40 Things for Liz

40 Things I will Always Remember:

1) Your infectious laugh
2) You always making any situation incredibly fun
3) First days skiing at Solitude
4) Lake Okanagan
5) Our last bike ride together around Lake Tahoe
6) Las Guayabas
7) You lighting your kitchen table on fire
8) Our 1,000,000th time riding the Crest Trail together
9) Watching you with Anja, Sienna, and Asher and hoping I would be half the parent you are
10) Three Amigos
11) Our first day riding at Park West
12) Camping/biking in Moab - Poison Spider, Slickrock, Porcupine
13) Fiery Furnace
14) Summers in Paradise (California)
15) Big Blue (truck)
16) Your work ethic
17) Your adventure to Maui (while we are all home worried sick)
18) Willy Wonka (the original!)
19) Always defending me (even when I probably didn't deserve it)
20) Many, many birthday dinners at Kyotos with birthday compadre Kristin and family
21) Lake Powell
22) Our lengthy Sunday dinner discussions
23) Loving that you met and helped usher in our son Mason
24) Big Cottonwood Canyon
25) Little Cottonwood Canyon
26) Walking around Silver Lake
27) LOTOJA 2008
28) Dancing to Neil Diamond (or perhaps an impersonator) at my wedding
29) Karaoke!!!
30) Having you ALL back the last couple of years before we lost you
31) Listening to you re-enact Reno 911 episodes
32) Holding my head as a little boy
33) The light that Laila brought to any room during those first few weeks after we lost you
34) Neon spandex (for any occasion), roller skates, dancing
35) Holding a candle for you at the CHOICE vigil and the perfect sunset
36) Ferguson Canyon
37) The fact you always included me (and everyone) all the time in anything
38) Getting to think about you and know you are always around now
39) Your passion for connecting with people
40) The happiness you brought and continue to bring to any moment

Miss you Lizzie, happy 40th birthday dear sister.

Timmy