happy birthday, autumn!

Autumn and I met through our husbands (then boyfriends), who have been friends since they were roommates first year together at UVA. Friendships between signficant others is always a dicey prospect...it seems that a lot of time even though the guys get along, the girls not so much or vice versa. But not so with Autumn...I consider her to be one of my closest friends.

In the course of the 8 or so years that we've known each other, we've been through a lot -- engagements, weddings, pregnancies, trips to Antigua and the Outer Banks, a stolen golf cart -- to name a few. We have five beautiful girls between us. We have plans to hit NYC this fall and Ireland in the spring. And yet, the only picture I have of just the two of us is this:

That picture was taken in July 2004, when I was pregnant with E and she was pregnant with Maura...before she started lapping me on the kids.

Have a happy birthday, Autumn!