Memories.

By special request... :)

• Watching dad & Jamie wave to us from every. single. landing on the Tower of Pisa, while we waited down in the rain because I was too little to go up.
• Our walks through the forest in Kaltenbrun
• First time camping once we came back to the States, and my major freak out session over not being able to see in the dark.
• Anne Frank's house
• Stanga
• Mrs. Budd's house
• ALL the round towers
• Watching Unsolved Mysteries and being too scared to sleep (darn that Richard Stack)
• The bee in the car
• Our mixed tapes - they served as a soundtrack for our lives overseas, and I can't hear one of those songs on the radio without a memory attached
• a la one of those songs: heave of construction
• Loading up our belongings on the truck when we left Germany - my bike was the last thing in
• The Great Beer Spilling Debacle
• Driving you on the dreaded 405 to go meet baby Connor
• Planning my wedding with you, choosing the music, making the invitations, finding THE dress, deciding on a place, hating our photographer, loving our DJ - cases and cases of left over personalized wine glasses....and who can forget Jackie's show.
• the birthday banner you made and had strung up on the front lawn for my 7th birthday
• the jewelry box and red dress Christmas
• Christmas before dad shipped out to the Gulf War
• Jamie coming home for Christmas
• Sending Jamie off to the states after he finished high school
• Muffin in my Ewok costume
• home made Halloween costumes (the cat! the pilgrim! the witch!)
• those play clothes you made for me that were so hard to get on and off
• our house in Germany
• Reginald and his mama (AND his daddy)
• playing in the rocks in front of one of our houses in the south
• the Easter picnic on the hills where the eggs kept rolling away
• loads of people over for every holiday
• Wendy's in Venice
• First Frosty when we came back to the States, and dad smirking at me when I got a straw
• cinnamon rolls in the hospital to meet Ben :)
• watching you and Anne boogie woogie in the living room after far too many glasses of wine (and the time granny fell into the tree)
• our trip to San Diego
• our trip to Reno and the search for penny slots
• our entire Boston trip - we had such a great time on the trip, the whale watching and the Salem witch trials, "seeing" like 12 states all at once
• going to Green Bay - one of our most perfect trips ever
• dolphin watching in Florida
• "look at me, look at me"
• getting our hair done for Jamie & Carin's wedding
• the year of the giant sweat pants
• the pen Christmas
• the Berlin zoo
• our first night in the Villagio - lawn furniture, fudge cookies and lime koolaid
• riding the train to anywhere
• doll shopping
• buying the house in Enumclaw
• going to see the Nutcracker in Seattle
• Law & Order ;)
• introducing you to HGTV
• and the Deadliest Catch
• Muffin & The Hot Dog Job
• the cranberry toss
• driving to Salt Lake
• going to Hollywood
• seeing Arches National Park (so very cool and I'd like to go again)
• chanting WE'LL TAKE THAT as you pouted that the Packers weren't doing so well
• the night I thought some one was breaking into our house...turned out to just be an elk looking for a snack outside my window
• the bag of puke down the side of the car
• when dad asked (oh-so-politely) if you wanted to drive
• being serenaded by a drunk Irishman (twice) (in a row) (while he clutched my hand)
• the Keukenhof
• the crazy lady's house
• field trip to Christkindlmarkt
• spaghetti bolognese....
• living in the hotel while we waited on housing
• getting stuck in the bathroom on the bus to Holland
• breakfast every morning in Germany
• the 10 year scarf project
• bike riding into the bush
• family pictures in Italy
• the Joey doll
• the time I butterflied my knee
• Sunday = dinner at mom's
• did I mention Anne Frank's house?!?
• ballet
• when all our clothes where dyed blue by an errant shoe in the wash
• MENTOS!
• European plumbing and toilets in the ground
• discovering a love of toast & tea in England
• seeing the giant Santa and nearly having a heart attack to get it in the craft store in Maple Valley
• the giant peaches from Natches
• "Better or worse?"
• Butt Rice Butt Rice & the founder of Job's Daughters ;)
• making Christmas cookies with you and the kids

There are so many more....

12/06 more added:

• the free Christmas tree from the you-pick lot
• blue berry picking in Germany
• meet you at the next bridge!
• the Susie doll (though I don't remember that one)
• Zulu warrior dance
• filming the Spanish movie
• waiting for dad to come home from the Gulf War
• the time the Tooth Fairy forgot to take my tooth
• playing double solitaire
• endless games of Yahtzee
• the white & blue striped overalls I wanted soooooo badly
• moving into Jim's house - what a 3-ring circus THAT was!
• Greensleeves on a never ending loop
• the birthday cake that part had been eaten...Grafi was an easy scapegoat
• why I don't play Monopoly anymore
• trying to learn how to drive that awful white pick up
• meeting Nick & his mom for the first time - why were they the very last people off the plane??
• somersaults in the living room
• counting out 100 pennies for the ice cream truck in Ft. Bragg
• why I'm still scared of tape measures
• the first time I tried to make spaghetti for dinner, only to discover we didn't have any sauce (after I'd browned the meat and boiled the noodles). you ate it, insisting you liked it without sauce.
• Friday night dinners out in Clarkston
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