Today is Garth’s birthday!!! Do you know how old (or young) he is? Fifty! I can hardly believe it. For a few months he is in the same decade as my parents. That blows me away! He is not letting the number determine his actions (Now, that could be a good thing or a bad thing!) But in this case it is a good thing. We are all very blessed to have him. He loves life, loves people, and loves to laugh. What a blessing from God!
I decided to try and throw him a surprise birthday party at MAF. Up until about 20 minutes before we were to be there he had no idea. Then he started to figure it out. I had asked everyone, “If you are older than Garth wear black. Younger than him wear white.” So Garth saw the kids and I all in white and saw that I laid him out a black shirt to wear and he started wondering what was going on. But it was still a lot of fun!
How funny-there was only one other person in black!
Garth, and Cale and I took a beautiful motorcycle ride out to the cross this morning and then we had a dorm party for him tonight. I hung up a bunch of older pictures of Garth for all to see. There were still a bunch of cakes left from Saturday’s party so all I did was make him an apple pie. Some of the dorm kids got him diapers…a friend of ours got him a beautiful handcrafted Indonesian man in a boat. One of my gifts he will get to do tomorrow-a flight in MAF’s latest new airplane-the Kodiak! That will be so much fun! I am sure he will take pictures for you to see.
Whether you are fifty, or fifteen or any number below or above-enjoy your minutes. They go by quickly!
Love you
Rachel
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