True Friendship Ignores Time and Distance

I'm grateful for the photo challenge today. This week kicked my butt a little.

Day 2: You and the Person You've Been Closest to the Longest

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that this probably means beyond the family because they are kind of a given. Otherwise they'd win this, hands down: 1) Parents 2) My Pops 3) My Cousins and 4) Auntie Cindy. :)

So, branching out beyond the fam, it'd easily be these two tied for that spot.

I've known Matt (left) and Andrew (right) since I was in 8th grade. [ That picture's from Matt's wedding day. I have zero of the three of us...ever. Fail. We have to fix that at Andrew's wedding.] We've had some ups and downs along the way -- from break ups and fights to cross-country moves -- but on the rare occasions when the 3 of us can get together, it's like nothing has changed about our friendship.

Except that we're older, Matt's an old married guy now, and Andrew is soon to be an even OLDER married guy. And they have wonderful, beautiful (inside and out) women in their lives now that I also have the blessing of having in mine. [Hahaha, the amount of estrogen is now higher than testosterone. A nice change, if you ask me! :P]

But we're still silly one minute and contemplating the mysteries of life the next, and then we bounce right back to picking on one another. I know I can still call them any day and talk though anything and everything with them -- or nothing that makes any sense at all. I absolutely love 'em to death and look up to them a lot. It's a downright honor to have gotten to watch them grow up into two pretty classy guys. [Yes, even you, Andrew. :P]

I'm so thankful to have them in my life for 10 years and counting. ♥

~"The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart." [-Elisabeth Foley]~