Utah were spent with Erin and my girls. Erin and I can both go on forever about boring random stuff and not be bored with eachother at all. She thinks my single drama is entertaining and her stories of motherhood are most definately entertaining. Thankfully she is going to join us in Chicago when we go to visit Daria and Jeremy in May! Hmmmm that post went a different direction then intended. Now I want to go on and on about my wonderful sisters and why they are so freakin amazing!!! That will have to be another day:) Don't want to bore you guys! Blog, journal its all the same right?

Awww there we all are. I am not allowed to do the kissy face... I always look angry. They told me to do the I have a secret face. Don't know if its any better. LOVE THESE GIRLS! I won't say how long we've been out of high school... but love that we are all still so close!