best friend.

Best friends: they are awesome. Louisa and I have known each other since we were 5, and have been best friends since a little bit after. The stories are different on both sides...I thought she was my best friend by the time we were 6, but apparently she hated me until we were 10 :P

Regardless, we have been friends for a long time. When she moved to Montana when we were 14, right before our freshman year of high school, it was the most heartbreaking time. Ever. 

Since she left, she has visited Ohio several times, and I have been to Montana once (wow, I suck). And hopefully she will be visiting again this summer. And today is her 20th birthday. 

It's crazy to think that we are both 20 now. Time has flown by so quickly. I wish that we could have spent the last 6 years together, but I am incredibly thankful for the times that we have had together, as brief as they may have been. Long distance relationships are always really difficult, and we've certainly had our good times and our bad, but no matter what happens, I always know that you will be there for me. Every time we talk on the phone or anytime we see each other, it's as if you never left. 

I hope against hope that you will be able to visit this summer. I can't wait to have sleepovers again. And eat toilet paper. And stalk Mitchell Davis. And go on roadtrips. And most importantly, I can't wait for you to meet my other best friend, Andrew. 

I love you and I am blessed to have such a best friend as you. Thanks for the insane memories...here's to 20+ more years of those crazy times!

one of our very first wonderful sleepovers :)

the two of us before we sang a duet of "red river valley" together
at a co-op program :)

louisa's first visit after she moved away. according to the
date on the bottom of this picture...summer 2007

we were pretending to be queens...?

a scanned photo from louisa's childhood scrapbook.

i think this was before she left? regardless, we had just had
hot chocolate from muggs, which was really thick and kept
coating our teeth with brown gross-looking stuff. so what
did we do? spent the entire time trying to freak people out
by smiling at them....

summer of 2009

january 2010

summer 2010, our excursion to zacharyland :)

A Month Later...

Haha...I'm apparently really bad at keeping up with the blog.
Since my last post, a few things have happened:

1. Jesus rose from the dead! Pascha was gorgeous. It was wonderful to

see all of my newly-illumined brothers and sisters experience the

absolute joy of the day for the first time. And, it is so wonderful to still

be singing "Christ is Risen". For some reason this year, the Pascha

service felt shorter than it ever has, and the 40 days following have felt

way longer than they usually do, which is nice. I like singing "Christ is

Risen" and "The Angel Cried" for such an extended period of time. It's

helpful to remind all of us about how important Christ's resurrection was and still is.



2. ANDREW'S HOME!

That was something else that made Pascha absolutely

incredible. Here we are the night that he got home. This

picture was taken several hours after he got off his flight from

England, and after he had only had about 2 hours of sleep in

24 hours. Poor guy...he was totally exhausted. But it's so, so,

so wonderful to have him home again. Of course, now that it's

summer and we both have to work a lot, we aren't really able

to see each other a lot, but it's still great to know that he's only

a half hour away :) I love this guy like CRRRRRAZY!

3. Chorale tour. We wandered through various places in Ohio,

went to Rochester NY, and finally ended up at Niagara Falls.

Although the actual places that we visited tended to be kinda

lame (except for Rochester and a small town in Ohio called

Granville), it was wonderful to spend so much time with such

a fantastic group of people. I miss everybody a lot. Especially

my tour roommate and wonderful friend, Alex (who is actually

in Italy right now...). I can't wait for Chorale stuff next year :)



Since getting back from tour, very little has happened. Just work. And housework. And for some reason no blogging...which is going to change. Happy summer!