ok, so i have to tell you about the coolest thing. This passed Saturday, a couple of Colin's best friends wanted to plan this really fun day to celebrate Colin. Since it would have been his 30th Birthday on this coming Wednesday the 26th...so we wanted to make this an event to remember and enjoy and celebrate...WOW...Clark and Renate Kurpjuweit hosted the 1st Annual Team Burritt Winter Classic, out at their farm. Clark spent countless hours plowing and flooding a homemade rink...down in the gully just behind their house. When we got down there, they had a fire going and music blasting and people were just hangin out and enjoying the day...when i walked to center ice on this amazing little rink...there was this beautiful Oiler's logo etched into the ice surface, but instead of the Oiler's Name, it had Colin's name in the center with Team Burritt written around the top and Ps. 23 rimming the bottom...wow...if only Colin could have been there, the day was pure magic, bittersweet and i felt like i was in this dream, still coming to grips that Colin was in fact gone...BUT i know he was there, he was looking down from the most fantastic seat in the whole place...and i could feel that beautiful smile that we all know and love of him!!!! His laugh would have been out of this world to hear! We laughed and cried and visited and it was a great chance to catch with people i haven't seen in so long! If you want to see the logo, i have it posted as my profile picture right now on my facebook page...i can't quite figure out how to upload pictures to this blog site, but i will make it my mission so you all can see it and enjoy it!
I couldn't believe how hard it was for me though, packing up his jersey so i could wear it for him...bringing along the sticks that he cut down and taped up and made for our boys...he should've been there, he needed to be the one playing pond hockey with the guys!!! We all miss him SO much but it was such great medicine for us all to be together missing him!
So i have this huge thank you, for the poeple who made it out, the people who brought food and to Chad and Clark for their time and efforts to make it such a fairytale adventurous day! It was perfect and it was more than i ever dreamed it could be to celebrate Colin's 30th Birthday! I am blessed with the most wonderful people in my life...Colin and I knew very well that we were and I AM the luckiest girl in the world to be surrounded by the great friends in my life!
So as i enter into another one of those impossible weeks, with thoughts of joy and sadness mixed...it's another one of those Firsts that sting really bad...I Miss you my dear sweet Colin, I hope Jesus takes care of that HUGE 30th Birthday Party Bash on my behalf!!! My wish would be to be apart of it somehow, only for a minute! Leave a candle still lit on ur cake for me, k?! XOXO
Happy Monday!
Love, Melissa
Oh Melissa...what a great day for you and the boys !! The logo is amazing and I love it!!! Even though I don't really know if I am an Oilers fan :) lol I know Colin's hockey legacy is something Ben is proud of ....proud to be able to say "hey, that was my cousin" :) we all are.
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Auntie Dawna for the Motz men too
oh Melissa I wish we could have been there, reading your blog made it seem as though we were. I am SO happy that you were blessed with those who loved Colin and those who could laugh and gry with you,love yah
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Oh Melissa, what a wonderful thing for your friends to do for you (and for Colin). He truly was so very loved, which is evident from the huge effort shown by your friends. I was there when Colin was picked up at the hospital those 30 years ago - it's God's providence that we didn't know at that time what the future would hold for him. However, he has left such a legacy and we are proud of him. And for you, we love you so much. Our prayers and thoughts are with you every day. Gr. and Gr.
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