Memories

This past month or so I've been putting together our famliy calender (it's almost finished everyone, so just hold your horses) and it's made me realize how much fun I have with my family.  There have been some really great times.  There have also been some not so great times, but that's beside the point....  It's made me realize how important making family memories are.  They are so precious to me.   I hope I can make as good of memories with my future children.  Here are some of the things that make me laugh when I think about them:

-All of Dad's ideas about trying to catch mice.
-Actually, a lot of Dad's ideas in general (like trying to get into his locked car by using a baseball bat, never going to forget that one!)
-All of Andy's Baseball tournaments where we would sit clear in the outfield and have our own party
-When Oscar was little and a little Houdini
-Burns getting his foot broken and David wrapped it too tight and he became Thumper
-The summer when Joni, Andy, and I were all home and didn't have any more than part time jobs so we would take Oscar everywhere with us.
-Ditcher Time where my sisters, mom, and I go out to lunch and always make some kind of a scene
-Going to David's parents house and having to be careful about not saying we were going to murder each other
-On the way to David's parents house, getting stuck at a truck stop in the middle of nowhere and talking to a very....interesting....truck driver
-Having Sunday dinners together and getting to talk to everyone.

I think I'm going to like raising my own kids and being able to do weird, funny stuff with them too.  I think between David and I, our kids don't really have a chance of being normal, but like I always tell David when he brings that up, at least they'll be funny!