Has it been 20 years?

I recently attended my 20 year high school reunion. We had a pretty good turnout and it was a great time visiting with many friends I had not seen since high school even though a fairly high percentage still live nearby. Odd how life does that to us sometimes huh? Anyway this is one of my best friends from junior high through junior year when he moved away to west Texas. This is Ricky and his wife Stacy. We were both pitchers on our little league baseball team. He still lives out near Wichita Falls and I am hoping to make it out that way and see them sometime within the next year.

Next up in this picture is Liberty (who looks as awesome if not more so than she did in school), our class president Craig , who is a district attorney now in Indian Territory, and Liberty's friend Geoff whom I work with. Craig and myself along with my friend Lisa were the ones responsible for tracking people down and we found about 90% of our classmates.

This from left to right is Lisa, Lessia, Deidra, and Beverly (with me trying to get out of the background). Lisa was our main organizer for this reunion and lives in the DFW area. I am hoping to connect with her next week for a lunch "date" (gotta be careful how I word that as her hubby might take that wrong) Lessia has recently moved back to this area and is married to a guy with same last name as myself although no relation. Deidra....all I can say is WOW. This girl moved away her Sophomore year I think it was so it had been 22 years since I had seen her and again...WOW. I had spoken to her on the phone several times while helping to organize the reunion but had no clue who she was when I arrived at Magel's Grill. I actually thought she was one of my classmates wife or significant other. She lives down in East Texas with her husband (and for some reason I cannot recall his name now) so hopefully she and I can connect some on one my trips down that way. Beverly looked just as she did in school if not even prettier. She is still the same person for sure (lets just say she would bid on that ocean front property everyone speaks of)

This is of course me with my friend Jamie. She lives nearby as well and hopefully we can stay in touch more in the future. We used to hang out some outside of school which is something I did not do much of with so many of my classmates. For some reason I seemed to hang with people from other schools more.....maybe after seeing my classmates all day I wanted to interact with someone else I guess haha.


I will share more pics in the coming weeks from the picnic at a local park we had that saturday afternoon and also more from Magel's Grill that evening. After dinner quite a few of us headed down the road to Buffalo Joe's Pub and hung out some more. Unfortunately I had to cut it short and head to work but it was fun while it lasted. I am looking forward to chatting with some of my other classmates who were unable to attend as well. I had even thought about using some of my future vacation time to visit some of the ones who have moved off. Some of these locations include Colorado (just outside Denver), Connecticut, Ft Wayne Indiana, and a for now undisclosed location in central America. Lets just say one can see the Gulf of Mexico from this classmates villiage.

Hope everyone is doing well (ok there may only be one reader anymore so "HI Robyn") haha.