You know what I love about true, long-lasting friendships? You don't have to see each other or even talk for a long period of time and then when you get together, it is almost like nothing has changed. Pick things up right where you left off.
I have quite a few friends like that. It is hard growing up sometimes because LIVING LIFE gets in the way of the way we used to be, things we used to do, and friends we used to hang out with. Its always great when I am able to spend time with any of my friends, especially the ones I have had forever!
Sometimes it is fun to see how our old friends have changed as they become adults. Take my friend John, for example. He just became a father 4 months ago, to a beautiful little baby girl named Jasmine. John and I have been friends since the day we met in 7th grade....16 years now. Ever since he made his speech for the Student Council Election declaring that "if elected, he would throw all the school hamburgers to the bottom of the ocean!" He won, of course. Good Ol' John-Boy! We haven't been able to spend as much time together these past few years as we used to, but we made special plans to get together yesterday.
E wanted to hang out with John too (we have all known each other since Jr. High!), so we went to his house (on the opposite side of the Twin Cities) in the afternoon and spent time catching up about various high school classmates and playing with the baby.
A few hours later his girlfriend Kirsten came home and I got to spend some time getting to know her better while E kept John company in the kitchen while he fixed us a fabulous spaghetti dinner. I got her interested in learning more about scrapbooking and promised to get together sometime soon to help her get started. I recomended that she visit Scrapjazz, of course, because that is where I learned everything I know about scrapbooking!
After dinner we stayed and played a game of darts. Considering that I hadn't played darts in at least 3 years, I actually played pretty well! We still ended up losing though :( 
The game got us all to work up our appetites again...just in time for Byerly's Killer Brownies. These things are beyond sinful!! They are much bigger than the ones pictured here...I could barely eat half of mine because it was so rich and gooey!
It was so nice to spend time with John again and to get to know his baby and girlfriend. They are both so sweet!
****The Facts****
** It is soooo HOT and HUMID outside that my summer school classroom is around 100'. It is absolutely miserable...even fans don't help enough. I can't drink enough cool water. Heat like this makes me naseous!
**Thinking about getting some scrappin' done, but I just haven't been home. Still need to finish up Mary's gift album by Saturday. Getting togther to scrap with Sarah and Shannon on Friday night.... We haven't scrapped together in almost a year! Gonna order pizza and drink Mojito's . Anyone ever had that???
**Been neglecting my visits to Scrapjazz and the blogs I read. Sorry everyone! Just a few more weeks of summer school and then I will have a few weeks of vacation...I am always playing catch-up with one thing or another!
**Harry Potter comes out in two days. I finally finished rereading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix today. Found this Harry Potter Website that I plan to check out some time soon. Can't wait to find out who the Half-Blood Prince is....Dudley? Malfoy? Neville? Harry? Hmmm. We'll see soon enough.
**I just reconfigured the format of my Blog so that it will be consistent on all computers...I had it set for a "fluid" format and I was not happy with it at all! I think this is much better. I have had to go back and resize some of my pics to fit, but it seems worth it to me!
First, I love your banner the way it is...the whole bilingual title is very cool! Second, those brownies look absolutely delicious and your friend's baby totally adorable. And yes, you are so right, there is a special beauty in old friendships. Great pictures you took by the way.
Posted by: Maria | July 14, 2005 at 12:45 AM
OOOH Kristi I loooove the changes... it looks awesome!!
Posted by: nic | July 14, 2005 at 06:09 AM
I so miss some of my old friends after reading this!!!! Love your blog Kristi!
Posted by: Lindsay | July 14, 2005 at 07:16 AM
Hi Kristi~
It was so cool that you got to see John, he is such a sweetie. His baby is way to cute, how fun for all of you. The next time you talk to him, please tell him Hello for me and congrats to him and his girlfriend on there beautiful baby.
As for Mojito's, they are so good. I have an awesome recipe for Lemonade Mojito's that is really good, let me know if you want to try it.
Your website looks great!
Love,
Andrea
Posted by: Andrea | July 14, 2005 at 09:29 AM
hey its good to see john doing so well i'm very happy for him and his family, i know an angel will be watching very close, john was my first friend I had when I moved to white bear in the 6th grade. keep up the scrapping my mom sister both do it also,it looks great......keith and joey
Posted by: keith beck | July 16, 2005 at 12:48 PM