Pops, adding to A&J's brilliant birthday tribute, here are a few that I've been thinking about this week. Something to take you into the next decade.
61 Road trip with you and Spencer to Conference when President Benson was sustained - our first from Scottsdale to Salt Lake, and we made up stories about a man who drove a Porsche along the way
62 Minivan camping at Picacho Peak
63 Hiking in Canyon de Chelly
64 Running around Scottsdale Country Club golf course while you quizzed me the night before the AP American History test
65 Father's interviews in the big office in Ada with the French doors - just like the other people who came to interview with the Bishop!
66 Teton Crest trail and "four days in the blasted wilderness"
67 A dozen post-hike recitations of "Did you ever stand on the ledge..." and your eyes get red towards the end
68 Bottom of the Grand Canyon, pouring rain, broken water filters, and dumping out all the food bags to cook up silt 'n' mush, silt 'n' ramen, and silt 'n' hot chocolate. Drinking tadpole water to survive.
69 "PT! Fold your little arms, big ones if you got 'em."
70 Sunday night slide shows
71 Bedtime songs from boot camp at Ft. Ord: "A little bird (a little bird) with a yellow bill (a yellow bill)..."
72 Using touch-up paint on the inside of the blue Mercedes...sorry.
73 Indian Princesses
74 Paul Simon at Desert Sky Pavilion, January 1991
75 David Wilcox and Beth Nielsen Chapman in Boston, November 2002
Thanks for a million and one happy times! xoh
2 comments:
Strange that no one has yet mentioned "watching you put your sweater on"...
Yes - putting your sweater on! I forgot about that one, and now it made me laugh out loud! Also, stories about bank robberies - that is some of the best dinnertime conversation ever. And speaking of dinner conversation, here's one more: The Summer of Harry Potter. Remember the summer book 4 came out, and we all read 1-3, and we talked of nothing else at dinner for months?
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