my dearest friend.

 we met way back in tenth grade in mr gardeners math class.
i remember thinking to myself i am going to be friends with that girl.
and we have ever since.
we have so many memories together that if we made a list of them all it would go here to the moon.

i would like to make a smallish list of some of my favorite memories:
-throwing bottles off of the wells fargo parking garage with predictions of the upcoming year
-finding the four leaf clover in the old bookstore
-jumping on the bed in our vintage night gowns on valentines day while listening to single ladies
- taking the train to boston and eating some real boston cream pie
-eating cheesecake on the dock and jumping in the lake on the last day of summer
-tagging suicide rock and watching the sunset from ensign peak
- playing fugitive with the labragory coat kid who drove like a maniac
-woodland hills cave tea party and all the burrs on the pink blanket
-walking up the river to the shire, and pulling on the leech on kelsie's leg ew!
-cremating summer
-carmel apple from the carnival carny, having it fall and get fuzzies all over it
-road kill inn, auschwitz, sock pillows, door opened, sock pillows and they mysterious phone call
- my sweet 16th birthday party in the garage
-back to school luau and being consumed by a crowd of barking boys
-making wishes on sara's roses from her wedding reception
-swimming at the beach in rhode island and hiking to the lighthouses
- the benjamin house: friday the 13th, october, full moon and midnight
-sparkelers inside the swiss family robinson treehouse
-disneyland dinner at carnation cafe at christmas
-hiking the hollywood sign
-sitting on the high school bleachers while drinking our "beer"
-s.s.c.g. homeless hideout. and then the new one.
- taking naps in central park
-seeing the metor that almost ended the world on september 11th ten years later
-sadie hawkins at maple lake where merlin spread magic dust and people fell in love
- making wishes in the wishing fountain in our favorite place: slc
- making a wish for love in that fountain time and time again
.....and watching it come true.

she took him to sadie hawkins and 6 years later he took her back to the wishing fountain and gave her a ring.

as we always say: "life doesn't get better than this".
but surprisingly it does..