The best friends a girl could ask for

I had the greatest friends growing up, two of which I'm missing a lot this week. Both of their birthdays are this week and I'm wishing I was around to celebrate with them! This post will have to make up for it!
Keely and I have been best friends since we were babies. We pretty much went through all of life together, went to preschool together and played "beach" all summer (beach is a game where you put on your swim suit, run through the sprinklers and eat pretzels on Keely's front porch, it's super fun I promise), fought and made up on a weekly (sometimes daily) basis all through elementary school, painted our nails more times than I can count, "ran away from the orphanage", played our flutes together in Jr. High, life-guarded at Cherry Hill, somehow didn't die in a car accident in high school, and both ended up at BYU. 19 months ago I said good-bye to her as she left on her mission; its the longest we've been apart in our whole lives. She came home from her mission the week after we got to Dominica- which made me so sad. I love her a whole lot and can't imagine how my life would have been without her. Caitlyn and I became friends in high school. She was nerdy like me and we bonded basically over homework and books. She fit perfectly into the Keely-Courtney friendship and I'm so glad she did! She's hilarious and smart and nice and beautiful. I think my dad is still trying to figure out how he can get her to marry one of my brothers and make her a permanent member of the family.

Happy Birthday Girls!
I love and miss you both!