My Roommates!

These two picts of me and my roommates are actually hanging on my wall in my craft/photography closet....I see them looking out at me nearly every day when I go in to get something or another.

Since I just mentioned my roommate Abbi (far left here) and having read a blog post from another friend, Abby (notice different spellings, different people) I wanted to mention one of the greatest times in my life. I think these roommates were so special for several different reasons....1) I had just transfered from Ricks College, now BYU-I to BYU and was excited to live close to my older brother who just returned from a church mission to Brazil. He was living in a kinda co-ed apartment complex, Canyon Terrace (oh my goodness, CT has a website)! There was just one opening mid year in apartment #39...he didn't know the girls, but he said they seemed nice. 2) These are the ladies that endured the ups and downs with me to my courtship with my sweet husband, Michael. They know him, they knew us before each other and after. His apartment (#20) and our apartment were good friends and had some various dating swapping going on. Michael and I were the only ones to marry, and solidify the 2039 forever--trudat!

Okay that was an inside joke....but here we have: Amy (red head), Hali (shorter but older sister), & Abbi. Hali & Abbi are sisters from a town called Sandwich...you think that is odd, well get to know them! Amy & Hali had been roommates for several years before Abbi or I ever entered the equation. Abbi & I were the same age and shared a room with Hali & Amy just 2 years older--but who ever counted years back then? They were very patient with my messy ways and me not realizing it. We had some good times. The last time I saw them was 4 years ago at Hali's wedding...except for Amy I think it was 5 years ago at her wedding. I was unfortunately not able to go to Abbi's wedding b/c I was 7 months pregnant and across the country as a student at the time:(

I keep telling them we need to have a roommate reunion and it will happen one of these days! We are spread out in Cali, Washington, Iowa, & Texas and having babies like crazy...so hard to find a good time. Here is the quote from my other friend Abby that really made me tear up to think of these girls:

"We were thrown together by the luck of the draw. We realized before long that we simply adored one another. I lived with these girls for just less than 2 years, and somehow it's an entire tiny lifetime in and of itself. How do you sum up what people like this mean to you? They were family during such an impressionable time in my life. They were just there. We learned all about who we had been in high school, and then we all embarked on who we would become. It's amazing who we all became, so different--just as we always were--but forever bound together by the familiarity that became "us" so long ago."

I love you girls!