summer of 2005

there is nothing i enjoy more than my family sharing a meal with our best friends the perry's. paul and lynz have meant so much to us these past 2 years. they are really amazing people. i am so blessed to be doing life with them.


they are the kind of friends that we can sit around and talk with for hours and never get bored. they even share our psychotic love of games and competition . . . we've actually had our worst arguments over basketball and board games! they are intense people, like us and it is amazing to me that God put us together like he did.

i still remember reluctently going to that first small group and finding out that they lived right down the street from the house that we had just put a contract on! at that point i thought to myself, this could be really good or really bad. if i had only known what God had in store for us!

the perry's have become family to us. j and m are like sisters . . . trust me, not only do they love like sisters but they fight like sisters too!

tonight as we sat around the table with the girls yelling at each other, the boys each on their cell phones and lynz and i rolling our eyes at the whole situation, i got this warm fuzzy feeling. a feeling that at first i couldn't describe and then it just came to me. this is one of those moments that my heart never wants to let go of. in moments like these i instinctively pause and my soul takes a picture--so i will never forget the chaotic, yet easy going summer evenings of 2005. you see, from here on out it will never again be the same. this is the last summer lynz and i will be stay at home moms together. this is the last summer that we will be the 6 of us. this is the last summer for both of those things and all the things that come with them, like our florida vacation, our late night taco bell runs, our endless pool days, our spontaneous trips to the zoo or oceans of fun, our mid morning work out and our naptime best friend chats. although all the changes will definately be positive, it is still change nonetheless. there is a part of me that just wants the world to stop turning, for but a moment, so we can squeeze it all into the last part of this summer of endings, before the fall of beginnings.