Friends

Saturday we headed to El Dorado Hills to hang out and have dinner with our friends the Chaquicas.  Melissa was my "suite mate" freshman year at UCSB and we were roommates all through college and have been great friends ever since. 
I miss seeing them regularly and watching our kids play together.  The beauty of friendship is that you don't have to talk on the phone all the time or see someone every week to know they are your friend.  Melissa is a true friend.  In fact, it had been almost a year since we've seen each other and we picked up where we left off as if I had last seen her a week ago.
Seeing Charlotte interact with Natalie and Jake was too fun.  Charlotte loved the freedom that came with hanging with the older kids (Jake is almost 7 and Natalie 5).  They swam together, jumped on the trampoline together, and at the end of a hard day of playing took baths and showered together.  Does it get any better than that?
Here's hoping a whole year doesn't pass before we get to see them again.  And that backyard?  Wow.  Enough said.