memories

i turned 25 yesterday. here are some of my memories from the past 25 years:

• being allergic to wheat and only being allowed to eat rice stuff (this is where my fear of barfing must have begun, since i threw up everytime i had wheat)
• going to grandpa murdoch's house for wednesday lunches where we always had the same thing. grilled cheese dipped in egg (this was after i got my wheat allergy), salt and vinegar potato chips, chocolate milk and a glazed doughnut from middlegate bakery (YUM!)
• staying after school to play piano for my grade 2 teacher Ms. Everett.
• getting a jasmine and aladdin poster and a lion king diary for one of my birthdays
• many, MANY summers spent at morning star bible camp
• AWANA on friday nights
• starting to play the drums in grade 7 band
• HATING the idea of moving from burnaby to langley...and hating my parents for making me move
• starting band and choir in grade 8 and being the only female drummer
• 2 high school trips to europe. so so many memories
• sleepovers with my 2 high school best friends, emma and melissa, in melissa's 'cabin'
• breaking the lamp shade above brandon's pool table
• eye surgery in grade 11
• meeting steve the first day of my grade 12 year at school
• homecoming
• taking steve as my grad date
• graduating from high school
• going to europe with my family
• getting my first car
• nannying alexandra and elizabeth. wishing the days would end but always sad when they did
• working at ABC Country Restaurant as a cook and HATING IT!
• being SO scared to start college
• going to england, wales and scotland with emma
• moving to seattle for 3 months and working at my grandparent's company
• going on a missions trip to ecuador where steve was sick the whole time
• my first ever REAL interview...and it was for the school district
• getting the job as a substitute
• getting engaged
• graduating from college
• my first year at LCS
• buying our first home
• our wedding day
• going to maui and staying in the most amazing hotel
• going on cruises with steve
• meeting new awesome people at LCS
• moving into our townhouse

.....ok this could go on FOREVER!