{"id":319,"date":"2007-06-10T03:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-10T07:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/06\/10\/sat-night-gabes-12th-brithday\/"},"modified":"2007-06-10T03:32:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-10T07:32:00","slug":"sat-night-gabes-12th-brithday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/06\/10\/sat-night-gabes-12th-brithday\/","title":{"rendered":"Sat night – gabe’s 12th brithday !"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today is  <\/span>Gabe’s 12th<\/sup> birthday and it was a really fun and full day. Everyone was awake early and ready to get on with the parties .  <\/span>I woke up determined to help make this a day completely about Gabe\u2026 We started by wrapping Gabe’s presents in our traditional  <\/span>family style using towels, shirts and socks\u2026 preferably clean. <\/p>\n

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We all gathered around the pile downstairs then summoned Gabe to come down.. The first thing that Gabe opened was a box with a slip of paper in it\u2026 with a picture of the trampoline that is somewhere in route between Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> and here. <\/p>\n

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Gabe was so psyched ! He always has wanted a ‘tramp \u2026 and we finally gave in.. .Sam always wanted one too.. I think\/hope he’d be happy that Gabe is getting one now. Gabe also got a digital camera since he’s always borrowing mine <\/p>\n

     <\/span> <\/span>After the booty was all unwrapped we retired to the kitchen for the first cake of the day.. Casey and Chris  <\/span>had slept over the night before\u2026 so we already had 6 in the house.. just as Gabe was blowing out the candles another 5 people showed up\u2026 Scott, Justin. Julia, Nate, Devon<\/st1:place> and a Blond kid I’d never met.. That brought the first party up to about 12 folks.. <\/p>\n

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After Cake,   <\/span>I helped Devon<\/st1:place> and his friends re-rig the ‘Spirit of Captain Sam’ the raft that we used in pond skimming at Bolton<\/st1:place> a few months back. We’d taken off the skis and now relashed the intertubes to the platform that Sam had built last year. I built them a new flag pole and we raised the colors.. (note the Sam pin on the flag). The boys took the raft down to the Winooski and launched under the bridge. I think it took them about 4 hours to make it to Richmond<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>.. looked like a very cool adventure..   <\/span><\/p>\n

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    <\/span>A little bit after than. Gabe got ready for Lacrosse. Diane took him, Chris and Casey up to St. Albans<\/st1:place> for three games today.. I stayed home and prepped for the party tonight. <\/p>\n

I spent several hour cleaning the house and yard in order to let the kids mess it up tonight J<\/span><\/span>.   <\/span>I still have a sore  <\/span>throat .. but  <\/span>my fever had broken so I slipped out and took a great run up in the woods up the old long trail and down some of the old logging roads.. it was a lot of climbing which felt good. Gabe and Diane got home around 5. As soon as they got home the guys called from the park to ask me to come fetch the raft. I got down there to find that there was a big concert going on. The concert was called . ‘Heiferpatwoza’ because it was a benefit for the Hiefer foundation (http:\/\/www.heiferfoundation.org\/<\/a>)  <\/span>that uses donations to buy livestock for folks around the world who need them .   <\/span>:It looked like all my favorite music was there  <\/span>Skanky Green, Kevin, Erin B. Lara H\u2026 but I couldn’t stay.. we were expecting the next wave of folks at home for Gabe’s birthday <\/p>\n

The kids helped me load the raft into the car .. We had to stick the flag out the sunroof. <\/p>\n

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Before I drove off I took a quick peek into the new home of ‘On the Rise’   <\/span>down by the park. It looks so wonderful in there. When I walked in Ben motioned me behind the counter and showed me how they’d cemented a SamStone on the upper right of the brick oven they built.. He told me there’s another one deep inside the chimney. That is just so wonderful !<\/p>\n

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    <\/span>I got home just as kids and parents were starting to show up for Gabe’s party .. I think there were about 40 folks here around dinner.. Diane and Max grilled hamburgers, hotdogs, veggie dogs and veggi  <\/span>burgers while I just sat like  <\/span>a veggie myself and drank beer with Dave K and Deb.. It was pretty nice.. The kids had a blast too.. lots of folks in the pool, paying Frisbee and running around\u2026  <\/span>One thing I noticed is that lots of the kids had painted parts of their bodies at the concert today.. here are a few samples.<\/p>\n

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This is Abbot’s black and whte tatoo that was colored with face paint<\/o:p><\/p>\n

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This is the same design on Meghan’s guitar and on Kyle’s leg !<\/o:p><\/p>\n

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Around dark we sang happy birthday again and ate the second and third cakes for the day. (Note Max’s tasteful decoration of his brothers cake.. )<\/p>\n

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After cake we lit a fire in the back yard and sat around and talked. Some friends of ours had brought some great <\/b>fireworks which we set off in honor of Gabe.<\/p>\n

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They were some of the best store bought fireworks I’ve ever seen ! I also took the opportunity to write Gabe’s name in Magnesium ribbon and burned that.. <\/p>\n

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We also burned off some of the leftover ;rock candy’ smoke bomb material I made for last weekends mythbusters movie sequence.. <\/p>\n

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Boys and fire\u2026 what could be sweeter ? <\/p>\n

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Once things calmed down Diane and I took a walk to the sandpit to watch the stars It was a beautiful night.. so we did a little catching up with Sam.. we both needed that after this long and happy day\u2026 <\/p>\n

   <\/span>Well.. tit’s 1:30<\/st1:time> and there are at least 8 kids spending the night tonight The house is peaceful and quiet.  <\/span>Which  <\/span>means something must be  <\/span>up.. I’ll sign off now and go check. Happy Birthday Gabe from all of us. We love you !<\/p>\n

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