Because it's her birfday!!

Does everyone love Facebook as much as me? I was a myspace user, and quite happy about it, for many years. When the tide started turning toward Facebook I was not happy. It was boring. No music, no graphics, no backgrounds. But when I caved and started finding friends from long ago, it was worth it.

There was one friend I had always wondered about. Jennifer. We had been really close my sophomore and her junior year of high school. She had gone by her step fathers last name and had been married so I had no idea what name to search for. When her brother appeared as a 'friend I might know' I requested him and not so patiently waited for approval so I could ask where his sister was. A few days later, I had a friend request from her!

Several back and forth messages and she broke the news to me, she was coming into town!!!

One summer evening last year I met her at a local mall for many hours of non-stop talking. We hadn't seen each other in 17 years!

Thanks to Facebook we can stay in contact but being in different states doesn't make for a lot of together time. Two weeks ago I got an interesting message from her.

Want to crash the '89 reunion with me tomorrow night?

What??

I thought about it for a minute and said, "Why not!"

Less than 24 hours later she had made the drive into town and we drug out the old yearbooks to cram for the crashing.

Our high school was so small that we all knew people three years above and below us. After a few hours of reliving old stories we started getting ready to go. Luckily Jennifer knew that when crashing it's best not to show up at the actual begin time. See, I'm new at all of this. We compared outfits, picked shoes, and shared the bathroom just like we'd done in high school. And I think we looked pretty good!We jumped in the car and headed to the reunion site. I didn't know about her, but I was getting more nervous. As we pulled into the parking lot I was a little freaked out. Luckily she was, too! We sat in the car and discussed what to do. Thankfully another Facebook/high school friend that I knew was walking through the parking lot and volunteered to escort us in.

We were so glad we did! It was wonderful to see everyone again! But when you crash, this happens to your name tags.After catching up and grabbing a bite to eat we came back home. To sleep?? Of course not! You see, Jennifer's birthday was Saturday. She turned 37 at 4:14 a.m and wanted to stay up and watch herself get a year older. Even in our old age (hee hee) we were able to do it!

After snoozing for a few hours we woke up to celebrate with her until she had to leave. That meant coffee, breakfast, and some swimming. We were treated like royalty as Shawn and the girls fixed our breakfasts and delivered everything we could need to our lawn chairs.What an amazing 24 hours for both of us.

Jen, I love you!

Can't wait to crash your 20th next year:c) It's a date, right??

Look what I did today!

I've had the pleasure of spending the last few months in a Bible Study with an amazing group of ladies. After all the learning we always had lunch together and usually went shopping before heading back to pick up the kiddos. Bible Study ended two weeks ago and I'm sure I'm not the only one who had some serious withdrawals. That was solved today with

"Gabfest 2008."

After much eating of delicious goodies we settled down for some serious crafting.

Let me just say this disclaimer...I'm not crafty. I don't scrapbook, I don't sew, I don't cross stitch. Okay, I do basket weave, but that's an art!

Our project today was glass block/light/letter thingys. Yes, that's the technical term.

To make one you have someone buy the glass blocks and drill a hole in them.

Next you have someone buy Christmas lights and wooden skewers and spend an hour shoving the lights through a 1/2" hole.

After that you have someone with a really cool Cricut machine use vinyl that she bought to print out a scrolly letter or phrase for you.

And last, but not least, you have someone stick the letter on the block and oh so carefully squeeze out all the air bubbles and smooth it all out.

And really last, you use the ribbon that someone bought and tie a pretty bow. And when the other girls see the bow you've tied you suddenly have a reason and a purpose, and something to do while everyone around you is being crafty.