Day Three: Dear Friends

 I am blessed with the most marvelous and most beautiful (inside and out) friends. 

I could not ask for better. And though I feel that I have true friends far and wide, there is nothing like having a small group of intimate best friends whom you know you can absolutely rely on.

Here are some of my favorite quotes on friendship:

"A friend is more concerned about helping people than getting credit. 
A friend cares. A friend loves. A friend listens. And a friend reaches out." 

~President Thomas S. Monson

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
~C.S. Lewis

"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided...We can fight [enmity] only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust. Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open." 

~Albus Dumbledore

Just before leaving for the summer--everyone going back to school :(

Completely gorgeous & adorable

Gonna be an AMAZING/very hott mama

The very best of the best friends :D

From our old bff Christmas photos

I love her!

How gorgeous is this girl?? And her hair?

She is so adorable!

This about sums her up: being hott, reading, and cats ;)

That time we went to see Harry Potter in the middle of the day and were the only ones dressed up ;)

After a Church dance :]

Visiting Sarah at BYU! Best buds reunited!

One of my best birthdays with my dearest friends at Fort Stark!

Eating lobster at my house this past summer!

And here are some pics with our other wonderful friends. We are so blessed to have such terrific relationships with these people!

Two of my best friends ;)

Jason and Derek are awesome friends of Dalin (and me too!)

Anthony and Lauren -- we love doubling with them!

Wesley (friends since we became teenagers) and Payson (our wonderful brother)

Fun over Thanksgiving with out friends and cousins in Arizona!

Our awesome Boise friends :)

With my boys at Canobe Lake Park! My brothers are some of my best friends--love them all.

Thank you for giving me great friends with great morals. I am thankful for friends I can rely on and who lift me up. They bring me so much joy, happiness, laughter, and peace to my life. 

"No friendship is an accident." 

~O. Henry

“A faithful friend is a strong defense;
And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.”  

~Louisa May Alcott

“It is important to know when you feel down that many others do also and that their circumstances are generally much worse than yours. And it’s important to know that when one of us is down it becomes the obligation of his friends to give him a lift. I hope that each of us will cultivate a sensitivity toward the feelings of others and when encouragement is needed make an effort to extend it. 
Be a friend and you will have a friend. God be thanked for wonderful friends.” 

~Gordon B. Hinckley