I count myself privileged to have two best friends. My mom always has fun teasing me when I say "my best friend...."; like I'm still in junior high! But it really is true. Amanda Aspenson and April Abbonizio have been my closest friends since I was 11. I met them both at Hastings camp- I met April when I was 11 and Amanda when I was 12. Here I am 32 years old and they are as close today as they were 20 years ago. I thank God everyday (well....almost!) for blessing me with such women as these.
So....this trip was to April's. She is married to a great man (Mike) and they have two girls, Audrey and Avery. Audrey and Emmy were born only days apart and even have the same haircut. They live in St. Louis, so Emmy and I took a road trip and spent the week at their house. We spent lots of time in their pool and even took the girls to Six Flags where Emmy had her first roller coaster ride. What an experience! April and I took an evening for just the mom's and went to the Cheesecake Factory and by 9:30 were out of things to do (I know, pathetic!!). We came home to find Mike and the girls STILL splashing in the pool so we decided to get in with them! It was so great to watch our girls bond and become friends just like their moms. They played horse and owner for longer than we thought humanly possible. Too cute. I realized there aren't any pictures of baby Avery, but trust me, she's a beauty! P.S THERE ARE MULTIPLE POSTS!!!! I couldn't get them to load backwards- so today starts from the post "Back in action" and ends with "trip to April's". Hope that makes sense!!!
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What beautiful children and grandchildren that I am blessed to have!! Vacation was the best!! I hope everyone enjoyed it as much as daddy and I did!! Love all the pictures! Looks like you had a great time in St. Louis! Best friends are great and something that you need to work at to stay close. Time can get away from you before you know it and kids grow up and won't know each other. Thanks for the great posts!
Love,
Mom Grate
YAY for the pics! Holly,of course, like Always, I love the pictures! It looks like you had a fun time. I know you did, because I could hear it in your voice when I talked to you on the phone while you were at April's. I am so glad you have this special friendship!
The kids are growing up and Emmy is certainly the little charmer. Good friends are precious gifts from God but to maintain them you have to do maintenance, phone calls, cards and cheerful uplifting moments. Your mom in law and I have weathered the good the bad the indifferent. I just hope we will remember each others names when we are sitting together in the home. I can see us now with our knee highs with one rolled down wearing our slippers and our underslips hanging out and rocking in our chairs. We will be hollering out "you sure look familiar" I knew someone who looked just like you" and one of will holler back " you old fool, it's me
uh, uh, well you know who I am"
Ha... friends forever.
Love ya all
Carolyn
Hi Holly,
So happy to read your updated posts. I visit often and love to hear about the Grates. Speaking of friends, I remember these 2 neighbor girls that my sister and I were great friends with, we sure had some great childhood memories. Remember sleeping in your playhouse/barn/shed thing. Fun times.
I can't believe ho much Zeke looks like your brother. Amazing! I see Derek all the way.
Thanks for sharing, my try to blog, yet not as cool as yours, but, I'm trying. Take care, Kristy Lipinski
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glad you are back safely and have decided to re-join the land of blog! :)
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