Happy Birthday, Rose!!

"She who finds a faithful friend, finds a beautiful treasure!"

I have been blessed to find a friend in Rose! She and I have been friends for what seems like forever!! I can't imagine life without her!!

Rose and I have walked many wonderful paths together: becoming new mommies (five times over)...sending our oldest girls off to kindergarten, and then going out for donuts so we wouldn't be too sad...going on Women of Faith trips...starting up a Landscaping Business with our husbands...finding a wonderful church...and many more!

But we also have walked rough roads together: Finding out that our husbands were in an awful vehicle accident...standing together in the ER for what felt like an eternity, not knowing if they were ok...weeping over problems/situations that we had no answers for...encouraging each other to keep going, even when it felt like we couldn't take another step...becoming mothers of teenagers....

What I have learned, is that the rough times have only made us stronger!! We have been there and back...and we can make it through anything!!!

Rose, you are a faithful friend!! I am so thankful that you walked into our church almost fourteen years ago...but I am even more grateful to God that He brought us together as friends!!

I pray that on your birthday, you will feel loved and that you will know that you are a beautiful person..inside and out!!

Happy Birthday, dear friend!