Family Affair

If you were to ask me 10ish years ago if I would ever consider both of my sisters to be good friends, I would have laughed in your face.   We may not have gotten along for a period of time growing up but now they are two of the greatest sisters anyone could ask for and it's always a good time when the siblings are able to be together.  So for this weeks "featured friend," I'm making it plural and doing it about Megan and Amanda.

2004?

I have zero recollection of meeting Amanda and Megan.  I was told it was about 22 years ago and apparently they were nice to me for a while.  With the amount of home videos my parents shot, I have a hard time separating real memories from what I've watched on film so I don't remember my first actual memory of them.
 
After many years of long car rides with them singing Les Mis and me plugging my ears, airborne thermoses, choreographed dances to Disney songs, a failed horror movie, overly competitive soccer games, and so much more, fast forward to today and Megan is going to school in Austin, TX for her masters/doctorate and Amanda is living in Seattle, WA. working on starting up her own piano lesson business.

We might be really into The Sound of Music

Here are some of my favorite memories (22 years makes picking pretty hard): 
Amanda:

• When we went on our own bar crawl on a weekday afternoon in Seattle
• Continuously falling in Hawaii in full snorkel gear while trying to get back on the beach
• Cousin Sarah's wedding in Idaho

Megan:

• Karaoke duets with mic stands
• The day I finally figured out how she got the $100,000 salary card in Life every single time we played
• Traveling around Europe for a week

Shared:

• Watching home videos
• Stressful family outings (Ape Caves comes to mind)
• Dancing game
• During indoor soccer when we got yelled at by grown adults on the other team who were upset they were losing to people half their age

The Dancing Game.  Pro status has been achieved.

Can't wait till December when we get to reunite.

That's all for now.  Bye.