Happy Birthday to _jody744__ !

Life is so precious that each year we are blessed with, is something to be celebrated with joy.
In our family going out to eat was something reserved for adults and then only on special occasions. Being taken when I was seven to a restaurant for my birthday dinner was quite memorable. I felt so special and all grown up tasting Cantonese food for the first time and have had a fondness for oriental foods ever since.:)
Sarah, I hope you have the best of birthdays!
 
On my 18th birthday, I went to the hospital to visit my aunt who had just been admitted. She said "Being in a hospital is no way to spend your birthday Johnny, but you were born in this one, so welcome back!". You could never get her down. I always think of her on my birthday.

The most amazing birthday I remember was when the nurse handed me my daughter when she was born, she looked straight into my eyes and never looked away for what seemed like forever. I swear time stood still. I've never had a clearer moment and doubt I ever will. When my boy was born, he could care less, I think he was checking out the nurses.

Thanks Sarah for a chance at a fine giveaway, you're a sweetheart and a good egg.
Happy Birthday!

Edit to add: Send my winnings to Jfowl31, post #27 shows us tough guys are butter when it comes to our little girls. Funny how they end up teaching us more than we teach them. You got a good lesson that night.
 
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I'm in.

My story is my son was born on my Grandfathers (dads dad) 90th birthday. The following year my Grandfather past away on his 91st birthday my sons 1st. My niece was was worried and did not want to share her birthday with my son.
I was born on my aunts birthday.

Happy Birthday and I hope this one is a special one for you. I have this picture in my head of Amy Farrah Fowler on Big Bang getting a tiara and saying "put it on me put it on me".

Thanks
Dave
 
So far I'd say the most memorable for me was when my daughter was born on April 11th last year. She is my little princess. I will always remember her opening her eyes and looking at us and wrapping her tiny little hands around my finger and just staring up at me and seemingly into my soul to see where she had come from and to find out who I was. She gets the biggest smile every time we see each other and now likes to show off her first tooth by biting my finger lol. Here is my little precious princess, as you can see her eyes are as blue as that Camel bone. Simply gorgeous.

Happy Birthday to you Sarah, may it be a blessed one!

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Who can resist a blue knife? Please count me in.

I dearly wish that I had a great story to share, but my birthdays have all come and gone as expected. However, I can say that the experience of being present for the birth of my 3 children, each a unique joy, has eclipsed any other.

Hope your upcoming birthday is warm, safe , and a pile of fun. (Even slipped in knife term...)
Best wishes,
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I have had many great birthday celebrations but none quite as memorable as October 15, 2014. I have 2 daughters, 1 was 3 and the other was 6 months old coming off a spinal surgery that "set her back" a few months so that she was essentially a very large new born. The 3 year old was in full blown tantrum mode because she wasn't getting near enough attention with a new baby and a major surgery in the mix...

So I sat her down and talked to her about how important it was to me that she behave while we went to my favorite Italian food joint and how proud she would make me if she could get through dinner without getting in trouble. All through dinner I could see her struggling. She would come over to me and hug me and ask me how she was doing. She wanted desperately to impress her father and it touched my heart to see her trying so hard. She made it through the entire dinner like a perfect angel and ate every single bite of her food and I was so proud of her and myself for making this great evening happen!

So I pick her up to carry her to the car and she immediately loses every single ounce of chicken Alfredo she ingested directly on me... Covered me from chin to belt buckle! Come to find out, she had been fighting a migraine all through dinner and didn't want to tell me because she didn't want to disappoint me. I've never been so sad and so proud and so disgusted at the same time! Since we were both covered in puke, she rode in my lap back to the house and fell asleep on me before we got there. I ended the night of my birthday bathing a 3 year old who is dosing off covered in puke with tears in my eyes.

Definitely one I won't be forgetting any time soon! My daughter and I got a lot closer that evening... She's my shadow as soon as I walk in the door from work until I put her to bed.

Oh... This year I decided we would go bowling... I get more satisfaction out of seeing her have fun than eating Italian food anyway... And I don't think I can ever eat there again after that smell!

 
Happy coming birthday, I am a June baby my knife addiction came on my 10 birthday( 18 now) with the gift of a buck fixed blade. Lost that hunting when I was 14 and devastated started into moderns knife, then came home with a buck 110 and now. Love those traditional knifes. My current edc is a case yellow handled trapper and a north field Barlow pictured below. Currently excited for the gec beagle to hit my pocket to act as a sweet secondary. Love the blade on the Barlow stripped wire like a glove. Makes my dad to hear my boss say I have not seen a knife like that since I was a kid.
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Not an entry but Happy Birthday and thanks for hosting such a generous giveaway.

Jim
 
Most happy birthday memories are now related to my kids, but I have had a few great ones myself. Once for my birthday, I went to the famous Buckhorn Exchange in Denver, CO, for dinner. The place holds liquor license #1 in the state of Colorado, it opened in 1893. Five US Presidents dined there, and a spectacular place it is, with over 500 taxidermy mounts, and 100 guns. I ate alligator tail, rattlesnake, elk and quail!

Thanks for the great GAW Sarah!
 
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I've always liked doing something quiet and secluded for my Birthday. I'll have to run out to the lake or take a nice hike for mine coming up this march. I'm in, thanks for the gesture.
 
Thanks for the gracious GAW, Sarah. I was born one day before my mother's birthday and that was always pretty cool for both of us.
Here's a photo of an Indigo Bunting that I took and thought you may like it.

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Happy Birthday and great GAW.

My favorite memory is not of a specific birthday, but of a present I got. My birthday is Dec 17 and always seemed to get lost in the hustle and bustle of Christmas. But the one birthday present I do remember is a fishing trip my wife gave to me, to go fishing with my dad, for one last time, in Alaska. My dad and I had fished for trout in the Sierras Mountains in CA since I could walk. He had always wanted to go to Alaska to fish. As a father myself, I finally had the opportunity to do so with him. He was old and his health was declining, but we had a great time catching Salmon and trout (he gets too seasick to go after halibut or any other ocean fish). It was wonderful to see the sparkle in his eye when he hooked a fish and it was especially rewarding when I could help him do so. I spent a lot of time tying on hooks, or un doing tangles, just the same way he did for me when I was young. It was one of the most rewarding trips I have been on.

Well he passed away 2 years ago. Ironically I did a GAW that ended today in honor of him and my father in law who passed away 2 weeks ago, 2 days after the anniversary of his death. Both were great men. It was the "Bad Week Give Away" in the general forum.

Happy Birthday again, and here is a picture of his knife with a bottle of Wild Turkey. His favorite cocktail was a whiskey sour, with wild turkey of course... Cheers!
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I was born on my mother’s birthday, and a day after my maternal grandfather’s birthday. For the rest of his life that crotchety old man was sore that his daughter delivered on the wrong date! My memory doesn’t stretch back that far (Hey, quiet in the cheap seats, it’s ages since I last put a knife in the freezer!), but I do have memories from my third birthday. I remember my birthday cake in the shape of a soccer pitch, sharing it with other children, who were all a little older than me, and playing hide-and-seek.

On my fifth birthday I recall receiving a toy gold James Bond Aston Martin, which ejected a little man through the roof, and a ‘P38’ cap-pistol. Birthdays were marked with be-candled cakes, and jelly and ice-cream, games of ‘Pass-the-Parcel’ and ‘Blind Man’s Buff’.

I remember all the milestone birthdays,; 18, 21, 30, 40, 50. I even had a party for my 50th, which I’ve not done since I was a child. Along the way, I’ve celebrated the special birthdays of my three children, my granddaughter, and of course those of many friends, relatives, girlfriends, and partners. I try to remember the dates of friend’s birthdays, and their kids, so that I can give them a small gift, though my memory sometimes fails me these days.



I had a lovely birthday last year, travelling to Whitby, a seaside town I love on the North Yorkshire coast, first-class on a steam train. At a time when birthdays seem to be coming round a little too quickly, it was a real treat. I took my first Charlow with me for good luck.

Hope you have an absolutely wonderful birthday Sarah, you’ve been a great pal to me since I first began posting regularly in Traditionals, and your knowledge, and insight, and humour, and technical wizardry are priceless. I love your love of the Wierd Little Stubby Things, and your penchant for a very particular blue, and would enjoy carrying a knife that would make me smile and chuckle whenever I took it out of my pocket. So please have a very Happy Birthday my friend, and please count me in for this one :thumbup:

Jack
 
Happy Birthday!
My birthday is December 22nd, so it usually gets lost in the holiday shuffle,except for 2 notable occasions. On my 21st and my 50th birthdays I was given surprise birthday parties. Special people helped me celebrate special birthdays - what a hoot! (That one was for you P)
 
RobertJ1 said:
So far I'd say the most memorable for me was when my daughter was born on April 11th last year.
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Your daughter is a special one. :thumbup: My 40th is this year, when your little one turns one. :eek:

Welcome to the Aries club, and to the four-eleven VIP room, blue-eyes! :D

And happy birthday to you, Sarah!
 
Thanks for the GAW. I'm in. I guess on of my most memorable birthdays was my 50th. My wife bought me a "Richard Petty Driving Experience". Went to Louden NH to the track and drove a NASCAR stock car. That was pretty neat.
 
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