An homage to friends

Today we got to hang out with two of our dearest friends, Kevin and Sabrina. We got to meet their son, who is just 2 months younger than Adelaide, and they got to meet Adelaide (and see London after probably over a year of not seeing him!). They were fresh off the plane from Georgia and we met at Joe's Crab Shack in Old Sacramento. It was quite fun. They are definitely the friends who we can go years without seeing (of course there is quite a bit of communication in those years) yet when we do see each other, it's like we just got together last weekend. We've known Kevin and Sabrina for about 8 years, even before they were The Dickson's. Kevin and Gabe were in a band together for a while. The 4 of us led worship for our college group for a time. Sabrina and I lived together for a year way back when, before there were husbands, before there were kids. (Funny story from our vault: While we were living together we had an ill-fated trip to Starbucks. 10 pm and neither one of us thought to order DECAF. We said our goodnights at about midnight and both ended up back in the living room around 2 am, not able to sleep. Ahh, hindsight). Sabrina and I were in a discipleship group together for a while. We would hang out while the husbands had band practice and watch movies and/or work out. We would go grocery shopping together. I envisioned our kids growing up together, they were THOSE KIND of people.

We love Kevin and Sabrina dearly and it was so good to see them again and meet their cute, Sabrina replica son. They are those friends that we HATED to see move away and Sabrina is the girl friend I miss dearly. I don't know if we'll ever live near each other again, but I do know I would be so, so sad to not keep in touch and remain friends for as long as we walk this earth. In life we go in and out of friendships with so many different people, some we work at, most we don't. Sabrina's is one I will work hard to keep, no matter how many miles separate us.

They are coming back through this area on Monday, before they head up to Redding with Kevin's parents.. They are going to stop by our house and hang out with us for a bit. I can't wait.