Happy Birthday Pemily!!!

Emily and I met 10 years ago at S-hole (BYU dorm) during the summer before our freshman year and she quickly became one of my best friends. I remember first walking into Emily's dorm room to meet her and thinking 2 things: 1. Man this girl likes Disney--especially Hercules (she had TONS of Disney movies and the Hercules figurines--she even put the song "Zero to Hero" on her dorm room answering machine!) and 2. This girl is funny. We lived together for our freshman, sophomore, and junior years. She then decided to leave me and get married our senior year! I have lots of great memories of our college years together (such as the word of the day on her answering machine or the question of the day and she wouldn't call you back unless you got it right! And staying up super late at the Den of Iniquity watching MTV all night long with Steve Ranson sleeping on her lap! Speaking of Steve--what about our "trophy?" We had a fancy red pair of underwear--the "trophy" that whoever did something out of the ordinary would own the trophy until the other one could try and get it back. Emily got it by kissing Steve at the park!) and am so glad that we are still best friends! (But I do wish we lived closer together.) So here's to you Emily on your special day---a look back at some of my favorite memories from our college days.

Hanging out in the entry way of our dorm room with Brian and Andrea. We had just finished listening to Brian play all of his funny songs on his guitar. In the top picture (sorry Em you got cut out--I am out of town right now so the scanning jobs are not the best) we were on our way to the Corn Maze in the back of Brian's van. Em and I got lost in the maze and got very scared!

Our trip to Idaho for Parker's farewell. It was so cold and Val's car got stuck in the snow--we all had to push it in our pajamas!

Gunlock trips!! Need I say more?? Well, there was "provacative pool" that we played at Gunlock. I like the pose Em---no we're not weird at all.





One thing that quickly sealed our friendship was our love of Days of Our Lives. Here we are in the bottom right picture in character as "Susan." Am I really sticking a fork/knife up to your neck in the other picture?



Who can forget Halloween time? Em made an awesome "Trinity" from the "Matrix"


Our Junior year we had a very crappy apartment but it was obviously meant to be as this is where she met Dave. We had a condo lined up to live in but after Ellen (Em's sister) lived there during the summer she told us to get out of our contracts!) This was a few weeks before the fall semester was to start. We scrambled to find a place to live that has 2 openings together. Alpine Court it was. Although the apartment was cramped we got very lucky with two great roommates and of course Dave. This is also the apartment where Em got her first puppy that slept (and peed) in my bed (we had bunkbeds that were really high--it was always so funny to watch Em climb into the top bunk at night and jump down in the morning--surprised she didn't sustain an injury from it!) Remember our fun Easter dinner where we ate on the patio? So fun.



Our senior year Em was married but we still got to see each other every once in awhile--usually at the Funk Factory. We had a girls night out to see Britney Spear's movie--"Crossroads!"




Em--I'm so glad we met our first days at BYU--my college experience would not have been the same without you. Thanks for the late night talks, bag-pipe dates, Algebra class, the trips to Food City, the dances and clubs, getting me to go tanning our sophomore year (dang we looked good tan!), your great stories (that's why you are a.k.a the Storyteller!) and all the many other memories. Love ya!