Happy Birthday, Tara!

This is Tara. You might recognize her from this post. She is one of my best friends. She's also my longest friend. That's right, we've been best buds for 2 decades! What?! That makes us officially old. We met in the 1st grade, were in the same Brownies troop led by our moms, "starred" in a few school plays together (oh yeah, Little Red Riding Hood!), share middle school memories we'd like to forget, high school & college memories we'd like to relive, & a whole lot more in between & after. She's as close to family as you can get. Oh yeah, & it's her birthday. Happy 26th Birthday, Tara! Love you, chica!

From the archives: Tara comes to visit me in Champaign {2006}