Thank you Mandi for these wonderful shots that I think epitomize our boys at this age-- totally into their friends and the experiences they have with them. This past weekend Elijah and Liam spent every moment with their peeps. Basketball games on Friday night, Broncos watching with friends on Saturday night, skiing on Sunday, and birthday partying with John Hampton on Monday. I love that this little town has produced what will become my children's memories.
When we moved here, Obie and I (and a sugar sweet blonde 6 month old Elijah & a sugar sweet blondish Otis) made a promise to stay in one place for at least 3 years, and really, really give Meeker a shot. We would attend spaghetti feeds, HS games, garage sales, rodeos, bingo nights, church functions, any community event that would allow us to really get to know this town and the people that lived here. To give Meeker a little slice of us.
That was 9 1/2 years ago, and we still attend almost every function we can (Obie is usually solo on the garage sale front though- he's a shopper) And I look back at Obie and I's desire to make this place home. Our feeling that we could ingrain ourselves to this town- while in truth this town ingrained itself to us. We have become Meeker. Our pace, our opinion, our priorities. When I watch the boys with their friends I am convinced that by living here we are providing them with the most comforting and secure childhood possible. We (but even moreso this town) have provided them with what they will forever reference as "home".
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