Turn Back Time Tuesday

I decided reminiscing about old times every now and then might be fun.  So I'll start posting "Turn Back Time Tuesdays" every now and then.  And this is the first.

So let's jump in the time machine and tun the clock back to 1996.  It this point, I was a 18 year old about to graduate high school and had a group of friends I'd known since seventh grade.  We called ourselves "The Blond Squad" (even though one was more red head, and one was close to light brunette).  I was the cynic that thought - we'll go away to college and grow apart like most friends do.  Little did I know 15 years later, a few of them would still be my closest friends.

Four of the six on graduation day (one was a year younger, one was a year younger).
I am the lower left blonde.

For graduation, Brit (upper right corner) got us all a gift of T shirts that she made.  Here is Barb's daughter holding up that T shirt - 16 years later (yes she still has it!) Barb is standing to the right of me in the photo above.

We made another shirt one or two years later, but we don't think any of us still have it.  But it had a setting sun, waves and a shark.  It was a logo we came up with after all of us lifeguarded together that summer at the beach (in the middle of Illinois - there are no sharks but it's a joke).  So this Saturday at Lauren's (not pictured above as she's the one a grade below us) baby shower when we were to design a onsie, I decided why not pull back into the nostalgia file and make it a remake of that shirt?  In the same house no less that the original was made!  We now have (soon to be) four members of the second generation blond squad!  Brit has a daughter that is three.   Barb has two girls, ages three and five months.  And Lauren gives birth to a girl in June.  I think it would be awesome in a year or two to make all the girls their own version of the shirt (and remakes for us). Maybe in 2016 for the 20th reunion?  While we have not seen Joy (top left) in two years, and Kelly (not pictured who we left behind in 1998)....It's so nice to have these group of girls that have known me for 21 our of my 34 years on this earth.  ((And I'm no longer cynical, I think I'll be in touch with these girls until we're in our old age and I'd have to look back on posts like this to remember who the heck we all are! LOL))

Here's the onsie I made

Last time all five of us were together, My wedding in 2009: L-R Barb, Brit, Me, Lauren and Joy