Small Town Kid...

In other news, I miss Abilene. I thought I was a city girl until we moved to the city... turns out I'm a semi-country girl that really likes visiting the city. I'm not sure what it is about Abilene, but it has its own kinda charm. Sometimes it really sucks to walk into the grocery store here knowing that there is NO way I know a single person in there. I hate knowing that if my car were to break down here and Marc were in class, I better have a towing service on my speed dial because there is no one else to call. And even if I did have a close friend that I could call, chances that they would be remotely close to my location in this enourmous city is very small.


So in honor of missing Abilene, and never quite being able to express it in the right way... here is a list of what I miss - in words and pictures, because well... pictures say it better than I ever could!


I miss...

- always knowing that even if there was NOTHING to do in Abilene on the weekends, we had great friends to sit around with.
- camping... well trying to camp and always returning home at 2 in the morning because it really wasn't that great of an idea.
- listening to Eli Young songs every weekend and having best friends that know  every word as well as I do
- having so many people over that our entire yard was full of cars, because the crazy vetranarian wouldn't let us park in "his" parking lot
- Sharky's
- having friends that knew that 7:00 really meant somewhere around 9:30.
- when Saturday night meant that less than 8 hours went by from the time you said goodbye to your friends til the time you saw them again at church on Sunday.
- Free, delicious home-cooked dinners every Wednesday night with Marc’s family.
- watching my little brothers (and sister!) grow up.
- making Elayna help me rearange my furniture when Marc was working.
- having a house with a backyard.
- how driving “all the way across town” really meant a 15 minute drive.
- the West Texas Fair & Rodeo
- Abilene High vs. Cooper Games
- Fujis and Bonsai
- the “Butternut and Treadway” and “695-1181” commercials
- Knowing that my friends closets were a better place to look for clothes than the Abilene mall.
- The Grape House.
-  not needing a GPS to get EVERYWHERE
- the Bumann's hot tub when it was 10 degrees outside.
- Thursday nights at our favorite place :)
- fitting more stuff in a refrigerator than anyone could ever imagine
-actually knowing our neighbors.

Most of all I miss...

And of course :

Most of all I miss you girls dearly!!