I'm a big believer in the importance of 'girl time' and its necessity for my personal sanity, and luckily Chuck is likewise a believer :). And March brought a few different opportunities to sneak away from my [cute/smelly/crazy] boys:
Starting with a girls' night to celebrate Paulina's birthday! We opted for the traditional Shari's where we paired off to share pie shakes - Paulina and I got a sour cream lemon shake and it was a-mazing (minus the part where I almost swallowed a huge chunk of lemon because I thought Paulina had - long story...). As always, we laughed and talked and laughed some more and unlike always, we were treated to an awesome musical performance by the drama kids from Columbia High who were celebrating the end of their run of "Grease".
Some more girl time came a couple of weeks later at Tami's baby shower! Grace and Cassandra co-hosted the party, and it was super cute/fun/delicious; I'm craving the caramel popcorn sooo much right now as I look at the picture!!
And Holly and Ella came! With me, actually, which meant an hour of talking in the car to and from Nampa... and another forty-five minutes parked outside their house, haha. I just really love my Holly time.
And whenever I curse the unfair nature of calories being so easy to consume and SO hard to burn, I just remember that it allows me to have a girls' night four times a week - aka running!!
This is our core group of me, Paulina, and Kautri - we've been at it the longest (two months, wooo!) but we've added a lot of other awesome girls into the mix over the last few weeks. Kara, Emily, Nicole, Kristen, Jessica, Nycole, Tasha, and Lara have all come (some just once or twice, others more frequently) and it's so fun to have a rotating group each night. We're up to three miles, which is SO amazing to me - such a testament to the power of positive peer pressure, on my own I'm hard-pressed to do 2 miles! I still always want to quit right at the beginning, but then we start talking or listening to Kautri's music or some guys whistle at us or I mistake a cow for a horse and before I know it, we're back at my house and I can mostly still feel my legs :).
Finally, I couldn't survive without my BFSC's Courtney and Heidi. My ongoing email conversations with each of them, fun texts, and loooong phone calls are so wonderful and important to me.
Love you both. Buckets and buckets.
Yay for girl time!
2 comments:
We miss you SO MUCH! And feel so honored to be included in this. Unlike Chase who you unremorsefully cut out of that picture. Also, just Courtney is writing this and is assuming Heidi agrees, therefore the use of plural pronouns.
OH! I miss you. I am reading this at work wishing I was out running with you guys! Love you tons Jana!
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