Last year, I met this family in this same park for family image. It was just a few months after I had moved to St. Paul. We did a bit of chatting and realized we lived super close to one another. We did a bit more chatting and realized we lived on the same street. A bit more chatting…we lived less than a block away, and we had both moved from out of state at about the same time.

Our friendship grew from there. From Soup Nights to Book Clubs, to random drop offs of goodies just because (heck, she even brought us dinner one night in a snow storm because she had “made too much!”). There’s no way to express how fabulous this family is, and how much I truly treasure having them just a handful of houses down the street.

And, it was SO much fun seeing how different the girls were this year from last <3