Happy 15th Birthday Alec!

Today is Alec "Burly" Halpin's 15th Birthday!  Yes, he couldn't wait to get down here to earth, so he came exactly one year and one week after Chandler was born, and he's been rockin' ever since.  Now why "Burly" you ask?  Because anyone who has the upper body strength that Alec has is referred to as a burly man!  For example, when Alec was 9 months old, we couldn't keep him in his crib, because he would just pull himself up and over the rails!  At 11 months, he would open the cabinet drawers, pull himself up onto the counter top, then climb up on top of whatever appliance was available so he could the pull himself up on top of the fridge!  All so he could get at the Cookie Jar!  That's why we have always called him Burly!  Alec loves to play video games.  When he was just five or six years old, we had just purchased a new video game for him to play on his Nintendo.  A couple of hours he and Chandler came in and Alec said, "I finished the game".  To which Janette and I replied, how do you know you finished the whole game?  In true Alec fashion, he responded, "because after I finished the last stage, it said THE END!"  Duh Mom and Dad!  Now Alec love Rock Band where he became so good at the drumming, that we had to go and buy him a real drum set.  This was back in June.  Four days later I heard some great drumming going on downstairs from Alec's room.  So I went down to see which one of his friends was so good at playing the drums.  To my utter astonishment, there was Alec with his headphones on banging away to what ended up being a perfect rendition of some song by The All American Rejects!  That's Alec for you!  Happy Birthday Boy!  Your Mom and Dad and Brothers love you and hope you have a great day!