Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Memories

Since all of my posts have been about Lukas I decided to change things up a bit and take a walk down memory lane. So here we go.....

Top Ten Memories of Growing Up
1-Being together as a family
2-Camping trips
3-Cruises
4-Christmas Eve-going to both grandparents' houses and opening presents
5-Easter Egg Races-and yes this tradition is still being carried on :)
6-Disneyland Trip
7-Playing Games
8-Dinnertime-I am amazed with how busy life got, my parents still made sure we ate dinner together almost every night!
9-Jackson Hole Trips
10-Spring Breaks to Las Vegas

Top Ten Memories of High School





1-Having the greatest friends a girl could ask for and having the greatest times together- bonfires, 4-wheeling, and just being together doing absolutely nothing!
2-Scavenger Hunt Night-the other team won, but Melissa, Kelly, Dave and I had the best time video taping everything in sight!
3-Junior Prom-and the week leading up to it
4-Hawaii Trip with the cousins
5-70's Dance Junior Year-and our fashion show trying to decide which outfit to wear
6-Girls' Night at Rachel's House-and the boys dressing up like girls just so they could get in the door
7-Road Trip to Casper for State Basketball
8-All nighter at Melissa's house (Rach remember the hot wax???)
9-Sadie Hawkins-Junior Year
10-Our Annual New Year's Eve toast

Top Ten Memories of College

1-Getting engaged at Beaver Dick Park (yes that is the name of the park!!)
2-Clean Check Night-turned into an all nighter, although I was the only one that made it through the night
3-Spending a summer in Chicago working with inner city kids
4-St. George Road Trip-this was the start of my relationship with Joel
5-Kris, Kelly and my brother Josh making a road trip up to Idaho to come visit
6-Working in the alumni office and all the many things that included, like picking up leaves in a dress (it's a long story)
7-Date Nights with Lorna and Chris- Jackson Hole, Picnic in the Snow and cooking yummy meals :)
8-Trips to Johnny Carinos with Scott and Natalie
9-My bet with Joel on the Maryland vs Duke game (he still has not paid up)
10-Tuesday Nights at the Movies with all the roommates



Top Ten Memories Since I've Been Married

1-Hanging with my boys
2-Becoming an aunt to the two cutest nieces ever!
3-Our cruises to the Caribbean
4-North Carolina at the beach house
5-Road Trips to St. George to visit Joel's family
6-Steelers vs Redskins Football Game (Go Steelers or Go Redskins depending on if you are talking to me or Joel)
7-Date nights with John and Kristy
8-Road Trips to go visit Lorna and Chris
9-Both of us Graduating!! Glad we are through with those fun years of school!!!
10-Buying a house and leaving our wonderful apartment :)



5 comments:

Dust + Hil said...

Your blog is so cute! I love the background.

Mandy said...

Not Fair....how'd you get such a cute background? Did Lorna do it for you? Did you do this while you couldn't sleep this morning? Sorry my friend. :)

The LaMont Family said...

I love your post...brought tears to my eyes! I want to see your little guy...when are you going to Evanston next?

Rachel said...

You made me cry! I have such good memories of high school. We couldn't have had a better group of friends. One of my favorite memories is stealing snow from our crush's front yards. Do remember that? I have it on tape!

The LaMont Family said...

Hmmm...bummer...I won't be coming up this weekend for Easter since my parents will be in Hawaii...I was thinking it would be fun to all meet for lunch..you, me, Becky and Julie sometime...what days work for you?