Girls from OSU Week #2: Blonde Oklahoma Girl

To kick off our little series today, we have our Blonde Oklahoma Girl!!

Hey y'all...Lyndse over here at I was born a red dirt girl...also known on this little blog as Blonde Oklahoma Girl. My in REAL life best friend...who made me get a blog....wanted us girls to do a little post about this book that she so generously bought for us to read and then write about: The Girls from Ames.

I have to admit, I read about half of it and then started reading the Hunger Games...and everything was lost after that, because I can't get enough of that book. Sorry, Tiff.

The Girls from Ames is a great book from what little I did read. So instead of comparing our friendship to the ladies in the book and their friendship...I thought I would just talk about what our group...Cashmere Mafia or our recent dubbed named...Gossip Girls...means to me.
First off, we wouldn't even be a group of four if it wasn't for our angel in heaven who lead us all together. You know how everyone talks about how the people in your life are there for a reason? Well, I 100% believe it to be true. DonEtta, or Pink Boots, as she is referred to on this blog...is the sole reason us girls even know each other. See...Pink Boots was the glue that bined us...through one boy or another, the best college ever, a sorority, a cooking class, and a couple limies later..the four of us developed relationships and became the best of friends. Soul sisters. Not one of us is the same. We each bring something different to the relationship. If you ask me, that's what makes us awesome.

Honey, or College Roomie as she is called on this blog, and I didn't become real close until our last semester of college. We bonded with a shared love of the limies/soco and lime shots and over a certain TA in our cooking class. Remember?? Honey is the most kind-hearted, whitty...she always has great come back for anything, organized(seriously y'all...I am talking girl needs her own show to organize people's lives...starting with me), smart, sofisticated beyond her years, fashion-savvy person I know. She's the only person I know that chooses to live a whole year in China and loved every single second of it.
I, on the other hand, hated China that year she lived there. Honey and I went to Vegas literally a few days before we graduated college, to say it was the best time EVER would be a huge understatement. Honey is one of my dearest friends and I could not imagine a life without her.
Bestie...or Loud Oklahoma Girl...this girl is the peanut butter to my jelly, the peas to my carrots. Seriously...we really can't go anywhere, without someone asking the other person where so and so is. We first met back in the day as little ol' pledges in the Tri-delta sorority house. Pink Boots and LOKG were already friends and I met both of them through joining the sorority. Pink Boots became our "big" and LOKG and I became "twins" and 10 years or so later...here we are. Sisters in every form of the word. If you ever thought you were just destined to be friends with someone...this is the girl. It's funny because we led such parallel lives when we were younger. It's probably a good thing that God didn't introuce us until we were a little bit older...a little bit more mature, because trust me had we been friends when we were younger we would have drove our mothers insane. Speaking of which, because of us...our mom's are pretty good friends too...it's a circle of friendship...aww. My momma on the left and bestie's momma on the right...see don't we look like our beautiful momma's?
And last but not least my soul sister...Miss Football...or you know...that one who writes this blog, Tiff. If you were to put our likes and dislikes and our hobbies and etc. on a piece of paper, you would laugh and think there is no way these two girls have anything in common. I like Miss America, make-up, big hair and reality tv shows. Tiff likes football, sports related stuff, farm/ag, and she chooses do not have cable.

Despite all of that...somehow we manage to have a lot in common, because boy do we talk. A Lot. As in the majority of my emails through out the day are from her and text messages etc. It's not un-common for one of us to email the other when we haven't heard from them during the day to ask if they are alive...that's how much we communicate. About what exactly? Oh nothing...just your average every day world problems, like why are we still single and how can we solve the current economic state of our country...well, maybe not that last sentence but if someone was to ask us I am sure we could solve it.

In fact, after all these years of knowing each other...our likes have rubbed off on one another...my love for big hair and achieving the perfect "poof" has now taken over Tiff... And Tiff's knowledge of football and our equally love and adoration for our cowboys has crossed over and I now understand that the dang yellow line is NOT on the field. But it's more than just poof's and football and limies and cooking classes...us four girls have a friendship that I hope other girls can find. There is a sense of joy and comfort in knowing that no matter the circumstance...and believe me us girls have seen our fair share of circumstances...you will have always, always have someone or three somone's who will be there for you. We might not all live in the same city or country, for that matter, but we make a great effort to stay in touch.

Whether it be just a trip to our Alma Mater for a football game....

someone's birthday Girls weekend in California

to cheer on your friend achieving a goal she worked so hard for
a card in the mail just to say, "Hello"

or to join in on a family ski trip and feel so welcomed that you too feel like part of the family

I have had friends my whole life, good friends, friends that I thought I would stay in contact with forever...but that's not the case. I don't have to worry about that with these girls...because these girls have seen me at my worst, happiest, saddest and best days of my life...these are the girls I chose to have as my friends...or I shouldn't say I chose, because I know that to have friends like these...is a God thing...these ladies are special women who I can't wait to celebrate all of our weddings, big birthdays, babies, anniversaries and all those moments that come with growing up.

If I was to pick out three people to be by my side at all times...have no doubt...that they would be my lifeline.

Loves these girls to the moon and back.
XOXO