It's been a while, and we haven't taken too many photos... but I sometimes get these flash backs, so I thought I would take a minute to write some of my favorite family memories in a blog. So, Linthorst's (and Radford), add to them if I didn't write one of yours. Ok here is goes (no specific order of favorites...)
945 NE 22nd court
1. Trevor running down the hall way full speed in his floppy socks and doing a faceplant over and over again because Dave thought it was funny. Everytime Dave had a friend over he would call Trev upstairs and tell him to do the faceplant... (Where/how did that even get started anyway??)
2. Toru, Taco, Rié, Yoku, and all the other Japanese exchange students that came along. All the Japanese girls that came had a crush on Frank. Well... you can't blame him. Walking around in his florescent shorts, blue t-shirt and with a flanel shirt tied around his waist... who wouldn't want a piece of that?
3. A playroom in the basement with drawers full of barbies, shelves full of stuffed animals, Trevor's bunkbed at one point, bins full of legos and those other building toys (the gray things with the blue connectors... what were they called??), and the list goes on! But who can forget the cabbage patch kids?! Especially the fact that we had a anatomically correct BOY cabbage patch kid! You know, the one that was hung from the high shelf by his noodle along side about 5 other stuffed animals who were hung by their necks in the massacre that happened when the neighbor kid Chris Kletke came to play with Trev??
4. Carolyn-John, Barbie, and Wienee Merris.
5. All our great nicknames:
Franky-G, Fink, Skank, N***erlips, Flav-o-pak, Flave, Flavid, Dude, Doodle-noodle, T-monkey, Brookie, Pookie, Pookalilly, Pookalilly-loo, Chibaw (Pronounced Chibber, but like a kid who can't say his "r" yet), Green skin, Weewee, Itchy, Snitchy, Itchy-snitchy-sandawichy, Eetch, Aaanjewlie, T-bag, T-bone, T-boneronie, Jimbo, Big Jim, Mare, Manda, Anjurie(from the Japanese students), high-butt, boobs, buzzhead... did I miss any?
6. Trev's many accidents:
Laying on his back and kicking the wall with me (just outside the kitchen/in front of the stairs) when a goblet fell off a little decorative shelf above us and hit Trev's eyebrow causing him to need stitchs... He came home with TCBY.
Falling through the deck with the missing stair. (Dave knows more about that one...)
Getting his nose half bitten off by the neighbor's german shepperd... The dog had to wear a muzzel from then on, Trev had a little plastic surgery and came home again with TCBY.
Getting shot in the toe by Dave with a BBgun. (I don't know how much of an accident that was though.)
Dave using the font door to pull out one of Trev's loose teeth. When the first one was a success, Trev said he had another one that was "kinda" loose (meaning not really at all yet). Dave didn't hesitate to just tie the string around his tooth and slam the door.... When the first attempt failed to pull the tooth out and only almost gave Trev whiplash, Dave reasurred Trev that the next try would work and of course slammed the door again. I don't remember if the tooth came out on the second try or if it took another... I think there was a lot of blood though.(Again... not an accident...)
5. Bombs made with the gas from dad's torch, a balloon, and a paper bag. These bombs were usually lit in our backyard and made our whole house shake.
6.Catching catfish at Red Sunset Park and putting them in a small hole dug in the backyard that was filled with a garbage bag and water.
7. Dave and Frank shooting potatoes against the fence with a home made potato gun.
8. Having up to 11 cats at one time.... it all began with Gizmo, the there came Guido (A female cat, and a birthday present from Grandma Clark to Amanda... name suggested by Dave.), then there was my cat Puffalilly (Puffy for short). Puffy was pretty much the neighborhood hoe who had litter after litter.
9. Mini bikes, bugar wall, Frank clogging the toilet, plastic covered kitchen chairs, public disturbances, Burger King B-days, Pee wonky blanket AKA Wonky, sliding down the stairs in sleeping bags or diaper boxes or laundry baskets, great hairdos... Dave and Frank with mullets, shaved head with long bangs, brushed back curls, mom's perm that was cut really short into a nest on top of her head...
10. Popcorn machine
11. Dave telling Amanda and I that tiny elves would come and swing on out bangs and poke our eyes with thier pointy shoes if we tried to peak when Santa came.
Grandma and Grandpa's house
Woodburning stove, chopping block, blue carpet, gobs of goose grease (for some reason whenever Grandpa said "gobs of goose grease" I associated that with the carpet at their house).
Ninya, the great dane that had a whip for a tail.
Rock hunting (need I say more?)
Tinker Toys concert to Mmm. Bop (Hansen)
Duck pudding, wiener dog, treehouse, cousins with rat tails, junkyard full of old cars, hair grease and combing Gpa's hair with water and pulling his hair.
Roberts Ave.
1.Amanda storing every shopping bag she ever got under her bed. The real treasures were the ones from Nordstrom, Doc Martins, and Gap! I don't think she had any Safeway or K-mart bags though.. too low class I guess. We counted them one time and there were like 140 or so... I, on the other hand, collected rocks! I never know what actually happened to my box of cool rocks... maybe mom just put them in her garden or something.
2.Coco the homo cat and Ceaser. Coco was the most awesome, lazy, fat, tomcat ever... he had a "diamond and gold" pimp collar, and rolled over and showed his red rocket every time he played with Ceaser.
3. Dog run. Sasha attacking her bowl. Ceaser's red rocket stuck in blast off postition because it was clogged with Sasha's hair. Sasha getting stuck with a neighborhood dog doing it on top of the dog house.
4. Having 14 pets at one time. 3 cats, 3 dogs, 4 birds, a guineapig, a bunny, a fish, and a turtle.
5. Scooter and Skipper our pet squirrels.
6. Climbing on logs in the backyard, the tramp, half finished basketball court, Lemonade stands with the Sivertson kids, walking to downtown Gresham to Jelly Beans to get candy, the bisexual man whore that bugged people by Gresham City Park... (that is not really a best memory I just remember hearing about him when we were little.. don't think I ever saw "it" though)
Ok, I know there are a ton more, but I am kinda done for now... so add them in comment or something when then come to your mind.
