Happy Birthday Bryan!

Happy Birthday to my brother-in-law, Bryan!

This is a re-post from last year.

But the wishes for a great year ahead are all new!

I love you, Bryan.

Always have. Always will.

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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Happy Birthday Bryan! Rob's Photographic Memories

Rob was the first born child to his parents.

He was the oldest of 3 sons.

Rob's middle brother, Eric, was 5 years younger than him.

(Eric died when he was just shy of 21 years old).

Rob's youngest brother, Bryan, was born almost exactly 10 years after Rob.

Bryan was born just 3 days shy of Rob's 10th birthday. 

I heard many stories from Rob about his "baby" brother.  

The stories always made Rob smile.  

Today is Bryan's birthday.

And just for that occasion, I thought I'd post Rob's first photographic memories of his baby brother that Rob took with his very own camera

- along with Rob's handwritten descriptions of some of the photos.

 I have many, many, many photos of Bryan from the last 21 years of knowing him and 20 years of being his sister-in-law.  I have much photo documentation of him as he grew from being a 24 year old single young man to becoming the "grown-up" he is now with a family of his own.  A lot of them are my favorites and I can so easily see them in my mind, especially the photos from when he proudly introduced us to his girlfriend, Jenny; when he proudly married Jenny (who became his wife at the wedding his oldest brother officiated and Anna was the flower girl); when he proudly introduced us to their daughter and our niece, Cassidy Jill; and when he proudly introduced us to their son and our nephew, Carter Ming.  And if I could find those photos, I would post them but they're all in that bunch that seems to have disappeared in this last move.  

But I do have a couple of favorite photos of Bryan and Jenny that I took last Christmas (2012) as they left to take a walk in my back pasture.  In fact, I loved the photos so much that I put them on 16 x 20 canvasses and gave them that for Christmas this year.  

Happy Birthday Bryan Scott!

Hope you've enjoyed your brother's memories that he captured of you.

Since Rob died, I have tried very hard not to speak for him but I can certainly say this for him because he told me so many times - as I know he told you.

And that is simply that he loved you - from your birth to his death.  

He told me that he loved taking care of you when you were little.

He loved playing "cauhs, cauhs, cauhs" (the way he said you pronounced cars, cars, cars) with you.  

And even though he did not like living in Ohio at all for the 4 years he lived there and always longed for North Carolina, he was proud of your loyalty to your buckeyes.  

And, since you were only 8 years old when he left for college back in North Carolina, he always said he wished he had had more time with both of his brothers.      

He loved you so much.

And so do I.