Prom Dorks

One whole week without a post! You guys must really miss us right? All two and a half of you? Counting Jennie and myself...

I still subscribe to magazines for teenage girls (Teen Vogue) and the latest issues was all about prom. Oh, prom. And yes 50 years or so ago, of course Jennie and I went to prom together. Wait, we actually did have dates. But we somehow managed to work it out so that our dates were friends so we could all go together. Not sure how we pulled that off.

Our senior prom started with a car wreck and did NOT end with sex like I'm sure most others played out. Jennie and I were out buying last minute provisions (nail polish) and I rammed into the back of a Bronco an hour before our dates were supposed to arrive.

After Jennie's dress debacle (which is a whole other story) this was not a good start to the night. But we made it safely home (the 2nd time around), threw on our dresses, did something with our hair, Jennie let my Mom paint her toenails (not a good idea since she also painted the tops of her toes) and made it out the door in time to get a quick dinner before the dance.

Luckily the rest of the night was uneventful. My most memorable moment of the dance was not even spent on the dance floor but instead, the bathroom. Jennie went into a stall and pretended to throw up while I made up stores about how she was drunk to other people coming in and out. For the record, she had not been drinking. We were just really that dumb. And because of that, it was an awesome night.

I can't find any other pictures from Senior Prom but these are from Junior Prom. Jennie and I actually ended up hanging out that night too even though I doubt she even remembers because we didn't even like each other then.

And this is Ging who ended up being my date to Senior Prom.

Now it's my turn (posted by Jennie, pronounced Jinn-eeeeeee)

Well, this is my first post on our new blog and I really don't know where to begin.  I suppose I will start with my side of the story....
I remember meeting Anna after seeing the school production of something or other...maybe the sound of music...junior year.  We went cruising afterwards, and yes, Beth had almost everything to do with that, Amanda has to be given credit as well.  I do remember thinking to myself that Anna was a tad loud and a lot obnoxious.  After that it is pretty much all a blur until the day I sat in her room crying over a silly boy while she made me feel better.  I think that was when we became inseparable.  If we weren't hanging out, getting squishies with runts and skittles(right Anna? you got skittles, right?), then we were on the phone discussing what we ate, what we were going to wear to school and whether or not a guy that we liked looked at us, amongst many other equally unimportant topics.  Anyways, from that point on, like Anna said, we went to college, moved around, and procreated many times.  All the while remaining best friends.
Ok Anna, who is going to read this?  I think we should have kept it a secret....anyways, I am just going to post this to get it out there and done cause I can tell you are losing what miniscule amount of patience you had with me to begin with.  I will end with saying Anna is my best friend and as much as I say I hate her, I love her with all my heart and my life would be just wrong without her.  And this is one of my favorite pictures of her.

What is this?

(Posted by Anna)

Jennie and I decided to start a blog together where we can share things that we want to write about with each other and anyone else who wants to read it.

We'll also be posting our craft projects that we work on. I started knitting in November and crocheting about a month ago. So far I've been making scarves, blankets and most recently monkey and bear hats which are a lot of fun.

Jennie is the sewer. ha ha sewer.. She sews... anyway she likes to take old clothing and redo it to make clothes for her kids. She also makes cute little felt food and bed tents, among other things.

This is a really boring first entry...

For those of you that don't know who we are or maybe know one of us and not the other, here's our story, the shortened version.

We met through mutual friends sophomore year of high school. Jennie doesn't remember meeting me but I remember meeting her. Not until our junior year did we actually start hanging out and even then at first we didn't really like each other. At the time, I thought she was kind of a ditz (which she's not) and she thought I was really obnoxious (still true). One night Jennie found out her boyfriend was cheating on her and all of her real friends were busy or not home, so she came to my house to cry in my bedroom which I plotted to confront her boyfriend and beat the crap out of him. That night, one relationship ended and a new one began.

The rest is history. We were inseparable from that moment on until we graduated. Then we went to separate colleges but reunited 2 years later at OU where we ended up in the same dorm. In 1999 I got married and Jennie was my maid of honor. Then I moved to Maryland. She graduated from college, then got married and moved from Oklahoma to Texas and now lives in Arkansas. I moved from Germany to California to Arizona to Florida and now back to California.

In this time, we both poppped out 3 kids each. I have 3 boys: Holden, Lucas & Asher. Jennie has two boys and a girl: Porter, Parkin and Paden.

We didn't see much of each other over the last few years so we decided it was time to take a trip together last October. We met up in Boston and had a week free of husbands and kids, full of ridiculousness and fun.

So here we are. We don't know if anyone else will read this except for us. But if you like anything you read, please comment and come back and read more!