Random Randomness

I have pictures to share from the last couple weeks.

We carved pumpkins this year at Em's house then went to a trick or treat at the park near her.  Her and her Auntie Em did her pumpkin togehter.

Then we had to get a picture with ALL of her trick or treating candy after her and daddy went on Halloween!

Erin and Andy came up to visit Saturday.  There is really just something so comforting about spending time with your oldest friend!  We all decided we need to have a photoshoot and set up the camera with the timer.  Lyla was in charge of how we should sit and what we should do! 

Dammit Joe!

It was 10 years ago this past August that I met Gary and my life changed forever.  When I met Gary he was living in Morgantown in a 2 bedroom apartment at good old Bon Vista.  And he shared that apartment with Joe. 

Keep in mind, Gary and I had zero mutual friends.  So as we got to know each other we got to know each other's friends.  The fact that Gary and Joe lived together along with the fact that for that first year we were dating I lived with them every weekend - Joe and I got to know each other VERY WELL! 

I often laugh about the fact that Gary and I never really "dated" like most couples do early in their relationships.  Ours was a little different.  I was 20 and still living at home, Gary was 23 and had his own place - an hour from where I lived.  So there wasn't much him picking me up at my house and us going to dinner.  And there was the issue that I wasn't 21 so we weren't going out to bars either.  Instead I was getting out of work on Fridays, driving to Morgantown and basically hanging out at his apartment until Sunday evening when I would drive back home.  We would go to dinner and the movies.  In the fall we went to what feels like a million haunted houses and every single football game.  We went to concerts or house parties.  And we did most of these things with Joe. 

We were a trio.  Joe would bring girls around but none of them lasted very long.  And my friends would come along or some of Gary's other friends.  But at the end of the day, most of the time it was the three of us.  And I wouldn't have had it any other way. 

And that following April when Gary's dad suddenly passed away, it was the three of us.  And Joe and I as a team figured out the best ways for us to help Gary through it.  It was a life changer and it solidified the core friendship for the three of us. 

When their lease was up at the end of that year Gary moved in with two other guys and Joe moved to Florida with his parents.  There were a few trips back and forth to visit.  Joe was here to be the best man in our wedding.  We went to Florida to see him. 

Five years ago we went to Missouri for Joe's wedding.  And that's the last time we got to see him.  We grew up and all got busy.  We had Lyla and he had his son two months later.  Then he had his little girl a little over a year ago.  We bought houses, have jobs, life just gets in the way.

BUT on Thursday, Joe is coming to visit!!  I am SO EXCITED to get to see him!  It has just been entirely too long!

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