Happy Birthday, Christopher!
Chris is a friend to everyone and knows how to make all he meets feel like a million bucks.
When he left on his mission, I ached at the thought of not seeing his smile.
But we got to FaceTime every week so every Monday his energy and joy filled my little phone screen.
Chris has never shied away from hard work and you can always count in him to lend a hand.
He's a wonderful validator and is good at seeing life through another's perspective.
He's a literal mover and a shaker in that his whole life he was always running, jumping, flipping--
climbing trees, flipping on the trampoline, backflipping on the ground,
climbing the doorframes, doing pull ups, skate boarding and skiing.
This year I've seen him make strides in learning to slow down.
He is dedicated to fitness, but also meditation/yoga, scriptures, morning sunlight and cold plunges.
He's finding the right balance for him between social and alone time.
He's been working three jobs as well as going to school this year!
He's in the t-shirt business working to grow sales and customer service;
works for Cottonwood in their online rental services;
and is TA'ing for a finance professor including guiding grad students in making spreadsheets
to analyze their business ideas.
Something I love about him is he is so open with his feelings and descriptions of the day/week etc.
and doesn't mind listening to my going's and feelings as well.
Before we left for our trip, I wanted to get all the shopping for his birthday dinner done since it was the day after we got home. At Whole Foods I was questioning the man at the fish counter about ordering crab or freezing it etc. Told him it was my son's request for his birthday dinner and we'd be traveling, etc.
The man said, "So cute! How old is your son turning?"
"Oh, he's turning 23!"
Ha! The guy thought he was ten or something.
No, but I told him crab and artichokes has been his birthday dinner request since that age!
Once when we were in Alaska as a family feasting on crab,
at the end of dinner, the rest of us were scouring our last bits of shell for one more bite.
But Chris had methodically and patiently cracked his crab legs, and made a big pile of meat--
not eating any of it until he'd found all the meat. Then got to savor every delicious bite.
We were all jealous.
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