Michael Bender

Mikey!  So handsome, so kind... (unless you lived with him).  hehe.  The best memory I have of Michael is....well wait there are two.

 

The first one is where I got to know him the most.  Me, Dwaye and Michael sat out side of the Movie theatre in Mira Mesa on a blanket so we could see Harry Potter at 12:01A.M.  We talked for hours about all kinds of random things.  Thats where I learned how fun he was.  We had a particular fun time arguing with the mormons that were out boycotting Harry Potter as (evil)..hehe.

 

The second best memory is when I went with Victoria and Dwayne to TGIF and we were waiting for more people to show up...so we decided to have a beer at the bar :)

 

I was really in the mood for beer so I drank it down pretty quick... and I felt the best burp ever coming up and I just went for it.  Michael put his beer down and looked at me and said "I think I just feel in love".  HAHAHA we laughed so hard!  Hey, its hard to find another guy that can really truly appreciate a good burp from a good beer!

 

I will never forget Michael, or how warm and close everyone was during such a hard time.  All my love... Kevin.

 

 

One of my favorite memories was a baseball game we went to that was Padres VS Cubs. Erin and I must of been 12 or something....Everytime the Padres would score a run Mike would take off his Cubs Shirt and Cubs hat and put them on me, he was so upset with the Cubs that he would rather sit there half naked than wear Cubs clothing. Then when the Cubs would score a run he would rip the clothing off me and put it back on himself...This went on the whole game. I didn't mind :) It was entertaining!

Now that the holidays are over I was thinking of the New Years eve paarty you had at the house with your friends.  Rarely did you have them over let alone have I ever seen you drunk.  Oh, I knew you drank, but that night you were in rare form.  I came home and you came into my room telling me you had your head in the toilet for the last hour, that I was such a great mom, that you loved me, then you passed out.  You spent the entire night there. It was hysterical.

Growing up with Mike was always an adventure.  Getting my head stuck in the banister because he told me I would fit.  I had to sit with my head stuck for what felt like forever until dad came home and helped me out.  Or the time he told me if i didnt eat all my dinner the boogyman would come and get me and that night he and dad snuck outside my window with flashlights and banged and screamed like they were the boogyman.  One time he told me I was hatched because I didnt have a birthmark--if i was born i would have had one so clearly i must have been hatched since i didnt. 
At CCD (our catholic school classes) he Mike farted and for some reason we both got sent to the principals office.

We must have been about 8 and 10 when we traded rooms one night when we were home alone.  We moved all our furniture and toys ourselves and when mom and dad came home we hid under the blankets in our new rooms confusing the hell out of our parents.

Ill always love the cruises we went on.  those were the times when my brother and I were inseparable.  For a whole week it was me and him playing ship wide hide and seek with the teen groups, going to shows, and as we got older getting drunk and pigging out at every midnight buffet possible. 

Every Christmas Eve Mike and I would jump into bed and watch A Christmas Story at least 3 times during the 24 hour marathon.

I like many of you could go on forever....ill add more later :) 

How about how funny it was when Grampa Phil was sleeping on the puffing chair and i goated Michael into running from across the room and jumping on him to wake him up? Brilliant!