Friends are Friends Forever...

Today we got to see and visit with our dear friends from out west. 

Bryan and Shelly (to the right of Manny & I in this picture)
 are originally from Utah, but now living in Washington State.

We met them about 18 years ago when Bryan's job brought him to Florida.

He's an engineer and was doing a project down here in FL for about 18 months. 

They attended our church, that's how we met them. 

They had two kids and we had two kids and we just seemed to connect. 

It was so hard to say goodbye when they went back home to Utah,

but we told them, Lord-willing, we'd go out to visit them

and we did...TWICE. 

Since then, Shelly has come to visit a few times through the years

but we hadn't seen Bryan in like 15 years.

They both look AMAZING! 

They came to our church service and then we all went out to lunch

and tried our best to get caught up. 

 Sarah enjoying her lunch

 Daddy have a special moment with Hannah
He's such a great daddy with his girls!

Ethan with Shelly giving his signature smile

You know you are the forever kind of friends when you pick up 

right where you left off even if there were years in between since you last were together

Good friends are such a blessing!

Maybe one day, we'll get to visit them in Washington.