I have SO much catching up to do BUT...

... I wanted to give a shout out to my BEST best Friend.



26 years ago today an amazing couple gave birth to a sweet little girl, they named her Alison Jane.
At the time of her birth, I was a little girl myself (okay... a little older :) life was so care free and easy going. I didn't have a care in the world however, there were a few things I dreamed of...
1- I wanted to meet, fall in love with and marry my BEST Friend.
2- I wanted to be a Mom.
3- I wanted a BEST Girl Friend.. One that I could tell ANYTHING to, One that would be there for me thru EVERYTHING and One that would judge me for NOTHING.

In the last few years my dreams have come TRUE!!! The have come in crazy forms and totally out of order BUT, they have come true.

For those of you who don't already know...
1- Benjamin Jensen Banks is my BEST Friend and Husband.
2- I have 3 amazing little boys... Jaden, Jack and Jensen (Ben & Alison's)
3- Alison is not only my BEST, best Friend BUT... she is Jensen's Mom and Ben's Ex-Wife.

So... Do you think it's strange that Alison and I are so close? Join the other thousand People who question it too!

Just like any other "new" Wife / "ex" Wife OR "Mom" / "Step-Mom" relationship, ours too started out HORRIBLE (to say the least.) People told me things, People told her things, etc. Pretty soon we were not only ENEMIES but we wished the other dead.
Anyway, after some life changing events, starting to respect one another & trying to be on the same page raising Jensen... Alison and I began talking. We started to put things behind us and we grew closer and closer.

Today, Miss Alison Jane West and I are BEST best Friends. We text each other a hundred times a day, and talk at least once a day. I look back and realize, I'd be lost with out her. I know it sounds strange... and, I am so incredibly lucky to have such an amazing, wonderful Husband who supports my Friendship with his Ex-Wife... but Alison ALWAYS knows when I'm sad, she knows how to fix it and she NEVER forgets to check on me. She is there no matter how happy, sad, mad, etc. I am.

I love her so much and I am so THANKFUL that God chose her to make my dream of having a BEST Girl Friend come true!

Alison,
I hope today is the best Birthday you have ever had and I hope that they keep getting better each year because we have a lot of them to celebrate together!

I LOVE YOU BUT... ONLY...FOR...FOREVER!

P.S. There are 2 songs I added to my play list.

The Pretenders, I'll Stand By You.
It's actually a song that Alison said describes what She feels for me... but, these are a few of the lyrics of how I feel about her...

I'll stand by you, won't let nobody hurt you.

If you're mad get mad don't hold it all inside come on and talk to me now.

Hey, what you got to hide? I get angry too... Well, I'm a lot like you.

AND,
Rihanna, Umbrella.

When the sun shines, we'll shine together.

I told you I'll be here forever,

said I'll always be a Friend,

took an oath I'm going to stick it out to the end!!!!

IrOnIc

In September my Mom drove me to pick up my new car. She was a bit irritated that she had to take me to Sandy (I'll never know why...) Anyway, when we pulled up this Man in green scrubs crossed in front of us. my mom looked at him and said to me "I know him. He is a Doctor that I used to go to." She said it 2 or 3 more times... by this point I was a bit irritated, so I said "Yep, I could have guessed he was a Doctor by his green scrubs, I'm glad you know him and thanks for the ride." It was then that she said.... "JADIE... that is Dr. Curtis and he delivered you!!!" I swear, she jumped out of a moving vehicle to talk to him! Ha Ha! It was pretty neat, and he was AMAZING. He told me I look different then when we first met, ha ha ha! He also said thanks for stopping him and told us that we made his day!

This is the OB that brought me into this world almost 30 years ago.

To date, he's delivered 9,277 something babies!

I was 1 of his first!!!