Remember???

Today seemed like it may have been a low key day.  

EXCEPT that, and I'm not sure why,  Kori got an upgrade and was moved to a Master Suite.  She certainly deserves it.  She is without a doubt the kindest patient in the hospital,  I'm sure.  Her favorite nurse returned today, after being off for several days.  She rushed in and told Kori she needed to give her a hug, she missed her, and then said that Kori is her VERY FAVORITE patient.  Well DUH!!!!

 She received flowers from the Whittakers.  Who are our long time friends from Corona

She received flowers from her in-laws, Paul and Joan Brooks.   

It must feel really good to get little surprises like these on long hospital days.  It's nice to know that people are thinking about you.

And Tami and her sister, Teri came to visit and of course, brought food.  

Mom said we are having a Family Reunion later this summer with our new family members from Texas.  

It's so hard to express the gratitude we feel towards these ladies who are serving our sister and who aren't letting a day go by without visiting her and lifting her spirits.  They are on earth angels for sure.  And Kami and I can't wait until we can meet them in person.  

Kori...  I am sure you heard this already,  but St. Geezy had an earthquake today.

It was super wimpy, nothing like the ones in California. 

Remember that night when we had that really big earthquake and it woke us up and Dad was yelling at us to get out of our beds and stand in the doorways until it was finished?   And he was the only one who really did it because the rest of us just stayed in our beds.  

Remember how Dad called all of our boyfriends, Kevin no matter what their names were... they were all Kevin?  

Remember that night a tarantula was crawling across our family room floor and  how you and Dad caught it and made him our pet?  And you used to let him crawl all over you?  And we named him Spooky? And we kept him in a five-gallon Sparkletts bottle?

Remember how Mom wouldn't let us say words describing bodily functions and instead made up cutesy little girl words for them and we actually had to say those words in place of the words every other kid in the world was using when speaking of the unmentionables.  And remember how we lost friends over it?

Remember how you and Kami used to play basketball in front of people and get all sweaty?

Remember when your hamster somehow got out of his cage and somehow got up into your bed and crawled on your neck in the middle of the night and you freaked your freak out and threw him across the room at the wall......

RIP Herbie.

Remember when you threw up in Grandma Lou's Buick?  

And Mom just put you in the gutter until the car was completely restored to like new condition

Oh man...  what a tragedy that was

Remember that time Dad rolled your fingers up in the window unknowingly and kept winding and winding with all of his might because he couldn't figure out why there was a little gap in the window?  And you were writhing in pain and couldn't speak.

Remember when you ate one bite of candy from each of the 250 boxes of the See's Candy from the Ward Fund Raiser and Mom and Dad had to pay back the ward hundreds of dollars 

Remember we had to sing at every stake baptism?

Remember Dad's piece of crap orange Honda Civic that we named Beemish?

Remember how many cassette tapes we had?

Remember when Dad would take us to his store on Christmas Day and let us eat as much frosting from the bakery as we wanted? 

Remember when we worked at the Hot Dog Stand?

And DIAL-A-BURGER.  OMG!!  Remember that horrible place?

Remember backwards skating at California Skate?  You were the champion of backwards skating.

Remember we had mullets in 1984?

Remember how we ALL used to get ready in Mom and Dad's bathroom together as a family?

That was weird.  But it didn't seem weird then.

Remember how we had to learn how to drive in a Volkswagon Vanagan?  Stick shift!!!

Remember Mom's Orange Terry Cloth Track suit with the rainbow rope belt that she wore EVERYWHERE?

Remember that time Dad took us skiing in Utah and we were from California, so we wore jeans and ugly sweaters instead of ski pants and parkas.  And everyone on the mountain knew we didn't have a clue how to ski.  But we left absolutely no one wondering EVERY TIME we tried to get off of the ski lift.   And remember how they had to shut the lift down 13 separate times while they cleared us off the exit ramp.

Remember how we took a NIGHT Biology class at BYU with Carl Whittaker and we'd stay for 30  minutes of the 2 hours and then go to the creamery and make him take notes for us?   And how we passed with C minuses and were THRILLED.

Remember that night we went roller skating around the Provo Temple and got going too fast down that hill and you stopped yourself by running into a chain link fence?  If I remember right, there was a lot of blood.

Remember we lived at Branbury Park?  What were we thinking?

Remember when we were trying to drive home from BYU and my car broke down on the side of the road 8 times and we didn't have cel phones back then so we had to rely on creepy, perverted truck drivers to help us and we finally made Dad drive to Las Vegas and pick us up?

Remember hiking on the back side of Catalina Island with Bronwyn and Shannon Horton?

And buffalo and wild boar?

Remember how Mom was a lifeguard at the city pool so we could swim all summer long for free???  Mom....  a lifeguard.....  she did anything to make us happy.

WOW!!!  Sorry everyone for the tangent.

We've had some good times.

Good Night

See you soon!!!!!