Okay people. Let's do something with this blog. What do you say? I would love to hear from all of you, so here is my plan. I've been thinking about life growing up in Huntington and thought it would be cool if we could all share some memories of life there. So, I'll start. These are just random memories of mine.
1. Roller skating in the basement when it was just a cement floor. I thought that I was the most rockin' roller skater on the planet and felt that I should share my "expertise" with my sisters. So, I was the instructor, teaching her students all kinds of sweet moves.
2. Taking gymnastics class from mom. Everytime I hear the song, "Breaking Up is Hard to Do", which isn't often, I think of those cool gymnastics mats that we had. I just wish that I could remember some of those moves.
3. Playing outside on our incredible dad-made playground. No one else had such an awesome backyard.
4. Trent asking me if he could kiss me at the front door and then kissing me for the first time.
5. Trent spilling Sprite all over himself when he fell down the stairs the day we got married.
6. Kevin stealing from my stash of Blo-Pops hidden in my closet and the incredibly proud moment for both Dad and I when we ran down the hill barefoot. That hurt. Good times.
7. Tickle/Scratch.
8. Chocolate chip cookie dough made from the recipe in our heads (okay, mostly Karen's head), which we kept under our bed for what seemed like weeks, though it was probably only a couple of days. Amazingly we never got sick from the raw eggs. What were we thinking?
9. Tending 6 bratty brothers and sisters and trying to keep Kris from killing everyone by wrestling him, literally. That only worked until he was about 10 and then he was stronger than me.
10. Playing for hours in the fields. I remember the summer that it rained and filled up the middle of the "track" and we went swimming in it. (Karen and I were talking about that just the other day.) I loved to ride my BMX bike and go off jumps. I was awesome on that thing.
11. Mom staying up late to talk to just me. She had this sixth sense and could always tell when something was wrong. I loved that.
12. Mom coming down and announcing to all my friends that "the Holy Ghost has gone to bed and so should you" at midnight. That was not at all embarassing.
13. My brilliant plan to ride Ahab while home alone. That one backfired dramatically, twice!
14. Cheese in a wallet.
15. Saige scribbling all over Kody's passport with a Sharpie just before he left for his mission. Sorry again, Kody.
16. Playing the "Go Tell it on the Mountain" duet with KeriAnne over and over.
17. All us girls singing around the piano.
18. Cupcake and all her descendents.
19. Karen kissing Jeremiah when she was only 5. (Hope that wasn't a secret.)
20. Sleeping out on the trampoline. One particular sleepout sticks out in my memory. When Megan and I slept under the tramp and Katie, Karen and KeriAnne slept on the tramp. Megan and I woke up in the middle of the night to a lovely waterfall raining down on us. Thanks, Katie.
Okay, that's enough from me. I keep thinking of more memories, but I'm going to stop before I steal all of yours. Now you all get to take a turn...please?
Luv u most! Can't wait to hear from you!
2 comments:
I totally think of the gymnastics class when I hear that song too!
I loved our playground! It was seriously awesome. Do you remember when we "divided it up" You got the swing set. I got the teeter-totter, etc. Duh.
I am not really sure how post on this place so
I am doing this as an experiment.
My Huntington House Memories.
1. Highlights. I thought is was so neat that mom taught us dance in our house with all our friends. Carrie and Natalie ditching once and getting in trouble.
2. Making haunted houses with KeriAnne and the Bagleys. YIKES!
3. Using that place on the chimmney that opened out by the back porch, as an "oven" to make mud pies. We used the old tins from potpies.
4. All of the programs we made mom and dad watch. We used the yellow and blue mat as a teepee in one play, and then we used the soundtrack to Stand by me, to make a concert. A hanger was my saxaphone.
5. Kevin, Wes, and the storage room. Mom that is funny!
6. KeriAnne and I sleeping with a highheel shoe by the window so if the house started on fire we could open the window and cut open the screen. I dont know how the boys would have gotten out. They didnt have heels.
7. Playing mail through the railing.
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