SS at SS

     If I wasn’t so computer illiterate I would write this letter to you in the same manner we would write our notes when we were younger…using magazine cutouts for words and pictures;  writing in a circle around the page so we’d have to turn the page around to read it; making crossword puzzles or word searches as a part of our message or any other creative thing that we could think of.  THEN we had to fold them in the coolest origami shapes we knew of -or that we saw Suzi do for her friends- before we could give them to each other.  Ok, not quite what origami is to most, but it was still paper folding.

     I still remember when I first met you.  I had just moved in.  I think that it was after Halloween and we were in Sunday school.  I was terrified because I didn’t know anyone.  Pam was passing around candy to everyone and skipped right over me.  I was mortified.  You said, “Pam, you missed the new girl.”  I knew from that moment I loved you and wanted to be your friend.  (BTW I was so mortified that she would purposely skip me that when she turned back to ask me if I wanted any I said no.  I wasn’t going to take anything from her!  Ha ha!)

One of our matching outfits.
We were stylin"

I think I will just bullet some highlights so I don’t take up this whole blog.

• You introduced me to peanut butter on waffles and in oatmeal!  YUM.  You also introduced me to brussel sprouts (with cheese sauce).  YUCK!  OH!  How could I forget powdered milk.   ;)  Dinner at your house was always fun.
• You would play the piano and we would sing “IF”.  It was our favorite.  Laying in the street in the middle of the night acting like we were dead waiting for cars to come.  Spying on Suzi.  Listening to the newest prank you did to get Suzi back for something she had done to you.  (So glad I was your friend and not your  sis!)  Ha ha
• Back to the food: we had fun putting whatever was in your fridge in the blender.  Did whoever started Fear Factor spy on us?  We also had fun making commercials for what products were in your fridge.
• Girls Camp was ALWAYS a blast.  Especially the practical jokes we’d play.  We had a great laugh when Bobby went missing and we were in his mom’s van and had to go search all over kingdom come to find him.  OH boy, was she mad! 
• Going to Kent Akers house to listen to his new “CD player”.  He was the first one to get one. 
• Thanksgiving dinner at your house.  We dressed up as the maids/servers.  Deb Wilson’s mom brought her orange rolls.  DELISH!  (We must have loved to dress up.)
• Sewing lessons from Sister Brown.  We made our gray poofy pants with plum and pink polka dots.  We were stylin!  We wore them to the following Super Saturday.
• Speaking of Super Saturdays…How lucky were we.  We definitely had the perfect teen years with the Ponca boys.  Fun times.  How I wish my kids could have the friendships that we developed there.  We could hardly wait for the dances and Super Saturdays to arrive.  As soon as one was over we started planning the next.  I know the dances have never been the same since we left!  Lol.  What fun times.  I smile thinking of them.  NEVER forget that we were  SS @SS (Sex symbols at Super Saturday!)  lol!

Missing:  Rob Stolt and Bubba Smoot

• All of our matching clothes and hats.  What were we thinking?  Seeing yours and Suzy’s pics I place the blame on you.  You were the common denominator in the wearing of matching clothes.
• Driving to school from Seminary in Verdeans car, with the music blaring.  Packed in like sardines.
• Running…I wanted to be like you and run sooo bad.  I tried it out, but after Mr. Gordon made fun of me for running on my toes I decided that I would quit and just be the track manager so I could still be a part of it.  (Have to say I had fun with that!)  You are the reason I started running as an adult.  I still want to be you.  You are amazing.
• The last thing I will bring up so we aren’t here all day is the modeling pictures.  We definitely had fun.   Looking at my scrapbook I laugh and would die if anyone saw them.  Especially the one with you holding a bat across my neck and me lying on the floor acting as if I were dead.  What were we thinking?  Sooo many fun memories. 

Thank you for being my bff.  You, Deb #1 and Verdean have played such an important part of my life.  When I moved I was so upset.  I was so jealous that you could all go on without me.  And I remember pulling back and not staying in touch…not because I was mad at you, but because it hurt so much that I wasn’t there to do everything ya’ll still did.  (Dumb I know)  You have always been such a wonderful example to me and I still want to be you when I grow up.  I am so grateful we could get in touch again.  Jackson Hole will always be a highlight for me.  I love you and thank you for your wonderful friendship.

SS @ SS,

Tonya Jones

• PS, 40 is the new 20!  Have fun!