July 26, 2022

Dear Randy,

I know this is a little late, but happy birthday son. I haven’t posted anything here in a while because life is so hard without you here, I get too sad to even post. But since it’s for your birthday, I wasn’t going to let this pass by unacknowledged. So wherever you are, I hope you had a beautiful birthday and felt the love that we send to you each and every day.

To celebrate your special day, we had a birthday celebration in your honor at Plaza Lanes on July 23rd. There was a really good turnout for you, even though your presence was sorely missed. It was good, but definitely not the same as it would have been with you there. I would have bowled against you and pestered you constantly lol! Mr Gutter Ball! Lol…

A lot of your family and friends came out to show you they still love and miss you. Alyssa was there (of course lol), Mikey came up from Kentucky, Blejski bowled, and even Sean, Brian, Matt, and Evan came out to celebrate you. They all love and miss you.

They put your chubby cheeks on all the screens…

It was a special celebration and I believe you would’ve enjoyed it very much. We did what you would have wanted us to do and tried to have fun. I think we achieved that as best as we could, even though we all knew that you weren’t going to walk around the corner and join us. But we did our best…