21 Candles

*fair warning- picture heavy post ahead*

Today is so special of a day for one of my favorites it deserves a post all it's own. Today is my best best best friend Makenzie's  TWENTY FIRST Birthday!!! I can't even believe that we've hit the age where all our friends are turning 21 left and right. When we first met as freshman at 18 years old this day seemed so very far away! (Here's our very first picture together freshman year! Mak is the brunette!)

Makenzie and I met through Amanda (the blonde on the right) who graduated high school with me, one of the first nights of college. She and Makenzie are from the same town and were roommates freshman year! Due to other situations I ended up spending all most of my time in their room that year. I considered myself an "honorary" roommate ;) My freshman year was so much better because of these girls and soon after meeting Makenzie we realized we were literally the same person. We talk all the time about how we have the same brain. We say/think the same things at the same time, and get each other and understand each others weirdness more than normal people should. Here's some of my favorite pictures of us from that awesome freshman year.

Sophomore year due to crazy circumstances we both transferred to different schools (in the same state) but of course continued to be best friends and visited each other every chance we got. It's SO true when they say "distance means so little when someone means so much". We talked on the phone all the time but I missed having her in my every day life so much!! Here's a few pics from last years visits!

Thankfully all the cards aligned and Makenzie transferred to the college I am currently attending this past August and now we're roomies! This year has been so much fun and honestly the best year of college so far! And it was just the cherry on top of the perfect year that she also rushed and was initiated into the same sorority I am in! :) I could not ask for a better friend, roommate, or sister and I wonder how I got through 18 years of life without her! I know we will be friends until we're old and grey, sharing a room in a nursing home! I love this girl so much and I hope she has the best 21st birthday possible!

Happy Birthday Makenzie!!!!