My Older Brother (The REVENGE of the Princess Faith Post)

Alright, day 2 of the I-Love-My-Family-So-Eat-It challenge. For those of you just tuning, I challenged my friend Princess Faith to write about what she loves about all 2534678 of her siblings and do it better then me. So far Princess has posted about her sister Dayle and her brother Gordon. (But, see, Princess is cheating by using Gordon next because she know's I'll have to say that his post is great because he's on my youth group team.) I've already written about my sister Jenny. Today it's my brother's turn.

* A Note to Princess Faith*
I'm on too you. (In the words to your older brother Shane) #ILLEGAL

Day 2-My Older Brother Alex

My brother has something of an odd role in my life. He's there and he's not. While we aren't all that close we still care for each other like we are. My dad has described it as him "hard wiring" Alex to always protect and stick up for me. Not only that, but he's been a great role model as well. He's a good friend, not afraid to tell someone what they're doing is wrong, been more sympathetic then most boys I know. All-in-all, he's pretty good at being a big brother.

2008-2009 Christmas/New Years Vacation

Along with being a Class A older brother, Alex also happens to be extremely funny. First off, he's a master at keeping a straight face. Seriously. He kept a straight face during a whole dinner at Ed Debevic's. (For those of you who don't live in Chicago, Ed Debevic's is a burger joint that pays actor to wait on you and be extremely sarcastic and mean to you while you eat. Now, in theory, this seems like a terrible idea, and yet...) And while Alex can keep a straight face he also does the weirdest stuff he can think of. He's a classic goof. 

Four Years Later....And now he's showing off the guns...

Another thing I admire about Alex is his passion for Christ and his willingness to serve. He's volunteered at Camp Awana every summer and almost every winter weekend since he got into high school, he's been a founding member of a college aged bible study, and recently (literally the day after I got into Columbia College) he was admitted to Bethel College. He's a brother easy to be proud of.

He later told me he was considering pushing Sean in....

Guess who's idea this was.

He was so proud of me for graduating, OH WAIT...

Now these few short paragraphs cannot hope to begin to describe what Alex means to me, but with any luck it's a decent start. And all there's left to say is that I love you Alex, thank you for being a great brother. 

My Sister (The REVENGE of the Princess Faith Post)

So, all you Monkeys, recently my good friend and fellow writer (who sometimes part times as a Jedi Master) , Princess Faith, posted a wonderfully endearing post about her younger sister Dayle. I'm looking at this thing and thinking to myself, yeah, okay. That's all well and good, but don't you have two billion other siblings too write about? And while I'm at it, you can do better then a video and a couple of pictures of her. Come on Princess, take this to the next level! So, as a service to my dear friend princess, I'm going to go ahead and show her how it's done, one sibling at a time. For each day of the week until I get through all of them, I'm going to write an awesome post displaying the love I have for my family.

~* A Note To Princess Faith *~
I dare you to do better then me. #beatthat

Day 1-My Sister Jenny

Only natural that sister would be the start of this mini-project, seeing as Princess had started hers off with hers. Don't be fooled by the picture above, there is a fierce intellect at work behind that monkey face. Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you my younger Sister, Jenny.

(Stole Her Pictures From Facebook)

Jenny and I, as you can imagine, have had our rough patches. That much is to be expected from sisters. But I can't tell you the leaps my heart does whenever we are getting along, or when she shows interest in what I do. Not only that, but do you see that face? She is beautiful. Guess what world, I get to wake up every morning to that face! Be jealous. Not only that, but she has a very...unique sense of humor. She's one of those people who owns whatever she does, whether good or bad. Beautiful and funny, it all comes in one package.

Nothing like a sister to show you just how pale you are...

If there were a word to describe my sister, it would be strong. So strong. Like, if-you-got-into-a-street-fight-you'd-want-her-in-your-corner strong. She's got a defense system like no other. She will stand up for what she thinks is right like no other. I don't think she even knows how to back down from a fight. (You laugh as if I'm joking, but I'm not...) Now, me, I'm not an argumentative person at heart. (This is the part where anyone who lives with my snorts and adds in some sarcastic comment about why that's so very far from the truth.) In all honesty, I have a hard time asserting my will into anything. This, as you can imagine, does not do wonders for my social skills. But, whenever I needed stick up for myself or try to persuade someone, I'd think to myself what would Jenny do in this situation? (Does not help when she is at the other end of the argument, you don't mess with the master.)

Keep being silly Jenny, I love ya!
~ Love Your Sister <3