Casey Love Shaw (who will always be Casey Love to me)...
We became friends when I was about 6-7 years old... Her mom and dad were really close family friends - they were always very fun to have around (her moms laugh is EXTREMELY contagious!). I always, always, ALWAYS loved when we would pull into her driveway! It was better than going to Chuck E. Cheese (of coarse, without all the noise or need for tokens!!!)
Casey had all kinds of fun stuff at her house:
- A trampoline (which to this day, every time I do a "butt, knee, flip" I think of her!)
- A GUMBALL machine that was ALWAYS stocked with either gum or fireballs (which have been my favorite candy ever since!)
- A school bus - LITERALLY! (we played on that school bus EVERY time I came over!)
- A Nintendo - we had one too, but her's was always more fun b/c she had MORE games!
- A go-cart that went MUCH faster than ours... just for the record, we always wore helmets!
- A pool -- (yep, I TOLD you going to her house was awesome!)
- The Ladybug - her first car, which she learned how to drive wayyy before her 16th birthday!! - up AND down the drive way like 100 zillion times - of coarse, with the sunroof open REGARDLESS of the weather!... b/c you know, it was the REALLLLY cool thing to do!
...But you know what? It wasn't the "things" that made her my friend. She was my friend b/c we were there for each other thru thick and thin. Every year we went to church camp together and were in the same Sunday School class. We got baptized on the same day, in the same church at the court house, in the same cold water, with all of our family in attendance... I'll never forget that day. We both felt so grown up - we were 12 and 13 yrs old!
We also swore that we were going to WIN it ALL at the Donk's Theater Talent Show - a duet by the Judd's.... Have Mercy!!! Oh, it was a BIGGG deal! I STILL know the moves that went with the words (which was probably rehearsed as many times as we drove up and down the driveway in the Ladybug?)
With Casey, there were so many memories made. SOOOO many happy times... band concerts, parades, band trips, vacations, Cow patty jokes, and prank calls! Her bachelorette party and the bracelet she gave me with my initals on it after I got married...
When I think of you, Casey - I think about the smile that was always on my face when we were together. And when I think of you today, that smile reappears... Thanks for making the memories so fun and for the big hugs that are always felt, even though we live in different states.
Forever friends... forever ladybug buddies!
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