- Playing in the creek before School
- Fighting over who fed the dogs
- The "Pink" and "Blue" room years
- Reading Archie comic books
- Playing with the rabbit and making a fort with our legs
- "Punk" The Lhasa Apso that never stopped growing
- "Goober" The weird monkey dog that never did grow
- Throwing the ball over Grandma's roof
- Always finding chocolate chip cookies in Grandma Adair's jar
- The Gremlin incident
- The smell of the Church Annex, of lock-ins and haunted houses
- Crawling under the pews during Vacation Bible School
- Swimming in Michelle's pool and cleaning out frogs
- The Damos's - where we learned the craziness of owning a couch that wasn't for actual "sitting"
- The "counting cows" and "counting people" games - in the land before gameboys
- Trying to get truck drivers to honk at us and people to smile at us
- HAIL HACK, BOW TO THE BAMBOO - no one will ever understand
the profound impact the bamboo forest had on us
- That cool skeleton key that opened the forbidden part of great grandma's
house
- The time we jumped on the beds there, and broke one.
- Choir Practice - the best reason for going to church
- Our singing trio - with Mike, the most flirtatious deacon alive.
- Driving Mary home from Flags practice every day, and me acting like the 'cool' big sister (miserably failing, I'm sure)
- That time you got stung by a hornet in the neck...ewww...
- The "Babysitter" video, where you played my mother, and Jenny played my father
- Making you take pictures of me on the roof
- Waterbeds...I'll never have another one
- Making huge pool whirlpools
- Having "slow races" with our bicycles, since we were only allowed to bike in plain view of the house on a road where one vehicle passes every two hours
- Crawling under nasty decks and porches to see newborn puppies
- Sneaking out of Dad's house and our wild adventure at...ummm...Denny's...oh well...at least you didn't get on the bus and end up a homeless drugged up prostitute.
- That time you got married and I got to stand beside you on the pier
- That time just after you got married when were so cute and drunk and shouting "I'm the bride, everyone listen to me!"
- Putting stuffed animals up on the couch when the other one was sick
- Wearing pajamas that were all one piece, including feet on them.
- Thinking up weird words in Church, like FLUP, GBIR, ZAPR, and QUOLF.
- That time you had the most beautiful girl in the world.
- When I got to feed Amanda, and she fell asleep on me, and I sat there with tears running down my eyes hoping you wouldn't come back downstairs for a few minutes, and I finally understood why people would be crazy enough to make those precious little creatures.
- HAIL HACK! BOW TO THE BAMBOO! (It deserved to be in here twice, I think)
- Remember that time you called to see if my cat was okay after I took her to the vet? That meant SO much to me!
- Eating little pancakes with King Syrup (2,000 calories per serving) at Grandma's
- Watching the fireworks with you up in New Castle (GO ZAMBELLI!) and again on the boat to see the Alexandria ones.
- The first time I met your pre-husband, and he fed us alcohol for breakfast, we went drunken boating with Bob, and ended up getting stuck about 30 feet from his dock.
- That time in the hallway at the Annex at Church, where we had our first good cry together after the divorce.
- Josh Hamm. We can one day say that we personally knew a serial killer...
- Having to walk up that L-O-N-G hill every day on the way back from school. Did our parents hate us?
- That time I worked for the mob...oh wait...he he..[laughs nervously]
This page dedicated to the best sister anyone could ask for. Here's to another 25 years of memories, and to watching your little one(s) grow up healthy and happy. May our memories always be protected by the strong and eternal Bamboo Fort in our souls.