One of the best things about being home for this whole summer is getting to spend quality time with my good friends. On previous trips home I barely get to see any friends and if I did it was for mere hours. Not good enough! I planned a little friend road trip and I saw so many of my friends in about 6 days I was so exhausted by the end but also so happy.

My first stop was seeing my friends Joe and Natalie. Joe and I go way back to community college but I go pretty far back with Natalie too since they’ve been dating for about 7 years. It was my first time seeing them since they got engaged and bought a house! Holy cow! I’m so happy and excited for these too. I spent the better part of 3 days with them catching up, eating, drinking, laughing, sharing stories, having heart to hearts, exploring and so on.

I got a pretty awesome tour of their new house/property and it’s pretty incredible. I’ll share more about that in a post or 2. I will say though that I was pretty pleased with the blackberry bushed in their yard. We would just walk out there and eat our fill, not without injury though-those bushes are wicked!

(I happened to be there for their engagement photos and I trailed along taking my own shots. The last picture is my favorite!)