This is my friend John. (He made his first appearance on my blog way back in February.) He was one of my first friends in Lawrence, and today, I consider him, Chris, Holly, Bobbi, Jennifer, Shanna, Richard, Isham, Amy, Tim, and Heather (Pete, too, of course! But that goes without saying) to be some of my best friends. We haven't been all together since we traveled to Mississippi for Tim and Heather's wedding (they were, unfortunately absent last night, but that's because they still live in Mississippi) in November, but it was like no time had passed at all. That's when you truly know you have the best friends in the world.
Eight of the eleven people at the table last night were engaged, so we know will once again be together (Tim and Heather included for at one of them!) in September, October, February, and May. Although we could use the laughter and warm fuzzies the evening brought on a more regular basis, just knowing that that group is out there is more than enough.