Thanks Alyssa

Alyssa Kate Smith,

  Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you for being my friend. I can't help but be happy when I'm with you. I think I distinctly remember a time when I was really mad and I didn't want to not be mad yet, and so I avoided you because I knew as soon as I saw your face I'd stop being so mad. Thank you for always being able to cheer me up and make me laugh. Actually, thank you for always being able to reduce me to giggles. Thank you for having a September birthday. Thank you for all your silly cat references. Thank you for being ok with me crashing on your couch for a year. Thank you for agreeing to let me be a real roommate sophomore year.
  Thank you for being such a great example to me of what it means to be kind and loving to everyone. No matter how kind or unkind they are to us. No matter if we agree with them or not. No matter what.
  Thank you for being excited to tell me that you were engaged or that you were pregnant even though I have been so terrible at keeping in touch with you consistently. Thank you for working at the MOA with me. Oh my goodness, that was the best job in the world.
  I'm sitting here thinking about all my favorite memories of you and they all end with us laughing so hard that it hurts. Thank you for bringing so much laughter and fun into my life. We always had the best kind of fun. I'm so excited for your baby to be born! You are going to be the best, most laid back, most loving, awesomest mom. Your little girl is sooooo lucky! I hope I will get to meet her one day.

I love you Alyssa!