Every Christmas Eve, Our older brother Josh, Tai, and I always slept in the same bed together, we were young, and still believed in Santa Clause. But Tai usually never stayed with us the whole night, see Tai always slept with my parents because he was afraid to sleep without them, so it was rare for him to stay the whole night. So Josh went downstairs right before we went to bed and Tai looked over at me and asked me for a hug, i asked him why? You wanna know what he said? " Your my big sister, you mean so much to me, i just want you to know i love you Brandi and i thought a hug from you would help me sleep" I was speechless, i really wish i told him how i felt that night, he passed away 9 days after, he knew something was wrong with him, that's why he reminded me, and i didn't even realize it. i miss you so much baby boy..

Sometimes Tai and I would stay home, cuddle up on the couch together, and watch Backyardigans! Lmfao, we would pretend we were Pablo the penguin because we both loved Penguins, and we would talk in baby voices to eachother and act like we were in different lives like the Backyardigans always did. Then we would put a whole bunch of pillows and blankets on the bottom of the stairs and jump down the stairs, one time, i went up to high, and i jumped down the stairs and hit the ceiling and knocked myself out for about 45 seconds, i woke up to Tai standing over me laughing saying "Woah! that was crazy! Did it hurt? You should do that again!!!" Haha, i cherish days like this everyday of my life.

Everyday Tai and I would wake up together, get ready, go up to our friends Dominic & Anthony's house, get them, and we would go biking. Usually we went up to the Gj, spring street park, Park terrace school, or just went for random bike rides. We all loved being outside, hitting jumps, working on bikes, playing in the dirt. Those were the days. When the only issues we had was not agreeing on who was going to test what jump first! Haha.