- living in our old house arguing over the wallpaper border in the room we shared.
- booing, cheering and throwing popcorn at the TV while watching "Varsity Blues."
- GRIFFIN!
- putting our cat Booker in our plastic pink buggy and carting him around the house
- bobbing for apples at Sharla's birthday party
- her calling work and telling her boss she had a family emergency so she could fix my hair for my senior prom.
- thumb wrestling while she was in labor with Riley.
- hugging her after K and I sang at her baby shower
- falling asleep on the couch after my choir / m.a.d. performance in eighth grade
- "pea tarties" when we were little
- the time she invited me to a party with all of her friends when I was twelve.
- dancing to "the coconut song" in our living room
- listening to Hanson's "This Time Around" non-stop while vacationing in Montana
- the time she came home drunk with a friend and I had to force her to shut up and go to her room.
- headbanging to Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in the red van
- bawling my head off so hard during the toast at her wedding that she had to give it for me
- getting slightly wasted off of crown royal and coke at the townhouse in Thief River and playing board games
- that same night: laughing at her drunk ass as she danced around to Queen's "Somebody to Love."
- (and the fact that her husband filmed it.)
- the look on her face when she came into my room to show me her engagement ring
- "take your daughter to work day" at the MEPS
- ("as you can see by my NAME TAG!")
- writing letters back and forth when she moved to Texas.
- getting the giggles during her wedding ceremony
- making our music video to Abba's "Dancing Queen" at the Mall of America
- taking shots at my 21st birthday party
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