Happy Birthday Turdi

Oh, to be as OLD and wise as my fabulous sister, Trudi. She is such a fun sister and I only wish she were closer so that we could hang out more often and she could teach me how to keep my house whipped into shape like hers. (or better yet she could do her house AND my house). As my gift to her (since I didn't get her anything else) here is a small tribute of memories that I have of her.

1. Her tenacious attitude when it comes the after Thanksgiving day sale's. There are so many memories tied into just that one day!

2. Her Brazil photo album which gave me my first introduction on how to french kiss. Thank you for that.

3. being confident enough to show off some sweet volleyball moves as her talent at the Washington city princess pageant.

4. Giving my the chance to tag along and learn from the masters when she went toilet papering the elite citizens of Washington County. Not only letting me tag along, but showing me that it is not enough just to get up from trampoline where we were sleeping. But to put big cinder blocks under our blankets so the trampoline sagged down. Just in case mom and dad checked on us. (She thought of it all folks.)

5. Letting Misti and I crash her house when we ditched our beloved job at Teltrust. We loved to go hang out with her and Ashley. She probably didn't love it as much as we did.

6. The determination she showed on the rock wall will be an inspiration to me for years and years to come.

And lastly, I have a little video of someone else that wanted to wish you a Happy Birthday and share a memory!

I hope you have had a great birthday! I love that I have you to look up to and that you have set such a high standard because it only makes me work harder to be able to reach your level. You are such a good mom and wife and I am lucky to call you my sister. I also love that you have so many nicknames. Choodie, Turdi, Gert . . . the list goes on!