1.16.10 - Friends, Then and Now

These were taken today (by Kelvin):And this one fifteen years ago at my wedding (I cropped the photo for a scrapbook):
I love my friends, even if we don't see each other as often as I'd like because they live in Brazil. I hadn't seen Ci, the friend in orange, for ten years when we finally got together again back in 2007! Su, the friend in black, lived here in the U.S. for four years and we had both of our children within a month and a few weeks of each other -- we have belly shots and photos of the babies together taken every month or two. She moved back to Brazil when our youngest boys were 7 and 8 months old. I still miss seeing them often. :-(

1.15.10 - Four Kids, Five Years: 2005 and 2010

January 2005:January 2010:

Looking at these side by side almost makes me cry. The first photo was taken a couple of months before my friend, her husband and children returned to Brazil after living in the U.S. for a few years. We used to see each other every month or couple of months (from our pregnancies until our oldest kids were 3) and now we only see each other every year. :-( (a bit more here, at the bottom).