Bowling for Brian

In honor of my brother Brian's birthday, we get together annually to remember him. His birthday is on January 18th so our original event was to happen last Sunday, but to our disbelief the Cardinals were battling it out for a spot in the Superbowl. There is no way Brian would be doing anything but watching the game in a situation like that, so we postponed our event until today.

For the last 3 gatherings we played softball at his old softball league field. We all wear #18 shirts, some in blue and some in black. His favorite number and colors. After a couple years of cold weather we decided to switch things up and go bowling.

This year we went to our old high school bowling alley. It was a ton of fun, we had 20 people make it. It is always fun to see how everyone is doing as some of the people that go, we only see once a year.

Debbie made buttons for all of us to wear with Brian's photo in it. It was cool to see Brian's nieces and little cousins wearing the button in his honor. It is just too bad that this is their only way of knowing him, he would be the coolest uncle around.