Friends, Friends and More Friends

Things have continued to be very busy. We enjoyed spring break and our days of rest the week before Easter immensely. Easter was a special day (see our new "couple" pic on the left wearing our Easter outfits). We had dinner with the Walkers and had our annual Easter egg hunt. Fun times. Later that afternoon Chris Fisher, my MBBC dorm supervisor buddy, came for a visit. I haven't seen Chris since I moved to Tennessee, so it sure was a treat. She spent the night with us and then headed to Murfreesboro to stay with Kim and Tim Henderson.


After spring break and Easter celebrations were over it was back to school/work for one day and then Brian and I both headed to Greenville, SC for the AACS national competition. What a blast we had. I was the sponsor for the speech students competing from our school. We took 13 students. I will post pictures and tell of the results another day.

When we arrived on campus and were standing in line to register, I looked over and recognized Mrs. Dee Thelen who is Tammy Weniger's (my high school friend and college roommate) mother. I hadn't seen Mrs. Thelen since I left Watertown. We were both sponsors for our schools and were staying in the dorm. When we began comparing room numbers we realized we were in the same room! What a coincidence! Of all of the hundreds of dorm rooms on BJ campus and we ended up together. Needless to say, we had so much fun laughing and catching up on old times. Our college roommates were wonderful . . . well, except when they made us kneel on the floor at devotions time and told us we had to recite the BJ creed. We were the talk of the hall after we "fell" for that one!


Here is my nationals "roomie." She was even excited that we were both wearing cardigans!


My next big surprise was when I looked through the competition list and saw many competitors from Maranatha Academy listed. Alysha Morris's name caught my eye because she is Angela and Dwayne Morris's daughter. I ran into Pam Logans and she informed me that Angela was on her way to Greenville. Imagine our shrieks of delight when we ran into each other in one of the speech competition rooms. I "hung out" with Angela for the rest of the day on Wednesday and was able to hear Alysha and the Logan's son sing a duet. It was beautiful.

My final highlight (oh, besides having lunch with the Joneses -- literally:) was to have lunch with three more of my very dear friends from Northland days. Here we are pictured from left to right -- Kristy, Amy Lyda Roland, Kim Gahman Daulton, Lisa Masters Zydowicz. We were sad that Kristen Jones Golson was not able to join because then our "Old Ladies' Society" would have been complete. That is what we used to call ourselves when we would play pranks and take funny pictures while working at Northland as summer staff in the early '90s. There is much more to tell, but at least this was a start. I know my mom will be happy to see new pictures -- she checks my blog faithfully every day!:)