Flashback Friday: My Friend Heather

Heather is a good friend from back home. She's genuine and so much fun to hang out with; we had some good times together back in the day. When she got married and I moved to BYU, we lost touch. Then came the invention of blogs and another friend from back home told me she found Heather's blog. I emailed Heather, then she called me; we had a nice catch-up conversation over the phone and decided to get together this week at Thanksgiving Point. It's amazing--it has been almost a decade since we've seen each other--we've each had struggles and triumphs over the years--but mostly, we're pretty much the same:

From left to right: Heather, Tanya, Me. This was taken sometime in 1997 on a road trip we took to Salt Lake City. Who knew I'd call that city my home years later?
And here we are today. She has a girl (who was at school) and two boys. We both named our first sons Andrew (& Tanya named her first boy Andy)--coincidence, not planned.
On that same road trip to SLC, sparks flew from Heather and Chris....

....they got married and made babies...Our Andrews
And Ethan who found a mud puddle much too tempting.
We had a fun time playing at Thanksgiving Point. Here's Josh on his very first pony ride.

And here's Andrew on his very first pony ride.

(We tried ponies once before, but he didn't want anything to do with it)


I'm so glad I found my friend and I hope we never lose touch again...