Honesty. Truth. Tradition.

Honesty.
1. I cannot believe I am even posting these pictures.
2. Dana has not given me permission to post these pictures, but she has also not explicitly forbidden me to.
3. There are a few pictures of us over the last 20+ years that are much much better than these.
4. There are a lot more pictures of us over the last 20+ years that are very much like these.

Truth.
1. We do not get together near often enough. The 400 miles that separate our daily lives might as well be 4000.
2. Every chance we have to spend time together now involves juggling schedules of two husbands and three, soon to be four young 'uns.
3. Personally, I wouldn't change it for the world. In a strange way, the separation of 400 miles has strengthened our friendship in a way that I cannot quite explain.
4. Once in a while, we steal a moment for a 'nice' picture of ourselves. What you cannot see in the picture below are three little boys covered in pizza sauce, a barefooted four year old with his arm stuck up a trinket machine, an eighteen month old climbing out of a high chair and a two and a half year old crashing tractors off the table.

Tradition.
1. Food is a big part of our friendship. Many (almost all) of our old (and new) memories revolve around food. When we aren't physically engaged in the act of eating food, we are talking about food.
2. Books have also played an important role in shaping us. And our children.
3. Pizza Hut's Book It program launched our elementary selves into book + pizza lovers. It is also where we chose to hang out recently.
4. Like I mentioned above, for every one good picture of the two of us, there are likely three or four goofy ones. It wouldn't be right if we didn't goober it up for a camera. And I wonder why none of our kids will stop and take normal, serious pictures for me.

Happy (almost) Weekend!