Best Friends from the Start

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Oh how it all began... Trenissa and Amanda were in a Grade 5/6 split class in an elementary school that backed onto Trenissa's parents’ yard. They took full advantage of that, forging notes to our teacher from alternate parents saying they were allowed to hop the fence to Trenissa's house at lunch. Where they would usually make Grill Cheese and watch Friends in her basement. One of the earliest “fights” Trenissa and Amanda ever had was over a silly Tommy Hillranger (not even Tommy Hillfinger) halter top shirt that Trenissa had and they agreed to sell it to Amanda. Let me tell you that this shirt was so small it only covered what it needed to and there was NO way either one of them was ever going to wear it. Anyways Amanda wanted to pay $10 but Trenissa insisted she wouldn’t take anything less than $15. Well 14 years later the halter top sits, unworn, in Amanda’s drawer, not sure how much she paid, but it is a good reminder of how silly some “fights” can be.

The girls drifted apart for a few years as Amanda went to WL high-school and it wasn't until Trenissa was in grade 9 at the Christian Academy School and Amanda was in Grade 10 at WL. Amanda started dating DA who was going to the Academy and who was also best friends with MB, Trenissa’s first “Love.” On our first double date we drove around in MB's car playing the game "Sex Me". For those who don't know, sex me is the game where you hit the roof if you see a vehicle with only one headlight. If your team hits the roof first then the other team has to remove one piece of clothing. Amanda and I were on a team in the backseat together and we won! THANK GOODNESS!!!! So the bet was losers have to drive thru McDonald's drive through naked and order something. So as Amanda and I hid in the backseat, fully clothed, MB and DA went through the drive through naked!!!

As high-school would have it, the double dating didn't last long as MB and Trenissa broke up right before Graduation. What can I say, a 16 year old, heartbroken for the first time.  She was devastated.  Amanda and Trenissa became very close over the next year as Trenissa mended her broken heart. A few months later DA and Amanda broke up and it was just us girls!! Best friends became sisters and we made and inseparable bond.  It is funny to look back now and see how things that mattered so much as teens don’t really matter at all now that we are adults.

Now that the girls had their own vehicle and Amanda had a license that was all they needed to start the road trips!! Trenissa sometimes would drive on road trips, even though all she had was her Learners Permit. Trenissa and Amanda just figured they would get away with it if they told the officers she was Amanda, and Amanda would then pretend to be sleeping in the passenger seat... Yeah Right!!! Thank God we never got pulled over!!

One of the first big road trips the girls went on just the two of them was to Vancouver. We stalked up on Redbulls, sunglasses, a city map of Vancouver and we were off. As Trenissa was driving for a portion of the trip Amanda got out the map, and plotted big red dots on all the stores and places we wanted to go in Vancouver. She was always the organized one like that. The type that liked her lists!!!

Trenissa and Amanda spent the first night in Chilliwack at Amanda's Great Grandmas! She is awesome. We decided to go to the fair that night which was just a walk away from her Apartments. The girls ended up being two of the 15 people that were at the fair that night. They thought SWEET!!!  The greasy carnies let the girls ride all the rides for free, one carnie thought the girls were pretty cute and decided they would like to go on the spinning ride for what felt like 20 minutes. After the ride T&A walked straight out of the fair grounds and across the parking lot to Zellers. Trenissa was not feeling good at all. Trenissa puked about 3 times, you would think that her BFF, Amanda would be there to hold her hair back or something but nope she was bent over laughing and Trenissa was bent over puking!! Ha-ha what a pair. We seem to remember our theme song of the trip being " throw some D's on that B ****." Ha-ha.

May Long 06, the girls birthday weekend, was one for the books. After stopping for some snacks, the girls headed out to Horsefly for the famous Ball Tournament in Merdle with all the essentials booze, a tent, and some snacks. Because the girls left late from town by the time they got to the campground all the campsites were full and they had to pitch their tent in amongst a group of rowdies from WL!! As every May Long in WL has it, it poured, the tent was soaked, the girls ran out of food and it was Chaos!!! In the morning the girls were very hung-over and just wanted to shower. Being a small hick-town they found a little bathroom at a gas station with an old basin for a sink! Perfect they thought!! The girls took turns washing hair and the essentials and dried with paper towel. 30 minutes later T&A left the one stall bathroom to see a huge line up!! Trenissa and Amanda were happy, all showered and feeling like a million bucks!! All in all, the girls had a great Birthday weekend, lots of laughs, bonfires, booze and little to no baseball!!!  

Sun peaks was so awesome that when Amanda graduated she moved there! Worked and lived there. Trenissa moved to Salmon Arm after Graduation. Amanda had finished up the seasons at Sun Peaks and went up to Tumbler Ridge to work in a mine as a first aid attendant. Even though miles and miles apart, the girls never skipped a beat.

When Amanda met Brendan, and Trenissa met Ajay the men knew the girls came as a package deal, where one goes there is her BFF.

We had some wicked times we will never forget, but Man did we go through lots of hard times together too. When two friends become best friends and eventually “sisters” they share a bond that is truly unbreakable. We hope one day our daughters can be as close as we are.

Heads up!

We will be posting a very real and very personal Biography on our friendship and everything we have been through! Pics and flashbacks to give you guys a peek at us before we were Mommies! We were goofy and social and were all about living in the moment and making awesome memories and we so have! You guys will also get to hear about all of the freaky coincidences we have as friends. We definitely think we are long lost sisters, maybe twins separated at birth. Haha just kidding. But it goes to show how strong of a bond two friends can have! And definitely hope our daughters will have that bond too <3


Check back for later we will post it this evening! :)

Nap time success - Post from Trenissa

I love it when both my girls nap at the same time! Gives me a chance to keep the house clean for a couple of hours. Today has been an organizing day, for both Amanda and myself. It was time to go through all of the girls clothes and weed out what's too small and swap them out. It works perfectly that we have all girls, there are never ending amounts of clothes!!! Ayrilee and Rylee are now in the same size just about so they can share, just like us!!

Girls, Girls, Girls

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Theses are our beautiful girls, from the left; Ayrilee will be 2 in March, Tori 7 months old & Rylee will be 3 in July!! As you can see Trenissa's house looks well played in, and it should with our three busy bees!! 

Ayrilee and I spend lots of time at Trenissa's house, as her house is set up perfect for kids with a Huge living room, open kitchen and all the bedrooms upstairs!! It`s pretty much our second home!!! We used to spend so much time cleaning up after the kids, following them around with a cloth to clean up spills, telling them no, don`t touch that..... Well that`s all changed!!! We went through the house and TOTALLY kid proofed everything that was in reach that just was not worth fighting over we moved, or put up. We took lots of knick-knacks down and filled each room up with toys. Over the past couple years we have  been watching the local thrift shop, or garage sales for big toys that we can easily wash and that are new for the girls. A very inexpensive way to having a very fun kid house!!! The girls love it!!! Why not we thought, if our girls are happy and having fun then we are happy and having fun. 

`` Don`t spend their whole lives cleaning up after them, that`s what they will remember too`` Best advice I have received in a long time!!! Let kids be kids and enjoy every moment with them! House chores and dishes can always wait it its for your kids!!!!

XOXOX Love being a Momma!!! 


 

Coffee = a mommys best friend!!! - Post from Trenissa

Coffee please! I can not start my day without a cup of coffee. I swear sometimes I could drink it all day, this mommy depends on it to get her day going when it starts at 530am! After being up 4 times in the night.

I'm not sure I would even be able to sleep an entire night without waking up, even if my babes didn't wake me up. My body is so programmed to be up 5 times a night that I swear I am already awake when the baby cries. I need to re vamp bedtime and try to make it a little easier. My two year old wants to sleep n my bed every night lately, since her daddy had been working out of town. I don't mind some nights but they way she sleeps she's all over the bed all night and i end up squished over on one side. Anyone else's kids do that. Lol.  So it's a little but of a fight to get her to sleep at night. But then she seems to be coming into my bed every night lately around 230 or 3 am. She wakes up crying almost as if she had a nightmare. But I don't know for sure  what it is that's making her wake up so upset. Is this just a phase? Anyone else experience anything like this with their toddler. I'm totally open to suggestions!!

We get o Skype with my husband every night and it is so awesome!! For anyone else who has their husband working away should definitely try it. It makes it so much easier for my girls. Rylee tells me every day that she's so excited to see her daddy at night on the " compuper" as she calls it.

Well time to get breakfast ready for my girls. Be back to chat at nap time :)

Time to unwind - post from Trenissa

Yay, it's bedtime for the little ones and time for my PVR, IPad and foot spa! Much needed mommy time.  Today was a busy day, and it started at 5:40 am. My 6 month old, Tori, still isn't sleeping as well as I'd hoped. It's funny how different, Rylee was sleeping through the night in her crib at 3 months old. Tori on the other hand wasn't in her crib until about 4 months and still doesn't sleep through the night. She only wakes up for a bottle prolly twice a night, once at around 2am and then again around 5am. She seems to be more hungry during the night. I have been introducing lots of different foods to her and she's loving every second of it.

Anyways my foot spa is so relaxing I am already for bed.

night Ya'all Xo

Did you miss me? Lol New post by Trenissa :)

Hey guys. Sorry for not posting the last couple of days. The flu  swept through our house and it was not fun! Today has been a good day so far, it's only noon and both my girls are powered down napping! I LOVE STRONG START! It's an awesome playgroup for little ones and its every weekday at the elementary school near my home. So perfect!! Amanda and I laughed so hard watching our little girls play together, its funny how they act so much like us. They were off playing together happy as can be side by side the whole time. Cute!!

Anyone have a 2 year old who is just starting to tell you "no" and "mine" all the time!! Lol having a toddler definitely teaches me patience. I find when I take the time to explain things to her when she's starting a tantrum , she actually takes the time to listen to me. When I'm calm, she's calm. When I'm worked up, she's worked up. Kids totally pick up on their mommys moods, even as babies! Just my personal opinion!

Have lunch to make for my girls. Will be back to chat later! Xo