You're the Best Friends Anyone Ever Had: Alaina

 So, it has been a bit sing I have done a post about just one person! This month (June cause I am late) we are talking a wonderful girl who have I have had the please of knowing for 15 years this year. This is a girl who has been with me since I was 14 but you would never know that it hasn't been my whole life. This is Alaina.

Alaina and I met at Knoxville Christian Center in 2006. We were both playing angels in the Christmas play that year and we spent a good portion on our time together. I will be honest, Alaina has a better memory of those events than I do. I know when our friendship first took off was the next year when I went to to Youth Camp for the first time. Her and I bunked together in the same room. I was in the bottom bunk and she was in the top. I kept pushing her to be loud, and crazy and out there. I can pin point the time when we I knew the at I "broke" her was when she came over the side of the bed and did the get silly dance when I was least expecting it.

 Alaina is always ready to try new things. We have done lots of fun things together over the years. We have had countless sleepovers with lots of snacks all this time. She is always the first to go with me to a movie or to get food. She is always down for long car rides, and loud music. However, I think the last 5 years of our friendship have been very different from the rest. In 2016 Alaina got married. She also had two kids in that time as well. Thankfully, none of this has been a death sentence to our friendship, at time I was afraid it was going to be. We have always made a way to put our friendship in there. It funny to think when you are younger that you think that stuff like that is never going to change. You always see them once a week, you will always have those sleepovers. Our friendship has changed in how often we see each other but not in how much we love eachtoher.

Do you see that face she is giving me? I get that face a lot! She is the perfect balance of reeling me in and pushing me to be more crazy. I say things and they just come out at times and when I get this look I know that I might have to rethink what I just said. I won't lie, sometimes I totally ignore the face and do and say what I was doing anyways and I get a different look that I haven't been fortunate enough to capture on film yet. 

She is also very creative. She loves to draw and write. She loves nature and every animal on the planet. She could be outside all day! She always has a wonderful and unique way of looking at the world and how God put it all together. She is ready with an encouraging word and great advice when I need it. She is also always there just to hear me vent about what is going on. I love that she is always there when I need her.

I also love that she is also a HUGE NERD! I mean really! The number of times over the years that we have both geeked out about TV shows, movies, books, plays, you name it has been crazy! We both love Doctor Who and have talked about it many times. We both love Psych and have talked about it many time. The Princess Bride, The Phantom of the Opera, our newest on She Loves Me have all been wonderful topics of discussion over the years! We have many inside jokes that deal with these. It's funny cause after Youth Camp that first year we went to the cove and swam and the one thing that we both talked about a lot was Avatar: The Last Airbender. Having someone to be a nerd with is wonderful and essential in friendship I have to say!

I am very thankful for all the wonderful adventures that I have had with Alaina over the years. I know that times have been tough before but that have also been wonderful. God gave me an amazing friend that I would not know what to do without. I know that we have plenty of adventures to come in the future but I am also happy where we are at now. It's a weird moment in time with all for us going through another adjustment of lots of changes but know God will keep us safe and that we will always be friends! Fifteen years is a long time but I mean it's really just the beginning.