Stymie

To my best friend, Kyle Lobe.

You are a great friend. Ever since 8th grade we have run in the same circles. I don't imagine that will stay the same in the next few years, with you getting married, and with me moving around for a little while. So I wanted to take a moment to thank you, and list some of my favorite times with you. (Ya, I know it's kinda gay)


I am thankful that you didn't kill me that time that I hit you with the tennis ball as hard as I could at the courts by my parents place.

Random conquests of ours:
1. Starting, and operating a business together for a year (or longer?) when we were 14 and 15.
2. Eradicating the rodents and amphibians from my grandma's bomb shelter just to poison ourselves with gopher TNT.
3. Getting my truck unstuck from the Valdez's when I drove over a rock and my differential was suspending my back wheels off of the ground.
4. Writing "Whitewater" and playing it for the guitar concert at West Hills and being heroes for a day.

5. Starting the homeless ministry and meeting Art and Bobby and those guys.
6. Serving at Sonrise, playing music, and leading the guys towards Jesus the best we knew how.
7. Moving out, moving back in, moving to the Crack Shack, moving to the apartment, and then moving to the Condomanium.
8. Going through phases- banjos, mountain biking, pool, music, wrestling, high school football, Call of Duty, poker, and painting.
9. Preparing the Burn Concert together, and for you always being a quality musician that is somehow not a flake.

10. Speed biking down the spooky side of Cowles Mountain as fast as we could with JJ and Joel on our heels.

11. Deep sea fishing on my mom's boat with Zayda, and C.J. I think I pouted because everyone else caught something except me.
12. Driving you home from the dentist when you had your wisdom teeth removed and you were speaking in a different language and kept hitting your head against the window so I drove with my arm around you and you were laughing at me, and people driving past us were staring.

. The "Brave and Brains" game with the high school guys, and doing the camping night event at Gary's, where you took the cinnamon challenge and lost. Puke explosion!
14. Being relational idiots, and helping each other through it.
15. Borrego times. Rabbit hunting in the middle of the night. haha.

I'm getting tired, and I should probably save some memories for my best man speech. Which leads me to:

I'm excited for you and Nycole. I know you are young, but more importantly I know what I have seen of your heart. I have seen you pursue Jesus, and not give up following Him when so many our age choose other, easier things. I am convinced you will keep pursuing Him, and will have a God honoring marriage. Nycole is fantastic as well, but I will let Ashlei brag about her. hehe. If you and I are blessed with being daddy's someday, I really hope we live close by each other, and that our kids know each other well.

Okay. I should go to bed now. Happy birthday Asian one. I appreciate the sacrifice and patience it must take to be my friend for 7 years. :)