Lucky in love...

Yes, I hit the Jackpot when I married Jim, and into his family, but the point of this post is about how lucky I am that the man I chose to marry has surrounded himself with the BEST people EVER! Seriously. The friends I married into could not be better. These boys are beyond amazing. From day one, they accepted me (well all except John Lamanna but that's another story:) and protected me. Hard to do in a town like Pullman, WA. I knew I made it with his college friends when we sat around his gross apartment, playing drinking games, and I impressed them by  *ahem* "making room" for more beer. Classy, I know.

His roommate Matt was a little different story. I could never really tell if he liked me or not; and I was afraid I may have been cramping his style by always hanging around. That all changed when somehow we ended up the only ones left at the bar and we ended the night with a quality H2H, Jim McCollum style. The next afternoon, while Jim was at class, Matt made me watch Trekkies 1 and 2 with him.  Since that day I knew I was part of the crew or at least an assumed plus one of Jim's.

It has been a long eight years since then and slowly but surely more ladies have been added into the mix, and all the guys have started to settle down. I am so grateful for the women these men chose to share their lives with. We don't just put up with one another, we genuinely get a long and have a ton of fun together. I would pick any, and all of these women to be friends with; had I met them under different circumstances. I am just lucky I don't have to do that, and we are all part of the wives club now. And yes it is a club...you have to be able to pass the test of sitting thru numerous drinking nights, listening to the same college stories, over and over, and over. and over again. To make a long story longer I have known how lucky I am since the day I met them all, but it became even more evident when we ALL got together in San Francisco, this April, to celebrate Jeff and Yvette's wedding*...and a good time was had by all!

*more posts to come on this soon