The Boys

In the willow world, our weekends tend to be Friday and Saturday, due to the hard work that takes place on Sundays. Well this last Friday a friend name Ernie gave some of us Autoshow tickets (thanks Ernie). None of us are really car guys, but we had a ton of fun going downtown and hanging out. We rode the train down to the city then got day passes for the El. We spent several hours at the car show, we walked off a lot of calories which was good.

It was really cool after a fun day, to sit back and reflect on how God has blessed me with some really good friends. Matt and I have been friends sense almost day 1…well his day 1. I love that he lives up here. Kellen moved up from Georgia to do an internship at Willow. It has been really awesome to get to know him and watch  him grow in amazing ways. Then there is Adam. What can I say about him? He has quickly turned into one of my best friends. My love language is quality time and words of affirmation. But I think the quality time sometimes drives him crazy, because I just love to hang-out, and he likes to be alone. But he seems to accept me as a friend anyway.

When I first moved up to Chicago on June 12, 2006; one of hardest parts was leaving all the people I knew and loved. And although I still love those back in STL (well…most of them). God has really blessed me with some amazing friends. Even though two of the three I mentioned, I supervise at work. They probably have no idea how much I look up to them.

Thank you God for providing for me in way I could have never imagined and blessing me with friends that challenge me to be more like you.

Matt

Adam

Kellen