Friends

 Last weekend was a big treat.  One of my favorite people in the world came to spend the weekend with me.  Tyler went off on a guys weekend in Orlando so my friend Laura came to Palm Beach to have a girls weekend with me:)  When you're married it's a lot harder to have that much needed girl time so I was very excited!  The weekend consisted of a lot of talking, laughing, and eating and of course plenty of wine, cosmos and margaritas. 

 

Laura and I walking on the beach

Lunch at Sailfish

Laura and I met back in college when we both joined Chi Omega.  We were one of the other's maid of honors in our weddings (yes we each had 2.  It's what the cool people are doing)  I've always loved our ability to be completely honest with one another and find humor in practically everything.  She's the first person I call when I have a funny story or need advice or need someone to pray for me.  She's a life-long friend and I'm so thankful for her!  So glad I got to spend some awesome quality time with her (if you know me well you know how I love quality time.  It's totally my love language.)  You should also know that my good friend is very talented.  Check out her website and see for yourself.  www.twigzdesign.com  

 

This weekend I also got to spend some girl time celebrating birthdays.  Happy Early Birthday Siiri and Jackie!:)  Both these lovely ladies are more friends that I'm so thankful for!  I'm very glad they were born and I get to call them my friends.  In fact I'm thankful for all the ladies that went out to celebrate!  It's kinda funny how when you leave college you can't imagine making new friends as good as the ones you already have.  But God's totally blessed me with some awesome ladies in my life.  There's no way to replace the old friends and those friendships still run strong but it's awesome to grow the new ones too.  It reminds me that God is all about relationships.  He blesses us through them time and time again and He desires to have one with us.  Do I spend as much time with God as I do my friends?  Do I invest in my relationship with Him like I  do with my family?  Not nearly enough but I'm working on it.  Thankfully, He loves me despite my failures. 

I'm a terrible blogger...

Hope no one expects me to blog everyday:)  I've never been the most disciplined person so making myself write everyday might be tricky.  I actually prefer to never do the same thing everyday anyway.  I hate schedules!  I get very bored if I feel like I do anything over and over again which probably isn't good.  A very wise man once told me, "boredom is a sign of low intelligence and lack of creativity".  well crap:/ 

There is an aspect of my life that's been requiring a lot of discipline lately.  I'm running a half-marathon in March!  Eeek!  What am I thinking?!  My awesome little brother wanted to run one before he turns 25 and I offered to run with him (I couldn't let him show me up:).  I am not a runner.  It hurts and and I've never understood why you would want to run if someone wasn't chasing you.  Even then I probably wouldn't run.  I'm a stay and fight back kind of girl:)  But I have some really awesome friends in my life who have run a lot of half-marathons and even a marathon (shout out to Jackie for being an awesome marathoner!)  They've really inspired me and so has my brother.  I can't leave him hanging so if he's running this thing so am I!  I've been "training" for a few weeks now and it's amazing how much I'm actually liking it!  At first I hated it and wanted to die every time I ran.  But sloooowly by body has come around and stopped punishing me for wanting to do this.  Now it feels great and I can't wait to run again!  Maybe I am a runner after all:)  And I have to say, I'm loving the time I spend with God while I run.   When it was awful and painful I was mostly just begging for God to give me strength to finish that mile or to even make my next step.  Now that I'm feeling pretty good with it I've really loved being able to just talk with God and listen.  Sometimes I catch myself singing along to the worship songs on my ipod while I run.  I'm sure I look insane but I don't care.

On an adoption note, we had a meeting with our lawyer on Sunday.  I love that our lawyer is also our good friend!  I'm sure it looked much different than most adoption lawyer meetings.  Our friends had us over for steaks, sweet potatoes and wine while we discussed some adoption details.  Our bill for the meeting was to bring the salad and dessert:)  It was a great night with friends praying over this process and working out some of the details.  We discussed costs of the legal stuff we have to do , how we'll handle the grant money and what our future steps will be once we are matched to a birth mother.  It's crazy how many steps we have to take to bring our baby home but it helps to have good friends helping us along the way!