So it started ‪Sunday morning, at like 12:30‬, so like a little while after mass, we
checked in, dropped off our luggage, and then took a picture and just sat in like this main room, around 1:15ish everyone loaded the busses and we went on our way to OKC. We got there in no time since the drive isn’t long at all. When we got there we got our key to the dorm we were staying in bc we stayed at the university of central Oklahoma. I was with one of my best friends, Camryn. We put our stuff down and started to unpack but quickly left for dinner. After dinner we went back to our rooms to finish unpacking and then after that went into the room where we would be doing our nightly devotional and also worship. We didn’t end up having worship that night but instead just did the devotional and went to find our small group. In my small group I was kinda liek scared I guess? I mean there were a lot of people that were in my group that would be in the popular group at school. There were 7 I knew previously, one of them being camryn and one being gabby. The others though really intimated me A LOT. I mean i have no problem making new friends whatsoever but it’s kinda different when they have title so to say. And it’s not that all popular people intimidate me bc some of my friends are but I’ve known them since elementary school so it’s different. Anywho by the end of the week I ended up talking to everyone but not so much two of the girls. Anyways in our small group we had two leaders, one freshly out of college and one that was a mom(Not of anyone in our group). The older one asked us some questions and since it was the first night almost everyone was silent, including myself, and after that night one was done. In the morning we had breakfast, I usually had breakfast with Kailee and her friend group for the most part bc camryn and I were most familiar with them. We got our group stuff ready and waiting. We waiting for a long time and then the older leader never showed up. Apparently she had an emergency so we were one leader down but thankfully we got another one quickly. She was also freshly out of college and she also happened to be friends with our other leader so that was really convenient. My group was the only group that switched work stations so Monday and Wednesday we were at the boys and girls club and Tuesday and Thursday at this pantry/thirft store/warehouse. Monday and Wednesday we were just playing with boys and girls. It was so hard for me to talk to them because every time I did they went mute until one kid started talking to me first asking to play. So it was awkward for like 30 minutes and I had no clue what to do but after that it was okay and it was the same Wednesday bc the first I made left for Colorado, I had to make new friends again which came faster this time bc you became instant best friends with someone if you have them a piggy back ride. Anyways it was kind of hard to see how it was part of a mission trip. I mean it’s still confusing for me still but I’m pretty sure it’s just me. And then Tuesday and Thursday we were at the joint building. We were split into three groups, food pantry, thrift store, and special projects. I was part of special projects both days. The first day we moved furniture around and swept for like three is hours. It wasn’t bad, just tedious and if there was a bad part it was just that we were in the heat, not sun, but heat. I think I liked the two days at this building better than the boys and girls club only because we were able to see the physical difference. I also think that’s why I didn’t, and still don’t, understand why the boys and girls club was part of the mission trip. Most people understand it and what they’ve said is that we build just the slightest of relationship with kids and that it helps them. Anywho after we swept we had lunch and the. Helped with the food pantry. The next day there we scraped old paint of those concrete parking nubs and then repainted them. That took us ‪until lunch‬. After lunch we just moved the items in the food pantry to a different room since they were expanding it and needed to demolish one of the walls. After that we swept some more in a different area. That was about it for the workdays. Oh but I understand why everyone hates freshman. I don’t know if it’s just my schools freshman or what but goodness it was bad, by the third day I ended up bringing headphones on the bus. Anyways every night (other than ‪Thursday night‬) we would do a devotional. Devotional were my favorite part of the entire experience. You probably already know what they are but we were read a story every night and then answered questions. And the big idea and what every story was based off of was miracles and how they’re everywhere. It was really cool. And the. Every night we also did worship and then speaker then more worship then travel to small groups. I wasn’t that big of a fan of worship as everyone else was. It was just different to what I was used to and it didn’t affect me like it affected (I hope I’m using the right affect/effect) everyone else. It kinda felt like I was in a concert to me because everyone rushed closer to the stage and it was very upbeat. Anywho and then in small groups we were just asked questions that related to the message of what the person in between worship sessions said. That was good, the first few days only a few others and myself spoke but towards the end everyone added their input, but we were still very shy and didn’t answer like asap and took a few seconds then spoke. Also one night we had blind folded worship so we weren’t worried of what others would think of our movements whether that was raising your hand or whatever. And when we took it off we were supposed to be removing the blindfold physically and spiritually. Literally everyone cried but me, like ok way to have no emotions Diana but it’s all good. It was a fun experience but still didn’t affect me like it did to everyone else. So yeah that was mission trip, it was a fun experience but I think the experience overall didn’t affect me like it did to everyone else, idk if I had the wrong mindset of what but all is well. Thank y’all for reading and I hope y’all have an amazing day!

So basically there’s this quiz/test on one of the major news websites, Ill put the link at then end, about dialects. I think only in America. It’s very interesting, especially having people that used to live in different regions of the country take it and see their results. Ive only lived in Florida and Texas but can only remember living in Texas. I took the test and surprise surprise, got three cities close to where I live. I had my mom take it and she got cities from Texas, Florida, and New York. Those were three of the states she lived in the longest. I just find it cool that different regions of the same country use different words to represent something or pronounce words differently than another region of the country. It’s just so interesting because we live in the same country, watch the same media and news channels, and speak the same language but we can vary so much. And it goes for any other country as well which is cool. Thank y’all for reading and I hope y’all have a wonderful day!

This is very late. This is to my Dad. And this was for Father’s Day. Let’s begin. So Dad, hi, how are you, I love you. I just want to first say sorry. Sorry for being two months late with this message. I’m a procrastinator just like you. I know that isn’t a good excuse, and I shouldn’t have any excuse, I should’ve done this whenever it was actually Father’s Day. My bad. But lets start again with thank you. Dad, thank you for always being there for me. Thank you for parenting me into a person that I myself am proud of. But only because you taught me wrong from right. I thank you for all the bedtime stories and bedtime back rubs I always asked for. Thank you for teaching me life lessons through those stories but also thank you for telling me just funny stories that don’t necessarily have any meaning. Thank you for being such a great example for me to follow. Thank you for never yelling at me when I did wrong or made a mistake, but instead by not letting me make those mistakes in the first place by leading by example. Thank you for treating me like a princess. You showed me a love like no other, I can only hope that my future husband and possible sons will be just like you. Although, no one can out do you for you have set such a high standard for all men, including my brother. But I know Nick will be a good man, because you taught him right from wrong. Wow what an amazing father you are. And even when I was angry at you, you only had your arms wide open with love ready to hug away all my frustration. I know this is very jumpy, I’m sorry for that. My thoughts are very hard to keep organized, just like you. It’s so funny because even though we aren’t blood related, we are so similar. I have your work style, your humor, and your temper. That last thing might not be so good but hey we’re stuck with it. Dad you’ve always been one of my heroes. Ive only had three. You, mom, and nick. I suppose I was just blessed with such an amazing family. But Dad I look up to you so much. You always made sure I had a smile on my face and to this day my smile still hasn’t faded. And that’s because you’re always there. We might not be together as much anymore nowadays but it doesn’t matter to me. Because I love you, and you love me. No distance and no argument is going to change that. Once again through thank you treating me like a princess, I’m a total daddy’s girl. I still remember all three daddy daughter dances we went to, granted I did ditch you for half the dance to be with my friends but, its the memories that count. Dad, I try to follow on your footsteps. You live everyday with such a kind soul. Every person you come into contact with you treat them with the upmost respect. You never change tone or behavior regarding their circumstances. And you are so patient. Now I know, the temper and patience don’t really add up but. You are always so patient with everyone, you always put others before yourself and that’s such a selfless act to do constantly. Dad you are so wise. I learn more and more about anything and everything whenever I’m with you. Maybe that’s a perk of having old parents. Kidding of course! You’re only 27, my older brother as you would introduce yourself. Dad, I thank you for all that you’ve taught me in my short fifteen years. I know how to be treated thanks to you. And I know how to treat others thanks to you. Dad I love you and I hope your Father’s Day was amazing. I’m sorry this isn’t as long as I would want but maybe Ill extend off of this in the future. Sorry it’s late again, love you Dad.

Disclaimer: I’ll probably forget to include a lot of things I want to talk about so I might revisit this post occasionally and make additions but if I do I’ll do it at very bottom. So anyways this year at Sky Ranch was probably the week that has had the most impact on me so far. The reason why this year was so impactful was because I learned something I really needed to. Something that’s always be a part of me is finding truth in black and white facts. Being a follower in Christ means you have to step away from the facts and just have faith. Which is hard for me to do. This past year I was dealing with a lot of doubt about everything. The concept I struggled with the most is Heaven. I’ve always struggled with this. And I think that has to do with me connecting with black and white facts that you can see the most. And while I was dealing with all this doubt, I thought I was the only one. I was so confused why I couldn’t just have faith in Heaven. I’m a believer in Christ so why should I be confused? Shouldn’t I just have faith? But this year at camp, I learned something that was perfect to hear. Everyone deals with doubt. It is ok to have doubts. It’s natural to have doubt. In the Bible it has many stories when people were doubtful of Jesus. So once again its ok to have doubts as its natural. Without doubt, it would be perfect, and nothing is perfect. But if you live in doubt, that’s when it becomes a sin. Anyways, I went with five friends, and one person that I am now friends with. Anna, Izzy, Claire, Elise, and Emily I knew and was friends with. Gabby though, I had no clue who she was exactly. I heard of her name before but never once did I have a conversation with her before. Luckily though I find it to be fairly easy making friends with someone that has mutual friends with me. So Gabby and I quickly became friends. Which was great. So Sunday, we did what we usually do whenever in Van. Sky burgers and opening show. Monday comes around and since we leave that night, at midnight, we did all the activities that are typically favorites. When we had torpedoes, Emily, Anna, Iz, Claire, Elise, and Gabby all went together. I went on to find an open group. I asked the two girls next to me and they were also looking for a group so perfect. Their names were Ainsley and Abby. I made THE funniest memory with them. While we were on the torpedo, Ainsley started to fall off and I tried to pull her back on. The driver of the boat noticed and stopped so we could pull her up. And whenever we did her shorts we down to her knees. I had to take a breather for a hot second because it was such a funny moment. We ended up getting her(and her shorts) back on the boat. We did lose her favorite anklet though so Rest In Peace Ainsley’s anklet. Anyways that was the most eventful thing that happened in Van. At midnight on Monday we headed to Colorado. My original plan was to wait until most everyone was asleep then go over to other campers and try to make friends because I couldn’t fall asleep, and I wanted to make friends. Well that didn’t work out. It didn’t work because all the girls (besides Iz) had to double out so it was impossible. Anyways what a horrible drive that was regardless. You know because I wasn’t able to walk around I thought I was going to get quality sleep since I’m pretty good at sleeping in different places but NO. Golly jeepers it was horrible. I think I got a total of four hours of sleep on a 14-16 hour drive. I cant remember. But I do know it was horrible. Anyways when we got there we were greeted by the other counselors, core, and sigma people. Then we were assigned our cabins. I was with nine other girls and two counselors. We were in Red Fox. The other cabins were Lone Wolf and Morning Star, I think. And then after that we got into our tailgate night event outfits, which almost everyone just wore a football or basketball jersey. Then we had another mini opening show but for Colorado. And finished the night with campfire. That was Tuesday. The next day, Wednesday, I honestly have no clue what we did besides mission impossible. We could’ve done western night Wednesday as well but i cant recall. Western night though was whenever we had to serve the family camp there. I was serving corn. Or kern as I would said in my western accent. Claire had broccoli salad, I think, and she said it like bro-kelly say-lead. Goodness there was this one girl and when I said kern she looked at me like I had two heads. “Excuse me what?” She asked me, rather sassy. I repeated kern and she just said “put it there” and rolled her eyes and walked away. Other than that one little girl most everyone i served went with it or just laughed with me. It was fun though. And mission impossible that night was so much fun. My insta post was from that night. It wasn’t my favorite night event but it was so much fun! Even more so than Van’s MI. The next day I honestly dont know what we did again but the night event was girls/guys night. We also had tribal comp. Tribal comp was so much fun. I actually liked our tribal chant. We had a cool stomp/clap intro. I liked the tribal comp activities better in Van though. I really missed jakobies (idk how to spell it) trashcans. Oh I’m a Maasai by the way. And Maasai won in the end so yay. And girls/guys night was pretty relax. We did peel off masks and s’mores and painted and just talked. It was my first time doing a peel off mask. The next day, I still dont know what we did but the night even was night at the oscars. NIGHT AT THE OSCARS WAS MY FAVORITE THING EVER. I had so much fun this night event. We were paired up with another small group and had to make a five minute script using a place, accent, and action that we drew from a cup. We were also given a bag of props. My group drew Mt Everest, a baby voice, and attending a cooking class. And our probs were a scarf, a very large pvc pipe, and a life jacket for a small child. Out script in the end was basically a baby sitter telling a little kid a bed time story but the kid would interrupt and change something to the story. Then when everyone performed we went to the “award ceremony”. Awards were given out like “best supporting male”, “best plot”, “best dance routine”, “best accent”, “best punch line” and then some awards who you knew were going to get the award like “best babysitter”, there was one babysitter throughout all the groups and also like “best victim of a table”, there was one group where a table (cardboard box) trapped a kid. My group like three or four of the twenty or so I think. The best part though were the counselors. They all dressed up as a character. Some examples are Draco malfoy, Rapunzel, a fashion police, and Troy Bolton at 40. They had to pair up and just the two of them had to reenact an entire groups performance. Saturday I’m still confused on what happened buuuuuuut the night event was hula hop and when I tell you hula hop was amazing, it was amazing. It was a dance party and let me tell you right now. I was dancing and singing the entire night and so was everyone else. I mean I don’t know what more I can say about it. It was a dance party but it was so much fun. And then Sunday was our last night there. It was night zips and campfire. Night zips were going on the ziplines at night time but it was still light outside when most of us when. Some people were still going when it got darker but it wasn’t like pitch black outside. And at campfire they gave out the torch barrier award, cross barrier, and 116 award. The torch barrier is basically given to a camp who was the “light” of the cabin. He/she was always talking to new people and never let the conversation die down. They were always positive and their positivity radiated onto the other campers. The cross barrier award is given to a camper who was like a servant I think. He/she would lead by example and made sure that everyone was doing ok, I think. And the 116 award goes to the camper that was always searching for more knowledge about the gospel. They would seek out everyday just to learn and grow in their faith. And then Monday we left at midnight, no night event but we were at the rec for like three hours. And then we drove home, the drive home was MUCH better than when we were going up. I got a lot more sleep and yeah. Oh one time though the bus actually broke down for like 30ish minutes. It was fun though. Then we got to the Plano Hope center and watched a little closing video with out parents and then went hasta la bye bye. So that was like the week at camp but the activities that we did in Colorado that I just couldn’t remember whenever we did them was the water slides, pool, the rec, pendulum, this like obstacle course in the air(similar to the cord if you know what that is), ziplines, and then like nine square in the air. Nine square in the air is actually the best game in the entire world let me just tell ya. Oh and just like funny quick story. One of my counselors would take rocks and put them in campers backpacks if they were open. The funniest thing for sure. I even went along with the joke and would help her sometimes. The funniest thing. Anyways we also had bible study and then this one other thing, I cant remember the word but, its where we would take a few verses and analyze them. We’d answer questions like who wrote the book, who was it written for, who was involved and the other questions like is there a sin to avoid, a command to obey, a new thought about myself or God. Bible study has always been one of my favorite activities and it was still my favorite thing this year. I don’t think it’s necessary to explain what bible study is so yeah, it just seems self explanatory to me. Anyways so that’s how camp was. One more thing I want to talk about though are one on ones. One on ones are my MOST FAVORITE thing in the entire world. For two reasons that is. One, I love talking, and two, I love the gospel. So combine both and its a blast for me. It also helps that I’m not afraid to talk about this kinda stuff with people that are older than me. My one on one this year helped me a lot. The main thing I got help with was my doubt. But I talked about that at the top so let me talk about the other thing that was really good to hear. I was able to understand that everyone is different and everyone was gifted differently. I always compared myself to others based on how smart I was, how good I was at soccer, and how I looked. I was afraid I wasn’t smart enough, I was afraid I wasn’t good enough at soccer, and I was afraid of how pretty everyone else was compared to me. And I would stress over these things so much. But my counselor told me that God gifted me with something else that some people don’t have. And that made me realize how I should stop comparing myself to people. Am I going to stop? No. But I am going to stop comparing myself to people to tear myself down. Instead look at what someone has, whether that’s intelligence, talent, or beauty, and use that to one, appreciate them and what they have, and two to boost myself up. For example is my friends have really good grades and I’m jealous of them for that. Instead of being jealous and getting mad at myself for not being like them, I’m going to encourage myself to strive to achieve what I want. And if I don’t get what I want, I’ll try again or forget about if it’s not beneficial to me. Oh and one last thing which I think is very important. Last year I learned one of the most important things I have ever learned in my entire life. Last summer I was still struggling with my parents divorce, long story short one of my counselors told me the verse John 11:35. Its the shortest verse in the Bible but to me, the most meaningful. It’s just “Jesus wept.”. And even though I already knew Jesus was a human just like us, I then knew that Jesus had feelings too. He feels all the same emotions we do. And he can be vulnerable too. He can break down into tears and be in complete sadness. I saw the counselor this year at camp band broke into tears. But they were tears of joy, I was so happy to see her because she had such and impact on my life and it meant so much to me. Anyways, that’s my story of camp and what I’ve learned. Sorry this is extremely late. Thank you for reading and have a wonderful day.

Hey guys so I completely forgot I had a blog so that’s why I didn’t post last Thursday and last Saturday but I’m doing it now! Kinda, they’ll be out like late tonight as I was very busy today and hadn’t had much time to work on my posts yet. But for the meanwhile her are so maybe fun facts about me that you might or might not already know:
1. My dog’s name, Sky, I short for Skyler
2. I usually say I’ll do one thing and just do nothing
3. I don’t know how to play a single instrument (but I wish I could)
4. I used to hate the ocean
5. I only wear matching socks
6. I hate rewatching movies
7. I really like tubing
8. I enjoy conspiracy theories
9. I’m obsessed with love stories and wish I had a boyfriend
10. I don’t think I’ve ever posted on time for my blog

So yeah that was it for this week but I will be posting for the past two weeks later tonight/ in the wee early hours of the morning because I’ve barely started so yay. Anyways, thanks for reading and have a wonderful day.

Hey y’all so I’m heading to camp tomorrow but I haven’t even started packing yet. Whoops. Oh well, mother is probably going to yell at me. I’m so exskyted!!! Some might understand that joke. Ok so since I’ll be at camp I won’t be able to make a blog post for ‪next Saturday‬ so I’ll post on Thursday talking all about camp and then another one on Saturday. Maybe Sunday, I can’t even seem to post on time. Sorry for that. Anyways I hope y’all have a wonderful day. Toodles!

Friends
I love my friends. And I have so much to say about all my friends. But I’m not going to list them off one by one and say what I love about them. Let’s begin. So the post is for all my friends, no matter how long I’ve know them or how close I am with them. I like to think I treat my friends equally, I hope I do. I would never want any of my friends to feel as though they’re not as important as one of my other friends. Or I treat them differently compared to my other friends. Ok so the inspiration behind this topic is kinda ironic. I think, I’m really bad with literary devices. The irony would be a post about how I’m writing a post about how I appreciate my friends, a lot, but the reason why I thought of it was because I lost a friend recently. I was friends with her for six years. She was on of my best friends. And I don’t know how our friendship “officially” ended. But one thing that will always remind me of her are zodiac signs. We used to look up zodiac sign accounts on instagram and just read them back and forth to each other what our sign is supposedly like or would do in a certain situation. I know that I’ll always think of her when looking at zodiac signs. Anyways, I am such a lucky girl to have such wonderful friends. I know there are some people in the world that struggle with having friends. And I feel deeply sorry for those people, but I cant help but gush over my amazing friends. I have friends I’ve known since preschool and friends I’ve known since a month ago. I have some friends I talk to all the time and some friends I barely talk to. And I have some friends that i connect with so well and some friends I have only one thing in common with. But, a friend is a friend. Whether that’s a friend, good friend, or best friend. They’ve all spent time with me one way or another. And I love them for that. You want to know what else I love? All my friends. I think I already said that before. My friends. WOW. I am so happy with my friends. My friends make me happy. My friends are my happiness. Now I think that’s right. My friends are my happiness. Whenever I’m with my friends, I think I have trouble being unhappy. My friends bring me that much joy. Oh I go through this stage though, with all my friends. It’s like whenever I make a new friend, I get hecka clingy. They’re like a new toy and I just want to be around them all the time and know what they’re like. But after, I get really distant. And I semi-hate them, only for a little bit. And then I go normal. Normal being not hating them and not being obsessed with them. But just being their friend. And it’s happened with each and every one of my friends, so if you think I’ve never been through this phase with you, think again. But this isn’t a bad thing. I mean it hasn’t happened to some people I’ve met but that’s because we’re just friendly acquaintances, not necessarily friends. Anywho, one of my favorite things about having friends is just being able to talk to them. About anything really. I trust all my friends enough not to judge me. And if they do then boohoo. I also hope my friends can trust me enough not to judge them for whatever they have to tell me. I really like deep meaningful talks with friends. Hey if you’re my friend and you’re reading this, talk to me about whatever. Oh but please don’t text me about it. Call me or meet with me in person. I once tried doing this one thing. Everyday I would, at random or someone that stood out to me on that certain day, choose a friend to text. I would text them a message about how I appreciate them as a friend. That lasted for a good four days. But I enjoyed it. My goal wasn’t to make their day. Though I do like knowing when I made someone’s day better. My goal was to make the person I was texting know how much of a wonderful friend they are. I want all my friends to know how wonderful they are. They’re all unique and I want to tell them all individually why they’re such an amazing friend. This will be all for my first post about friends. I didn’t want it to be extremely long but I didn’t want it to be very short as well so I hope this is a good medium. Thank you for reading and have a wonderful day.

Summer is out!!!! Yayayayayayayay!!!!! Sorry about skipping last week my friends, I had a tournament and was studying. I know, lousy excuse, sorry. So I hope everyone did well on their finals and if y’all didn’t, well, gold star for effort. I hope everyone is ready to kick of the summer with a bang. I had a wonderful first day of summer thanks to my friends. I was literally going to do nothing but I’m glad they wanted to hang out. Anyways Ill be doing nothing today though since it’s going to be raining like crazy. That’s it. Just wanted to do a yay summer mini blog. And since i missed last week I’ll be posting again later this week but I didn’t want to do upload my second blog post seconds after this one. It’s done and it’s going to be big . HAGS y’all.

Hello my friends! Ok so this week will basically be like a filler. I’ve been writing fairly long posts (in my opinion) so this week is just going to be really chill. But don’t worry I have something BIG in the makings. That’ll come next week or the week after. Since this is a short one, how have y’all been. I hope y’all have had a wonderful week. And I hope you have a wonderful upcoming week! My week kinda sucked at the beginning but it ended fantastically, just in case y’all were wondering. I know we’re all kinda stressed for the next finals but y’all got this! I believe in each and every one of y’all. Y’all are going to do fantastic. Well, I’m done now. Very short but remember something BIG is coming soon. I think I was very repetitive so sorry. Thank you for reading and have a wonderful day!
Love, Diana

I didn’t proof read so oops.
This is to my mother.
Dear mom,
It’s currently 10:46 at night and you’re yelling at me to go to bed because I have a soccer game tomorrow morning. But I need to write this because I think best at night. So mom. Thank you. Thank you for all that you do in my life. And even though I tell you I love every single day, on multiple occasions, you have no idea how much I appreciate you. I appreciate everything. I try my hardest to let you know this everyday. And saying I love you doesn’t really do it. Whenever I realize this I let you know. I thank you for being my mom. For making sacrifices for me big or small. For taking me everywhere I need to go. For giving me everything you do. For treating me like a princess. For telling me all of your knowledge. For helping me with anything. For being there to talk to. For being my shoulder to cry on. For putting me in my place when needed. For giving me the best life imaginable. For laughing with me. For setting such a wonderful example for me to follow. For being my best friend. For being Julie, the working side of mom. For being Zoila, the perfect side of mom. For being mom. Just mom. Mom you are the strongest person I know, the kindest, the most forgiving, independent, funniest, smartest, friendliest, giving, loving person I know. I look up to you so much. You have been my role model as long as I can remember. I can’t remember for having a role model that was anyone other than you. Maybe Cinderella, but it would always return to being you. I can’t imagine looking up to anyone but you. You stand for everything I want to be when I grow up. I want to be just like you when I grow up because you are just that amazing through my eyes. Mom, I love you so much. There is no amount that can compare to how much I love you. I know you can get annoyed when I say it so many times but it’s the only way I know to express how much I appreciate you. I know I’m sounding extremely redundant, and I’m sorry, but it’s only going to get worse from here. I will now proceed to through the characteristics I gave you recently and explain each and every one. Mom you are so strong. I have witnessed TaTa’s passing beside you. I watched you handle possibly the hardest time in your life with such grace. You spoke at her funeral so beautifully. I witnessed you take care of your aunt that, if I were to say so myself, was extremely to take care of. She moved to Texas so you could take care of her. She threw so many problems at you that tackled so easily. You took care of her so delicately and managed her passing with strength. I witnessed your dog’s passing, Hershey. He was such a good dog. You were with him his entire life. You helped deliver his litter and chose him. Whenever his time was nearing an end you were the one that had to make the decision to put him down. That was the first time I saw you cry. And I witnessed you go through a divorce. While I cried everyday for the following two months and then very frequently after, you were my rock to lean on. You held me and carried me through the most difficult time of my life. And I absolutely adore you for being so strong. Mom you are the kindest person I know. Not only are you kind towards friends and family, but to literally everyone. Everyone you come across you greet with a warm smile which I try my best to do myself. Never do you ever leave someone behind. You always offer to give people a ride anywhere. Or when I’m with my friends you wait until everyone’s parents have picked them up. You donate to multiple associations and always encourage me to do so(with clothes, books, and toys). And overall you are just a kind person. And I adore you for being so kind. Mom you are so forgiving. I only need to say one thing for this. Whenever I’m being a female dog you reason with me until I calm down. And I adore you for being so forgiving because I know I’m a pain in the you know what. Mom you are independent. You do what you want, when you want. And you don’t need no man for that. Whenever you tell me stories about whenever you were younger and how you worked your way through college without any financial aid I’m honest amazed. And you’ve done everything your whole life without needing any help. And I adore you for being so independent. Mom you are so funny. I think I get my goofiness from you. You make the stupidest jokes but I find them so funny. I really like your go to. Whenever I tell you I farted in the car, you roll down the windows. And I adore you for being funny. Mom you are wild smart. Why else would you have an alter ego just for being smart. Zoila, truly the smartest person alive. Of course Zoila is more than smart but anyways. You share with me all of your knowledge. I don’t know how you know half the stuff I ask you. I could ask you literally the most random question and you’d answer it without any hesitation. Like mom you’re seriously wild smart. And I adore you for being so smart. Mom you are so friendly. Like I said previously, you greet everyone with a warm smile. You are so welcoming it’s insane. Mom you’re insane. You treat everyone like you’ve known them forever. You always ask anyone if they needed anything and you give them anything they need. You’re such a people pleaser and I love that. You treat all my friends with the same amount of respect as an adult and really make them feel liked, at least that’s what it seems like to me. And I adore you for being so friendly. Mom you are so giving. You give your all to everything. Anything you ever do you put forth your 100% effort. You give me so much as well, most of which I don’t even deserve. You give to charity all the time. You give your time to everyone, even if they waste it, you just keep giving. And I adore you for being so giving. And mom, you are so loving. You love me so much. You spread your love everywhere. You love everyone. You love your family the most. You love your grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, sisters, brothers, nieces, nephews, son, and daughter unconditionally. You may get angry at us, a lot, but you love us so much and it’s the best feeling in the world to know that. And I adore you for being so loving. Mom I want to thank you for being my role model. For setting an example I strive to achieve. I especially love that you have taught me such great manners. I take great pride in my manners and I’m not afraid to let everyone know. I also want to thank for telling me how beautiful I am even though I deny it every time. I’ll never believe it like you always have. I’ve always been insecure with how I look as long as I can remember but at the same time, you’ve told me how pretty you think I am. You’ve always push my worries away. I’ve been self-conscious with how people perceive me, but you’ve always made me feel better about myself. Thank you. Mom I love you. I love our relationship. I really hope I can have a relationship just like ours with my daughter in the future one day. Some of my friends tell me how cute we are because we’re so close. Especially whenever we’re saying bye to each other in person or over the phone. You know, when I say “bye love you mom” and you say “love you more” and then I say “love you most”. I don’t get it especially whenever they think it’s adorable that we say love you to each other when saying goodbye or even over text. I guess I just thought everyone did that. And I love our besitos and nighttime routine. I really hope those habits never go away because I treasure them so much. Mom. You are just such an amazing person. I honestly can’t put into words how amazing you are. You do so much with little to nothing in return. You provide so much to everyone, especially to Nick and I. Mom there is so much more I want to say. I wish I could say everything. I want to thank you for putting up with me. I know I’m the worse most of the time. So thank you. Most importantly though, I hope you have the most wonderful day today. We’re going out for frozen yogurt today, your favorite as of recently. I promise to tell you in person how much I appreciate you. You deserve to hear it and not just read it, I hope you’ve gotten this far actually. Mom I want you to know that you are such a beautiful person inside and out. You deserve the world and all the happiness possible. I hope this didn’t sound like the things any mom would be told. Because you truly are a one in a kind mom. The kind of mom that I want to be. Thank you for being my role model, best friend, and mom. I love you mom. Besitos.