Birthday Girl

Dear Friend,

If you were paying attention to our first post, you would know that today is Catherine's 17th birthday. This is very exciting, but also bittersweet as it is her last time spending it with friends and family...Yet another last...

Her day consisted of a pancake breakfast with family, a nice dinner, and Kylie braving the Seattle rain to deliver some gifts and wish her a happy birthday. Quite the blow-out party.

Anyways, since it is her birthday, why not dedicate an entire post to her?

10 Facts about Catherine:
-She recently reached 5 feet tall
-Last week she discovered that she can mimic a chipmunk
-She listens to fruit at the grocery store in order to judge its quality
-Her alarm in the morning is Taylor Swift's Enchanted
-Her coffee order changes between chai lattes and vanilla lattes (unless it is the summer, then she drinks iced tea)
-She can say the alphabet backwards very well
-Her skin sometimes turns blue but this is not a medical emergency (however we both believe that bad things happen following the change of color)
-She is sometimes deaf
-She ties her shoes at literally the most inconvenient times
-Her catch phrase is "Let me think about this..."

Catherine's favorites:
-Food: Grilled cheese and butternut squash soup
-Drink: Bubbly water
-Number: 14
-Time of day: 11:11pm
-Least Affordable Store: J-Crew
-Color: Light blue
-Sports Team: Huskies
-Place on campus: Campus Minister's office
-Starbucks: The one by Subway in Factoria
-Singer: Taylor Swift

Catherine's least favorites:
-Day of the week: Tuesday
-Person to see on campus: The Chef
-Store: *******
-Person: at the moment, ********* (Heath Ledger)
-Website: Google
-Color: Orange
-Plant: Laurel bush
-Number: 11
-Berry: Merionberry
-Food at the FRidge: The wrong type of kale

Hopefully I did okay :) Note: I didn't have any help from Catherine. I know her well enough it seems :)

I literally could go on and on about this girl. She is positive, friendly, and non judgmental.  We can talk about anything and everything. It isn't rare that we call each other just to talk about school the next day, and end up talking well past midnight because we are having such great conversations. We never hang up because we finish talking, most of the time it's just because of the time and phone bill. This post could get quite lengthy but I have to post it before midnight tonight so I'll wrap it up. I am so lucky to have this girl in my life because we can get through anything together and we really get each other.

WE ALL LOVE YOU CATHERINE AND WE HOPE THIS YEAR IS ONE OF THE BEST.

Yours truly,
Kylie

p.s. To whom it may concern: belated birthday gift idea...a certain quiz...I mean it is her last birthday at Forest Ridge...#JustSaying...#YOLO