3 Photos I Took 3 days Ago & 3 Photos I Took 5 years Ago
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Posted by Jannie on 17 November 2009
Kelly and Amber. They met at Gymboree when Amber was 7 months old and Kelly 6 months old.
Emily Is Amber’s little sister. Guess how old she turned Saturday?
(If I were a more conscientious blogger I’d Paint out that balloon string and those funky-weird green shorts and boots in the background. )
And below, Kelly and Amber five years ago.
Suzie: Amber and Emily’s mom and one of my bestest friends.
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On 17 November 2009 at 8:56 am Dot said,
That’s so nice that they’ve already been friends for five years and they’re so young!
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On 17 November 2009 at 9:18 am Lynn said,
They look a little alike – do you think? How nice to have a good friend like that and I imagine they will always be friends.
I also like that kid with the happening green boots and matching shorts.
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On 17 November 2009 at 9:30 am Glenn Buttkus said,
Don’t know if it’s the angle or what, but Amber seems like she is going to be a giant girl, kind of dwarfs
Kelly. Is Kelly diminutive for her age? I recall several very close friends my girls had while in school. They were inseparable for years. Then boys and life happened, and jobs, and college, and the ladies all went their own way. Still, how neat that you have cataloged so much
for Miss Kelly. She will either adore it or ignore it when she becomes a teenager. Assuming, of course, that we all survive December 2012.
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On 17 November 2009 at 10:18 am reyjr said,
Hello Jannie!
I kinda liked the cool green shorts of that kid in the background. Haha!
I like also how you say you sing for beer. Haha!
I would often joke about singing for my dinner every time I sing at a friend’s wedding (for free :p) but then I always still have to bring a gift. :p Isn’t my singing a gift already? Hehehe!
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On 17 November 2009 at 10:21 am Talon said,
It’s completely amazing how much children change in just five short years! I love Kelly’s intensity while “driving” the boat
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On 17 November 2009 at 10:25 am Jannie said,
DOT!! I am so blessed to have them in my life. Suzie and I hit it right off and the girls have had no choice but to follow along all these years. Even tho they live about 45 minutes from us we’ve kept in regular touch and hang out when we can.
LYNN!! Yes, they do look a bit alike, but I find Kelly and Emily are of even closer resemblance — and lively personalities, whereas Amber tends to be a bit quieter. You like that happenin’ background kid, eh??
GLENN!! Yes, Amber is very tall for her age, more like a 10-year-old and Kelly very small, more like a 6-year old. Funny how that goes. Whether she ignores or adores this, I will certainly sit with wine in hand one day, looking at all these posts and blubber at the passing of time. 2012? Experts say it could actually be upon us ANY moment, bit of a window of availability. Time-Schmime, I’m gonna enjoy my coffee and pumpkin pie and have a super-sunshiney day.
REYJR!! Hello and a hearty welcome to my humble spot of the web. How did you chance to find Funsterland?? Oh – you’re a singer too?! how cool. Well, I guess everybody loves to sing but some of us get our nerve up to do it in front of audiences and such more than others.
Will be great to get to know you better!
TALON!! Yes, I have several shots of the boat scene and they both are totally intent and in their “Big Girl” element in all the photos, I do believe. Serious stuff that driving responsibility!
On 17 November 2009 at 10:51 am ghabuntu said,
“If I were a more conscientious blogger I’d Paint out that balloon string and those funky-weird green shorts and boots in the background.”
Jannie, I would not have taken a look at these kiddically friendtastic pictures had you done exactly that. Hehe
On 17 November 2009 at 11:37 am Megan "JoyGirl!" Bord said,
Super cute pictures – I love them! And now I want cake…
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On 17 November 2009 at 11:57 am sheila said,
How SWEET! Lovely cake too! Mmmmm. Cake.
You and Emilys mom look a bit a like. Both cute.
On 17 November 2009 at 12:00 pm MiaHysteria said,
I think they look alike too. They’ve grown together. Sweet.
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On 17 November 2009 at 12:04 pm Patricia said,
Friends and food….my theme this week! I think that was an incredible cake and I love the crown…Let’s all get crowns for our next pictures…yes yes!
Thanks
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On 17 November 2009 at 12:44 pm Jannie said,
GHABUNTU!! You know, I’m growing to actually like those green boots the more I look at these pix, they create kind of a perfect balance, but I’d still Paint out the balloon string.
JOYFUN MEGAN!! (Oh, do you see the wonderful typo I just called you??) I had meatballs followed by pumpkin pie about an hour ago. Then I parachuted off the roof. Do sweet make you do things like that too?
SHEILA!! That cake is actually the exact same design as Kelly had on her 7th birthday. Same size and everything. Cake is good. At the party we finished the pizza and proclaimed “Let us eat cake.” I had 2 pieces.
MIA!! It’s been a very special relationship that’s developed over the years. Around Suzie I feel totally free to be me. She is just so wonderful. We are so lucky.
PATRICIA!! Chuck E. Cheese. Go there and you too can get one of those crowns on your birthday. I know I can’t wait for mine!
On 17 November 2009 at 2:41 pm joaquin said,
scary how fast time goes by when measured by the growing-up of kids. but happily they are beautiful kids.
btw – where can score some boots like that? i mean, on earth?
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On 17 November 2009 at 4:51 pm ghabuntu said,
Haha Jannie, that is what makes the pic natural and unique. An odd shoe with an odd add on at the right place. hehe
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On 17 November 2009 at 5:07 pm Momisodes said,
They are adorable. Clearly great friends. That’s wonderful her mom is a good friend of yours too!
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On 17 November 2009 at 5:11 pm vered | blogger for hire said,
I love these friendships. I hope they get to carry it into adulthood!
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On 17 November 2009 at 5:34 pm K said,
Friends are fantastic!
Great photos.
And I’m really impressed by that birthday cake.
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On 17 November 2009 at 8:10 pm Tess The Bold Life said,
Jannie,
I thought that was you not your friend. If ya ask me you all look a like.
I think there’s more frosting than cake! Aren’t you glad cupcakes are the rage? So much easier. Love the photos.
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On 17 November 2009 at 8:54 pm Davina said,
They do SO look like sisters — soul sisters perhaps? Such cute pictures Jannie.
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On 17 November 2009 at 9:38 pm BK said,
It is certainly good to have friends to grow up with. I love that shot where they were sitting on the merry-go-round; how tight they were holding on to the poles.
On 18 November 2009 at 2:06 am J.D. Meier said,
Your pictures always show a great slice of life. It’s like Hallmark moments with a zestful twist.
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On 18 November 2009 at 2:23 am SnaggleTooth said,
Wow, do they look like sisters! At least soul- sisters- to know each other so long. Wow- Davina said, the same thing! Great minds think alike…
I like the now n 5 years ago concept!
Little Emily looks like a happy 3. Lucky to have such good folks to enjoy life with- You are blessed indeed, n good at the trigger finger too- Keep clicking, you’ll love these when you’re 80 in the nursing home…
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On 18 November 2009 at 2:29 am Chris Edgar said,
I was just like that little girl on the left in the bottom photo, clinging for dear life to the carousel horse. And I’m still doing that, in a way, elsewhere in my life. Okay, actually that’s not a very good metaphor for my life at all. Never mind.
On 18 November 2009 at 4:02 am Barbara Swafford said,
Hi Jannie,
What darling photos. I bet you can’t believe how much Kelly has grown. And the girls, they do look a lot alike. Cute!
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On 18 November 2009 at 9:41 am Chris said,
Wonderful! A bevy of blond beauties — you, Suzie and your daughters! That’s some cake Emily has for her 4th birthday. Spectacular!
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On 18 November 2009 at 10:21 am Jannie said,
headache gone! yay!!!
But I gotta get Kelly to school. I’ll be back when the third rooster crows.
On 18 November 2009 at 2:56 pm Liara Covert said,
Love is timeless.
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On 18 November 2009 at 5:48 pm Jannie said,
JOAQUIN!! My Kelly as informed and and rightly so that to the non-earth boots were indeed attached to the lower extremities of one of the Chuck E. Cheese’s performing characters. Phew.
GHABUNTU!! Yes, indeed. This post has been a very educational experience for me. Thee green is lovely with her cake.
MOMISODES!! I’d say Suzie and I instigated the friendship and the children have had to tag along. :O
VERED!! Even tho our family will be moving to Canada I’m sure our friendship will remain strong, the beauty of the Internet.
K!! I think friendship will really start catching on!!
TESS!! Suzie is way cuter than me, but thanks!!
And that frosting was sooooo good! I double-dosed, just to be sure of quality control. 
DAVINA!! Hey Sistah, Ho Sistah, Say Sistah, Soul Sistah. Sis boom bah, rah, rah, rah! Whoo-hoo.
BK!! Kelly being an only child needs lots of play-dates and as much as it has played me out at times, the friends we’ve made are nothing short of amazing blessings.
BK!! I’m thinking of getting my own merry-go-round installed in our backyard, one that will go 60 MPH, that’d be fun!
J.D. MEIER!! Well, how lovely, Sir. Thank you. My camera does aim to please.
SNAGGLETOOTH!! I actually thought after I posted it, I could have posted 5 pictures from 3 days ago and 3 pictures from 5 years ago. Maybe in the spring I will!
CHRIS!! You crack me up. I know your life is more like extreme skiing, rock climbing without a net and hula dancing in the Arctic.
BARBARA!! It is amazing to think they’re already known each other for about 85% of their lives, and all that we’ve been through together so far.
CHRIS!! Again with the beauty compliments! What am I going to do with you???
LIARA!! What a beautiful reminder. Those who are no longer with us on this plane we know we are never really apart from.
On 18 November 2009 at 10:05 pm Heather Kephart said,
Cool! You know, my favorite is the one of the two of them on the boat ride. Still a bit of toddler chubbiness there. So sweet!
*SPOILER ALERT* How old? I was stumped, looking for the writing on the cake. Then I saw the candles and durrrred myself!
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On 18 November 2009 at 10:27 pm teahouseblossom said,
So adorable!!! And how fast they grow!!
On 19 November 2009 at 5:43 am robbi said,
Frittells, I dist but have one thought when spied I that green cake, matching as it do those shorts.Would I having partaken of the cake have a face to match ie; the shorts, the icing?
Greedy bum that I is, and cake in quantity I would devour, the latter is more to the point , although the former could be a likeable proposition.That is of course unless as my physog matched so well the shorts, the owner of said apparel therefore might wish to make me their own. A dastardly thought though methinks, a fate worse than death, would I be respected in the morning? Well for the sake of science and the American way, i’ll give it a shot !
On 19 November 2009 at 5:48 am Jena Isle said,
Hello Jannie,
This is a sunny, refreshing blog. I like the pictures, they bring memories of family members when they were still young kids. Cheers.
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On 19 November 2009 at 10:17 am Nadia - Happy Lotus said,
Hi Jannie,
Wow….that is interesting how different they look only after five years. Kelly and Amber almost look like sister. It is so cute and let me tell you, that cake looks yummy!
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On 19 November 2009 at 12:15 pm Jannie said,
HEATHER!! I love that one too. Yep, little Emily had four candles on her cake! You got it, you smart one.
TEAHOUSEBLOSSOM!! Yes, like weeds, the proverbial weeds. But very cute ones.
ROBBI!! I so wanted to dive with both feet into that green sugary delight and fling it all around the room, but i thinks that may not have been especially well received but a few of my fellow patrons, green-faced would I have ended up.
JENA ISLE!! Well, how lovely to read your comment.Thanks so much for popping by! We do endeavor to keep it light and bright around here. Hope you will come back often. Wait til you see my “Bag Children” photo montage tomorrow!
NADIA!! have I ever asked you if you are a lover of sweet treats. Are you? After I have my chicken nuggets I plan on popping by Starbucks for a decaf and a a donut.
And there you have it!
Off now to read myself some of y’alls’ blogs.
On 19 November 2009 at 12:30 pm Jewel/Pink Ink said,
Adorable – Kelly and Amber could be sisters.
I LOVE carousels. I could go on them all day. Someday when I get rich enough, I will have one installed in my backyard
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On 19 November 2009 at 2:42 pm Paige said,
BB said you had a headache, but really I think it was a sugar rush that made you pass out and now that you have recovered BB is in hiding under the couch with a bag on his head (sofa if ya want to be fancy about it) that we share.
while I sit and lay and him and haw about how many pills does it take to find BB behind the dust bunny?
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On 19 November 2009 at 4:30 pm Jeanne said,
Jannie,
Awesome pictures! I agree they look alike. They could pass for sisters.
Jeanne
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On 19 November 2009 at 6:59 pm Aarvark said,
Sweet. Imagine them at 90 and all the memories their friendship will bring.
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On 19 November 2009 at 10:02 pm Evelyn Lim said,
How nice to have friends to grow up together! Somehow, my kids seem to like a different set of friends from those whom they play with at a young age.
On 20 November 2009 at 1:15 am Rose said,
Hopefully they will remain friends when they get older. Cute kids!
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On 20 November 2009 at 2:44 am SnaggleTooth said,
Hmmm, Paige has a point… Maybe the sugar diod you in-
We ALWAYS put one candle for each year plus one for good luck- n so I guessed 3! (Apparently, things are WAY~ different in Texas!)
Glad the Migrain has mitigated!
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On 20 November 2009 at 2:46 am SnaggleTooth said,
Now, of course, I can read the No. 4 upsidedown in the frosting writing! Doh-
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On 20 November 2009 at 11:17 am Jannie said,
JEWEL!! I’ve ordered one for my back yard too, but with beer booths instead of horses.
PAIGE!! my aunt always called a couch a chesterfield. God rest her lovely soul. How are the pills working for you today? I like the little blue ones that float me to the ceiling.
JEANNE!! Why hello, fancy meeting you in a place like this. It is always lovely to see your shiny gravatar. Do you look like your sister? I look kinda like mine.
AARVARK!! I wish I could see them at 90. I’d be 128 then. It will be interesting to see where the years and winds take us all.
EVELYN!! How lovely you have more than one kid. how many? Boys? Girls? A combo thereof?
ROSE!! I guess we’ll have to see about that, as we’ll venture back to Canada, but I’m sure I’ll remain friends with Suzie.
SNAGGLE!! That tradition of a candle for the coming year is neat, never heard of it. And re-reading your far above comment and the nursing home part, ooo. There’s an uplifting thought! And I’m already over halfway there.
On 20 November 2009 at 5:13 pm Cath Lawson said,
It’s cool that they stayed friends so long. That birthday cake is huge for a three year old.
On 1 December 2009 at 3:07 am Ching Ya said,
I would have thought they are real sisters if you didn’t tell us. Isn’t it great? Your best friend’s children can be your daughter’s best friends! That’s just lovely!
Just for the record, they both look gorgeous like their moms. ^^
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On 1 December 2009 at 8:03 am Jannie said,
CATH!! Thanks for another sweet visit!!
Ching Ya!! Oooo, thanks I am all blushing now.
xo
On 10 December 2009 at 3:30 am reyjr said,
Lol. I was scrolling down and down and down thinking the comments never end! Haha! That was awesome.
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On 12 December 2009 at 12:13 am Jannie said,
“COMMENTS, we get comments, we get lots an lots of coments.” REYJR!!!! Do you know the melody I’m citing? Can you sing it and post it on your blog??
On 12 December 2009 at 9:09 am Reyjr said,
Wah! I don’t! Waah. :p boo me.
I love this:
all kommints must be proved by me — blue bunny manigemints.
LOL!
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