Today would have been Sam’s 28th birthday. I spent the whole day thinking about him

What kind of man would he be? You’re such a great kid… So fun so kind… I’m sure he would be a great person.…

We did a lot of things in his honor today. The first thing is we woke up at 3:30 in along with our housemates hike up Bolton.… We wanted to see the sunrise

I got a piece of that old tower just to remember it bye. We’ve been up at roughly 28 times since Sam died to mark his birthday and death day

It was funny seeing all that snow and being so cold in the morning and so hot down here in the valley… It was 90° again

We were home by 6:30… I went to sleep for another couple of hours. We spent the rest of the day working around the house.… It felt good to be taking a day off to think about Sam. We spent some time in the pool and we took took the dogs down to the swimming hole

Around 4 o’clock we had cheesecake with homemade homegrown rhubarb sauce that Diane had made. Deb come by so it was the five of us. A perfect small quiet party for sam

All day long we were getting nice texts and emails from people with thoughts about Sam. Our friends Linda and david sent us some pictures that I had never seen a Sam and their daughter Andria who just got married.… The one picture of sam and Chi got me crying… I was looking for doing that today… So it kind of helped

I showed it to Ty… I think she cried too 😉

At seven we had asked everybody to do a toast to sam… We got another Red Bull port a little out for Sam and let a candle for him. I felt like a good closed for the day

Happy birthday sam… We love you my son… We always will

Nite all, nite sam

-me