1. She takes excellent photos - of my wedding, for example
2. She likes to ride with the windows down and the music loud during the summer
3. She has lots of clothes, sharing a room with her was great
4. She also has lots of accessories.
5. She gives me advice on outfits and potential clothes purchases - even from far away when I send her a picture of me in a dressing room on my cell phone
6. She's not afraid to go to a concert by herself.
7. She likes to workout with me
8. She makes awesome mix cds
9. She wears the same shoe size as me
10. She's a good dancer - danced hip hop in high school
11. She lives art
12. She makes good life decisions
13. One Christmas we woke up in the morning to pictures of Christ hanging all over. She had prepared a "lesson" with scriptures - it made that Christmas meaningful
14. She's not shy anymore. I still remember the first time she asked a store clerk a question on her own. I was like, "that's not Monica."
15. She's taught herself to cook (after avoiding it for a long time!)
16. Speaking of cooking - she once added milk to boxed brownies instead of water. When asked why, she said, "I don't know, milk just goes with brownies."
17. She's good at keeping friends
18. She's a Sagittarius (that's Rob's mom's contribution. I asked what that means about Monica and she said, "she'll take forever to get married cause she'll take forever to pick from all her choices. she's a lifetime learner, always wanting to learn something new. she's more interested in learning something than actually doing something.")
19. her taste in music is improving
20. speaking of music, I once chastised her for having a bunch of songs on a mix tape with a lot of swearing. I later made fun of her for having a mix tape with Christian rock music on it. I found out later she had taped over the swearing with the Christian rock and I felt both proud and horrible.
21. when we were little I once cut her hair and told my mom that she did it (okay, that's not necessarily something I like about Monica - just a funny story)
22. she's good at sleeping and shopping
23. she's independent in her testimony of the Gospel (I think that Christmas morning was the first time I knew that for sure). that's a sigh of relief for a big sister
24. she's always up for a narcissistic photo shoot (see below)
25. We don't last too long before we're arguing about something (like, she thinks my outfit is dorky or something), but I still get very excited when she's about to come home again!
Okay - I got to 25 and since that's how old she turned today, I'll stop there.
Happy Day, Monicorn! My 25 was yucky, if you felt that way at all today, I hope you know you are awesome and we love you and you'll do great things.
