From Oklahoma to Orlando: HAPPY BIRTHDAY LISNEY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my very best friend, Lisney!! Lisney and I have been friends for 24 years! We both went to St. Marks for pre-school and she has been my friend as long as I can remember having friends. I can remember her birthday party (must have been 1st or 2nd grade) where we took a limo to a beauty school and all had makeovers, and another one in middle school at her parents house, which was a Lion King theme and it was with boys! We slow danced, jumped on her trampoline, and rocked out to the new Brandi CD that the Konke twins gave her. We thought we were so cool. I really wish I could scan some of the pictures I have from when we were younger, but I could only find ones that we already on our computer from the last 5 or 6 years.

Lisney is the kind of friend that is ALWAYS there for you. We have been through so much together and I can't think of a time that she wasn't right by my side. Through our St. Mark's days we played every sport imaginable together and she even starred in a couple of our plays and I was also so jealous. She was always the lead and I would get the smallest role possible. She was also the bomb.com at Speech Tournaments! I will never forgot how much she helped me make it through my 9th grade year at new school. She would still write me notes in class and give them to me whenever we saw eachother, she invited me to everything her and her new friends were doing (basketball games, dinners, new years eve parties, football games, movies, parties) because she knew I wasn't making new friends too easily. I had my very first ever date drop me off back at her house so I could run inside and tell her all about it. We drove to eachothers houses on our 16th birthday just to go drive around on our own. We were there for eachothers dances, proms, high school sports, birthdays, graduations, and everything else in between.

Then of course through the college years, her at Tarelton State and me at Oklahoma. Summers and breaks at home meant spending as much time together as possible and the beginning of our "cigs and slurpees" nights. We were there for each other's graduations, and 1st jobs as big girls. She is truly my very best friend and I was so honored to have her stand beside me at my wedding. Even though she thought the bridesmaids dresses looked like red ornaments and would try on the dress while signing Christmas carols...

Lis- I hope you have the best birthday! I wish I could be there to celebrate with you!

We love you,

Angela and Kyle

Me, Kyle, and Lis at my 23rd bday