Thursday, May 1, 2008

Trip down memory lane

That was so fun reading those... I had tears running down my face laughing!!! Here are a few of mine.

  • Being sidewalk artists at Grandma M's
  • Drinking Grandpa M's Pepsi out of his old blue truck and eating his treats
  • Laying in the back window of their brown car and ruining the speakers Oops!
  • Having Adrian and Brooke and ALL of their friends, stay with us, what concert was this for? I have never made so many pancakes in all of my life :)
  • Playing with Amy and feeding our dolls real bread and water
  • French Fries every Sunday at Ruthie's and Irene's house
  • Feeding the ducks
  • Going to ShowBiz with Grandma M and collecting the tickets we won to buy the prizes, Disney on Ice, the Circus
  • I still remember looking out the window after gotten home from Grandma M's and watching Grandpa M drive up the road, turn around and head back home.
  • Playing in the boat at Grandma M's
  • The Art City Days parade and Carnival
  • ALWAYS wondering why we always had more candy than everyone else (THANKS GRANDPA M AND UNCLE DAVE!!)
  • Playing with the Dobson's EVERY summer
  • Running into Grandma M's house and waiting for the "Who do I hear"
  • Grandma Great's glass pop bottles and her can opener hooked to her cabinets
  • Riding our big wheels at the church by Grandma Great's
  • HATING going to Primary in Springville, but never throwing a big enough fit to have to be taken for ice cream ADRIAN!! :)
  • I honestly miss the hot ham and cheese sandwiches that I used to order all the time at Hardee's
  • Pulling over on the overpass to say a prayer before we headed to Springville.
  • Doing a perfect Swan Dive off the docks when we went fishing in Wyoming, pulling MOSS out of my hair
  • Grandma M's burning inferno in our basement
  • Uncle "Bean" and Celine, playing in the top of the old garage
  • Starting Midnight on Fire
  • Courtney and Tyler burning their eyebrows off
  • I LOATHED mom snapping at us in Church and now I am a "Snapper"
  • I remember when the roads in Holden were still dirt
  • Riding our skateboards from the top of Norma's hill all the way down to the bottom road, not even stopping to look for cars on Main
  • Numerous summer with Bill and Ruth's granddaughters, they always came over because they had the HOTS for Courtney!!
  • Felipe feeding us his lunch, A LOT!!!!!
  • Getting to drive to the farm to shut off the wells and not shutting off the yellow pump OOPS!!!
  • KEN DO YOU READ!! KEN DO YOU READ?? and he never did!! (That made me laugh I had to add it too)
  • Thinking dad was sooooo cool because he had one of those fancy bag cell phones
  • Trying to make the road really slick at the bus stop so the bus would slide on by
  • Watching for the bus out the sliding window
  • Hearing mom 's swather story that none of us are supposed to know about
  • I too remember hitting numerous risers, the gush of water out the top of the header was always amazing!
  • I remember cutting hay with Julie Moody and only getting about 3 wheel tracks cut ALL day long
  • Calling Eric "The Baby" until he was . . . . 18? :)
  • Sleeping over with Aunt Laurie
  • Her doing my hair all the time with HOT rollers and tissue in my hair so I wouldn't get burned
  • Singing along with the choir in the benches and having Aunt Laurie tell me to be quiet!
  • Walking to Activity Days with Diana and having our hair freeze
  • Making bracelets with embroidery string
  • Renting movies and getting pizza quite regularly
  • Going to Wood's with the LONG list of items to buy for the BYU tailgate parties in the basement
  • Mom and Dad teaching us how to spell A-L-B-U-Q-U-E-R-Q-U-E
  • Mom and Dad teaching us the lesson on not to drink alcohol by lighting it on fire in a pan
  • I loved Grandpa M marching us all over his house too, I loved the anticipation of him marching us right into a wall and wondering when it was coming
  • Fat Jacks Pizza
  • Cereal in Ziploc baggies for the ride home to Holden, ALWAYS the marshmallow kind
  • I loved looking at the slides of Mom and Dave when they were little
  • I loved how Grandma M would read us a story before going to bed (Little Black Sambo) at her house and rubbing my face in that funny pattern
  • I loved that big hanging light in one of the bedrooms, WHERE IS IT??
  • Going on family vacation? to Vernal to the Dinosaur place
  • Eric almost drowning me at the Gunnison Pool or was it Phil?
  • Remember when we were building on or something and the Sheetrock was in the hall FOREVER upstairs?
  • I remember Dad trying to pull my tooth out with a piece of dental floss and the doorknob, DISASTER!! Don't try this on your kids, won't work will it Dad?
  • The skeet shooting contests with the Tuttle's at the reunion
  • Snowmobiling
  • Dad taking Courtney and I mountain lion hunting, SCARED ME TO DEATH!!! I thought we were lion meat for sure
  • I remember making Adrian run the bases IN HER SLEEP, you were too sleeping!!!
  • I also DON'T remember throwing you on the bunk bed
  • I DO remember balancing on Sandy's knees
  • Roller derby in the basement around the sewer pipes
  • Racing Dad and Court up the stairs and Courtney leaning in the curve and knocking himself out, almost
  • Looking for the caterpillars in the weeds in the ditch hoping to find one that would be a Monarch someday
  • Everyone asking to use the bathroom during summer softball season! (That one's for Mom)
Sure love you all, THANKS for the memories!

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