This was our family picture in December 2000. Benjamin was 1 and Michael was 3 months old. Dang they grew up. That was clear back in the cute stage. hahaha! Just kidding they're still cute. Just a little less ornery back then. =)
This one is when Theron and I were volunteering together in Benjamin's preschool class in Salt Lake City.
This was taken in 1994 or 1995...I think. All the girls in the family. My sister Andrea, my mother and me. My black hair phase. hahaha...drove my mother nuts. :)
This is how old our kids were when we first moved to Wyoming. Too funny. They grow when we're not looking. :) (2004)
if you click on the picture it gets bigger and names are there if you recognize faces, but can't remember names. I'm doing this too late to add more. haha! ok ok, the truth is i'm sucked into a good book and want to go read! :) Happy Friday! Have a great weekend!Well hello there! I had good intentions of doing Flashback Friday this morning and it didn't happen obviously. I've had a neck from heck :) lately so not motivated other than in thought. LOL.
I'd thought I'd share a funny fishing story on Theron. He and I were living in Price, Utah and Benjamin was 10 months old. I was about 7 months pregnant with Michael and we decided to go spend a few hours at the lake and go fishing. We'd never gone together before and Theron was excited to show off his skills. I took along the play saucer thing to put Benjamin in on the ground next to me so I was hands free to test out my own fishing pole. Theron was showing me how to throw out the line while holding the reel just so and next thing you know his hook gets caught on his shirt and his fishing pole goes flying into the lake. It was the funniest thing I'd ever seen. I was in stitches from laughing and he was carefully trying to pull the pole out by the fishing line. He caught quite the fish on that little trip. LOL!
For some reason I can't think of a story to tell on me....(smile). OK, I'll tell a story from the mission that cracked me up. I was serving in Middletown, California and my companion was from Peru. She learned English in her MTC and was doing pretty good at it, but had never been behind the wheel of a car before. There were a lot of roads to nowhere in mountains near there and we'd start up a road and have to back down or do a 30 point turn to get turned back around. Oh and a little more on the companion was that she was very....I can't think of the word. Prissy comes to mind, but she wasn't that at all. She just didn't like to get dirty and was appalled at the thought of physical labor, etc. Anyway, we went up this muddy narrow road in the mountains and come to a chain across the road. One side of this road is a steep hill going up the mountain and the other side is a nice drop off going down...ugh. Anyway, I am attempting to cut it as close to the up side of the road in my 30 point turn...lol...and I get stuck in mud. I start spinning out and ask if my companion will go and push a little so I can get unstuck. She goes out and gave it her best effort with her fingertips. It was ridiculous. After a huge drawn out sigh, I traded places with her and spent ten minutes going over what the brake was and the gas pedal, etc. So I go around to the front and try pushing and she floors the pedal and mud goes all over me as she spins in place. She stops and I go around to the side and open the passenger door and push on the door frame. I had to tell her to lightly push this time around. So I give it a good push, she gives it a good push (sadly) and the car goes flying backwards and in that brief moment of time I totally pictured the car going over the edge and the open door behind me pulling me down with it. It was insane. I yelled for her to hit the brake and she slammed on it just at the right moment then got out shaking and hyperventilating. We exchanged places in silence then halfway down the mountain I couldn't hold it in any longer and started laughing hysterically till there were tears in my eyes. I figure laughing and crying are excellent releases and I've always chosen laughter...for whatever reason. She thought I'd lost my mind and wanted to cry then she finally started laughing as well as we played it back. She never asked for driving lessons again though. hahahaha!
Have a great weekend!!!
I became an expert at reading a map and telling mom where to go. haha! Cheese and crackers were sustaining us and keeping the grumpy bug away as we cruised through Maine here.
Mom's climbing up the West Point Lighthouse, Prince Edward Island. It was also a bed and breakfast and we got to stay in the keeper's quarters.
I remember thinking my mom was standing too close so I look a little worried or annoyed...not sure which. ha! Awesome view!
Mom on the beach with the lighthouse in the background....that one window is one of the ones in our room.
At night if you looked out over the ocean you could see super far away the light from a lighthouse on the coast of New Brunswick. The grass behind me here was so cool. It reminded me of the movie Anne of Green Gables. We saw that house too while on Prince Edward Island. Loved that show. I even wrote a poem about the grass and actually got it published.
Mom and I are on a 9 hour ferry ride here in our cabin. I got majorly sea sick so we ended up going up on top and sitting in the sun on deck chairs. I got burnt to a crisp. This is mom's "finger in a light socket" look. :)
We actually look related here. :) We're in a bed and breakfast in Boothbay Harbor, Maine here. I was reading ghost stories all night and my mom grabbed me and hollered and I screamed pretty good. It was hilarious!
Mom and I got these HUGE ice cream cones and stopped at a light house to eat them. She was in a silly mood that day. Too fun!
This is another bed and breakfast in Camden, Maine. We were driving along and I swear something jumped up and nipped at my hand hanging out the window as we're parked on the side of the road and when I looked in the mirror it looked like a snake. So we get back to this place and the owners son is at the door and my mother asks him if Maine has jumping snakes. I was mortified! LOL
Mom inside the place we stayed in Camden and this is the closest I've ever seen her stand to a dog! lol
Mom was famous for her purse. She bought a new one in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia before we headed back to Bangor to fly home.So Theron's flashback story for today is about the time he was going to drive for the very first time. He was 10 years old. His older brother's, brother-in-law Jake, came over in his Rambler Station wagon. He was way cool and let Theron drive his car around the block giving him instructions the whole way. When it was his brother Lance's turn, he told his brother to hang on a minute while he ran in to use the bathroom. When he came out Lance threw the car into reverse and floored the gas pedal to get away, laughing all the way since Theron couldn't get in. Then suddenly Lance unknowingly rammed right into an oak tree and stopped instantly, blowing out every window in the station wagon. The look on their faces was priceless. LOL
Here is a funny story from Theron's past for our flashback this week. When Theron was about 8, he and his 12 year old brother (at the time) Mark, went to the movies to see Bruce Lee on a Friday night down in Los Angeles. They were dropped off then were supposed to call for a ride afterwards. So they call Arthur (a family friend living with them) and 20 minutes later they see Arthur drive by. They're wondering what he's doing at this point then a few minutes later they see him circle around again with his head hanging out the window yelling at them to tell them he has no brakes. :) Arthur goes around one more time with his foot out the door trying to slow it down a little this time around and Theron and his brother run to catch the car and somehow manage to jump into the moving vehicle. The rest of the way home they ran through every red light and were going up and down off the curbs to try and slow down. They made it home safely Flinstone style. LOL, with their feet out the doors to try and slow the car down. It's a miracle they didn't get hurt. It's pretty funny to hear Theron tell it. He's hilarious when you get him going. :)
