Georgetown Friends

We love Georgetown for its size, proximity to Austin (a 20 minute drive), accessibility to everything, community feeling, charming downtown square, and some beautiful neighborhoods (not necessarily our neighborhood). I think it is the ideal size for us - feels like a smaller town, but is 20 minutes from a big city, yet doesn't feel like cookie-cutter suburbia with major traffic and excessive retail. It is clean. It is pretty. It fits us well.

However. 

Making friends in Georgetown has been a huge challenge. I know it takes a while to become acclimatized to any new area, but this just isn't working and the bummer part is that we don't feel a lot of potential for making friends. Georgetown has a large older/retired population (which I don't mind - it makes me feel like a superstar when I take Molly to HEB and have all the old ladies oohing and aahing over her!) and our ward is a reflection of that. There are also a lot of families with teens and older kids, but there aren't many people in our stage of life. The hardest part is that there just doesn't seek to be anyone that we really click with or anyone else who is really seeking friendship. In San Angelo, most people were living away from family and were eager to hang out, have dinner, or socialize at church; this feels quite different. Aside from church, we have very few places to meet people... I talk to some older ladies at the gym... the apartment staff when we have maintenance issues... the cash register lady at Walmart... slim pickins.

But.

We have become friends with the Richisons. The missionaries met Meghan and Colt while knocking on doors one day and started teaching them. The Elders asked us to come along for a lesson and we got along really well. The Richisons were just married and they have a baby a couple months younger than Molly named Kinley. Colt works really late so we've just been to a couple lessons and had them over a couple times but even though we don't see that much of them we are so so glad to have them as friends.

These pictures are from when Meghan and I got together for lunch one afternoon and then tried to make some baby headbands we'd seen on pinterest. Ummm... not such a success. In fact I think I threw mine away after we took this picture. But we tried. Meghan and I are pretty different, but I really enjoy her company and hope we can keep hanging out with them every now and then.

 I don't think they ever realized that they were laying next to someone. They just stared in opposite directions... Kinley just chill as can be, Molly eating her hands and looking at the camera. Cute girls!