This past weekend I had the opportunity to go home to California to see one of my best friends get married. It was awesome! She was beautiful and looked like a princess. Over the two days I was there, I had some time to reflect. Kristen and I have known each other since we were about 14 years old (that's about 10 years!). Our families knew each other, but we didn't meet until she started attending our ward. Our friendship really started one Young Women's make-over night where she reached out to me because I was shy. Since then we have shared many fun, special, and even sacred experiences together. We've also had our fair share of near accidents on the road together. We had our friendship tested, but we learned from those experiences and came out better as a result. Some of our favorite things to do together were bowling, eating mint chocolate blasts from Baskin Robins, taking weird pictures, eating food abnormally, and just talking.
Somethings I thought a lot about this weekend were a youth conference dance and sleepover we had where we shared with one another our hopes, goals, and dreams for the future. It's funny, and kind of ironic, how different our paths have gone, but how we are both happy all the same. Although our plans did change, we both accomplished what we wanted to. I tend to accomplish things about a year after she does, so we shall see if that is true about her accomplishment this time. :)
I am very happy and excited for her and her new husband, Bryan. I am glad that they are living where they are so I will still see them around when I go home again. It's not like here in Utah where when my friends get married I usually don't ever see them again except on facebook. Sad, but true.
Something I really enjoyed this weekend was staying the night in a hotel across the street from the temple with Kristen and the other two bride's maids. It was fun staying up to talk, do her hair, and celebrate her last night being single. It was very convenient to be staying across the street, too, because there was two hour drive with traffic for everyone else to get to the temple the next morning.
