Happy Birthday to Melissa Joy

Happy Birthday to you dear friend! 

I am so grateful for you. There is so much I could say, that I'm not sure where to start. Thanks, first off, for being my faithful and true friend for close to 11 years... I think??? So many treasured memories flood my thoughts as I recount the times we've spent together. Just a few of them include: dress-up (prairie style) ALL day, "Writing with Amanda", baby sitting class, drivers ed., sewing class with Aunt Linda, doing school while laying in the sun, wiping frog pee on you after trying to impress you by picking one up, Point of Grace, "SunShineSingers", seeing who could eat more animal crackers the fastest, getting soo nervous before singing at the Tides Games, riding bikes, making soupy, homemade ice cream, baking cookies with a 1/2 cup of salt, co-creating the "Slim Jim Moment" with Mag and Nel, PROC at Celebration years ago (Hehehe) all these are such wonderful memories.

Mel, you have proven to be a faithful friend in the way that we haven't always felt as close as we do now. I truly want to thank you for following the Lord's prompting you a while back and for not growing lazy in your pursuit of our friendship or battle of sin. The Lord is a Redeeming and merciful God and I know that we have only grown closer as the result of being diligent to work through things with the help of our parents and Savior.

Thanks for always being genuine with me, for dropping everything to pray for me over the phone, for speaking such wisdom into my life, for letting me wear your pajamas every time i forget mine when i spend the night... which is every time, and for your consistent joy, patience and trust in the Lord. I have learned a lot about what it means to Love the Lord and seek him daily with a passion from watching you. All these things mean so much to me. 

Love you tons and happy 20th birthday girl!!!

P.S. This song will always remind me of you haha 

Procrastination to physics to parties to coke to santa to bed, who knows what this post is about?

 What do you do when it is 1:00 am, and you still have loads of homework? I post. Yes, this post is a confession of my ridiculous habit of procrastinating, which I am doing right now. So for the past few weeks everything that was not due the next day was put off to be done "some other time". Now the semester is ending and guess who is finding out when "some other time" is? Mhhmm. Also Jap told me I had to post and even though this is probably boring it's better than hearing about physics, precalc, or english,which would really be about my inability to write. Are there any colleges that don't require writing classes? I'm there. Oh, or I could post about a time we have tried to work on the 316 christmas party. It can be pretty funny... at least to me. We have made progress but there is alot more to be done. One thing I love about Christmas is when you buy a bottle of Coke( actual Coca-Cola if there was any confusion) and there on the bottle are snow flakes and Santa Clause, gotta love it. Alright this is a bit rambly, I don't really want to do my math homework. This post kinda proves how bad I am about procrastinating. Ok, time to hit the bed(is that a real expression?) no wait time to hit the books. I think I am making things up. I gotta stop. I'll post soon. (Yeah right, don't I always say that)~Chels