Court's Funny Memories

If you love me, you won't show this post to the police. :)

Funny things I remember:

1. Getting chased by the police two years in a row on the last day of school, for trying to sleep over on the football field at the high school AND not getting caught because I was the only one that could jump over a chain link fence. (Mom and Dad: this is definitely a joke because I was for sure sleeping soundly at Cole Cooper's when this supposedly happened)

2. Having to go downstairs to tell Mom and Dad that the police were upstairs to talk to me... think orange objects.

3. Having a mad crush on Ruth and Bill's granddaughter Brooke but never doing anything about it because I was and still am pretty chicken. (Turns out the feeling was mutual - whoops!)

4. Not drinking the Fresca.

5. Going to the kitchen to sleep almost every night because of the heater under the sink and waking up with most of the other kids next to me. I STILL love sleeping by heaters but can't stand being hot. ???

6. Burning the schniekees out of my face by digging the fuel out of like 5 model rocket engines and lighting the pile of powder on fire. (Tyler's idea)

7. Dad asking Tyler if I was doing drugs because of the resulting burns on the bottom of my nose after the rocket fuel incident. Never been into the white stuff Dad!

8. Dad thinking that I was on drugs because I had a 'bad attitude' hahahahaha. I admit that I quite often had a terrible attitude and probably seemed like I was doing lots of drugs.

9. Crashing at least 20 times on the four wheeler at the farm and being AMAZED that I didn't break any bones.

10. Playing in the top of the Norths' shed with Nat.

11. Playing in the top of Bill and Ruth's shed with all the kids.

12. Dripping water on Phil's face all the time haha he has to be traumatized.

13. Becoming a man at age 10 when I finally fought back against Nat's oppression. I hit her in the head with a stuffed lamb and the music box thing inside cut into her head. I felt terrible but was later mad that I became the bad guy over the incident. It was self-defense judge!

14. Brooke, Adrian, and friends making cookies almost every Sunday at Cordell's.

15. Finding out within a 10 minute period that Adrian had met someone, was dating him, engaged, and married.

16. The Adrian sleep talking incident - DEFINITELY asleep! All I remember is that she was playing a baseball game or something.

17. Phil sleep walking and getting into the tub and turning on the water.

18. Sharing a room with Nat for like 100 years.

19. Passing out in the kitchen and waking up with mom and Jeremy Teeples standing over me.

20. Playing with the girls on the trampoline by swinging a pad around and around - didn't end up as fun as it started. Ad broke her arm and I was the bad guy for a while.

21. Throwing Eric on the couch about 8,000 times when he was little. I definitely remember how much he loved that.

22. Getting dominated by Brooke at Balderdash and then retiring from the game.

23. Eating fried cheese that we cooked on the stove lol.

24. Flaming snow balls.

25. Hitting risers at the farm and getting stuck once in the water lol.

26. Having absolutely nothing to talk about when I got home from my mission.

27. Phil having grown like 3 feet while I was on my mission.

28. Mom asking who I danced with after school dances!!

29. Watching Nat work the boys in baseball.

30. Shooting a bird that was on the ground at the church with my .22, and then sprinting inside the house because it was SO loud.

31. Feeling like I didn't want to walk because my hamstrings were so tight (wait that's right now).

32. How good it felt when Eric asked me to baptize him.

33. Having a beauty pageant in Grandma M's basement. Natalie and Andrea (is that her name?) Dobson and Natalie were the contestants and Michael Dobson and I were the judges. Of course, Nat won.

34. Thinking that I'd killed Adrian when we wrecked in the old car, then walking all the way home without a single car coming by.

35. Going hunting with Dad and the uncles and laughing my head off when most of the uncles started pulling out O'Doules. Dad didn't have any, of course.

36. Mom and Dad hiding 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' in the top of the toy closet downstairs because we weren't allowed to watch it muahhhhaaaaaa.

I wish I could remember more!!