Friday night – celebrating Sam

The 22nd is the day that Sam donated his organs to save 4 other people. You can help us honor Sam by having a conversation about Organ Donation with your family. You can learn more about it here.   I hope it never comes up in your family, but if it does, the most important thing is that your family knows your wishes…

 

today is also the day this year that we invited friends over to remember sam  . more than 60 of our friends.. many of them Sam’s freinds came by for a potluck tonight.. it was so great seeing everyone. we had picture books of sams life out. folks got a chance to look through them.. mostly folks just ate, drank and hung out..

 

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gabe and sue look identical from the back of the head

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we all did a red bull toast

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then we had a birthday cake for kevin who turned 22 (I think) tonight..

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speech !!!

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when the time was right, max, gabe and I and some friends snuck out to the lab and prepared the fireworks for the burn..

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i’d built a burning man out of some old  broken Adirondack chairs we had.. gabe , max, colin, mason and I got the guy loaded with fireworks and doused with liquid courage IMG_6426

 

then we lit three roman candles and took aim.. IMG_6432

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it went up like  rocket !

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after the fire, it was inside for samstones.. IMG_6515

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A great evening … made us all feel so good to be surrounded by that much love

Thank you all for helping us remember our great kid..

we love you all

nite all, nite sam

-me

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