Happy 11th Birthday! I hope you are having an AMAZING day today (I'm 100% positive you are as you LOVE both cake and presents...I mean who doesn't, but you were like a drug addict when it came to cake and presents)!
Let's see even though you are no longer here, I still feel your presence.
Like the day after you died, I was watching the baby story and the mom named her daughter Allie.
A few days before what would have been the 10th anniversary of when we brought you home this happened: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/559914737/the-veronica-mars-movie-project. Yeah, Veronica Mars saved me yet again because it is giving me something to look forward to and to strive for and every time I get an email, I smile because I cannot wait. I feel closer to you while watching VM probably because you were always right there by our side whether it was watching tv, eating dinner, road trips, and walking.
Ray Charles looks exactly like you:
Over the last year or so I have had a few dreams about you, which makes it seem like you are not so far way from me.
And the last one, Jenni (New Jersey blogger, who drives an Acadia and who's second son was born the day after dad's bday) just gave birth to her daughter today, yes one day before your birthday and she along with mom, dad, and Rebecca are just a few of my role models (for well being awesome and for putting things in perspective for me): http://www.jennifromtheblog.com/2014/01/its-my-babys-birthday.html.
So yeah, even though you are no longer here, you are still very much alive in our hearts and minds (and maybe even as Ray). Stay beautiful, loving, lovely, and dignified.
You are defiantly a Noble Kind.