the best of friends...

"The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart..."


That's exactly how we feel about our friends Nikki and Elary. They visited this week all the way from Las Vegas.  Of course - it's not that big a deal for them, considering they used to live here. But we still love to see them come! It had been waaaaay to long since the last time we saw them. Almost a year to be exact. 


It's always an amazing thing to me when you make really true friends who, no matter how much time has passed, still "get" you.  With these two, it was like we just picked up right where we left off.   We laughed ourselves silly over the stupidest things (like flatulence) and had some of the most serious conversations we've had all year - all in the matter of just a few days. And that is why we love them. Because it doesn't matter how god-awful or wonderful the conversation is, we're just so happy to be having it with them!


We took some time out to take a few updated photos for them. And when I say a few - I literally mean a few! Ha! We spent so much time laughing, we barely took any pictures! Oh well - a few will do! :) Well here's my favorite from the beginning of editing for you all to enjoy! :)

"...the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest, as well as one's most foolish, thoughts come out simply and safely.  Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away."   ~Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859