Best Friends

Ellie & Madelyn have been friends from the start! Madelyn's mommy, Marianne & I met at the resident picnic when we first moved to Johnson City. She was very pregnant with Maddie & I didn't even know I was pregnant with Ellie!! We became friends & now our daughters are friends! The girls daddies are both surgery residents here at ETSU. They are friends as well as co-workers, so that makes it really easy to get together often! Doug & Chad have very busy schedules. Neither of us have family here, so the McDonald's, among others, are our 'resident family'.
Marianne & I plan play/lunch dates weekly! We enjoy getting together as much or more than the girls do ;) I am happy to have met such wonderful friends here. Here are a few pictures of Ellie & Maddie over the year...

Summer time play day @ Maddie's house. We went outside & played in the baby pool ... which didn't last long :)

Maddie come over one day while her mommy had a hair appointment. It must have been in September, after she turned 1!

Happy Halloween (Marianne is on the left;)) Maddie was a lady bug & Ellie was a nurse

Here the girls are before Christmas~ they are both paci girls but this shot for some reason they are chewing on their fingers ... must have been snack time! They have a lot in common, & loving to eat is one of them!

Happy New Year & Congratulations to Maddie ~ she is going to be a BIG sister. Doug & Marianne were @ their ultra sound appointment to find out the sex of the baby ... It's a BOY!!!

The girls LOVE babies~here they had one anothers baby~so cute they are sharing!

We feel so blessed to have the McDonald's in our lives! They will definitley be 'forever friends'. It has been & will be fun watching the girls grow up together & we look forward to having an addition to the group. Since Ellie was born in March, all the resident babies born have been BOYS (this baby will make 6) ~ Ellie has lots of good choices :)

Cheers to friends & good memories~