Tomorrow is a big day for Liza! She gets to join me in the land of the big 3-0! Check out the pics of us in our 20's!!! I wanted to reminisce a little about my top 30 favorite things about Liza as well as my favorite memories. So here goes dear liza....1. College. All of it! What a great time in life!
2. Road trips to Chattanooga
3. Steak dinners with the Pierce's. We still participate in these when we take our TN tour.
4. Painting my room yellow!
5. Dorm days....aaahhhh Johnson Hall. This is the place that brought us together actually it was...
6. Dunkin Donuts...picking out donuts when I didn't have on my glasses and you had to describe each donut to me! :)
7. Parties after we turned 21 (greg's birthday sticks out to me the most!)
8. Your total devotion to our friendship when I moved to UTC to chase a boy, got my heart broken, had to stay there for a semester and you called me everyday and helped me survive. I wouldn't have made it without you!
9. Road chases with Jamie and Bob.
10. Mission trips around this great world. It all goes back to Poland doesn't it?
11. Hurricane Floyd....endless hours in the car and I can't remember ever laughing that much!
12. BSU trips, Boston, and wherever else we went. I can't even remember all of it!
13. College sunday school...this is where I met Greg and you took me there! I wouldn't have met him had you not taken me there.
14. Your laugh...it is really contagious. The kind that when I make you laugh it makes me laugh harder. :)
15. The Pickle. Enough said about that one. :)
16. Stan. Enough said about that one too.
17. Spinning around in the middle of I-16. This is not my favorite moment in life by any means but I felt should be in the top 30.
18. Hours of conversation on those wonderful chairs on St. Simon's Island.
19. Our matching raincoats
20. Rolling Brad and Greg's "yard" we were too scared to get too close!
21. Late nights just talking
22. Having you stand beside me on my wedding day
23. Having you here for my first baby's birth
24. Watching you follow your heart as you traveled the world
25. Sharing a great joy to have you back from China
26. Your heart. You are a true friend to the end, no matter what. You have ALWAYS been there for me!
27. Your faith. You have a strong faith in the Lord and I have always loved that about you. You are a wealth of knowledge as well when I need biblical information!
28. Your devotion. We haven't lived in the same town in forever and I always know that no matter where we live we will always be friends. Your devotion to all your friends is strong and genuine.
29. Your hair. I am jealous of the curls! Where did mine go?
30. Your friendship. May our friendship continue to stand the test of time.
30 years has flown by and although I wasn't there when you began this life I have walked through a lot of it with you. We've laughed so hard we cried and we've cried so hard we couldn't breathe. Life has thrown many things at us but we have been there for each other. I hope that you can look at these past 30 years and see what you have done. Look at all the lives you have touched. You might have a huge to do list by 30 and still have things not checked off but who cares? You've made a difference in my life in more ways than I can list. My prayer is that you see the true happiness that surrounds you everyday. I am so thankful to have you in my life and I look forward to blogging my top 60 on you 30 years from now! :) Happy birthday Liza!
5 comments:
This is very sweet, and something that I know Liza will print out, put in her Bible, and cherish for all her life. I just want to add ~ Katie, you look anorexic in these pictures!
That just made me cry-HARD! Thank you. I can't tell you how much that means to me! I love you!
Those are my all time favorite pictures of us.
And Kittie-Katie was anorexic during part of that time! And
I would LOVE to be as thin as I was in those pictures! I should print that out and put in my gym bag that goes to the Y with me :)
Can you imagine us when we are 60? I'm laughing just picturing what we will look like and the things we will talk about!
I just read it again and I'm still crying.
The matching raincoats-remember when we were in Poland and you kept putting all your stuff on my bed, for reasons neither of us could figure out, and you ended up taking my rain coat instead of yours? That makes me laugh! I know it won't make anyone else laugh, because it was only funny if you were there, but it makes me happy to think about it!
not only are you anorexic but you are wearing a sash on your neck...the 90s were great weren't they?? :)
I lived in Johnson Hall, too! Those were some good times, despite the fact that it was claustrophobically small.
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