tell my friends how much I LOOOOOOOOVE them!

To the most dearest, fantastic, beautiful, wonderful, awesome, brilliant friends in the whole wide world!

I’m writing this letter half because I was told to in Seminary and the other half is because I really really want to! I am telling you know that this e-mail is most likely going to be very cheesy but it’s 100% true! You have been warned…read on at you own risk. :)

I hope ALL of you had an excellent Thanksgiving, I really do. I know I had a great one! After dinner, few of my sisters and I gathered around in a circle making hemp bracelets (typical for McAllister girls). We started sharing several things we were grateful for, naturally the topics of my friends came up. As soon as I spoke the word “friends”, I felt this HUGE POWERFUL wave of love crash over me, I was almost piratically drowning in it. Then I knew, I absolutely 100% thankful for you and I just HAD to say thank you or I would be really selfish holding all this love inside.

I never truly thought of myself and my life to be hugely amazing or inspiring but I have always taken great joy and found great love in all my little randomness and quirky adventures, therefore, I as so super glad that I can be myself around you guys. I am so appreciative of the trust I can put into all ya girls and the amount of trust you have given unto me. It’s so much much fun and way crazy to think back of when I first met you and see what led to what is now. When we were just friends and now you are some one I can trust with my life! Thanks for all the simple little things,I don’t think you can ever know how much I want/need/love them. It’s the little things you give me so freely that helps me through the huge things in life. Thanks for always being there!!!! It’s so good to know I have a place in the hall to eat my lunch, a face in the hall to say “hi” to. Thanks for sharing your fanatic personalities and beautiful talents with me, I am FOREVER grateful. I am thankful that you guys put up with me and still invite me to public places. I am much obliged that you still welcomed me in to your houses (especially Morgusea) after I eat everything and break several things. MOST of all I am thankful for how strong you are. No matter what life hurls at you you are so STRONG! So strong…sometimes I can’t believe how strong you are. I know you aren’t perfect, but your imperfections make yous so gosh darn beautiful and your strength is what makes me admire you.

I AM THANKFUL FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO! And I mean EVERYTHING! Thanks for all the awkwardness, anger, frustration, bitterness, the annoyance, sorrow and the tears. Along with the late night talks, giggles, laughter, excitement, enthusiasm and LOVE. Add it together and what do you got? Lucy. Thanks for making me, me! I’m thankful for it ALL!

Thanks for all the adventures.

I have a STRONG testimony that God has send certain people in my life to help me learn, love and grow…you are those people. As High School is ending and the next chapters are opening, I know I am going to miss you but I hope and pray for the best for you, I really really do. I KNOW you’ll do great things in this life because you are great, beautiful people.

I love you and once more THANK YOU SO SO SO SO SO MUCH!

Love and peace,
Yours truly,
LUCY :)

P.S. I know this letter most likely has tons of mistakes w/ spelling and/or grammar. It’s like 3 in the morning plus well I’m Lucy, you get what you get!

:)

“the only word for love is Everybody’s name” ~Dar Williams – It Happens Every Day

I really don’t think its possible to use words….Love is so big, so grand, so beautiful, so confusing I don’t think I can tell them. I don’t think there is any way to find the right words.

WOW, I was looking at all the post I put on here about my friends. I wrote them like 20 months ago, still all I can say is “WOW”. I remember the days I wrote them and how I was feeling and everything. I’ve know my very good friends for years, and years! It had to believe how fast the days zoomed by, how much has changed yet they (my friends) are still there. They are always there. Even if I/they change a bit. I’ve been looking over the post “A few reasons why my friends are awesome and beautiful…” that I wrote Jan 15, 2008. It’s fun to go back in time,think and feel the way i used to.I need to update that post, some of still rings true, but a lot of it has transformed in the some thing new as they, themselves, transform in the journey called life. I still love my friends and I don’t think I can ever stop loving them.

To day is Morgans b-day….it’s a big one!Drum roll please, sixteen! Happy b-day, have a good day and a good life! CTR!! LOVE AND PEACE!

Kylee: super cute with a ‘kick-butt’ personality! Together we have many amusing moments when we talk about new movies, books and music (Both good and bad). Kylee is a very easy person to talk to; she can strike up a profound conversation with almost anyone. Kylee acts really reasonable. She has an amazing signing voice! She is also a profound writer of stories and poetry. And I love bumming around at her Grandpa’s house….he ROCKS!

Jamie: drop-dead-gorgeous girl with a great sense of humor! I’ve know Jamie for the longest time. She is very smart but is also in tuned with her creative/artistic side: she can write very well, draws the cutest little pictures, and she can act, sing, dance like a pro!She loves sports! She can do anything she has her mind on. When anyone is in tough situation Jamie is the first to give out comforting hugs. She’s a wonderful example to all of us!

Joslyn:(sorry Joslyn, I’m not sure how to spell your name) extremely brilliant and hilarious! I’ve know Joslyn as an acquaintance for a very long time but I haven’t truly gotten to know her till this school year. Now we love kicking back and reading ‘funny’ parts of her journals and diaries dating back to early elementary school to nowadays. Joslyn is someone that makes every one happy and always wants to be around her. She has a marvelous laugh and she’s very photogenic. She is very proud of her religion and shows it but seating good values and standards for herself and others. Joslyn and I have very different perspectives, hobbies and interest but some how we get along truly well!

Emily: Born on a stage! Emily LOVE to act! She has been a good friend of mine ever since the fifth grade. Together we share a lot of random/bizarre ‘inside-jokes’. She puts up with me and is mostly a good-sport when I tease her. And when ever I need attention or someone to listen to my stilly stories Emily is always willing. Emily is very kind and gives me gum…I really like gum.

Morgan: blunt! Morgan is beyond doubt not afraid to voice her options on subjects but will respect your (If reasonable). Morgan really enjoys doing her homework and will freely help you with your! Morgan gets pleasure from reading and she listens to a wide variety of music.

Amy: uniquely the same! Amy has simpler taste to the ‘teenaged-girl-world’ that most people has but some how puts a strange new twist to her own work. She loves video game and is a superior seamstress. I haven’t been able to see/talk to Amy this year too frequently, but when ever we do it seems as if little time as past and we can pick up from where we last stopped. This girl makes me laugh so hard, she’s very witty and comical.

Anita: innocent and hyper! If there was one person I wish I could be more like it would be Anita. She not frightened to show her true self. She is very different but is deeper then most people take her for at first glace, plus she is really stunning. She never tries to hurt anyone on purpose and is really forgiving towards me. Anita cuts hair quite well; she gave me a hair cut very recently. She writes me note almost every day and passes them to me when I see her in the school halls, those notes always make my day. She is also very nice to let us bum at her house for lunch every School day. Anita is also taking dance classes with Jamie and very good at it, also she seems to like it.

Right now I’m having a truly difficult time with some of my friends. A group of girls just doings some ‘dumb’ things that I disapprove of (You know how stupid teen-age/high-school girls can be) I try an try to tell them how I feel but they kinda push me in to the background and carry on with their life how they want to. High School always makes people change, it’s a well know fact. These girls are changing to the worse end of things, I love how they are/were but not what they’re becoming. And it hurts. So what I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m thankful for all my other good/close friends (you know who you are) that are not giving up on these girls and being there for me. I hope and know that you guy will always be there! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!!

I truly do love my friends but some time they do stupid things like cut my hair at a new-year-eave party..but hey it was my fault I trusted her with the scissors, and I get lots of complements on it so it’s all good!