I was looking through all of my memories with Cade and I wanted to share this one because every time I look at videos from this day they make me laugh. I have an app called Rover and people contact me to watch their pets. I had to dogsit this day and I brought Cade and our friend John with. As soon as we got to the apartment Cade started cooking up tofu and he was giving me a tutorial on how to do it. I was laughing the whole time because whenever I was was with him he would be doing some random, silly thing and I always thought he was hilarious. You can also hear Cade yell in the background because he burnt himself😂. John was getting kind of fed up with us because like it says in the video John thought when me and Cade were together we acted like toddlers😂. Also on the way there I made like 4 wrong turns on the highway because I am very directionally challenged, so that didn’t help😂😂. Not to mention the dog we had to take care of was this huge bernese mountain dog puppy, named Cheddar, that would not listen and was almost impossible to walk. John has a lot of experience with pets and ended up holding the dog leash when we walked him. It was still a disaster because we were in the city and the dog pulled on the leash so hard, especially if it saw another dog, but it was really funny. From hearing this story it seems like so many things went wrong, but this is one of my favorite memories with Cade. While this was all happening we didn’t take anything too seriously and we just had a fun time together. I swear no matter what happened or what we were doing, we made a fun time out of it :) I also added a video Cade took after I made all of the wrong turns😂. I was stressed and John was getting mad that I kept turning the wrong way and Cade was just making fun of me and thought it was hilarious😂

It is so difficult to choose my favorite memory with Cade because I have so many. Something I love so much about Cade is how deep of a person he was. We would talk about such deep, meaningful things all the time. We always had these huge, crazy ideas and plans we wanted to do. One day (it was actually a year ago today, so it’s ironic that I’m typing this now) we were sitting in my room and we thought we heard one of my roommates and one of their friends talking badly about me and our other friend. We just ended up leaving because we didn’t want to be around their negative energy. We went to go get food and we had this whole conversation about how people can just be so mean sometimes. We decided to start doing random acts of kindness because it is so simple to make someone’s day. We just wanted to make the world a better place and try to take away some of the negativity. Just by being himself Cade brought me so much happiness every time I was with him. He cared about his people so much. Making people’s days was something that came very naturally to Cade, so it wasn’t anything new for him, but we just wanted to try and do nice things more often. He also just made everyone he met immediately love him. He just had a certain sparkle that not a lot of people have. Something I will never forget is when we went to Ian’s Pizza and Cade just immediately struck up a conversation with one of the workers. Cade left such an effect on him that he just ended up giving him his pizza for free. It’s so crazy that even when strangers just met Cade and talked to him for a few minutes they could see how special he was. I could type memories about him all day and say every single thing I love about Cade, but i’ll just share one more. Another thing I love about him is how selfless he was. One time we went hammocking at sunset with one of our other friends and I got my shoes all muddy walking to the spot. I was worried about ruining my shoes, so I just decided to go barefoot, but Cade refused to let me do that, so he gave me a piggy back ride back. I just will never forget how much of an impact he had on my life and I’m so glad I got to call him my best friend. I strive to be more like him❤️-Ari Zimmerman