1-Smoking twigs - well watching you smoke twigs anyway!!
2-Playing Chemistry with Cathy's Chemistry set.
3-Registering you for your first semester at USU.
4-Trick or treating with you as kids.
5-Skating on the grandpa made ice rink.
6-Wanting to be just like you.
7-Playing all sorts of fun games like paint the trailer when we lived in the trailer.
8-Using you as a car and gear shifting your ears.
9-Being your human bench press bar.
10-Making forts under the stairs.
11-Sliding down the stairs on bean bags and sleeping bags
12-Jumping off mom and dad's headboard onto the waterbed.
13-Snow caves, I was always afraid to join you in.
14-Using kitchen utensils as tools in the backyard and then losing them till the next spring.
15-Building lego computers and playing office in our closets.
16-Having marathon Monopoly games that lasted for days.
17-The day you told me you were gonna be a dad.
18-Health Occ with Syd
19-"Protecting" the house with knives, bats, and a bayonet when mom and dad were gone. (BTW what were they thinking leaving you in charge?! ;-) )
20-Karma Pozernic - what the heck!??
21-Watching your football games in the rain in random cities like Tooele.
22-Cinderblock potties - Showing my friends how cool you were that you made them.
23-ENORMOUS jaw breakers from FOOD 4 Less.
24-Driving top off in the Blazer (I felt so cool!)
25-The day you left on your mission.
26-The night you came home from your mission.
27-Calling you when I had highschool drama and you made me feel better.
28-Knowing you "get me"
29-Playing Hide and Seek and hiding in the top of the old cereal pantry.
30-Spook Alley's in the basement.
I love you so much and I wish we were together to celebrate this really special day. I hope you find the time and brain power to just have fun on this day. My list of memories that are just yours and mine is much longer but 30 is the number of the day! I miss you and I am super duper proud that you are where you are, doing what you are doing. I spoke my first scentance ("Stop it!") because of you and you make me who I am, thank you so very much, I hope you are proud. Happy Happy Birthday to my best and biggest brother.
Love you forever and more, James.
3 comments:
Thanks a bunch for the present. Thanks for remembering me and thinking of me and for putting so much stock into who you are because of me. I wish I was home to have had you do this in person. I'm bawling too. Love you.
This was sooooo cool. Watching you and your little angels makes me miss home so bad. Kam and I watched together and both started crying. Thanks for making Kam feel like the special person he is. Love and Miss you!
so sweet! i remember that stupid cereal cupboard too. I never played in it, but i remember.:)
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