5 Friends and a Baby

This weekend has been a joyous reuniting of old and far away friends who were nice enough to make time in their ever busy schedules to hang with us.

Kevin, the gentleman on the far left (in the lovely periwinkle shirt, which Liz--on his right--and I both admired), graduated college yesterday. CONGRATS! And we were lucky enough to host him for a few days before his family came. And I do say lucky enough. He and Jared (the one remaining in the photo that isn't my husband, whom we've hosted for a few weeks while he finds a post-college apartment) are wonderful house guests, so helpful and appreciative. Of course, we've known them since high school and they've always been great. And, did I mention, they're single?

If that wasn't enough to make for an exciting weekend, our college friends Samantha and Will came to visit all the way from the midwest! Well, Will's brother was getting married so it wasn't all for us, but still, they squeezed us in! We went to the Olive Garden which is a special place for us. The last time we four went Jacob ordered tiramisu which has real coffee (gasp!) in it, and I scolded him for it. I have tried but I'm just not a fan of the aroma, and I don't enjoy our smooching as usual when it's coffee-twinged. Anyway, Samantha especially got a kick out of the exchange, so much so that she wrote it into her play for her playwriting class. That scene, she tells us, got big laughs. (See why we like these guys?)

P.S. (Jacob just paused the show we were watching to tell me that the reason women wear mascara is the same reason movies are in widescreen. Just think about that one for a minute . . . A film buff, truly.)

So, Will and Sam, they had a little baby girl last month and here she is: Miss Zara Juliet. This was just after lunch during her "cute time" as her mother calls it. And, to her credit, she did put on quite a show for us--the baby, not her mother. Adorable.