Happy Birthday Christina!!! (written the night before your b/day)

(If you are looking for the "Know & Tell" meme...go down one post :)

(Fwend, you know what is so cool about this picture? We have gone down a size or two from these jeans... By the way, my Fwend and I bought the same pair of jeans from two different states... isn't that cool?)

This is my second birthday post to my Fwend (see video post below). I have to make up for actually forgetting that today (Friday) is her birthday. I knew her birthday was the 22nd, but I have still not adjusted to be a working woman, and all of my days seem to run together. So, I think she deserves two special posts on her 34th Birthday.

Fwend, the list below is loaded with things you already know (at least 99.9 %) because I tell you these things. However, I hope that you see something in my list that you did not already know. Happy Birthday!!!

34 Things I Adore About My Fwend...

1. She roots for the Underdog.
2. She is wise, but she does not think so.
3. She is smart, but does not think so either.
4. She can beat me at Scrabble (probably about 100% of the time)...it gives me a goal to shoot for, maybe one day I can win a game of Scrabble :) This point goes with point 3...she is smart.
5. She wore a T-shirt for me at a conference :)
6. She has mad (this is a good term) driving skills... If I am in a big city, I want to drive with her (with my eyes closed).
7. She LOVES God's Word. She is ravenous about it!!!
8. She loves deep conversations.
9. She welcomes hardships and trials because she knows they will bring her closer to God.
10. She has mad (again, good word. Trying to sound hip) cooking skills.
11. She has freedom in worship to our Jesus!!!
12. She is an alien (Hebrews 11:13 (NIV) All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth.
13. She gets me, and sometimes that is amazing...
14. She is an awesome mom, although she doesn't always see that either :)
15. She is the "Excellent Wife".
16. She will do something out of the blue that is so unexpected, which normally ends in me laughing my head off.
17. She has a strong Faith... One of the strongest I have seen.
18. She is not afraid to tell me the truth, even when it means that I am in sin. She always does it in love.
19. She is a goofball!!!
20. She is one of the most mature people I know.
21. She sends me awesome emails that could be made into a book.
22. She challenges me to be a better Christian, wife, mother, and friend. (She truly is that "Iron sharpening Iron" to me.
23. She knows the difference between to, too, and two, and when to use them correctly in a sentence (Grammar Police).
24. She will fly up to see me, and then drive 12 hours with me to go to a Christian woman's conference.
25. She shares many of my same struggles... I am not thankful that she struggles, but she understands the depth of some of my struggles.
26. On the other hand, there are some struggles that I have that she does not have, but she always finds a way to help me through them.
27. I can tell her ANYTHING (I think I have told her everything :)
28. She is Paul, Frodo, and Fwend to me, and each of these have a special meaning to us.
29. She is a great friend!!! The girl has 3 best friends!!!
30. She will look at the beam in her own eye first...
31. She is my favorite book reading partner...We have had so many conversations in which we read sections of books over the phone... if we added it all up, we may have read a whole book together.
32. She has 3 boys (me too...I know I used that too right :)
33. She has one of the best marriages that I know.
34. She absolutely adores and loves with a radical passion our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!!!

AGAPE GIRL!!! Hope your day and 2008 is beyond what you can even imagine!!!