Heres to Em.

Dear Blog World. I am here to tell you a story. This story started long ago in about 1993. There was a girl who was 8 years old with long scraggly brown hair whom was often mistaken for another race. Her parents had just gone though some serious trials that Amy Jo felt she could relate to. She just broke up with the love of her third grade year (oh Quintin) and boy it really hurt. After such a tragic breakup, Amy Jo, held her head high, and said good-bye to the hitting and chasing on the playground that she once knew as love.

Then there was another girl. She had big beautiful green eyes with the longest of lashes, smooth blond hair, and lets just say she was never mistaken for another race. She had just recently been excelling on the viola at her, saved-by-the-bell-like-school, but was still aching from the tragic loss of her beloved little black dog named Tea. As hard as it was for her to move on, Emily tried her best.

Little did either of these little girls know, they were about to have one of the most memorable nights of their lives. Melinda Jennings and Donnetta Ostergren, decided that since they had two little girls the same age, they should go to dinner and bring them along. Amy sat anxciously at her house, holding Quido (her italian grey hound that I am sure Jenny Stiener would love to fill anyone in on the horrifying loss of Amy's poor, sweet Quido), waiting to go to dinner with two perfect strangers. There came a knock at the door, and before she knew it, she was in a mini van with Emily. They instanstly started realizing the freindship they had been missing out on for the last 8 years of their lives. Emily showed Amy how the chairs leaned all the way back in the minivan. This was something very new to Amy Jo considering the closest thing to a minivan her family ever owned was a VW bus that only had floor seating in the back. The rest of the evening was filled with Droopy Do, Marie Calanders and sneaking under tables to get a good peak at the wierd lady with big red hair and cat like, diamond coated eye glasses.

Now it is is 2008. A year where Emily and Amy Jo are still the bestest of freinds. Through the last 14-15 years they have been through much together. They together through the rise and fall of their band (lyrcs and vocals) called 2Hot2BKool, this is a time that they both experienced broken hearts and shattered dreams. They swam in the lakes of Minnesota, hiked the mountains of Arizona, braved the long highway to San Diego in a 1983 Mercedes Benz, and even saw the (believe it) trenches of misery and the peaks of beauty through it all. These two young woman, who have lead very diffrent lives, could not be more a like. Emily may never truly understand the impact that she has had on her friend Amy Jo. She may never realize the example she has been. In the worst of times, Emily never let Amy Jo think she had to go it alone, and in the best of times, she never let Amy Jo think she wasn't really really really funny.

Tortillas. butter. cinnamon. bugjuice. nestle. ice cream.

Here is to the Bestest Freind anyone could ask for.
To the person who can't help letting her goodness rub off on everyone around her.
To THE most well rounded person I know (its almost sickening)

To the one and ONLY Emily Lauren Davis.

Just ask her friends, family, her teachers, that lady at the gas station and that girl she just met in the bathroom.

They would all agree.

:HAPPY BIRTHDAY: