Thursday, September 03, 2009

Twelve Years Ago...

On Tuesday night, I got together with my BYU Freshman Roommates. We have tried to get together at least once a year (or more, or less) over the last 12 years, and it is always so fun to see them.
While we ate fabulous food, we reminisced about the good ol' days, and one of us remembered a photo that was taken at our first Ward Social (literally days after we had moved into our dorm in Heritage Halls) where we were "sitting" on each other. So, we decided to take another one outside the restaurant. I thought I'd post the pictures here because it's so fun to see how we've changed (and not changed):

(Me, Angie, Katie, Rachel, Tam, and An)
[Katie (pregnant!), Angie, An, Rachel, me, Tam]
The crazy part is how much we haven't changed over the years. (Okay, maybe we've changed physically!) Sure, there are now three husbands, eleven children, three missions, several degrees, and seasoned world-travelers --but we are still the same. We know how each one of us will react and what we will talk about and how we will express ourselves; in that way, not much has changed. We'll forever be ourselves, and I love it that way.
Just not sure how I feel about the "Hey, guys, remember how Princess Di and Mother Theresa died the first week we all lived together? When was that...11 years...no, 12 years ago??!?!"
Oh, how time flies...

5 comments:

Annette Lyon said...

This is part of the college experience I really missed out on. I lived all of 5 minutes from campus, so it was deemed a waste of money to move out. So I lived at home until I was engage and decided that darn it, I'd better live on my own at list a LITTLE before leaving the nest.

So I had roomies for all of a semester before getting married. And all but one hated my guts, because they were nearing 30, fat, and boyfriendless, while I was 20, skinny, and engaged. That was a lovely several months.

What a cool tradition you guys have!

Tamilisa said...

Love it!! Thanks for posting us!

Angie said...

Those were good times!

Rachel Holtkamp said...

YAY!!!! I made it into the blog!!! My life is now complete ;-). And I promise to come down and visit you. I need my Cheryl therapy time.

m&m said...

Fun stuff. I got together w/ my freshman roomies last year -- we hadn't all been together since our college days...it was a blast.