happy birthday boo boo!

i remember:

• arguing with you over EVERYTHING and then forgetting it all 5 seconds later.
• borrowing clothes from each and neither of us owning up to the small stains that would mysteriously appear.
• playing egyptian rat screw with you and me NEVER losing. =D (owned.)
• shoving clothes underneath the dresser to your side of the “cleaning line” in our room so you’d have do more.
• poking holes in the plastic dad put on the windows during winter.
• working at kohl’s with you. "paging bethany. code 4 at the registers" hahaha.
• your phrases: “mama! mama! mama!” and “ni-ni-ni-ni-no”. (tsst.)
• all the noises you make to describe things when you can’t think of the words.
• you teaching me the ways of nail biting when we were little--you little drug dealer.
• you reading all those christian romance novels--one a DAY ...sometimes two!
• your famous peanut butter fudge.
• watching you put on your makeup.
• visiting you at grace college and you taking me to your art bldg. =)
• you teaching jubee ALL the swear words.
• swearing we’d NEVER live together… and look at us now. =)

bethany, i love how you love people and how you always try to think the best of them. i love how you could sell shoes to someone who didn't even have any feet. i also love that no matter how much you have, if someone needs something, you'd give it to them and say, "eh, i've lived with less." and i love how you and i both know those curtains are NOT staying in the living room. (tsst.)

...now harden up. you're not getting anymore sappy talk until next year. =)

ps. i love you bethany. and thanks. for being my big sister.