Sunday, August 10, 2008

Happy happy birthday sister dear...

Today is Ambyr Jo Nielsen's 28th birthday!! For those of you who know my sister Ambyr, you know just how great she really is. She makes you feel comfortable, she is very easy to be around, and she has the best dimple you'll ever see! Case in point:
Ambyr has always been there for me. I talk to her every single day, most days more than once. She has always understood me best, believed in me, and helped me in any way possible. I asked my father (he said to tell Am hi and he loves her on this post) if he could think of any funny Am stories and he told me when she was about one, she and Kenny (who was three) were playing in their room and all of the sudden Ambyr started screaming bloody murder, and then Kenny ran into the living room and said, "mommy daddy, Ambyr just bit herself on the cheek!!" Now that was more of a Kenny story but it still made me laugh.
Ambyr is a great mother (she may kill me for posting this photo):

She was the cutest pregnant woman I have ever seen, there was definitely a glow about her. And she never complained about being pregnant. It may have been the second happiest I have ever seen her. The first being when Luke was born. The first thing she said as soon as she gave birth to Luke was, "that's it?!? I could do that again easily!" She was definitely born to be a mommy.
One of my favorite memories of Ambyr was when we were in high school together. Ambyr was a senior and I was a sophomore. We'd recently returned from spring break. Ambyr was an office assistant and answered the phones for the school. One morning she answered, "Irvington High School student speaking" and the voice at the other end said, "there is a bomb in your school and it will go off in 2 hours." To which Ambyr replied, "What!?!!? But there are so many good kids here!!!" Needless to say that was a frightening time, but Ambyr still said exactly what she thought. She defended our high school to a terrorist. She then ran to the area of campus where I had class and started to yell my name. I found her in the hallway and she took me home so we could be out of the line of danger. Ambyr has always taken care of me. For all she knew there was a bomb in our school, but she made sure to find me before she left. (Turns out, the call was just a prank, and terrible prank, and I believe the kid ended up in juvenile hall.) I just can't put into words how much my sister means to me. Thinking about what my life would be without her literally brings tears to my eyes. I love her more than anything and I am SOOOO excited to move home to spend more time with her!! One more week yeayyyyyyyy!!!










Love you sister!! I wish the Happiest Birthday to you xoxoxo

4 comments:

Hannah said...

SO cute. The bomb story cracks me up. But I have to say, the picture of the 3 of us when we were little makes me look a little bit mentally retarded. I couldn't stop laughing when I saw it... I have never seen that one before. Love you girls

Tere said...

Kinda down syndrome Hannah?? Anyway....great blog Head. The check biting story is priceless!! Lets not forget that our neighbor Kevin (also 3)taught Kenny how to bite (the brat, I wanted to bite him!!!) Lovin all the love. mom

Ambyr said...

What a sweet and funny post Head! Thanks so much though I don't deserve it! I love the stories and I literally almost died laughing (because I choked on my cough...) at that picture of Hannah! What makes it so funny is that Hannah was such a gorgeous little girl. It's hard to beleive that's her but it is...

It was a perfect birthday and thank you for your part(s) in that. I love you.

Nicole said...

Happy Birthday Ambyr!! I can't believe we're 28!! I love the old pictures you guys put on your blog. I don't have any of my older pictures scanned into the computer and I have some great ones of me and Ben when we were little. You've inspired me to find them! Good luck with your move and have fun with your sista!