its joe

today is my big brother's birthday. he's a really cool dude.
to comemorate his big day, i am dedicating an entire post to joe.


i'll start off by telling you a few facts about him

1. he started blogging before i did. yes.
2. he is quite possibly the funniest person i know.
3. he sadly grew up with two younger sister. sometimes he forgot we were girls.
4. he is one of the most competitive human that i know. apples to apples is not just a game. neither is euchre. or the wii.
5. he is afraid of critters. like deer. and raccoons.
6. he is surprisingly an amazing singer.
7. when he was younger he constantly licked his chapped lips. creating a ring around his mouth that looked like he drank red cool-aid very sloppily.
   

here are some funny stories from our childhood.

1. when we were younger, joe created this game called tackle that he made alli and i play. basically joe would be on his knees in the living room and alli and i had to run from one end to the other. we usually played this game on sundays after church...in our church clothes. i sucked at this game. im surprised our mom let us play it. joe wasnt exactly gentle. but it was a fun game.
2. i think when joe was in 4th or 5th grade, his friends would come over a bunch in the summer. they decided to make a tree fort in the back yard. after some deliberation, they must have decided that a tree fort would be too hard to make, so instead they decided to dig underground. for the whole summer joe and his friends dug a massive hole in out backyard, then somehow rigged a cover over it. girls werent allowed, but one day i snuck into it. it wasnt really that cool. i think that hole is still in our backyard.
3. when joe and i were waiting for the bus one morning, we got really bored. we lived on a relatively busy street. so joe decided it would be really funny if he pretended to smack me when cars drove by. this was funyn for the first 10 cars that went by. there was one last car that was driving by before our bus came to pick us up and joe wanted to make this one look good. he wound up and......smacked me. square in my face. super hard. he then proceeded to tell me not to cry because he didnt want to get in trouble.
4. when joe was in high school he had a truck. it was a blue dodge dakota...i think it was a '94. anyway, this thing was a beaut. the drivers side door would fall off its hinges if you opened it and the thing would staul out all the time. in the winter, if you didnt turn it on roughly 20 mins before leaving, you were basically screwed. one especially cold morning while on on the way to school, joe had to stop at a red light. he had gotten very good at not actually stopping at these things because his car would staul out everytime. this light he had to stop at. his car stauled exactly 14 times with in about a 45 second period. not joking. i was passed down this lovely truck. it blessed me with the scariest moment of my entire life. the brake cable broke when i was coming down a hill to an innersection.

so happy birthday joe. you are a pretty cool dude and a really great brother!