Heroes:
My friends!!! I would die without them!!
Shoutouts!!!
Alyssa
Jumping out my 8ft window, peeing on my tire, the BBV, fire, how we are going to live together if neither of us get married, I’m pretty sure I know who he is, eating your underwear, our 4-mile adventure to the gas station, chickening it, the Relay for Life, the HOPE remains, dancing in the rain at 3 in the morning, Hit Me With Your Best Shot, our life lessons we have learned from monkey/baby/rodeo cowboy (DOOOOO It!! & instinct..like a dog), “How was the concert?..It was beautiful.â€, Iraq or Assganistan?, picking rice in the field, the scale question, how many times would you play your electric guitar?, “Take your fake love and SHOVE it!â€, how do you like your grilled cheese?, SCF, “That makes me shack in my moccasins!!â€, “I’m gonna be friends with your husband, and we are going to play scrabble or whatever it is married couples doâ€, sneaking out of Star Wars and going to the skate park, getting caught, my bracelet falling in the river, your beautiful proposal (give me your f-ing hand!), the light game, WIKACHA!!!, the 19 signs, my crack stash, getting drunk under the tables, Korean Karaoke, just stopping by for a pickle, monsoon, PB&J (as in peanut butter & jelly…or ---- ------), your church lock-in (“I’m not leaving this chair until you tell me what shape it is!â€), humming Titanic, cops coming to my house because we drove around in the big white truck so many times (only my 2nd day of driver’s training), the trust game (how far can I close the window?), got rice?, Alex’s cellar, your family reunions, I like it hott…you like it toasted, I had a chicken (gobble gobble), “I’m taking over the world!â€, getting lost in Watervilete, my berry pecial day, high score!!, “I want the fork with 4 things…not 3!â€, your story about how he S your B, how you were H, bringing me a whole tub of ice cream the day you got back from your mission trip, watermelon pucker, killer in the park, TPing, all that studying after school in 8th grade (dang, we had a lot of surprise tests that year! lol), where we became friends in english class, our orange notebook we would pass back & forth (could we have been any more obvious…and sitting in the front row, hello?!), borrowing cubby bear’s sweatshirt, illegal trash dumping, locking your keys in the car, taking millions of hair flipping pics, our prediction box, and mail deliveries in hooker boots! I love you so much, and thank you so much for everything. You have been there for me through so much and I could never thank you enough or express how much I appreciate it. I love you!
Elicia
Peeing our pants in the middle of a field, dressing up like candy canes, stalking our co-workers, going to random churches, ice-skating @ Eastside Park, deer sign, Okonkwo, hotel roofs, running through cornfields, adventure on Stone Lake, stealing ice at cheer camp, breaking glow sticks and painting ourselves, wide open spaces, Katie’s World, getting lost in my woods, ending up in the trailer park, Monday pooping rituals after work, following Phil home, parking in some random person’s driveway, running down the street acting like we didn’t see him, getting lost in Buchanan, fountains at Stonehedge, ghost girl, saggy boobs, BS, DFP trip, SCF initiation, leaving presents in people’s mailboxes, playing in the leaves at 3am, My Little Girl, swing dancing, pooping in my trunk, sparkling grape juice and reading poems, all our talks on the way to work, You Spin Me, stripping in my car, the traveling shorts, icicles, eating Hardee’s in my car everyday, the BEEF, spitting your drink out all over my car, peeing your pants at lunch (Frannie and I purposely spilling on ourselves to make it look like we peed too), the horny toad, Buttercup the hermafidite, barging into Gaby’s house in our bras, nnnnnns, nnnnn capes, the PIZZA! I love you more than life itself!!
Frannie
Spring Break 2006, long talks in my car, China One, Lunkers, red bears, streaking in the rain at 3am, cemetery visits, driving backwards, dress shopping, Relay for Life 2006, 3-legged races, energy drinks, the lock-in, finding that cat in your house, camping in your backyard, spin the bottle, sparkling grape juice and reading poems, dancing in Wal*Mart, pictures in Wal*Mart...just Wal*Mart in general, sleeping in your bed, my baby’s daddy, ice skating, DFP trip, SCF conspiracy, scavenger hunt, paging ourselves in Wal*Mart, eating ice cream, dancing like Olive, stalking, getting lost, the traveling shorts, eating in random fast food parking lots, eating Hardee’s in my car everyday, peeing our pants for Elicia, eggs, the PIZZA! I love you more than life itself!!
Gaby
Living at my house, cat crimes, our marriage, sparkling grape juice and reading poems, the cemetery, long driveways, my name is Benji, “Pantalones…no los necesito!â€, SCF, Wal*Mart parking lot talks, the traveling shorts, “What on earth did you do to those bears?â€, comparing buttcheeks, our advice book, riding the Dial-A-Ride, dancing in the pouring rain, ice skating, driving backwards, Elicia, Frannie, and I barging into your house in our bras, our therapy sessions at Eastside, David Hunter, “Go get em’ stallion!!!â€, John Lary, Dasani predictions, she will explode in 5..4..3..2..1!, the day I burnt my buttleg off at the Cass. Fair, where I also puked on the Spider, Catwoman!, fortune cookies, perfect braids and reading upside-down in kindergarten, DDR (dancing in my thong), sitting in the park with the gay pride rainbow cheetah blanket wrapped around us, DFP trip, SCF conspiracy, barking at people, almost peeing my pants, “A friend will try to distract you when you are about to pee your pants, but a true friend will just put you out of your misery and pee their pants with you!!!â€, riding the Gravitron like 6 times in row, never saying a word to each other in 6th grade, Gaby’s Diary, your beautiful songs, chewing on clothes in the middle of a clothes rack in JC Penny’s, “Ooh, now that’s my kind of thumthinâ€, Misty, dancing in our underwear in the middle of Frannie’s street, traveling shorts activities, paging ourselves in Wal*Mart, giving Justin flowers, stabbing you with a fork, job applications at 11pm, China One, The Real ---- ------- Story, embezzlement, crucified monkeys, the PIZZA! I love you more than life itself!!
Meredith
Pokagon, dopey dough, New Years at Katie’s wedding, fanta girls, RAVIOLI, getting stuck in the ghetto, licking the snow in our cheerleading shorts the day my mommy forgot me, my mother’s lovely cooking (bacon & pineapple…mmm, yummy!), Denise Austin (our idol…wish I could be that manly), Hello ---- ----(sexy voices), DDR, Dream A Dream (our song!!), playing Nintendo the whole time we were camping with your family, Mario Party parties in summer ’06, playing up-side down, the day from hell @ the Missing Sock, no one hangs up on Meredith H!, getting lost in Watervilete, our urinal picture, tequila makes our clothes fall off, and ALWAYS talking about our boy problems. Thanks for always helping me through my tough times. You've been there for me through it all! You were like the 1st to see me cry even!! Love you tons babe!
Maddy
It’s so weird to think we didn’t really even hang out together until this year! I don’t know what I did all my life without you?! I love lunches together, the snow day we spent we came to my house, slept, and then played in the snow, spending the night at your house and staying up until all hours of the night, spending the night at your grandma’s, “adventuresâ€â€¦hehe!, playing in the leaves at 3am, and the magical Bulls’ Game!!!! Thank you so much for always being there for me! I love you so much!!
Adam
Licking ice sculptures, running through cornfields, running around outside churches at night, taking a million pictures, sucking helium out of balloons, dancing white and not caring what anyone else thinks, not being able to eat in front of each other, our 1st “date†at Wendy’s, hanging upside down in your basement, our handshake, kissing under the mistletoe, playing in the snow, snow angels, the Bulls’ Game, my ring tone on your phone, formal 2007, homecoming prince & princess, learning how to dance at your church dance, snowball fights, slow dancing in my room, Freewilly 1&2, Shrek, Gremlins…basically loving to watch little kid movies, sledding down huge snow banks at school in box lids, ?s of the day!
Kelsey
We have some amazing times in all our classes together…I love that we sit by each other in all of them!! We both always have some crazy story to tell, and I absolutely love it!!! You are always helping me with all my drama and listening to all my stories…I don’t know what I would do without you! Love you babe!!
Katie D
Walking on the same side in the hallway every day after pre-calc, sniffles, cheerleading, all our dates, the mattress store, walks by the river, our special parking spot, the cute hott Katie and the hott cute Katie, dancing around my car to Cascada, and all the great stories we share!! I love you to death!
Beth
Hitting you over the head with a yearbook, sandpaper, Never Been Kissed, hot tub talks, going on your family trip to Wisconsin, The Kalahari, hating you, your pink boots, and the way you ran in 1st grade, flashlight tag, and bonfires at your house! Mother Karlowicz loves you!!
Caitlin
I’m so glad we have been talking so much lately! I really missed you!!! I still remember some of the crazy stuff we used to do…remember the trees in my woods and super Ts…haha! We are going to have to work on adding to this here list. Love ya!!
Ricky
Deep conversations, everything relates to everything else, shooting me with your paintball gun, taking pictures in as many fast food restaurants as possible, Tuesdays, coolant, and seminar! Thanks for always being there for me!!
Stephanie
Fanta Girls, playing tag at the park, spider swinging, 4th of July 2006, the men’s bathroom, Polish Korean, fatty, rocket BOOM, the slingshot, skinny dipping, all the great stuff we learned online at Frannie’s, your pole barn, blue balls, tamponing trees in broad daylight, journalism stalking story (our mission taking pictures of Kyle’s house even)! Love you lots!!
Emily M
Fanta Girls, all those Polaroid pictures, petting you, and so many talks in Desktop Publishing sophomore year! You helped me through so much!! Love you babe!
Cassie
What’s spikey? The kitty titties! Nnnnns, capes!
Alex
TPing, teaching Amber and I how to ring a doorbell, riding the train at the Relay For Life, me annoying the crap out of you at 3am walking around the track, Alyssa & I coming over to see your cellar, the 8-ball, Wal*Mart, many walks, meeting at the park, me jumping out my window, all the mailbox presents, my cheerleading competition, writing on my car, and the crutches.
Amber
Having Alex teach us how to ring a doorbell, taking pictures in all those fast food restaurants, cheering together, late night talks at cheer camp. Love ya lots babe! Brayden is adorable!!!
Sara
Journalism, walking around, stalking people, talking about weird stuff like soup. Haha! I don’t know what I would do without you in that class!!
Tyler
Cottonbowl 2007, New Year’s, food fight, train station, exploring, myspace comments. Sorry if I was kind of a jerk at first. I don’t know what I would’ve done if you weren’t there. I miss you!
