{"id":613,"date":"2021-03-13T22:05:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T04:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/?p=613"},"modified":"2021-03-14T23:08:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T04:08:56","slug":"happy-30-kevin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/?p=613","title":{"rendered":"Happy 30, Kevin!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Saturday, March 13, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"549\" height=\"776\" src=\"https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Kev1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Kev1.jpg 549w, https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Kev1-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So it went this fast. You were born, you started PreK-3, then you were five, we were playing &#8216;Take me to the Powerhouse,&#8217; (Zion),  then Grade School, Luther North, Dominican, Iowa, California\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holy Smokes! All those walks to Forest Glen, AWANA, singing songs, The Buffalo Club, Poetry Corner, falling out of bed laughing at my silly jokes, Sweets, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"534\" height=\"746\" src=\"https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/KevSweets-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/KevSweets-1.jpg 534w, https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/KevSweets-1-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Grandma and Grandpa, plays at Messiah, building that clay volcano in the sink, home haircuts!, your first (Tandy) computer, making those race cars downstairs in the wood shop, tricycles, bicycles, batting a ball, catching a ball, catching your first fish,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"980\" height=\"746\" src=\"https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Kev-First-Fish-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Kev-First-Fish-2.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Kev-First-Fish-2-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Kev-First-Fish-2-768x585.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>geocaching with your buddies, the Higher (and Lower) at FG, GPS on our walks, making stars shoot out of chimneys by jumping up and down, trips to White Pines, Drama Club at Luther, Homecoming, choir, piano lessons, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC9239-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC9239-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC9239-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC9239-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC9239.jpg 2040w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>drums, the trumpet, Graduation, moving into the dorm at Dominican with Tim Little, learning to drive, living on your own, heading west to Iowa State, meeting Jakki, and then California. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now you&#8217;re 30. Haven&#8217;t seen you in quite a few years, but I love you, son &#8211; in all the stages of your life. And forever. God Bless you and Happy Birthday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"332\" height=\"504\" src=\"https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/389161_4868227500330_1338580566_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/389161_4868227500330_1338580566_n.jpg 332w, https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/389161_4868227500330_1338580566_n-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/KevJakki.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/KevJakki.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/KevJakki-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, March 13, 2021 So it went this fast. You were born, you started PreK-3, then you were five, we were playing &#8216;Take me to the Powerhouse,&#8217; (Zion), then Grade School, Luther North, Dominican, Iowa, California\u2026 Holy Smokes! All those walks to Forest Glen, AWANA, singing songs, The Buffalo Club, Poetry Corner, falling out of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/?p=613\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy 30, Kevin!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randybaran.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}