Memory to Craig

4 years, and still not sure why? Craig was a positive, caring, creative, honest, good listener, and the list could go on and on. Not sure really where to begin or what to say. I can't believe that 4 years ago today I was in my apt in Alaska getting ready, eating a honey bun, and waiting on my friend Dawn to come and pick me up so we could hang out. She arrived a little early which was not like her (she's usually right on time), and would wait for me in her car. She walked in and told me to please call my mom. My first thought was it's something with my grandfather. I must have had that look because she then said it's not your granddad. I called my mom to find out the Craig had been in a car accident. I don't really think through things so I asked my mom for the number, and I would call him later...ya'll were 4 hours ahead of me. She then proceeded to tell me that Craig has passed away in a tragic car accident. The next few hours were a blurr, and I cried, wept and was angry for the next little while. Why God? Why my best friend? Why a 24 year old?
So all this to say I still miss Craig, and memories come over me at the weirdest times, but it became even more real this past Thursday we lost a music student. She was only 21. Life is to short not to live it to the fullest.

I could sit here and list memories ALL night long, but will just list a few:
*singing the Get-A-Long-Gang theme song
*him getting mad at me one night, and ended up asking for his Bible I had borrowed...we ended up talking and working things out for like 3 hours
*going on a Ghost Tour
*spending all holidays together
*him fixing my hair one time, and it was MASSIVE
*watching the black Wizard of Oz (The Whiz)
*driving to his house one night to get a notebook he had left
*him making a cake and putting lard in it, and then wanting me to taste the nasty mess
*him sharing with me that his mom had cancer
* making me cut out stuff because his class was learning about the Holocaust
Like I said before this list is never ending. Thanks for being a friend during the times you were here on earth.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

So many things have been going on since the new year began. Thank you to all who prayed for my Aunt's surgery. She had/has tongue cancer, and this past Monday they removed a 1/4th of her tongue (took 20 something stitches), and then took out some nodes in her throat(9 staples). I thought about making New Year's Resolutions, but they are always the same thing, and I never seem to do them after like 3 or 4 months. I hope and pray you all had a wonderful Christmas, and a Happy New Year. I can't wait to see what God has in store for all of us in 2009.