When I was in about 5th or 6th grade our family took a road trip out west. We spent about a week traveling out to California, and then stayed in Cali for another week. There's alot of memories to go with those travels but he's one that sticks out in my mind for some reason. Noel and I stayed at our Aunt Pamy Sue's place in San Francisco for a couple nights. I'm not sure where our parents stayed, but what are you going to do?

My bro and I always had a fantastic time with her, except on this night. We had dinner at her place and everything was going fine until she made us wash our own dishes. This was the first time we had to do anything like this because we were spoiled and grew up with a dishwasher. We weren't happy, I probally cried.

When I was about 13 my best friend Brockel had horses. In return for helping her family care for the horses, Brockel's dad taught me to ride. I loved riding and my favorite horse was a fierce gelding named Chestnut. He was mean but he could run so fast! One afternoon my girlfriends and I were all out riding when a tornado arose. We couldn't see the danger, but the horsed definately scensed it. I was leading the ride and and motioned Chestnut on but he wanted to turn around and the other horses were following suit.
Things get really creepy when a tornado is about to strike and everything around us got eerily quiet. With the horses being so stubborn and the dark clouds coming we decided to turn back. As soon as we did the horses all bolted! I pulled the reins as hard as my scrawny arms could but Chestnut and his incredible strength were no match for me. My friends and I were all at the mercy of these powerful beasts! All we could do was hang on for dear life. What a . . . Read More..

This one time my brother and I and probably Scott Vogt, were all hanging out playing basketball at our friend Jeremy Philips' house and we saw a sledgehammer and a golf ball sitting around.

We hit the golfball with a sledgehammer so hard (Jeremy was a big guy so he probably did it) that it flew all the way across the street and nailed a house.

Luckily no windows shattered.

We did this all across the neighborhood for a while until the golf ball finally shattered into pieces.

The insides had a ton of rubberbands like Pee-Wee hermans rubber band ball.  There was all this white substance too.

It was pretty sweet.  We did some other off the wall thing that day too.

When I was in 4th or 5th grade I got this idea in my head to sweet talk and romance a girl while we were protecting and serving classmates by making sure they didnt get killed walking the street.

It was the safety patrols job to monitor the street going across South Lake Rd from Burt.  It was actually very rare that we would help anyone out because most kids just ate inside the gym and didnt live near the school.

So my idea of romance was to kiss Laura Brandon because I really thought she was a cutie.  

And in order to prepare for this (this being my first kiss ever) I really had to kind of "prepare."   So as embarrassing as this is, I will post it.  I pretty much the night before kind of hugged and envisioned my romantic kiss with her with my pillow.  Acted as if it was her pretty much.

But the day came and I was very nervous as to what would happen.  When come to find out Laura wasnt there and some other girl took her place.  I remember . . . Read More..