Happy Birthday Linde!

Lisa and Linde at May Hall; they both liked SMURFS!!

I met Linde when we were freshmen at BYU.  She lived two doors down from me in May Hall in Helaman Halls.  We quickly became friends and at times we were inseperable.  Linde, Lisa and I became close friends that year and had many experiences together.  Once our freshman year was over, we ventured to living off-campus in apartments; we settled on living in Moon Apartments which is a few blocks south of the BYU campus.  Linde and I became roommates and I learned that Linde liked to hit the snooze button just to have a few more minutes of sleep each day. She learned that I liked to have pictures of men on my wall; like John Travolta and Rick Springfield.  Linde was such a great roommate, she liked guys, chocolate, guys, pizza and making cookies for guys..which I loved joining in on, dancing, guys, having guys over for dinner...oh the memories.  Linde was and is one of the best conversationalist I know; she knows how to begin a conversation with just about anyone and keep it going; she is genuinely interested in people.  We enjoyed similar things, so it was fun having two years to solidify our friendship by being roommates. 

 Mark, Lisa, Linde and Rick

Moon Apartments 1984

Linde, Lisa and I have managed to remain close friends through out out life thus far.  We have had some really wonderful experiences together and I look forward to many more.

The three of us try to get together as often as we can. 

We turned 40 in 2004 and the three of us spent a few days in California together and we all planned that we'd spend our 50th together doing something fun like Hawaii!!!

Linde found her "true love", Jason Wong and they were married in February of 2006. Linde became a mome when her cute little Jacob was born in 2008.  We felt we were aging gracefully until we both had babies at the age of 43/44.  Now we have days that we feel VERY OLD or VERY YOUNG as we join in running around with our little toddlers.  It is wonderful to know I have a friend, who understands exactly what being a mother to a little one at this point in our lives, feels like.

This is one of my favorite pictures of Linde; it sums up who she is to me.  A beautiful, vivacious, fun, happy, amazing, kind, intelligent, hard working, inspirational, patient, spiritual woman!

I love you Linde!! Happy Birthday you Sexy Woman!