May 11th Matthew Ray's Birthday !

Happy Happy Birthday Matthew Dear!

Matt in the 80's

Matt in 2008, sporting his favorite type of facial hair

I love you, so I thought I'd list some of the reasons, why you are so darn loveable big brother!

1. In college I scrapped your new truck along the side of your brick house and instead of yelling at me, you went on a walk.

2. You helped me find my second car (much less painful and time consuming then shopping with dad).

3. Numerous times you jumped my car, got me back into my car, fixed my car, threatened to take my car to the top of the canyon and just let it go, pulled friends cars out of snow banks, and another million car items I can't think of now.

4. You got me my first and only job at School (good old Icon)

5. Picking bucket loads of cherries one summer only to find out days later that they were filled with worms.

6. Water skiing on some incredibly small "lake" on what you claimed was a ski?

7. Trips to run the river, we could always count on you to entertain and man the fire.

8. Knowing I had a big brother around whenever I needed you!

9. Letting me buzz your hair (now looking back it was probably an excuse to come to my apartment and hang with my roommates)

10. Teaching me that men of few words have keen minds and the biggest hearts!

I love you Matt!

(Since my brother-in-law has moved out of our basement I no longer have access to a scanner so my photos are limited of Matthew, so I'll post what I can.)

Matt loves shorts, I think he almost wears them year round. I remember in High School during the winter he'd have sun burned legs from snow skiing in shorts. I doubt that living in Northern Idaho has slowed down his love for shorts . . . . he does have nice calves, so why not show them off!!

All the Linde siblings