Saturday with the besties

This past Saturday has been a long time coming. Ashley, Lauren, Mollie & I got to hang out with all of our kids! We had so much fun! Ashley was coming to town with her two boys for a birthday party. So she & Mollie decided to come together so the four of us could hang out & get the kiddos to all play together at the same time.

Ashley, Mollie, Lauren & I lived together our junior year in college in the Delta Gamma house. Yes, four girls in a dorm room! It was, by far, the funniest year of college. Lauren & I were friends, Mollie & Ashley were friends, & Ashley & I were sort of friends, so the 4 of us decided we would try living together. It was one of the best decisions of my life. The four of us would stay up all hours of the night talking & laughing & crying. We played jokes on each other & a few other people. I don't think that any of us fought over anything that year. We have experienced many things together & this was just another set of memories to add to our list.

Ashley has 2 boys, Steele (7) & Kase (4). Mollie has 1 boy, Elias (3). Lauren has 1 girl, Ana Spencer (almost 1!!). Elias & Harrison are 2 days shy of being exactly 6 months apart. Ana Spencer & Sadie are exactly (to the day) 5 months apart.  So we had a full house on Saturday!

We ate pizza & let the kids play inside. Lauren was definitely not used to having that many boys in her house! Then we changed all the kids into swim suits (except for Sadie, she took a 2 hour nap while everyone else went outside) & let them play in the sprinklers & the pool. Then we had a little make shift picnic with all of our snacks.

We have definitely let our time between seeing each other get too long. It is so easy to put off doing things like this because life stuff always gets in the way or there are too many things that have to line up with kids or you have to think about nap times & meal times, etc, etc. But God created us for relationships, and I think women especially need time to be together with each other to talk, laugh & cry together & just support each other. God brought these special ladies into my life a little more than 10 years ago for a reason. They are all very special to me. I know they are in my life not for a season but for a reason, and I so desperately want our kids to know & love each other too!