Last night I was laying in bed making a mental list in my head of what I needed to take with me to Uvalde. Now that I live so much further away my trips home have become few and far between so my mental lists seem to get longer and longer. While I was laying there my thoughts drifted to the whole reason I am making the journey today. My friend Tania is getting married.

I started thinking about Tania and Matt and my relationship with them and found myself getting a little sad. When I think about fun events from my past I'd say 8 times out of 10 Tania was there. Not only was she involved in all the things I did in high school but she was usually the organizer and planner of the entire thing as well. She was immersed in any organization or event that you could be in. The thing that always drew me to Tania was her childlike curiosity about things I always took for granted. She came to Uvalde from Argentina and with such a culture shock everything that we were so used to she saw through completely new eyes and I've always found that so refreshing about her.

The reason I was saddened was that I would call my relationship with Tania as close without being close if that's possible. We have shared so many memories together but I feel as though I've never put the effort I should have into our friendship. Maybe it was the fact that she has a TON of friends and I didn't want to get lost in the shuffle or maybe it was that she is always super busy or it could be just plain old life got in the way. Whatever the reason was the end result of the whole thing laid on me like a heavy blanket last night.

I'm so guilty of the "we should get together" line and then never following through. The one thing that I have always loved about Kami and Tania is that they make a point of planning events that force us to get together. Trips to Concan and Galveston, heck Kami and John are having a huge craw fish boil in two weeks. While I on the other hand just sit around and wait to be invited to the next event. Well NO MORE!! Friendships are one of the most important things to me and I need to hold them up with higher regards so I will work on what I can plan for this summer or something big for next summer that will bring old and new friends together! I just hope I can do it as well as Kami and Tati!

My favorite Tania memory: At Kami and John's rehearsal dinner Kami gave us our presents for being in her wedding in these GIANT gift bags. Tania and I were the most amused by these and gave her some hell about them. Well after the dinner on the way to the after party Tania had a great idea of stopping at HEB and buying some refreshments for the party. These refreshments included: two bottles of every kind of Boone's Farm Wine ever known to man, a pineapple ( I still have no idea why T grabbed this) and a balloon that that had a skull and crossbones on it that said "Pirate Party" (not sure about this either but it's hilarious to me). We decided to cut the bottom of our giant gift bags out and wear them as dresses (a handle over each shoulder). We put all of our goodies in our bags and walked up to the party. We got all sorts of "what the hell" stares and I started feeling pretty stupid but Kami absolutely loved it and ALL the bottles of Boone's were consumed (by the naysayers I might add). Love that girl, she's a gem!


This is a horrible picture but it was the only one we had of it!


One of my favorite pictures and the start of a really fun night!