Missing Our Friends!

While we've had lots of fun down here and the weather has been GORGEOUS, it's been hard lately to look at pictures of everyone from Minnesota. We miss everyone so much, especially our best friends, the Nemitzs.

Whenever my friend Dana and I hung out, people would ask how we met. Last summer, I had a treadmill that I was giving away on Craigslist. Dana and her husband, Randy, came with their two boys to get it one Friday evening. We all got to talking, and they ended up staying for over an hour. We had so many more things we could have talked about, but it was getting late and we all had little ones to put to bed (who, by the way, also connected with each other very well!).

So we connected on a couple of later dates and from then on, our families grew really close. I've learned so much from my friendship with Dana; and Faith now has, as much as we object, a boyfriend!

Dana and Randy's son, Matthew, has become very "into" Faith and even has a special nickname for her: "The Faith." Matthew would say, "I want to go to The Faith's house." Faith, of course, loved this attention too! When these two play, it's as though their minds are one! They want to play the same things and never fight!

The day we moved, they were over at our house the entire day cleaning and loading the truck. We went to their house that night, and they took the kids while Pete and I tried to get some sleep before getting on the road. Then, Dana said a prayer over our family and our trip, and we said farewell. It was bittersweet, but we were SO happy to spend our last day in Minnesota with them!