Happy Birthday Elliness! ...a few days late.

Ellie's 18th birthday was on August 13th, but I haven't had any time to post in between now and then, so here is a post dedicated to one of the dearest friends of my life. : )

This is a few days late, but hey! I didn't forget! lol

We are twins for (for a total of 45 days ; )!

Since my scanner wouldn't work and I couldn't upload any pictures of me and Ellie

when we were little, this picture will have to do.

It was taken just today.

Here are some special memories that I have with Ellie:

• Playing dress up at my house and your house. Remember all the old dresses. hats, gloves, shoes, and jewelry?
• Playing football in the back yard if our old house. The teams were Kansas City Chiefs vs Denver Broncos. Every time, Ben, me, Nate, and Micah, were the Chiefs and Isaac, Ellie, Zach, and Lydia were the Broncos. We had some fierce competition in those days! When Chiefs were on defense, I always guarded Ellie and to this day when we play football, she hates it when I guard her. Com'on! A little pass interference here and there doesn't hurt anything! lol!
• Going to visit Sabrina and each bringing along the biggest doll we could manage to find so we could "impress" our older cousin. ; )
• Getting our hair cut the same way
• I specifically rememeber one night when we were prolly 8 and 9 years old, you kids had been at our house all day and we of course wanted to spend the night together, so it was kinda late and we were supposed to be in bed waiting for your parents to come pick you kids up. We were both awake in the top bunk bed wearing matching summer night gowns, trying to figure out how we could manage convincing our parents to let you stay over night. So we decided that we would pretend to be sleeping and look all sweet and adorable so that our mothers wouldn't want to wake us and disturb such a sweet thing. :-P Well, it worked!! They let you stay and we were soooo happy! : )
• All the "doctoring" sessions. You were usually the patient and I the doctor.
• Making lots of noise playing the piano together
• Sledding after midnight
• Sleeping out in your living room with the Christmas lights on
• Hours and hours of trying on Jamie's and Rosina's hand-me-downs. lol!! good times....not.
• Helping with farm chores when we were a lot younger
• All of our chats and talks. : )
• How you were going to marry Josh Brown, the ollllllld NU kicker, and I was going to marry Eric Crouch, the olllllllld NU quarterback. : D We had it all planned out. Really, we did! lol! Just for the record....this was 6-8 years ago.
• Playing in the woods in our camo. :-P
• Clearing the woods
• Cooking together
• Playing dead and having funerals.
• Lighting our first match together. Remember? Your mom sent us out with a match box to go burn trash in one of the barrels?
• Playing how many guzillion games of Capture the Flag. At your house and at my house, it was always so much fun!
• Spying on Cheryl. : D ; )
• Tea parties
• Making tents inside
• Playing house
• Getting pictures taken together at your neighbors'
• Playing dress up and house with Rosina. This is probably our all-time favorite memory!!
• Getting together with cousins
• Playing in your tree fort at the old house.
• Hiding in the window wells at my old house

This is all I can think of at this moment, but I may add more later. Ellie, if I missed any good ones, be sure to share them in a comment!

I love you Ellie!!!!

*blowing kisses*

Your twin,

Gracie