I feel so blessed. I had my first birthday party in 5 years lastnight. My sorority sisters took me out to eat at a restaurant and gave me card cake and baloons. I even got a birthday hat and the things you blow to make the noise. I cant think of what it's called. On Friday, my co-workers took me out to eat, gave me a card, and the boss let me leave an hour early. Today I plan go out to eat for the 3rd time! My boyfriend wants to take me to this restaurant and I think we will go bowling. I have been shopping everywhere since Friday so I think it's time we do something else! lol I had been sad lately missing my bestfriend as always and dreading my boyfriend leaving for college in August. But I just had to stop and be thankful for the new people in my life. My boyfriend has really been an angel in place of my bestfriend. I am thankful that I have him to talk to and spend time with when I could be sitting at home bored because I no longer have a best friend to hang out with. And my sorority sisters are awesome. They truly are my sisters and I think God sent them to me to keep me from going crazy because he already knew my bestfriend would hurt me.

I am thankful more than ever this year. In the past I always cried on my birthday or felt sad because I prayed for something the prior year that did not come about. I guess I had a pessimistic view of the previous year. but I have beat myself up enough these last couple weeks about mistakes I made and answered prayers. Today it's time to look at the bright side. I have accumulated a lot of blessings this past year that I always prayed for. I finally have sisters to keep my mind off my old bestfriend, I have the greatest boyfriend to keep my mind off the guys who hurt me, I have more clothes and shoes than ever and a beautiful bedroom, I have the best job any 20- yeard old could ask for, I have a lot of people who love and care about me (and I realize that), I kept my grades up again this past year, I did not get any bad news about my health, I got my permit, and most of al I lived to see 20 years of my life when there was a time it was thought I wouldn't live past 12. I want to thank my strokeboard family also. Thank you for showing me how to close my eyes and appreciate the good even when the bad is staring me in the face, thank you for reminding me of what a wonderful person I am in the mist of my flaws.

Oh yeah Jesse graduated on Thursday. He was valevictorian. Here is a picture of us after gaduation. (The wind blew my hair in my face)