I found a lot of high school buddies...most have gotten married and started little families. A few are still kickin' it in their wild and crazy "phase". Hopefully they'll decide to take it easy before they fry their brains. I saw my old next door neighbor (aka "the little brother I never had") get married after completing a study abroad in Italy...now he's a chef. He better come make me some food to pay me back for all those sandwiches I used to make him. I found some kids I went to school with from about 5th to 7th grade. Cool people, crappy school. People can change a lot from age 12 to age 25...then again, some of them still seem the same. I even found a few people I've known since before I can even remember...preschool through 4th grade. That's pretty awesome.
The most incredible reunion of 2008 was finding our family that we didn't even know we had. Mimi, being the tenacious little researcher that she is, found out our mom had a birth sister who she then tracked down near Houston. We ended up contacting them through our cousin's myspace page. We met them all when we flew down to Houston for pur cousin Jon's wedding. Now some people might argue that this wasn't a reunion...but I would argue there couldn't be a better description. Oh, and month or so later they even came up to Salt Lake for Mimi's wedding!
Uncle Steve and his partner, Vincent, came down from Seattle for Mimi's wedding as well. It's been a few years since we've seen them, and every time I'm around Steve I get so inspired to get back into my art. He even helped me with Mimi's wedding cake. It doesn't get better than that-- a famous artist helping you decorate something? RAD. I guess the swirls were inspired by him....he thought so too.
Old friends and family.... and some new family too...2008 was a pretty amazing year.
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