Friendship is nothing that Fairytales and Storms can't Weather

Drew is my best friend in the whole wide world, yet he makes me the craziest at times.. I think that's how love is..
Our story starts us back in highschool, in 10th grade, over the book "The Great Gatsby."

Both Drew and I had been in Amy Vandebergs 4th hour English. Drew had to switch classes and was now in my class. 4th hour was the hated class, if memory serves me correctly... One morning early on in that semester, before school began, Drew was working on some last minute homework about "The Great Gatsby". That morning in the library, I was working on the same homework. I didnt understand the book and I thought it was stupid, but I needed to get it done. I reconized Drew from class, but we had never met, so I introduced myself. At that time, I had no idea what adventure I was to embark on.



I asked Drew for some help on a question and he often refers to this moment as " I was cheating off him"..whatever...



Little did the two of us know that morning was jsut the beginning of a close friendship, and later a serious relationship.

Life isn't a fairytale, but a day at the lake...

I love having mulitple parents in my life who love me unconditonally. One of these parents is my great friend Cricket. Cricket has been my prayer partner this past year and I have used all of her prayers greatly. Currently, she and her husband, Brad, are trying to sell their house in order for them to start building on their lake property.

We spent the day with Cricket, church family and her family at the Lake. It feels like heaven there.. No worries, no phones ringing, simple solitude in the middle of God's creation.