Brian @ Wongside

Happy Birthday, Jesus! May the celebration of your birth today be a blessing to you and God our Father.

Happy Birthday to my sister-in-law Amy. It was fun celebrating with you at DishDash last week.  Hope you and the family had fun at Disneyland this year.

Were she still alive, today would have been my Po Po’s birthday. She would have been 87. Amazing!

In any case, I figure she now has a date even more important than her birthday: the day she entered into God’s presence. As I noted earlier in the blog, she died on Nov. 1, and found herself instantly in God’s presence.

Po Po, we miss you here on Earth, but we still look forward to the day when we’ll see you again.

Happy Birthday to my wonderful, beautiful wife!

Yesterday was my birthday, but I purposefully kept things low-key. I don’t have the time or energy to to do much for my birthday with all this wedding planning going on. (As an aside, we now have less than one month until the wedding, and time is ticking fast.) I think we’re going to postpone my birthday celebration until the summer when we’ll have time to actually sit down and plan something.

At any rate, Charlene was kind enough to make dinner for me, and it was delicious. We had ribeye steak, mashed potatoes, mushroom risoto, vegetables, and garlic bread. A definite night of carbo loading. Mmm…I can’t wait to eat my leftovers for lunch today. Thank you Charlene!

Merry Christmas everyone. We have much to be thankful for as we celebrate the birth of Messiah today. In honor of Christ’s birth, I thought I’d post The Bible Experience dramatized version of the Christmas Story (MP3).

Christ the Savior is Born!

Happy birthday to my cousin and future groomsman, Jay. Guess you get to rent cars now with no financial penalty. Best wishes for your 25th year!

Last night Charlene and I were in Oakland for the celebration of Mrs. Lula Baird. We were there to celebrate her 100th birthday.  That’s crazy!  I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who was 100 years old.  The quite amazing thing is that she’s completely lucid.  No dementia, no terminal illness, nothing. She is in a wheel chair, but that’s about it.  It’s quite amazing!

She’s had an amazing life serving the Lord, and she had a special impact on Charlene’s live in particular. I praise God for people like Mrs. Baird.

Happy Birthday, Mom!  Sorry I couldn’t celebrate dinner with you tonight, but I’m glad we had a chance to yesterday. I’m also glad I got to spend a few days with you and dad. See you this weekend!

My future sister-in-law, Elaine is having a birthday party tonight at her place.  I’m still sick, so we’ll see how far I make it into the night.  Ugh.  I hate being sick.