My Brother is From...

- John and Amy and a wonderful little sis named Allison (suppose to be a joke)
- Whose favorite past time was torturing his little sister
- With a big extended family with a bunch of aunts, uncles, and cousins – where everyone talks and noone listens
- Where we not only say ya’ll but yes ma’m and no ma’m
- Where when he lies to his mom and gets caught – he justs tells her it is “opposite day” and that everything he says, he means the opposite

My Brother is From –

- where Thanksgiving Dinner always involves at least 25 people and is an all day event
- who will nag you to death to share an experience that he is SO passionate about – “Allison come here…Allison come here…Allison come here”
- where he can reinvent himself constantly – from cowboy to Ninja Warrior (2 toed boots & numchucks) to Hockey Player to Musician to Athlete to Skateboarder to Water Skier to Fisherman and THAT is just in Alabama
- where every evening meal has cornbread, sweet tea, and something FRIED
- where he chases lightening bugs and baby frogs at the lake, and sand crabs at the beach
- where his yard full of pinecones were used as weapons against his sis & best friend riding the go-cart

My Brother is From –

- where he goes to Gulf Shores, Alabama at 15 and drinks Sparkling Grape Juice out of the bottle trying to convince the babes it was the real thing
- where he loves his animals – Mitsy, Walker, Lou Lou, Fussball, George, Skeeter & Mason
- where he proves that he touched the bottom of Logan Martin Lake by returning to the surface with tree branches or rocks in hand
- where at age 12 coaches his 6 years younger cousin how to pick up “babes” at the beach – “Paul, if they mention Rainbow Brite, GET OUT OF THERE!”

My Brother is From –

- where he practices Beavis & Butthead with his best friend every day on the way home
- where he discovers that walking the dogs picks up chicks and really is a good thing
- where he uses an Asian students ID to get in free to the most coveted football rivalry in the South – Alabama versus Auburn and gets more national tv exposure than his sister who had high price legitimate seats
- where Rama Jama Sweet Home Alabama is a Fall Favorite
- where he LOVES to get away from & LOVES to come back to….Alabama

I could say a lot of sweet things about my brother. I will say he is the funniest person I know and whenever I am around him, he reduces me to tears from laughter.



* Read at Wade’s wedding, 7/25/09, Estes Park, Colorado.