Boy Best Friends

This is my 100th post!  Quite an accomplishment for me.  So to celebrate I want to dedicate this to my wonderful Boy Best Friends.

So boy best friend is a very prestigious title in my life.  My boy best friends take my hand when I need a little extra help.  They are ALWAYS there for me and I for them.  They take the role of the older brother I never had.  I love every single one I have had soooo much.

Want to meet them?  (although I usually only have one acting boy best friend at a time I am still very close with each of them)

We will start from the very beginning.  James Olen Popham.  James moved to my neighborhood when we were 6.  He is the best.  He was my boy best friend for a VERY long time.  I remember calling him in junior high over some drama and just crying to him about it.  I love him.

I have about a billion pictures of James and I before the digital age and I am too lazy to  scan them in... this is him with his sister who is also one of my good friends.

After a while Kenneth David Parkinson moved into the spot.  Often I drove him crazy but for some reason he stuck around.  Even when I had stupid boyfriends, right Kenny?  We both moved to Logan fro school and he was at my apartment a lot.  We watched a lot of TaleSpin.  He was my boy best friend until he went on his mission.  We stayed close, but he just wasn't around to talk to all the time.

After a while Conner became my new boy best friend.  He gives the best hugs. EVER.  He was always willing to text when I just needed to talk.  Conner got married.  We are still friends, but marriage just kinda changes friendships.

For a while I didn't have a boy best friend.  It was super weird.  Then I met the Davin Lembke.  Truthfully I started crushing on him and then quickly decided he would be just a great friend.  He was always there when I needed to get away from the girls.  He gave me advice a lot.  He is very mature and I needed a mature man to guide my life.  He also gives great hugs, but for a while he limited my hugs because I always stole so many.  He is now engaged to a wonderful girl.

Davin stayed my boy best friend for a while.  During that time a good friend from high school came back into my life.  Cameron James Decker.  What a stud.  Our friendship is so great.  We started out hanging out, it turned into dating, and then went back to friends.  Some people just fit better in your life that way.  Cameron brought a lot of stability into my life.  He showed me how much I am really worth.  He is AMAZING.

Sometimes friends just grow apart a little.  I moved home from Logan and Cam stayed there.  He is still one of my best friends.  He always will be.

This past little while I have had some really great friends.  Awesome guy friends, but none have really taken the boy best friend position, until now.  Ever feel like there is just someone you just really need to get to know?  Mark Alton Swanson started hanging out with my group of friends.  He intrigued me.  He became a fun friend.  And then for a few days he became more than a friend.  We both realized that our relationship was only meant to be friends.  Funny how that works sometimes.  Now Markus is my new boy best friend.  Even in this short time I really have grown to love him.  Maybe it is because he hugs me often and encourages me to let the tears flow, but is he has become an anchor in my life.  He is the kind of man that makes sure he brings happiness to your life and only that.  He is the kind of man that will randomly text you a scripture because he has been thinking about you and your problems.  I am one lucky girl.

Mark and I don't have any great pictures yet, he is the one next to me touching his ear.

I love all of you so much! Thanks for making my life so wonderful.  I know Heavenly Father loves me because he has let all of you be in my life.