I interrupt my regularly scheduled blog post.....

To say Happy Birthday Brother!

So 35 years ago the first chosen one of the Ken Bryant family came into the world. As the oldest he has set some pretty high standards for his younger siblings to follow. After all, he is the "glue" that holds our family together. Here are some of the lessons I have learned from him.

• The best advice I ever received, just after graduating high school. Cade told me to really load up my first semester of college and take as many credits as I could. That way, anything less would seem like a piece of cake. I took his advice and although I didn't graduate in 3 years like him, I still apply this same principle to other aspects of my life.
• When I first started getting into running, Cade was always encouraging me and motivating me to push myself. The night before I ran a marathon he called me to remind me that it would be hard but that was what would make it so great. He loves to quote Tom Hanks from "A League of Their Own" and say that if it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. I still hear Cade's voice telling me this whenever I want to give up on something.
• Cade can be pretty generous. When I was a "starving college student" the football team at my school was set to play in the Fiesta Bowl in Arizona. I happened to be going down there for a friend's wedding the same weekend they were supposed to play. Tickets were pretty expensive and even though I really wanted to go, I couldn't justify the cost. Cade told me that it killed him that I wasn't taking advantage of the opportunity to go to the game, even though it was a team he really disliked. So he gave me money to buy a ticket to the game. I don't know if I've ever been so surprised or more touched by this gesture.

Thanks for the memories bro, and I hope you have a very Feliz Cumpleanos!!!