Favorite Memories

Vacations
1) We took two trips out west as a family, my memory is about the second. We had a pop-up camper and my parents had just bought a new minivan. We encountered a thunder and lightning storm and there had been trouble with the back window being sealed properly and Kristine had decided to sleep in the van and she got soaked because the window wasn't properly sealed.

2) Aruba - Our parents treated us to this fantastic vacation a few years ago. It is the first time that I have adult memories of our parents not skewed by being there child living under there rules.

3) This goes along with the first one but all of the national parks we went to as kids. Grand Canyons, Grand Tetons, Yellowstone(leaving the day before the fires scorched the park), Mesa Verde, Rocky Mountain.
Going in pars of two to take hikes because we couldn't take the dog with us.
Seeing all the bison up close at Yellowstone.
Seeing old faithful
Taking hikes at rocky mountain and seeing all the waterfalls
The list could go on for pages.

Growing up second
1) Holidays and all of our family traditions, of which I have had to amend to include Laura too.
2) Moving out west and back again.
3) Anna Street house (which is still my home in my mind)
4) The Kaisers
5) Mom asking the right people to let me be able to still attend Pullen Elementary when we moved to a new school district.
6) In Washington mom and dad letting me choose the school I wanted to go to and moving to that school district
7)Dad teaching me to drive a stick shift
8) Mom teaching in me to drive in a school parking lot
9) Playing with Kristine in the basement of the Anna Street house.
10) Picking up/out Duke
11)Dad taking me for my first run in college even though I was way slower than he was.
12) Laying on the couch with mom, Kristine and Kiki.
Of course there are tons more....