is the ten year anniversary the gold one?
we are the golden girls. we fight over the executive chair. this year is our ten year anniversary. ten years of scrapbooking, friendship, laughter, shopping, phone calls, long drives, music, kids, kids, and more kids, pictures, birthdays, fights, tears, changes, and moves…
we met in 1996. we started scrapbooking one night a week til the wee hours of morning. sharla, christine, erin, and me. sharla and i had babies. erin had kids. christine had a VW beetle. :) we became best friends. then we moved to the four corners of california. and our weekly nights turned to saturdays. then our saturdays turned to weekends. when the kids were little, we would go and stay with each other during the week. we lost touch with erin for many years. and during that time stacy, sheridan, carole and celestial got added to our group. the other regulars. now two of us live in arizona. the rest here in southern california. and we try to get together still at least once a year for a scrapbook/shopping weekend of looooOOOOoooove. and that my friends, is THIS WEEKEND. WHOOHOOO
although we dont talk everyday, we email everyday. we blog everyday. we know we are there. we know we understand each other. i am so lucky to know them, to have them in my life. to have them love me. no matter what. even when i pierce my nose. even when i make a big change. even then.
even when we change, we stay the same. we stay together. in fifty years we will be gabbing about our kids and our grandkids and our husbands. laughing until we cry.
i love you guys.
(and yes, that is a train page that i so happily and proudly showed off to the camera. the letters D-R-E-W were in each train car. how cool was i?)
so cool…to have those kind of friends….have so much fun on your weekend…and sometime silly we have to get together…
m
that is so cool….reminds me of my good girlfriends. And that page!!! i laughed when i saw it. Sooooo creative memories-like! i have many that look very similar. hehe
so cutting edge Tara…that train rocks!! bwwwhhhaaa….seriously it is fun to look back isn’t it?? You have so many cool people in your life…you are truly blessed!! :)
i’m so happy to read this and totally have tears running down my face. i love you so much and the rest of the girls…..oh yeah and….. thank you for bein’ a friend. :)
how fun. So cool to have such a bond, special friends in your life. That’s important.
The train page cracked me up. It’s so funny how much this art has evolved in the past 10 years. Fun to look back at old pages you made and see how far you’ve come. :)
Thanks for sharing, Tara. Hope you have a fun weekend with your girls. :)
Awesome! When you live in the military it’s tough to make and keep such great friends. Coooooooool choo choo :)
that is so awesome!
i have friends like that, ones that i have known since kindergarten years that we still get together and it’s like old times, like sisters.
thanks for sharing a bit of you today t….
tara
Don’t you love that the older you get, the more you know you were not cool so long ago! You more than make up for it now, girl. You are the queen of cool in my eyes!
how fun is that? love that picture, oh and the train too! ;)
Aren’t you glad we don’t cut our pictures into SHAPES anymore, or drag around those rollie carts! Oh, the fun we’ve had…
That is so cool, Tara. I really envy that-I don’t have super great friends like that.
I was bloggin around and was so pleasntly suprised to see this today my love. Been thinking of you gals all weekend, and now I am so ready to count down the days til this weekend! Love you so much! And I DO love the pride you showed with that train!
how wonderful that you guys have each other and such a wonderful bond.
hey…i’ve scrapped with those girls before, too! thanks for letting me crash the party once. :) you are lucky to have such a great group of friends to share with – sisterhood at its finest.
hilarious!!!
you are going to have the best best best time! and i want to see the train shape brought back to life again in scrapbooking ;)
ps – i also think you should start a denim overall revival…HOTTER than HOT and you know it!!
ohhh, this made me all teary for you guys!!! haahaa I love that we can have such great girlfriends in our lives. They mean SO much. I love your train page Tara!! ;-) I have quite a few like that and even more “interesting” from my early days. but you know, I love those pages because they represent the beginning for so many people…we were having fun, creating memories (no pun intended ;-) and developing into our own!!
Have FUN fun FUN this weekend!!!
Hey T, I haven’t posted for a long time and have been catching up. Your photos are fabulous and I can’t believe it has been 10 years that you girls have been scrapping together. You have a bond with them that most women will never experience in their life time!! I think its awesome!!
Love Mar
Dammit! Em stole the words right outta my mouth! It just doesn’t matter what you wear!…you are sizzling!…
…oops!..I meant…dang it!…
love this!! it is so great to have friendships that last through time!
I love your train page!!!!! Look here http://techniques.scrapbooking.com/images/trainlayoutcomplete.jpg My train page spells out “DREW” also!
I wish I was still able to crop with my original scrapbooking buddies!! Have a great time catching up with them.
Tara
When I check christines blog, I always check what you have been up to, I feel a connection thru my daughter, live thru your joys and your heartbreaks, you a are a very special girl, I am so proud that you are such a special friend to my daughter – I envy your talent in photography – you are my mentor – I would love to have a fraction of your talent. Have a great time this weekend – look forward to your blog.
JJ
In another 10 years we will probably be out of ideas and so we will pull out the “classic look” and start making trains all over again. Of course, we’ll call it RETRO-Scrapping and it will be cool once again! So hang on tight to that page…your kids will love it when they grow up! Just like all the funky 60’s and 70’s clothes comin back into style all over the place. Groovy!
I think you are a very lucky group of ladies to have found one another.
And it’s really amazing to see how scrapbooking trends have come and gone. Did you keep the trains?
That is SO cool. You guys are YaYas! I always wanted YaYas. :)
Tara, you’re one of THOSE people that doesn’t age, aren’t you?
How wonderful that you’ve found your friendship niche. Very sweet.
What a beautiful friendship. I loved reading this today. I hope you girls have such a great time this weekend!! -Shell
what a fun anniversary for you! :) i shall be celebrating mine in the year 2009…which feels so far off, but isn’t really. lmao
and wasn’t life so much easier when all your stuff fit in an iris cart or two? (or perhaps you’re more frugal than i! hehe)
and btw, your kids are way way cute!
CAN’T WAIT! Less than 24 hours!!