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Happy Birthday and Goodbye!

Today is Randy's 45 Birthday!

Happy Birthday and have a nice trip. That is basically my conversation with him this morning. He is off to Vegas which would normally be an AWESOME place or at least interesting place to spend your birthday, However, he will spend approximately the whole day in airports - so that's a yucky place to spend your Birthday. Tomorrow thru Sunday will be spent setting up for a show and then Monday the show kicks off - so he won't have a lot of fun while he's there (which is only fair since I'm still here!)

I heard this quote the other day -

"A friendship that can cease has never been real."-Saint Jerome

I'm not sure I totally agree with it but it fits with what else I wanted to blog so..................
I have had 2 friends that have been friends since I was 1st Grade or younger. Leslie who has been there with me-for me since I was like 3 - we will go months without talking to each other and then we will for one reason or another catch up on each others lives, kids, grandkids and extended family but I don't think it has ever been more than 3 to 6 months that goes by without our talking. She brightens my life. Stephanie who has been my friend since 1st grade I hadn't talked to in about 12 years - well guess who I talked to a couple of weeks ago. (Okay Okay it's not a hard guess- but your right it was Stephanie). We spent a little over an hour on the phone and got caught up as well as you can with each others lives. So I guess since these friendships have never ceased they must be REAL!

I've also had friends that we were close as long as our lives moved in the same direction be it work, church, or school and I believe that God gives us those friends for a reason but friends like my Julie, Leslie, and Stephanie are the ones that are Special REWARDS from God - not sure what I did for them and I am thankful for it, but they must have done something in their life that God wants them to be punished for but I'm Glad he picked me as their punishment!

Well that's it for today.

I'm Going to the Chapel

Well I guess I should say I went to the Chapel and We got married, 26 years ago TODAY.

So I'm going to go down and give milestones of our last 26 years.

1979 - Highschool sweathearts marry in Amarillo, Texas
1980 - Had daughter - Victoria Nykole Hubbard.
Twila graduated with Honors from HS.
1982 - Had daughter - Brittney Dyan Hubbard
1983 - Had Son - Shawn Ryan Hubbard
1986 - Randy had back surgery, forcing a career change
1988 - Randy graduated from TSTI in May,
Randy's father passed away in September.
1989 - We moved to Allen Texas
1998 - Randy, Twila, Brittney, and Shawn moved to Tampa Florida,
Nyki graduated from Allen High School
Nyki marries Jeremy Lee Skogen.
2000 - Brittney graduated from Gather High School - Tampa FL
2001 - Brittney marries Ronald Albert Crosby II (RC)
2002 - Become a Grandparents - Ronald Albert Crosby III (AC) is born
Shawn graduates from Gather High School - Tampa FL
2003 - New Grandson - Trace Randall Crosby is born
2004 - New Granddaughter - Rylee Nykole Skogen is born
Shawn marries NaTasha Juhl Godwin and moves back to Amarillo
2005 - Here we are Celebrating 26 wonderfully blessed years.

I was told by a physcologist once that these milestones (happy or sad) were HUGE stress times for anyone. What I don't think the good doctor realized was the little steps along the way that God gives you to build strength for each and everyone of these BIG steps. Like friends that are always there, family that loves you, wonderful times of laughing and crying together. Celebrating as friends families grow - crying as their family has members that pass on.

I know that this is over used but I have to say.

Thanks for the Memories!!!!