I am pretty lucky I guess. I have had a close set of friends since I was 12 years old. This group of people, six of us, have been through countless crushes, a few dates and a marriage and divorce amongst us in the past 30 years and yet we remain friends. This past weekend we got together and hung out, played golf, poker, dice games, and sat by the fire. We laughed, we told stories, looked at old pictures, we drank way too much and we stayed up way too late. When all was said and done, we were all pretty amazed at how resilient our friendships have remained to this day. I wish I lived closer to these people so that I could see them more than once a year. This past weekend has made me more homesick than ever.
Tammy, Billy, Jim (Fuzz), Chris and Kylene, (and little sis Lori) you guys wrote the pages of my story and I love you all so very much. I hope we are meeting at the Gate Ranch when we are 80 and playing Ronna Rules golf and I am killing you all at poker. Every.Time.
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| Tammy loves her side ponytail :) It helps her to play poker better. NAWT. |
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| Three little monkeys sitting in a tree (left to right, Lori, Tammy and Ronna) |
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| Chris (in the blue hat) passing out the chips for MY poker game, he should have just given them all to me. |
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| Because I ended up with them all anyway :D (Yes, these are MY chips) |
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| I said SMILE! Fuzz and his son Jackson were the only ones paying attention lol. (Left to right, Lori (in the ponytail), Chris(blue cap) Billy, Fuzzy, Jackson, Tammy's arm and Jim Senior. Standing in back is Tad) |
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| Fuzzy getting ready to show us how it's done. Or not. |
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| Kylene with her awesome form, :P |
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| Tammy putting like a champ. All those hours of putt putt golf paid off :D |
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| The motley crew. |
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| Chris channeling Happy Gilmore :) |
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| Kylene wearing Chris' sweatshirt. It was HUGE so I climbed inside with her to get warm lol |
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| Fuzz wearing his "bluetooth" |
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| A better look at the apparatus...hmm looks like a hair clippy to me.... |
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| Billy showing us how it is done. Nice form WCF!! |
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| Honorary member of the crew, "li'l sis" Lori giving Chris some tips. Hmmm. Maybe she is actually saying "Um, I think my ball is waaaaayyyyy over there...." |
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| What trip to Western Washington is complete without a visit from a friendly slug?? Ewwww... |
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Thanks for loving me as I am my friends. My world is a better place because of all of you.
~R
This is wonderful, Ronna. You are truly blessed.
ReplyDeleteYou guys are cute. In the, you can pretty much do whatever around each other and next year you'll come back and do it again only better kind of way. :)
ReplyDeleteLisa, you have no idea how right you are with that statement :) Gail, I am. And I thank God for these people every day!!
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