Always take the time to remember how truly loved you are my dear friends.
Always take the time to remember the things you love my dear friends.
Things I love:
- Jesus, and how He pursues me after all the things I do wrong.
- My mother, and how she is the strongest person I have ever had the pleasure of knowing.
- My father, and his utter compassion despite recognizing and going through terrible traumatic experiences.
- Midnight McDonalds dates with whoever will join me.
- The way my sister used to enjoy cuddling for movie nights with me.
- Long days at the pool with my cousins right in the heat of summer before big thunderstorms.
- Whenever my best friend would spend the night and we would turn down the AC to below freezing, find the cuddliest blankets, a pint of Ben&Jerry's each, and discuss our future.
- Chocolate cake.
- Going to the Regal Cinema 16, any time.
- Always excelling in English and Language Arts throughout school.
- Butterflies in my stomach from the first time he held my hand.
- Long thought out handshakes with anyone who would like to have one.
- VW Vans and the fact that you could have one amazing drive-in experience with them.
- Amusement parks and the fact that my best friend lied to me to get me on a corkscrew rollercoaster. I was scared for the ride, but wouldn't trade the experience.
- Walking on the seawall in Typhoon conditions with my best friend just because.
- Meeting Amy Deakins.
- Having Ron Coia as my AP Language Arts teacher.
- Being caught up in the plot of a thrilling YA novel.
- Being a published poet in the DoDDs magazine at the age of 14.
- My first play with my dad, and that I met my first boyfriend in the cast.
- Chalk, and that there are constantly new creations at my fingertips.
- That the first thing we learn about God is that he is a Creator, something I relate to immensely.
- Any Shorebreak that I have ever had the opportunity of being on.
- Shorebreak sophomore year with Jack, Abby, and Emily.
- Tie-dying with Jack.
- Meeting and becoming close with Dave & Andrea Hutchings.
- Having the pleasure of watching their family grow.
- Costume parties.
- Dressing up for parties.
- Playing basketball on a dedicated team.
- Being the Lady Trojans assistant and water girl.
- That my mom is one badass athlete and coach.
- Getting to play with a high school team while in middle school.
- Traveling to competition in Germany with the GCM Trojans in 7th grade.
- Berliners, and there delicious Erdbeere filling.
- The Brotchen cart and getting a Kinderegg every Friday morning.
- Christmas Caroling with friends.
- Ugly Christmas Sweaters with friend.
- Yogerette ice with Erdbeere sauce.
- That soda shops exist.
- Laughing so hard that I cry with my Aunt Kendra and my Mother.
- Sleepovers with my Grandmother, and the fact she would buy me Master Wangs even when she wasn't supposed to.
- That my 16th Birthday party was a food fight.
- That my 18th Birthday party was an island wide scavenger hunt/amazing race.
- Space camp in Turkey.
- That I know who my Maid of Honor will be.
- That adoption is a thing, and that I am adopted by God.
- The autobahn joyride with my Father.
- Beating a boy at a game I was supposed to be inferior at.
- Jamming in the garage to the Beatles with my grandmother.
- Laying in a bouncy castle at a friends 16th birthday party at night making a new best friend.
- Mixed CD's made by anyone at any point in time specifically for me.
- Hand written letters that anyone at any point in time specifically write to me.
- Whenever somebody tells me that anything Peter Pan related makes them think of me.
- That my first overseas care was a Fun Cargo.
- Okuma bonding trips with Common Ground Leadership.
- The Ocean, and the vast reasons I love it.
- European Pizza.
- That Love exists and I know Him by name, and He knows me.
- The Valentine dances at Atekule.
- Salep, and the fact that a family friend is bringing me back some from Turkey.
- Oki Care Packages, and that there always a surprise.
- That girls are becoming more and more the YA novel heroes.
- Amy Phoeler and Tina Fey's relationship, and that it reminds me of Izi and I.
- Making dances and lip sync battles with my cousin for talent shows.
- Creating Bailey and the Beatles, were I Bailey was the lead singer, and my cousin Blayne was the guitarist.
- Joining band in middle school and picking up the flute within a week.
- Living in Germany.
- Living in Turkey.
- Living in Okinawa.
- Any memory from YogurtLand.
- Halloweens on Okinawa.
- Being cast in any high school play.
- Being cast as Draco Malfoy in A Very Potter Musical.
- Jumping of the Seawall with friends after chickening out for an hour.
- Movie nights at home with Pizza.
- That I have my first job.
- Any Spring Break Trip with Isabella while being in Turkey.
- Sunabe Seawall walks with Cody.
- All the people I have ever had the pleasure of becoming friends with from living overseas.
- The military family that I have thanks to my parents.
- The international family that I have thanks to my parents.
- That I am loved, more than I can comprehend.
