beautiful people

do you see these beauties?
i don't know why but i have been blessed with some of life's most precious gems. there's something to say about making a friend {even if you're related} and then keeping that friend for years on end. and i mean really being friends...like i know the details of their lives, their joys, their fears, their successes, their past, their present...and they know mine.

they can predict how i'm going to react, tell me when i'm overreacting and comfort me when i've lost myself.

this one's not as good, due to the wind and chill factor. {mind you this was jan. 3rd}

but there are a few dear friends of mine in this pic that are not in the first.

i feel like in life there are two different types of people. there are those people who need other people and there are those that would rather tough it out on their own. over the years i've discovered i am a little of both types...

most of the time i like to try and tough it out on my own and see how far i can get, but then i find out my dad needs open-heart surgery and for a month i keep it all in, thinking non-stop about the fact that i could literally be an orphan at age 17...so finally i break and tell katie, sobbing in the olympus highschool parking lot.

or just a few weeks ago when we put my gramma in an assisted living and she hated us. i tried to act so tough, visiting her with a smile on my face, every wednesday. but then when i go to leave she holds my hand tighter saying "no, please. please don't leave me here. let me come live with you. i'll sleep on the floor!" that's when i break. and my sweet, sweet steve gets to pick up the pieces. and watch to me cry my eyes out while he just holds my hand and listens...

so i guess when it really comes down to it...i'm the type that needs people. thanks for being my people