Oldest, wonderfulest

Yes folks, it's another dear friend's birthday! Happy 27th Birthday Sheila!!

I don't remember meeting Sheila. Our mother's lived two doors down from each other growing up, joined the LDS church together, and remain the best of friends to this day. Sheila and I were born four months apart and probably met when I was just a couple of months old. We have never not been friends. We have always been in each other's lives.

We were vacation friends for the first 15 years or so . . . then we started taking longer visits to each other's homes. We started sharing the same friends, keeping in touch better, and slowly but surely, we became practically joined at the hip.

Our freshman year in college we took all the same GE classes, and then continued to do so for the rest of our time there. We were there for some of each other's funniest college moments. My favorite examples include:

The inability to read the word debris (it's derbis, I swear!)

Sheila's near death experience with a rock on a field trip

A teacher's with upside down slides who didn't know it and was explaining the "blue layer" as a strange rock formation from days gone by when, in fact, it was the sky

And my personal favorite, my being hit on the head with a remote control

. . . and those are just a few.

Sophomore year we moved in to the same apartment, and we lived together until the summer Sheila met and married her wonderful husband.

Together, throughout our 26ish years of life, we have laughed harder than I ever thought possible. I cant' even count the number of times I remember us lying in bed laughing so hard we thought we might pee ourselves.

Chicky Chicky and Lady Buggie Pants!!

We have shared heartbreak, joy, true love, marriage, arrival of children (hers not mine :D ) and we continue to be the best of friends. She is an amazing example of calm, serene spirituality blended perfectly with joy and laughter. She is an amazing mother and wife, and I look up to her so much. She is my oldest, wonderfulest friend.

I am devastated because I can't find the box that contains the best of our pictures together, but next year I'll get her good ;) For now, I think these ones will suffice. Specifically this one, for which she might shed my blood this week during the Girl's Trip. Hahaha.

Love your guts Bo-Beila! I'm so excited to get to be with you on your birthday this year!! We'll party like rock stars!