Adam's Meet Up

Adam always loves a good get together! A great friend since elementary school, Adam lives in California and isn't able to see all his Michigan friends as often as he would like. That's why he loves a good get together. Knowing he was going to be in town, he decided to invite a bunch of people to drop by and join him for drinks at a restaurant. Aaron and I, of course, took the bait and dropped in for the evening. A bunch of other old friends showed up too! Most years we have a little reunion of sorts for the ol' Kelloggsville gang, but we haven't been able to have once since the pandemic. This served as our alternate reunion this year. I picked up Aaron on the way and the two of us were the first to arrive (other than Adam, of course). Over the next hour a bunch of other former classmates rolled in; the drinks and nostalgia was flowing! I always love catching up with everyone. It's kind of weird, but I like to hang out with the people I went to middle school with, but our last reunion showed me that I don't have any interest in catching up with the people from my high school. Weird, huh? Maybe all the cool people from middle school went to the other high school...

k-ville reunion again

adam and the girls were at it again- it's time for another kelloggsville reunion!  it still seems strange, but my 8th grade class has a reunion every year.  we may have been an unusual class back in the day, but most of us really loved junior high!  as most of us went to south christian for high school, some people went elsewhere.  thus the reason to get together with the 8th grade class!  usually it's just an excuse to see adam, but aaron and i have been to every get together so far.  it always seems to be the same people, with a new guest or two, but that doesn't matter because it's still so much fun!  usually someone brings something from the old days for us to page through to get those old memories flowing.  this year i brought my yearbooks for us to page through.  we spend the night reliving old stories and laughing like old friends! 
as long as they keep getting together, i am totally there!

k-ville gathering

for the past four years a few of us from kelloggsville middle school have been getting together for a sort of unofficial class reunion.  adam and some of the girls spearhead the effort, planning the date and location, making sure to invite as many people from our class as they can track down.  this year, a few days before the event, I got a text from adam saying that he had tracked down a special guest.  I was excited to hear that!  I asked him 'is it mrs. jager?  if not, could we invite mrs. jager?!?'  well, I must have some sort of sixth sense or something because it was mrs. jager!  she was our English teacher in middle school and she was a favorite among students- we all loved her soo much!  she had such a positive impact on my friends and I that we still reference her regularly as one of the best parts of our childhood!  and now, here she is, visiting us as we gather together, her 8th grade students 25 years later!  we were all so delighted that she came and showered her with questions and memories about those wonderful years!  she is still sharp as a tack, though now in her 70's.  she remembered each one of us and was asking questions about our parents and siblings that she also remembered.  wow!  its always good to catch up with my former classmates, but the chance to spend an evening with mrs. jager?  now that's priceless!

church? check!

wedding stuff is slowly falling into place. some of the biggest parts of planning a wedding are getting the church and reception hall. looks like we now have both!
at first i wanted to have our wedding at kelloggsville church, the church i grew up in, but they were major jerks about the whole thing. so we checked out covenant church, which is the church that my parents grew up in and got married in, and they said yes! so we put in our papers at the church and booked it! we also have a reservation on a reception hall, so we are doing pretty good! last week i talked to my pastor and he said he would love to marry us, so we got that taken care of as well! i know there is a ton left to plan, but im feeling pretty good about what we have lined up so far.
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middle school reunion, take 2

one of the reasons we came to visit this weekend is because my buddy adam was having the second annual kelloggsville middle school reunion! i had so much fun last year that i couldnt miss out on it this time! it was a much more intimate gathering this year, last year there were almost twenty people there, this time there were only six, most of which were there last year too. it was still fun to catch up with everyone and chat. there was one new addition this year, our old friend nathan! it had been many many years since we had the chance to catch up with him. he is doing well and currently expecting twins! yikes! we had a great time and eventually called it quits around midnight or so. you know, i wouldnt mind if this was an annual event!

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after all these years

so, a month or two ago my buddy adam decided that he wanted to have a reunion with our former classmates. high school reunion? sounds like fun! the thing is though, adam didnt go to the same high school as most of us, so he actually wanted to have an 8th grade class reunion! thats right, all of our former classmates from kelloggsville christian (rest her soul)! thanks to this strange thing called 'facebook' (maybe youve heard of it) he was able to get the word out to almost all of our graduating class of 1993! the crazy thing is, many of them showed up! adam ended up hosting about 17 former 8th grade classmates! so friday night everyone gathered at adam's childhood home (he lives in l.a. and for some reason wasnt willing to fly us all out there to have the reunion. rude.) for a bit of catching up. i got there a bit late, living two hours away and trying to fight 4th of july weekend traffic will cause that sometimes... but when i got there it was such a strange sight- all these old faces that i hadnt seen in almost 18 years! granted, some of them i have kept up with, but many of them had been relegated to the 'i'll probably never see them again in my life' category. the night was spent catching up and hearing about where everyone is now, most stories involved marriage and multiple children. it seems so strange because last time i had seen some of these people they themselves were children! oh time, what have you done to us? it was a great night filled with fun and memories. at the end of the night adam promised to do this again next year with even more people in attendance. well, put me on the list- ill be there!

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