Birthday Week Part Three: And the winner is...

Jessica the Best!

(And why not? That's what Jessica says.)

So here's some stuff about the birthday girl:

I specifically remember one of the first times I ever talked to Jessica. We were up at Pine Valley for college retreat, but most of us were just visiting because we didn't want to pay the money to actually stay there. And I was going back and forth between the game room and Worthington Hall, Pine Valley's chapel, trying to get someone to do some late night activity. And Jess and Mikey were in Worthington Hall while Mikey was packing up his music stuff, but now that I think about it they might have been doing a little macking on each other, too. I was just too young and naive to catch on to that back then.

Isn't that a great story?

Anyway, so since then Jess has been an inseparable part of this here group. (See group shot, circa 2005, below.)

Then, in 2006, Jessica married that Mikey kid. It was a fun wedding. We laughed, we cried, we danced, and the boys wrote dirty things on Mikey's car. Good times.

Jessica really loves her some Mikey. Mike seems to like it, too.

Here's Jessica sporting the July 17, 2007 Disneyland freaking 50th anniversary hat. Remember how I said on Jesse's post that we went there accidentally that day? True story. It was a long day in Disneyland and California Adventures, as you can see:

On that same trip, we hit up Hollywood and found this amazing store called the Love Sac. We crashed there for about an hour, watched Napoleon Dynamite, and took pictures. What a fun store.

Jessica has been an awesome friend these last few years. Whether it's boy talk or opening her house for movie nights/game nights/St. Patrick's Day parties or having cute babies and letting us hold them for an hour at a time, Jess has got it covered.

Happy birthday, Jessica!

(Sorry it's so late!)