2013 Tiara Dinner - The Ladies

I just can't seem to wrap my mind around the entire evening, so I'm going to divide and conquer - so to speak. I have to start with the ladies that came to the party. It was a party, a celebration of friendship and sisterhood in Christ.These ladies absolutely spoil me rotten!  Several drove literally hours to get to the event.  That is either dedication or insanity.  Maybe both.  How can I even begin to share who they are and how much they mean to me?

I usually think of them in categories from different parts of my life.  On this one evening each year, I bring them all together.  Then, it is fun to watch the new facebook friends that result after such an evening!  Some of these ladies are very dear "old" friends while others are brand new.  They haven't known me long enough to know better!  I have known several of them since high school through school or through the youth group at church.  They still keep up with me for some crazy reason.  One of those high school church buddies has been around the world with me!  I have decided that another one of those high school friends is family.  When you hang around someone long enough, you have the right to make that claim! And the other holds importance because she taught me to dance!  One sweet friend is from my college dorm.  She determined that we would be friends, and I'm so blessed because of it!  Moving ahead in time, two young ladies were my students either at church or youth camp.  Now they hang around me of their own free will as adults with husbands and children of their own.  What a blessing to watch them grow.  One lady has been a friend for ten years and a neighbor for five.  How fun to decide to live across the street from a friend!  Two ladies I've known from working at different schools.  Thank God for Christian women in the public schools.  Amen!  Three ladies are guests of people I invite regularly.  I open this up to anyone.  The more the merrier.  Seriously!  Also, my awesome sister-in-law has been a regular sucker for my tiara dinners.  I'm so thankful to have her as a SIL and a friend.

There you go.  The amazing ladies of the 2013 Tiara Dinner.  You know they are good friends to willingly go out in public wearing a tiara and knowing that at any moment someone could ask why.  At any moment they had to be ready to share the Gospel or know who to run to for help!  Thank you to each of them.

The pretty picture.  

Our true personalities.