Happy Birthday Little Sister-Brandi!

 I can not believe that my BABY SISTER is turning 19 today! Just crazy! I can't believe time flies as fast as it does.  I feel like it was just yesterday when we were living in Georgia jumping on the trampoline in the back yard or when we lived in Conway and we would race to the trampoline without Shiloh attacking us.  I can't believe that we are young adults getting ready to enter the real world.  All of our childhood at home together is over but we have such a great future together that we will share.  I can not imagine having a better sister than you.  God has blessed the Horton family tremendously with you as our baby! You truly are a great young lady inside and out.  You are BEAUTIFUL, smart, talented, sweet (when you want to be! haha), and such a loving person.  I know that you will always accomplish great things in your life.  I can't believe that you are going into your 2ND SEMESTER OF COLLEGE!!!!!!!!!!! You aren't suppose to be that old! You are suppose to be going to Kindergarten or 3rd grade at the most with you big freckles and one buck tooth in the front in the most hideous outfit that mom picked out for you with some crazy hair-do that mom fixed.  You aren't suppose to be old enough to drive or even have a cell phone! You are my BABY SISTER! Not my old sister! Well here you are as a my BABY SISTER....

Haha! Weren't you just the cutest!!!

Then you decided to grow up just a little bit...But don't worry, you aren't very old in these pictures yet either...

 Wow! Look at those freckles!

 HELLO abs!

Then you became just a little bit older but you were still the baby sister & everything was ok...

But then it happened....you started HIGH SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!! You were growing up and everyone couldn't believe it! But we all knew that you wouldn't ever get any older than this....

 You were even going to the PROM! We thought we would never see that day! Wow was that a tough one to swallow!

Then we really fell apart....You started getting ready for GRADUATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But of course, we never really thought that the actually day when you graduated high school would come...

Oh but it did come and we all fell apart!!!!!!!!!!!! You were just a baby! How were you suppose to graduate high school already & go to college!??? NOOOOOOOOO!!!!

I thought we would never make it on that day! It was almost as if we had to pinch or slap ourselves to make sure that we were awake! Crazy!!!!!!!!!!

-Then you moved to Fayetteville & started COLLEGE @ the University of Arkansas (just like your big sis taught you to do!) I still have to remind myself that you are in COLLEGE! Taking classes just like me! Paying TUITION! Buying COLLEGE BOOKS! Checking out your professors on RateMyProfessor.com! Living in a DORM! Getting a WEEKLY ALLOWANCE! Having NO curfew! In a SORORITY (Delta Delta Delta!)! Attending RAZORBACK sporting events w/a STUDENT TICKET!!!!!!! But I still have to remind myself that my little baby sister is growing up and becoming a BEAUTIFUL young woman!....I can tell that you really love being 19....

Wow! Just looking through these pictures gives me chills! You are such a big girl now! 19 years old! WOW! I never thought I would see the day! 

I have always called you "SIS" but I don't think that I have ever told you WHY I have always called you that instead of just sister.  Well SIS stands for: SIMPLY INCREDIBLE SISTER! And that is you! No one could ever count the amount of laughter that we have shared together or the oceans of tears that we have cried together! No one can do that unless they have an AMAZING sis to share that with like I do. There's no better friend than a sister. There's no one more loyal and true and even when sisters are different their likeness come shining through! 

I love you so much, Sis!

Remember when I wrote you this in your Kindergarden yearbook?

I always loved that! I always loved being your big sis! Hopefully I have laid out a great path behind me for you to follow.  To me, our relationship is like this...

I will always be there for you to lean on...

-Just remember, I am your best friend in ANY given situation.  You are such an amazing person.  I could not imagine having a better person in my life as my SIS! God has blessed me with you! I can't believe that today you are turning 19 years old! Just 2 more years and we can legally party together! hahahahahaha (jk mom!) I love you more than words could ever describe and I can't wait to make more memories with you over the years! Just thinking...in about 10 years, we (hopefully) will be married with kids and our kids will be best friends!!!!  I LOVE YOU BRANDI HORTON!

Now I will go and lay in my bed and cry........