day six...memories

I have been blessed with a good life.

I have so many good memories from my 37 years of existence 

on this beautiful planet.

here are a few from my growing up years

(or I should say childhood, cause I am still growing up):

-Sunday newspaper/treat run and drive with my dad

-going to Sleeping Beauty ballet with my mom

-riding on the bus into downtown SLC with my grandpa Thomson

-eating peaches and cream with my grandma Thomson

-loving my grandma Wynn's tuna sandwiches

-grandpa Wynn sacrificing his den and letting us watch MTV

-camping trips with my family and family friends

-making dinner with my mom

-playing the Atari with my brother

-going to the zoo every year with my grandma and grandpa Thomson

-walking to alberston's every day during the summer with my best friend, Jennie

-my parents buying the care bear care-a-lot playset for me 

when it wasn't even my birthday or christmas

-playing care bears with my friends in the driveway

-Sunday family bike rides

-taking sewing, singing, dance, ballet, ice skating and tennis lessons

-going grocery shopping at Ream's with my mom

-building snow forts with my brother

-playing with cousins

-hanging out with my mom and aunts

-helping my mom give my aunt Becky numerous perms

-going to the parade of homes, year after year, with my mom and great aunt Gerry

-the exact moment in my late teenage life when I wasn't going to church regularly and

realizing that I missed it and from that point knowing that 

I always wanted it to be a part of my life

-sleepovers with young women groups

-visiting rest homes around the holidays to sing carols to the old folk

-feeding the homeless in SLC under the 4th north overpass in the freezing winter

-being in the Sunshine Generation and singing at the Old Mill Christmas Festival

-always having fun family and friend birthday parties

-my mom teaching me how to drive a stick in my brothers old GMC truck

-listening to John Denver with my dad

I could go on and on...