precious shannon

My Precious Shannon has left me and moved to South Carolina. I have known this was coming for months and months, but it came too soon, and I was incredibly unprepared. I have lived with Shannon for 2 and a half years, and we have been friends for 5. She is one of my best friends. She left on Saturday night, so Holly and I spent Saturday hanging out and enjoying our last hours living in the same city. We went to the pool, went to Ramsey's, and played on photobooth for hours until it was time for her to go. I SOBBED. I kept saying all day that it wouldn't hit me until school started, because I would notice the difference then, since summer is crazy anyway with vacations and camp...no. It immediately hit me and is still really hard to process.

In our 5 years of being friends, I can't say that anyone has made me so many nicknames, or yelled them as loud as Shannon did at more random times. This is one thing I will miss horribly. I miss sitting in my room and hearing her make a little song out of my many nicknames sitting in the next room. What are they? Oh... Er, Er-fed-gil cole ni na jen, gil, ginger snap, Er fed er...probably more that I don't remember.

Sometimes we would drive to North Carolina together to wrangle at Windy Gap for the weekend. These were awesome car rides, because we got to drive through the beautiful states of Tennessee and North Carolina (the 2 best states ever) together singing Wagon Wheel and Taylor Swift with the windows down. North Carolina is where she met Andy. I remember this because the day she left summer staff (where they met), I arrived with campers and had seen pictures of them together posted on facebook, so I had my eye out for him. I finally found him and approved. God is going to do awesome things in their lives.

I guess I just wanted to say that she is going to be missed more than she can imagine. I am excited that there are fun things coming up in her life that I get to hear about and participate in, but I would much rather have her here to yell my name at all times of the day. I feel really excited we are all blogging, because now I can keep up with her life in her new city.

I love you shan!! God is going to show up in big ways during this transition time. He will show you He is all you need. :) And I will come visit asap! Maybe I will bring a cardboard cut out of you to bible study? Is that not good coping? Hmm.. I like you. A lot.