Happy Birthday Joy!!

Joy is the one in the middle in dark glasses.  You almost have to have lived with her - as I did for two years - to understand how ubiquitous those glasses are.  Joy wore contact lenses but was always too tired to keep them in long.  And she didn't have regular glasses - so she was always wearing her prescription sunglasses!!

(During high school, she was forever losing a contact - once in a swimming pool - and we actually found it!!)

Maybe you have to take my word for it, but this photo just captures a moment in time that was a great, happy time - one I treasure.

And I treasure the friendship we share - and want to wish her a very happy day!!

Here's to birthdays, and friendship, and late-night clowning in the dorms!!

"In your Easter bonnet . . ."

Easter, 1964, BYU Heritage Halls. The suit was blue, the hat was cream colored. I thought I was so very tres chic!

And a year later, the pink linen a-line skimmer and matching babushka was also the height of fashion for yours truly. (My mom made the outfit and sent it to me as a surprise - Joy always got new clothes in the mail from her mom and to say I was envious is an understatement. So I was doubly thrilled by this turn of events!!)

I'll but you're just dying to see what I wear this year. I will post a photo - I am excited about this little number. Esme helped me choose it. (I have to tell this funny story - there were two dresses and I couldn't decide. Esme said, "My mom would just get them both!")