Happy birthday!!!

Laura, it's okay, you're only turning 22. You don't need to be scared until years later!!

Happy birthday Laura! 22 reasons why we love her!!!

1. Her nickname is Tina. The llama. Like from Napoleon Dynamite. And she hates it. Best day of our life? When our mother called her it.
2. We think that she may have needed to be born a boy. Because she definitely missed out on scout camp/wrestling/fighting people. Because she LOVES to do it.
3. She HATES the smell of canned corn.
4. Milk makes up 75% of her body.
5. She's a compulsive shopper, but it usually benefits us. We convince her to buy things we want/are for us.
6. She can tell you her five year plan at any given time and loves to talk about it. My five year plan? Experience five Christmas's.
7. She is an amazing scrapbooker.
8. She enjoys having me and me conversations. Example:
Laura: Do you like how I did my hair today?
Julia: Oh my gosh, listen to what happened at school today.
Laura: Because I kind of parted it over more and put in different hair product.
Julia: At lunch, I was with my friends and.......(you get the point).
9. She hates salad but pretends to like it.
10. So in our family, you are one of two shoppers: 1. You have to touch everything in the store twice and then deliberate on what one item to get. 2. You run in and out before your car even has the chance to get hot inside. Laura is an even mix of both.
11. Laura+South Beach=not friends. Not saying that she is fat, but whenever she is on it she turns into Satan with heroin withdrawals.
12. She does her best work under extreme pressure.
13. She is very easy to peer pressure her into doing things. And it is usually to our benefit. It's surprising she didn't become a druggie in high school.
14. She can make conversation with ANYONE for like 10 hours.
15. She is kind-hearted enough that she will help ANYONE any time. Including homeless people, strangers, etc.
16. She is the tallest person in our family. Pro: we can always find her in stores, she will give us piggy back rides. Con: we can't share clothes.
17. She loves, loves, loves jewelry. We call her the raccoon because she loves shiny things. And she can look hot in any thing she has. Grandma Jones's costume jewelry/broaches? Looks awesome.
18. She loves every kind of music and has been to tons of concerts.
19. She can think up really fun things to do.
20. Ways she loves to torment her sisters: randomly bite them, give them hickeys on their necks "just for fun" and before important events in their lives (Julia going to EFY, Emily going back up to Utah), pull their hair, wrestle, punch.
21. She LOVES to plan out her Halloween costumes months in advance. Good thing about this? Devin loves to as well. I am positive they have known what they are going to be for months.
22. She HATES hair. That's why she has short hair/ shaves all the hair off her body/hates hair.

Laura's greatest nightmare:


HAPPY BIRTHDAY TINA!!!!! WE LOVE YOU!!!!