My friends

This past weekend, my family headed to Birmingham to see some of the SEC baseball tourney AND I was able to hang with some awesome friends on Friday night. *sigh*

To my surprise, RobYn had orchestrated a very fabulous dinner full of some pretty fabulous girls. We are all real life friends now, as a opposed to a year ago when we were imaginary. Ha!

We met through blogging and have now become super duper have your back friends. It is crazy how the whole friendship thing began....ya know....internet and all. Now we are really good friends. DId you catch that?? Internet friends to really good friends!

Here is a favorite photo...Jenny, Morgan, me, and RobYn (don't ask as to why I capitalize her "y")!!!!! I'm so happy to have met that precious Morgan. What a precious girl. She was able to hang with us til late!

Here is the entire gang. I can't tell you how much I love this picture!!! From the left we have Jenny, Morgan, Fran, RobYn, Tammy, Gayle, Kim, and Mary. Each one of these girls just makes me smile. I truly know that God orchestrated this whole friendship. Thank you Beth Moore and the Siesta blog.

Kim is taking a picture of her dessert. I would to. Look how beautiful this piece of chocolaty heaven is.

Ok, Mary made me order this. Just kidding, Mary. This is one of those salads where you have to put it all together. WAYTOOMUCHWORK for me. I just like to grab the fork and eat. I don't like putting food together when the restaurant should do it for me. Anyhoo....it was good. However, my boys saw this picture and claimed that this was the WORST food they'd ever seen.

Look at these two pranksters. Gayle and Kim will have you laughing before you even start talking. They are always up to something. They are always crying laughing. They are a hilarious hoot and I love 'em.

So, whatever your friendships look like, however they started, however long you've known some people, please take the time to let them know just how much you treasure them. I wish I had the sense on Friday night to let these girls know just how special they are to me.

So...to these girls...."I love each and every one of you and I thank God that He placed you in my life. You have no idea what a gift and a blessing you are to me. You are the real deal. I love you."

Thank you RobYn for a dinner and night out that I'll never forget. You have no idea how much I appreciate you. (((hugs)))

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13

So much love,

Fran