Two Favorite Blessings

Last weekend I was able to get away for an overnight girls trip to Charlotte to see two of my best college girlfriends! This particular girls trip was planned so Laura and I could meet up with our sweet friend Jamie (who neither of us had seen for 10+ years!) We were all SO excited.... giddy was actually the word we kept using! Sweet Jamo has had quite the many adventures since our college days, while Laura and I were feeling like the old maids who have both been married almost 12 years with houses full of children (okay... some houses fuller than others!) Anyway, back to Jamie.... she has spent time in India, touring with a Children of the World choir, living/ working in Jacksonville at a church, living and working in both Charlotte and No. Va, remeeting and falling in love with her hubby (more about that later), getting married, living in Malawi, Africa for a year, and this January having their first baby girl, Maryn! Whew! Tired just reading that huh... she really has had quite the adventures!

Me, Laura, and Jamie

So Laura, Jamie and I were all buddies at Liberty, while Laura and I were also buddies with Jamie's husband Daniel too, as he was in our same circle of friends, was friends with both of our hubbys, many mutual friends, etc. The funny thing is that we tried numerous times to set Jamie up with people and we tried numerous times to set Daniel up with people.... it is really hard to believe that we never tried to set the two of them up together! So fastforward 4- 5 years after college when Jamie moves to Charlotte, NC to help with a church plant that two guys from her LU and India days have started. She meets Daniel's dad one day while she is working at the church and gets to talking with him, tells him she went to LU, he tells her that his son went there, and so on.... So she gets his email and gives Daniel's dad hers, they both recognize each other from back in the day.... and the rest is history!!! So exciting! I remember the day that I found Jamie again through My Space (back in the prefacebook era!) and found out that she and Daniel were engaged!!!!

We had such a great time reconnecting with both of them and catching up on the last ten or so years of life! I loved getting to meet sweet little Maryn (Jamie, when you post those pictures of her and Maddox, I'm stealing one!) Hopefully this will be the first of many more fun girls weekends! I think there's talk of San Fran or a cruise in the future......