Fishing Trip with The Vorises

One of the fun parts about this summer, and probably more accurately, living in a place for a year, is that we were able to start to building deeper friendships.One such friendship started with Theo.

Early in our time at The Crossing, Theo came home from church talking about a kid named Nolan (and Andrew but more about him later). In a church the size of The Crossing it is often hard to place who goes with whom. So I was on the hunt to figure out who Nolan's mom was.

Early in January after moving to Columbia I joined Jazzercise for a month. One morning I was there and this lady/girl came up to me and introduced herself as Melody and told me she went to The Crossing. We had a nice visit and enjoyed sweating next to each other. I then came home and changed and headed to do a couple of errands. When I arrived at Target, Melody was there. I finished up my errands and went across the street to Hobby Lobby and you guessed it - Melody was there too!  She was stalking me (ha ha) - although if you ask her - she would tell you I was stalking her. She joked with me that she was heading to Hy-Vee next if I wanted to follow her there too. I didn't I went home, but I quickly came to like this Melody girl and came to find out that Melody was Nolan's mom. So my hunt was successful - I found her, or she found me!

Since meeting them as a family, we have grown fond of them. We have had a lot of fun times already (and have hopefully many planned in the future) with the pinnacle being them hosting us to a fishing trip out at their pond. We headed out there to their place late one afternoon and fished, and bbq'd, roasted marshmallows and enjoyed good friends. For a minute it even felt like we had never left. [And if it isn't obvious from these pictures, Addie LOVED fishing]