Two weeks from this Thursday and you'll find us at Kobe Steaks... normally we'd be at karate practice since the kids love it so much but on that particular Thursday we'll be honoring Chris' birthday... if he would have lived to have seen it he would be joking about making his bid for Presidency... yes, of the United States... and I would have joked that there would be no way he could run for public office with his kind of past... though I guess his past is the norm for politicians so maybe he would have fit like peas in a pod...

Much runs through my mind when his birthday comes around... and this year mine will also be poignant... I am turning 33... an age he never got to turn... and parts of me are sad that he never got to physically be here for all of the growing that has occurred... both Hannah and Jack are blossoming into their own larger than life personalities... he would have loved to have seen it... but if I am to believe what I tell the kids, he's here... we all carry him in our hearts so he gets to be here for it all...