Nick A. and I were pretty much trampoline addicts. We worked and did lawn work for some neighbors across the street and they had the coolest yard for kids growing up. (A full court basketball court and a trampoline.)

I need to post a full memory of all the yard work we used to do there, but this is all about the crazy games we used to play on the trampoline.

Nick always came up with the most crative games to play on the trampoline. He probably remembers more than I do.

But I always enjoyed our acrobatics more than the games.

We were very good at back flips, front flips, jump on your knees then flip, jump on your knees then flip back (this was the most difficult).

We could time our jumps so that we could steal each others jumps and the result would pop the other person up very high.

Many times, this type of action would result in catastrophic ball crunching landings on the bars at the end!!

The most we could have at a time was 3, but I recall we had 4 people on at one time . . . Read More..

When my parents divorced, Dan and I used to go to my dad's apartment.

At times, my dad had a room mate, Scott Mitchell and he was a lot of fun. Dan and I got a long with him really well. And he had really long hair and a beard as well.

Here are some random things I remember form staying over there every other weekend for about a year or so:

• We used to play Dragon Warrior 5 with my Dad and would play the poker mini game to try to get some kind of sword. (We didnt care about the game at all, we just really liked playing poker)
• There was the ghetto couch that Scott slept on.
• We used to do dishes a lot. My Dad always made us put the dishes away as well as clean the dishes after he provided us with food for dinner.
• One time, we went to the pool and had a lot of fun in an indoor heated pool. Something funny happened here, but I dont recall.
• Dan and I used to go rollerblading in the apartment complex and go for walks and one time we caught our parents making out with each

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Noels recent memory about being in Elementary School and stuffing things in his mouth, reminded me about a time that we were learning about the 5 types of tastes and learning about which sections of the tongue taste certain flavors.  To test this, we had an assortment of items like sour juice, bitter coffee, sweet sugar and much more.

Everything was fine until the students placed coffee beans on my mouth and I practically choked.  I spit them out immediately and blew so hard that the coffee beans went all over the place.

It was a complete mess.

After coming back from Grand Bend I might have initally gotten this Ear Infection from playing football in the great lakes where there could be germs or something. Or the Ear infection could have come from the bug that flew into my eye. So those are my theories.

Regardless, once I came back I had the WORST ear rake in my entire life. I laid in bed suffering until the pain was unbearable and my mom took me to the hospital.

The doctor prescribed a strong pain killer for me, but nothing helped. On the drive to get our medication my pain was greater than any I have ever experienced in my entire life. I felt like my head was going to crack open. My head had soo much pressure it was unbeleivable.

Eventually I randomly asked my mom for a piece of gum. And this happened to be the best random idea ever! Because we just didnt think that that would help releive the pressure. But it did! And I will recommend to anyone if you have pressure in your ear, then chew gum.

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At my cousin Robin's wedding, my family was having a fun drinking party in my Aunt Barb's suite killing time the night before her wedding.

I was talking to Ben and Steve at dinner explaining a fun game to them that I had played in college with my cross country game.

For those who havent played it, its called "Fuzzy Bunny".  The object of the game is to stuff as much food as you can into your mouth.  Something like crackers or cookies will work fine.

On this particular night, uncle Paul had his video camera, so you guys can enjoy the funny videos of me getting my butt whipped by my cousin Steve who has THE ABSOLUTE LARGEST MOUTH ON THE PLANET.

Enjoy.