Tomorrow, I will celebrate Brenan's birthday and thank God for the blessing that he was to my life. I am so touched by the impact that he made on us all, and I'm so proud to have been his girl.
As sad as I feel sometimes, I am often overcome by the happiest memories. There were so many amazing memories--the big memories like our wedding and the inbetween memories of daily life. Brenan's good nature and love for life enriched everything around him. Even without him here, that richness lasts on and blesses me daily.
I thought that this might be a good way for us all to celebrate as we remember his birthday. Post your happy memory of Brenan (by clicking "Comments" below) and let us all celebrate his life.
I'm Still Yours--Kutless (another great song by this band)
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My memory: About this time last year, I started getting out all the materials to wrap presents one day. I found my wrapping paper, got the tape, and started looking around for scissors. Now, being that I am a teacher--I happen to have an overabundance of scissors. I don't know how it happened but I have all kinds of scissors: big scissors, small scissors, garage scissors, kitchen scissors, good scissors, dull scissors, new scissors, and old scissors. I pretty much have them spread out all over the house--one pair in every drawer. So as I walked around the house, I found it strange that the first few locations turned up no scissors. After checking a few more locations, I went to Brenan puzzled and asked him if he knew what had happened to all the scissors. "I took them to the knife shop to get them sharpened," he replied. Now this entertained me because I would have never thought to take scissors to get them sharpened. (It's the kind of thing that always amused me about Brenan.) I continued checking in all my hiding spots, sure that I could find at least one pair somewhere. But you know what? They were all gone...every single pair of hidden, back of the drawer, random scissors was gone that day. Why? Because Brenan was that thorough! (In everything, right?) And two days before Christmas, I had to go to the store in the middle of the day to buy scissors since all of our scissors were at the knife shop being sharpened! ;)
happy birthday brenan! we love you and are thinking of you today!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRENAN!!!
tonight family members in Minnesota will get together to honor you on this special day. We love you and miss you.
Aunt Viv
I could probably spend hours sharing crazy memories about Brenan but I'll save everybody from my endless ramblings. There is however one thing that pops into my mind every summer when the temperature starts getting unbearable. When we were in high school Brenan would never use the AC in is IROC because he said it took away horse power (I'm sure it had more to do with fuel efficiency but he didn't want to admit that.) I never really understood why we needed that extra 10 horse power, it's not like we were constantly fleeing crime scenes, but needless to say we all suffered each and every summer sweating like crazy in his Camaro. But at least we got everywhere quickly!
Happy Birthday Brenan!!
dan
Happy Birthday Brenan! Dan...I totally remember that about him too! And I do the same thing somedays because of him. Funny...
Adrienne
Brenan is always with us in everything we do.. no one can forget him .When I think of Brenan i think of how he made everyone feel special, always a hug for his family and never made us older aunts and uncles feel live he had to spend time with us, but he wanted to. Gone but never forgotten he will live on in our hearts forever. Jess he was also the lucky one to have you in his life. Your unconditional love and support was always there for him, so i think that also made him more special. I am very proud to call you my neice, and I love you so very much.. Happy holidays Jess. We will be thinking of you at this time and always.. Love Aunt LaVonne
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