Thanks to Facebook

Thanks to Facebook I talked to my dear friend and Miami Beach roommate, Adela on the phone tonight. It's been about 10 years since we last saw or spoke with one another. Amazing! I'm so happy to have my spunky, wild, fun and artistic friend back in my life. So much has changed, but her captivating spirit remains. This post is a flashback from the past:

OK, first up is Halloween. Heather is Pocahontas, I'm a vampire and Adela is Snow White. Adela had to work at the pool hall that night so Heather and I went and hung out with her for a while. Other than that, we just wandered around the beach and probably partied at some point.
I'm holding my beloved kitty Abu with Adela's friend Dave (who looked just like John Lenon with his glasses on) and Adela. Most of our photos are self portraits much like this one!
Pre-party photo. We loved taking pics of our fun evenings as single women in South Beach.

You can barely see my Thing One and Thing Two Dr. Seuss t-shirt that I wore on a regular basis. Can you believe they let me into clubs wearing that? It was nice to be a local, unfortunately tourists wouldn't have gotten away with that.

Here we are with little Abu-bu again. Such a sweet kitty. I miss him!

So there you have it. A small flash into my history, before I met Cam. Here you witness a wild wild child!

Happy 9th Anniversary!

On June 19th, 1999 Cam and I were married in a little church in a little town called Holbrook, IA

We were married on the one year anniversary of our first date (everyone thought I must have been pregnant or something - obviously I wasn't. Just a girl in love.)

Cam totally surprised me with a knock-out throw-down kiss!

And then he surprised me again by carrying me down the stairs (I almost wet myself ;)

We rode a "short bus" from the church to Iowa City for the reception.

We don't need no stinkin limo! This is the par-tay machine!! We're all armed with our beers before we even leave the parking lot.

We used my parent's cake topper from their wedding on our cake (and yes, we smooshed cake in each others faces...)

Cam's best man Brian (aka Bug) gave the most hilarious speech at the dinner. As you can see, I could not contain myself. I laughed until I cried. It was outrageous!

After the reception we rode back home in the bus, still drinking beer. All part of getting married at 21/22 I suppose.