Walk down Memory Lane

This is from an email my SIL sent me. Most of you aren't old enough to relate to these memories, but those of you who are will enjoy the walk down memory lane. Thanks Gaye for the forward!

How Many Of These Do You Remember?
All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?

It took five minutes for the TV to warm up?

Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?

Nobody owned a purebred dog?

When a quarter was a decent allowance?

You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?

Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?

All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?

You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?

Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?

It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?

They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . . and they did it!

When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?

No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?

Lying on your back in the grass with your friends? and saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a... '?

Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?

Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?

Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?

And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today.

When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?

Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.

Buying nearly everything out of the Sears Roebuck and Monkey Ward catalogs.

....as well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.

If you can remember most or all of these, Then You Have Lived!!!!!!!

Candy cigarettes.

Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.

Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.

Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes.

Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.

Newsreels before the movie.

P.F. Fliers.

Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601). Party lines.

Peashooters.

Howdy Dowdy.

Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.

78 RPM records!

Green Stamps.

Mimeograph paper.

The Fort Apache Play Set.

Do You Remember a Time When:

Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'?

Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, 'Do Over!'?

'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?

Catching The Fireflies Could Happily Occupy An Entire Evening?

It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends'?

The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was 'cooties'?

Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a Slingshot?

Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?

'Oly-oly-oxen-free' made perfect sense?

War was a card game?

Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?

Taking drugs meant orange - flavored chewable aspirin?

Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?

Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yeah, I remember that'?

Alzheimer's

I have this bad habit at home of sitting my cell phone down and then not being able to find it when I need it. So someone has to speed dial me and we all stand around listening for it. Last night, I "did it again" so Ned dialed my number. Kam and I could hear it, but it was really faint and we couldn't locate it. Ned dialed it again and we narrowed it down to the kitchen. Kam and I looked at each other and giggled, then proceeded to open the fridge...



Yup, there it sat. We went to Cafe Sabor for dinner (my reward for finishing the ride) and brought home the leftovers. When walking in from the truck, I conveniently sat the phone on the box... the rest is history! At least I didn't have to worry about it over-heating!

"Psycho" Chicks! :0)

Is this logo awesome or what? A local construction company sponsored all 14 of us and bought us these shirts. Don't know where they got the decal - but I love it. So, as I said, I finished the ride. Always knew I "wanted" to, but questioned if I could due to my training schedule, which included all of 2 rides before today. But I was pumped and all went well. I was guessing between 5-6 hours so I was thrilled with my time. I can's believe how close the three top "guessers" were. Brittney was third, Eki was second (a.k.a. the famous rider of them all, Jon Kirk) and the winning guess by none other than Jen was closest at 4:10. Congrats girlfriend!


Enjoy the following pics - don't laugh at my rolls - I think (hope, hope, hope) I finally have the incentive to cut back on the M&M's, and most important...
Find something YOU want to achieve and go for it. Skies the limit... thanks for all the support.

This was take-off at 7:00 am this morning. There were 14 riders, and 12 finished. Ages ranged from about 18 to 54.

This is a few of us at the end. Three riders, a mom and two sisters (Pauline Williamson, Brittney Lundgren and Makala Williamson) finished in 3:14. Way to go you guys!


And for all you nay sayers who said to ditch the beach cruiser (it was Aunt Gayes) this gal rode hers the entire way and... Kicked my bucket!!! Way to go, Livingston!



Me, being oh so cheerful, at about mile 30. We couldn't have picked a more beautiful day. Notice the lake in the background is gorgeous...


Me, about 7 miles from finish. About where we play during cousin campout.


Worest two things of all? My BOTTOM, and my knees. They may never be the same... I think I will climb Mt. St. Helens next!

WICKED!!!

The ride is over... I finished, I conquered, I am happy. One problem though... I need to have "Eki' step forward and reveal their identity before I can disclose my time and the winner of a scrappy page. Will the real EKI please step forward?

Cyclin Chicks Betting Site

So after you have read the next post, come back and tell me
1. Do you think I will make it all the way around (52 miles)?
2. And if I do, how long do you think it will take me? Closest one to my actual time will win something wonderful like... a scrapbook page! But vote soon - remember the ride is in two short days~

Cyclin' Chicks!

Oh, my... What has my competitiveness got me into this time? Some psycho person over here decided to organize an all-female bike ride around the lake. Like a dummy, I signed up. Yes, I have gone on long bike rides before - two to Jackson Hole before LoToJa was even thought of, but that was a day or two ago. Now I am pushing 50 years of age and 20 pounds heavier... And as for training - I am definately a fair-weather rider, so I probably don't have to tell you how many miles I have put in in the last three weeks. So, yes, I am basically wingin' it. But - I am excited as heck about it. Something I can say I have accomplished this summer. Ned doesn't think I can do it, and that just gives me more reason to get after it. Following is a list of every thing I have gathered for the voyage. If I have left anything out, let me know SOON - the ride is this Wednesday, June 24th.

So I figure I better have a bike...



And some really good, high power energy snacks (a.k.a. comfort food)


And you know me, wouldn't think of leaving the camera behind! I must document this momentous occasion.

An Ipod to listen to... This could be the longest __ hours of my life!



Cell phone is mandatory - in case I need a ride home!

Little head set in case I get really bored and want to call one of you to pass the time of day... And riding while holding a cellular device could be detrimental to my health!



Shades - wouldn't leave home without them.



Bandanas - yes there are two of them. One to wear around my head to absorb the masses of sweat that will be running off my not-so-intelligent head. And the second one... to wipe what ever else needs wiping! You know, snotty nose, bugs out of eyes, etc.



Helmet and gloves - goes with the territory.



Water bottle - could be a womans' best friend before the day is over...



And last, but not least by any means, spandex! Who cares what they look like on the outside...



It's the cushion on the INSIDE that really matters!



So wish me luck, and look forward to a post about the actual ride - if I live to blog about it! :0)

Just Horsin' Around...

Some good friends of ours, Elder Mel and Sister Ellen Maynes, are serving a six-month mission at Martins Cove. The day before they left, Ellen asked me if I would take pictures and email them to her of the soon-to-arrive new colts they were "expecting". The last one (total of 3) finally arrived so we went out this afternoon to photograph them. What do you think she will think of these?


"Oh, boy am I tired!"


"I got an itch and I just can't reach it!"


"Lovin' It"



"Whizzer"

Kamrens Evil Twin

Kam went to the USU bball camp this week. Had a blast and I will blog more on it later, but just had to share this little ditty with you. When they split the kids into age groups, I noticed this kid who looked a whole lot like Kamren. There were 52 in his group and they split them into groups of 10 to go with each coach. Somehow, they both ended up on the same team. Kam lost count of how many kids asked him if they were twins. What do you think?

Is this Kamren?


Or is this Kamren?


Is the one in the back Kamren?


Is Kamren in front or back on this one?


And is he the first or second one here?


The one on the left, or the one on the right?


When the camp ended, I could resist no longer and ask him if I could take a picture of them smiling together. He just gave me one of those whatever kind of looks and I snapped away...


And just in case you really can't tell, Kamren is the one on the right!

Don't ya just love photoshop...

Sister Cindy sent me some fun photos last night and I decided I wanted to play around with them...

I started with this one...



Then decided I wanted to add myself, so I took this one...



Flipped the image, and cut myself out and added me to the original picture.



I was so proud of myself! So I hurried and sent it to Cindy to show off. She said she felt left out so I took this picture:



Flipped it again, and cut her out. Added it to the edited pictue and ta dum! Presto, we now have Sister Cindy, Grandma Atkinson, my Mom and Me all in one picture!