Friends Forever

Anybody remember that song from Vitamin C called Graduation? It came out in 2000 and now 13 years later it popped into my head. The second line says “Where we’re gonna be when we turn 25” and here we are with Mr. Bluth in the last leg of his 25th year and Mrs. Bluth’s 25th year fast approaching. As the song continues it discusses how we move on with life and reach for our dreams but questions whether we will hold onto the past. The main theme is still being friends as much as our lives change and lead us to different paths.

The biggest thing that will ever be missed are people. What do I miss from BYU? My friends. What do I miss from San Diego? My friends. What will I miss when (if) we leave Chicago? Our friends. While there are plenty of other things to miss such as football from BYU, and perfect weather from San Diego, overall if there was only one thing I could pick it would be the relationships I formed and created in all those places.

We have a lot of wonderful friends here in Chicago, but one couple definitely stands out as some best friends. Friends that we will have forever. We both moved to Chicago the exact same week so we shared the first week of church together. Since that cold Sunday in January our friendship has grown and grown to the point that it feels like family. We don’t go a week without seeing them and all of our little adventures include them. To say it simply, they are the best.

Mrs. Bluth’s padres lived in Washington for the first 10 years of their marriage and they made a lot of friends with other couples that were just starting their families. Growing up, the Lee family always spent their vacations going and visiting their friends. Trips to Washington included just as much time visiting the friends as it did visiting the family. And that is how we imagine it will be with Tylor and Cheri. When the time comes when we are not living a half a mile away from each other, then we will plan our vacations accordingly to visit them. I guess we will have to go to Hawaii one day so that they can show us everything and their homeland.

Just in the last couple of weeks we have ventured over to the planetarium together for a perfect view of the city and a free day and headed up to Wisconsin for some apple picking. There are some pretty cool things in the Midwest such as going to orchards and eating apple donuts and cider.

We picked about 5 different types of apples and filled our huge bag. You might not be hearing from us for a while because we are cutting, coring, and then drying the apples. Putting our dehydrator to good use!

The Happy Crew.

The view from the Planetarium is incredible.
No matter where we go we will always find wonderful people that will be hard to leave and that is one of the many beauties of life.