headed to Iowa.

Well, I'm headed to Iowa tomorrow. Home of beautiful cornfields that extend beyond where the eye can see. Where it's too hot and too humid in the summer. Where my parents and brother live. Where I grew up.

It's going to be a fast trip, I'm going for my best friend, Clare's wedding. I've known here about as long as I've known anyone in my family....since age 3. She is like a sister to me, the sister I never had and her family cared for me like a second family, anytime they had the chance.
Clare gets married Saturday. I wonder how our lives, our stories will evolve now. Once we are both married, we'll bring our husbands into our stories. I hope that Clare, Ben, Josh and I are good friends. Seriously, I would move to Iowa to be close to Clare often....I will feel that even more after this trip I suppose.
I went digging and I found some pictures. Scattered throughout this post are pictures with Clare in them. Seriously, I wish I had the picture of us at age 3 on my computer.... we were so cute!

Seriously, I don't even plan to hold it together during this wedding, I'll probably cry; tears of happiness, excitement, sorrow. I will miss how things were Clare, just you and me.

Here's to a new season. A season with happiness, delight, and love. Clare, we're not kiddos anymore. We're both all grown up! Man, I'm going to miss Josh on this trip. I'm going to need some strong arms to hold me as I mourn this one.