I did it! Graduation 2009

Yup that is right I graduated this year from Westview High School!!! feel excited about graduating and being done. It is a huge bitter sweet experience for me however because I have really made my high school experience a memorable one. I have made such great friends and have been blessed with the BEST TEACHERS! I've had a great support group of teachers since I started out as a freshman and have only gained more as the years went on. I love many of my teachers and have established great relationships with them and even with many of the staff members who I have just been lucky enough to get a relationship with. I am probably more sad to watch me leave those great staff and teachers behind than anything else. I love my friends but those teacher have been a constant throughout all four years and I can not thank them enough!!! 

I love my friends and I am very grateful this year to have been blessed with many great friends! This has been the first year that I really have connected with my 

group of friends and have been blessed to get along with each of them in a more personal level. 

Throughout high school friends have always been a challenge for me and this year I finally was able to overcome it. 

My friends have been sooo supportive, loving, kind, friendly, and just really cool people to be around. A lot of their personalities match mine and I have enjoyed ever minute that I have been able to be around them. I can not thank them enough for everything they have done for me this year and for how much of a difference they have made in my life! I love you guys! 

I have been very fortunate also this year to have a best friend who is pretty much the opposite of me. She has a beautiful voice and is in like all of the top choirs, 

plays the piano extremely well and now teaches it to about 7 students of her own, has been in 

many musicals and plays, and doesn't play any sports... I don't know how we became such great

 friends with all of these differences but, if I were to guess it would have to be the church.

 She is such a great example to me! I can't help but to admire her and for how hard she works at everything she does. She inspires me to try harder and to want to become better. Now I am saying she is perfect because believe me she does have her flaws ;-) but I do really admire her and I am so very thankful that I can call her my best friend! 

Another person who has made a big difference this year has been Josh. Even though we haven't been dating  this whole year he has still made a big 

difference in my life

. I had a great time at Prom with him and it has been so much fun to share a lot of my success 

with him these last few months. I am so grateful for his support and for how well he respects and treats me. For example: After sitting through graduation he gave me beautiful roses and a teddy bear (which is wearing a "lettermen jacket" that says Westivew on the back) 

He has such great manners and has an awesome personality! He has defiantly made a difference in my life and I am so happy that he has been able to be apart of my last memories at Westivew! Of course he doesn't make saying goodbye to Westview any easier because he will be attending a senior in the fall!!! But I am still very happy that he was able to be apart of a lot of my great Westivew memories! 

My last and biggest reason for my success at Westview has to be my amazing family! I could have never overcome any of my friend problems or achieved as much as I did without them. Each one of my siblings has taught me something in my life and has been a hero to me. 

Jeff has taught me how to play soccer and has inspired me to play the guitar! I can't thank him enough for all of the skills and support he has given me with every new sport or hobby I try. He is there with a huge smile encouraging me to be my best! 

Chrisite has been an example to me my whole life! I want to be just like her when I grow up! She has the sweetest, kindest, most loving personality out of anyone that I know! She wants everyone to achieve their highest potential and has let me know that. I can't help but to look at her as my hero who has given me strength and a reason for living. She many times keeps me motivated and pushing through my hard times! 

Stacee has taught me through her example that sometimes it is just better not to learn things by yourself and learn from others mistakes. She probably has had the hardest life out of anyone that I know and yet she still has a fun personality that you can't help but to love. She has also taught me how important my family is to me! I know she hasn't be able to spend as much time with me as most but for some reason I feel that has brought us closer together.

Brett has taught the true meaning of friendship and love. He has been there with me through it all and has never stopped loving and laughing. He is my life! I can't imagine life without my brother always around me laughing at me, crying with me, or just spending time with me. We have a weirdest sibling relationship I have ever known of because of how close we are. There have been many times that people have asked me if we were dating or if he was my best friends and I just laugh every time because most the time they don't believe me when I tell them we are related! 

My parents are a totally different story because I owe everything to them! I have really be able to get close to my parents this year and especially my mom and I wouldn't change it for a thing! I love each one of them more than words can explain. They have supported me fully with every challenge and task I take on. They support me in more ways than I probably realize and I can't help but to praise them! I would have never been able to achieve the awards I have been given without them. They are the reason I have been able to overcome a lot of my learning disabilities and be able to be an academic achiever by getting a 3.82 GPA and never taking an AP class in high school! They are the reason I try so hard in everything I do. They push me to become a better person and help me realize everything that is worth having in life I have to work hard for it. I love all of my family with all of my heart and I am very thankful we are eternal!