Important Facts About Kevin
1. Kevin doesn’t forget a phone number. If I can’t find a phone number, all I have to do is call him up.
2. Kevin calls me on every single holiday to wish me a happy day.
3. Kevin sends me cards and writes, “You are a great sister” and “Thanks for always being nice to me”
4. Kevin buys $7 cards that play music. Lauren loves them!
5. Kevin loves to cook and his signature dish is homemade spaghetti sauce. He also makes a mean chili with canned Wolf brand chili and spaghetti sauce, topped with Fritos and cheese.
6. Kevin gets great pleasure out of hosting dinner parties. He either makes his homemade spaghetti sauce, chili, grilled hamburgers or chicken pot pie.
7. Kevin loves to go to Christian concerts. I bet he plans his next concert before leaving his current one!
8. Kevin has more friends than you and I ever will. If he goes to the grocery store or the bank or the post office, he sees a friend. In fact, everyone at the bank knows him- very well.
9. Kevin has had more fender-benders than you can imagine. And he got a ticket once for tailgating a police officer.
10. One time Kevin was visiting The Potter’s House and was in line for the restroom behind Kirk Franklin. Kevin said, “Hey Kirk.”
11. Kevin invited Charlie Wilson to his house-warming party. He didn’t know that Charlie Wilson was famous. He just knew him as a nice man who came in for Subway sandwiches. Charlie didn’t go to Kevin’s house-warming party but did send an autographed picture of the U.S. Capital.
12. Kevin works at Target now and is very proud of his 10% discount.
13. Kevin often calls to tell me about a great movie. After a 5 minute description of the movie and plot, he says bye.
14. Kevin is constantly changing his TV cable service. He loves to find a plan with more channels and more options.
15. Kevin loves science fiction.
16. Kevin’s answering machine message says, “You know what to do at the tone.”
17. Kevin’s best friend is an engineer. They’ve been friends since age 7 or 8.
18. Once when we were little Kevin was playing like he was sawing my arm off with his Fisher Price plastic saw. I ran to the kitchen and squirted ketchup on my arm. When Kevin saw my “bloody” arm, he took off running for the bathroom and came back with band aids. He was really worried.
19. The school counselor called my mom at work, excited as can be, when Kevin finally passed the math portion of the standardized test to graduate.
20. Kevin loves Ray’s Drive-In, a family owned burger place.
21. Kevin does not like sitting in a movie theater next to talking or eating-loudly people.
22. Kevin huffs and puffs when he is mad.
23. Kevin huffs and puffs in the movie theater.
24. One time Kevin was buying some food at the grocery store and the cashier handed him change. Kevin counted it up, handed some back and said, “You gave me too much.”
25. Kevin wears cologne- lots of cologne.
26. Kevin has great persistence. He never, ever gives up.
27. I give my brother Kevin a lot of credit for how I feel about Carmen. Kevin has dealt with many difficulties in life but has taught me that no matter a person’s limitations, they have great worth.
28. Kevin just had a birthday. Happy 28th birthday Kevin!
We love you Kevin!
Kevin and Carmen, June 2007
Happy Birthday, Kevin!!!
Hey Kevin, where ya at???
Happy Birthday Kevin
Love,
Dave’s Sister
Hi Trish, tell Samaiah happy birthday from all of us!!!!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KEVIN!!
Have a very happy day.
With all of those facts your Sister wrote about you, I wish I knew you personally. What a wonderful, smart, and sweet person you are. I can’t even remember my own phone number!
Lana, That picture is beautiful, it brought tears to my eyes. It brings to mind “I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” Having little children reminds me of this every day.
Debbie
Happy brithday Kevin – you sound like a wonderful brother & uncle!!
Happy Birthday Kevin, I hope it is a great one. What a lucky sister you have. Long before I got hurt I used to sit on top of the biggest building I worked on in Hunt Valley early in the morning with a cup of coffee, my bible, and a cigerette. What a combo huh? I have long since quit smoking but that don’t matter. One day some one joined me and we watched all the people get off the light rail or busses to go to work and my visitor said some thing snide about “those people”. I remember looking at him and saying, “funny some people look at us in our blue colllar shirts with our name on them and say the same about us. Then I said how those people get up an hour before we do to get a bus and take an hour to travel a 1/2 hr trip, work all day and take another bus home the same way. Only their “home” is not theirs they rent. We get a company vehicle, gas paid, travel time paid, and live in our own home and get paid 2 or 3 thimes the pay they get. “Would you do all that for minimum wage?” No he said. He didn’t visit me on the roof any more. It is easy for most of us to go about life but look at Kevin, how many of us could do what he does. Not many I say. I have a lot of respect for you Kevin. God bless and never quit. In Christ, Joe Hope my story is good and I did not forget to finish my writing from before, I just needed a break
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Happy Birthday Kevin!! Your sister’s love for you is radiates in her words.
Happy Birthday Kevin!
May we have the chili recipe???
Happy Birthday, Kevin! Your Realness, as your sister lists, is so refreshing. God is speaking through you to us who make life unnecessarily complicated. I love Christian concerts, too. Have you gone to Michael W. Smith’s????
Thank you, Lana, for sharing your brother with us.
I don’t know Kevin, but I love him. We adopted our daughter from Guatemala and came to find out that she has special needs. But after reading about Kevin it gives me great hope that no matter what your limitations, happiness is a key factor, and Kevin seems to have that.
Happy Birthday Kevin
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