Today is a blue day. We all have them. Maybe it is the weather or your tired, the kids are driving you nuts, something sets it off and you are blue. It takes alot for me to become non-blue. My dearest friend Alesha passed away last Friday. She was one of my first friends as a mommy. We use to even joke how much alike our daughters looked like when they were babies.  So this blog is dedicated to her and to our friendship.

The first time I met her was at a scrap-booking event. She LOVED to scrapbook and was extraordinarily good at it. She could blend colors and textures like no one else I ever knew. I was in aw of her for the start, I was never daring like her. Anyway, there was no kids there as that was kinda the unwritten rule. She was flipping through my book on Bella and I was looking through hers on Kaleigh. She stopped about half way through and got huffy. She accused me of taking a picture of Kaleigh and she demanded to know how I got her. LOL It was my daughter in a dress that Kaleigh had also. =) She was sitting on a couch or something mundane and Alesha totally thought that I had stolen Kaleigh for this one picture. =)

Another great one is when we moved into my Grandma's home. We were having a scrap booking party one night and we always like to have a drink or two. Well we made Margaritas.  Two blenders later we finally had some =) So it was our running joke that Alesha is the blender-ate-or. No blender can with stand her blending skills. =) I think 4 total had succumbed to her drink making skills. =) 

She was always the life of the party. Her and I would stay up until 2 or 3am scrapbooking and drinking. Andrew would come down in the middle of the night and say enough is enough. Alesha would say "ok Big Papa" And he was say "Ok Big Mama' It was their joke. He was one of the friends that Andrew can say was his friend too. He misses her. There is no one else who has ever called him a nickname. 

Scrap booking just isn't the same without her around to do it with. Gracie's album is a little skinny =) 

I went into the hospital during her 9 month stay. Also when they let her out after the first round of chemo and she was able to be home for a few days we went over and took her some DQ. =) I always told her once she beat this and got home we would order in some Outback Steaks, drink a few margaritas and relax. We never got to do that.

Alesha was and will always be a huge part of my life. As my son Alex said today at the dinner table. Bella had said she got to see Alesha's body and didn't understand why God didn't want her body too. How can she be up in heaven with God if her body was here. Alex then says in a quiet voice with his head down "When God makes you an angel you don't need your body anymore. God just wants your spirit. That is what makes you an angel" Out of his mouth and to Alesha's ears. She is truly an angel looking down from above. Probably with a sarcastic remark on her lips. =)