Friends!

Friends....I have thought a lot about friends this past couple of weeks! What a blessing they are and how God has given us amazing friends! Old friends, new friends, friends here in Abbotsford and friends around the world. We are so blessed! So to all of you that we consider friends, thank you! For being there, for loving us, praying for us, and laughing and crying with us over the years!

This picture was taken at Matt and Heather's house on Sunday, January 8, actually Megan's birthday. Tom and Ruth are some of our oldest and dearest friends...we go back to our pre-marriage days when Ruth and I were in Youth Group together! They started dating around the same time as us, and we got married a month apart, two good German girls marrying 'Englischer'....that is non-Germans! Our husbands hit it off and the rest is history...our kids call them Uncle Tom and Auntie Ruth and we have been at each other's kids' weddings...all of them! Thanks for being a part of our lives and our children's lives Tom and Ruth!

And to our good friends, Steve and Nancy, here is the picture that I promised you Nancy(the six of us met while we were all celebrating our 25th Wedding Anniversaries on a Panama Canal Cruise...but that's another story of God's Amazing Faithfulness and Friendships!).