my best friend.

* i don't want to upset my sister with this(she is my other bestie) but i want to let you all know my dearest pal, aimee.

here are a few of my favorite photos from our time together over the past few years. i just love this girl!
let me tell ya: i met aimee in the 8th grade and immediately we clicked. we were always together and even though we had a fairly large circle of friends, aimee and i were best friends. we were always getting in trouble(rather, i was getting her in trouble)!! aimee was there for me the night i got the news that a close friend of mine had passed away, she held my hand and talked me through my rougher moments over the years and i can't thank God enough for such a light in my life.
aimee and i went to different high schools and lost touch and then reconnected at 22 but that was short lived due to our conflicting lives, and at the time i thought to myself that if we were meant to be friends we'd make it work. i didn't hear anything from her or about her for years until one day when i logged onto my myspace and had a request from an aimee morris, and i was thinking, "who is this girl? who is aimee morris?"(i knew aimee by her maiden name, ballard) and she was holding a baby in her profile pic.. AND she looked nothing like her former self that i remembered.
so, being the girl i am, i deleted the request and went on with my day. the next time i checked my myspace there was another request from aimee morris and i was thinking, "okay, stalker! what do you want with me?!" anyways, this time there was a message and it was my long lost childhood pal!! that night i called her and we spent hours catching up and we talked about hanging out when i was visiting az. well, the next time i made it west, i called her up and we went and got chinese food and went to her cute little condo. aimee hadn't changed a bit(besides the fact she was married and had a baby)... so we hung out and had such a good time together and since that trip back home, aimee and i have kept in touch via phone calls and visits. it sucks that we live even further away now that she's moved to washington state and i'm in texas but we try to talk on the phone at least once a week.
i just want to say that so many people change with time. they change when they grow up and start making good money or can afford bigger and better things, or they change due to their surroundings, well, aimee hasn't changed at all. not through her ups and not even when she's gone through some really difficult things in her personal life. aimee has always been such a sweet, honest, kind, caring, beautiful person. aimee isn't a back stabber, she is honest but she never makes you feel bad for messing up. aimee is a wonderful mother and she is so good with children, she has such a light and she just makes you want to be near her, just to be her friend... and i feel so lucky to call her my best friend.
right now she is going through something extremely difficult and i just hope that if you read this(even if you may not know her) that you will pray for her and her family at this time.