Day 9: A Picture of my friends

I have a group of friends from high school that are really my only lasting friends (outside of my family). We haven't all kept in touch as well as we'd wanted to over the years, but we are all on facebook now (well, in one case, her husband is fb friends with us all), so we keep up with each other.

Here we are as HS seniors in 1997, I think at some pre-graduation ceremony like awards or the one where the seniors get prayed over. (I can't remember exactly). Anyways, from left to right we have: Liz (redhead born on the same day as me), Mindy, Melinda, Joy (me), Tracy, and Penny. Fun times. :)

And here almost all of us are again, with husbands and children, eleven years later in 2008 at Liz's wedding. We're missing Mindy, who couldn't travel as her 3rd child was due any day, and Tracy, who had moved thousands of miles away and couldn't make it back for the wedding.

And here are just the girls. :) Please excuse my post-dancing flush and glow. I was having too good of a time swinging Penny's kids around the dance floor. ;)
We're hoping to get all of us together this summer in our hometown. We may need to rent a hall as we would have 11 adults and 13 kids (in age from 10/11 years old to 7 months). If my sister Amy should join us, that would make 13 adults and 14 kids.

Yeah, we're going to need some space and a jungle gym. ;D And perhaps a lot of wine.