Throwback Thursday 8- Girlfriends- Then and Now

These are my college girlfriends!! We became friends as Freshmen at Ohio State- Jen and I lived together in Paterson Hall, Laura and Brenda lived across from us, and Jen lived off-campus, but we liked her anyway!! We all became really good friends, and even lived together our 3rd year!


Here we are in 1993/94:
Laura, Jen, me and Jen C. (now Jen H.)
We don't see Brenda anymore, but hear she is doing well- married and with kids, too.
We were so into taking pictures, and mainly of ourselves- so these are just a few of the many I found...
We just loved the camera- and apparently shirts with tons of writing- somethings change, others don't! (we still love pics, but the t-shirts, yeah, not so much!)
I remember this poster that we got for our apartment, and for some reason, we thought that it could be us when we were little girls, so there are many pictures of us with that picture in the background.
Lots of arm shots- Laura loves to take pictures, too!

And this is us now...

Jen, Me Laura and Jen H.- all OSU Grads and all moms- Laura is a mom to be- just found out!!
Laura, Jen, me and Jen H., who is due with her 2nd next week!!
Our cute hubbies at Ohio State- all Grads, too!!
Ben, Dana, Jen, Keith and Dan hanging out at Laura and Ben's house for a cookout.
And here are the products of our OSU families:
Carolyn (Jen's), Celeste, Landon (Jen H.'s), Konnor (Jen's), Leah, Alex, Makayla and Gwen(Jen's)! They are trying to do the O-H-I-O!! They are so cute!

While we were on campus, eating lunch at the stadium, a young OSU couple approached us and asked us a bunch of questions about how we all met and how many kids, and how old we all were- I am sure they were thinking, "this could be us in 10 years!" RUN!!
No, I am kidding- but seriously, we all met while attending OSU:

Jen and Keith met while we were Sophomores and she was working at Wendy's at the Union- he would come to her line everytime she worked, and finally asked her out- they have been married for nearly 12 years and have four kids!

Jen and Dan met around their Senior year, and then went to Grad school for Education together, graduating together for that degree too! They have been married almost 9 years and have a 3 year old and another on the way!

Laura graduated with me in 97, then went on to Law school at OSU, where she met Ben, a fellow law student. They graduated and are attorneys! They have been married 2 years and just found out they are due in February 2009!!

Then there is Dana and I, who met in between my Freshman/Sophomore year, and then I graduated in 97, and after his mission, he went to OSU and finished in 2002!

Is that not too fun?! We have remained friends throughout all these years and will for all to come! We love to get together when Jen is in town from Arizona, and take pics like these- it was so fun, and we love it!

Jen and her family stayed with us for nearly 4 days, and we had such a great time! We are so much alike, it can be scary- once we tricked our mom's over the phone just by our voice! She has a terrific family, and we so enjoyed our time with them. Here are some fun pics of them! Makayla, Gwen, and Leah at the sprayground.
Eating yummy burgers at Laura's house- Makayla, Gwen and Alex.
Celeste and Carolyn creating mischeif at the stadium.
All the kids hanging out where their parents love to be!
So, another Throwback Thursday for your enjoyment- I love these girls and know the importance of girlfriends- they help me be a better person- oh, how I need them for that!