Flash Back Friday

Anna says:

While growing up, my sister Rachel and I were often inseparable. I loved everything about spending time with her and I really looked up to her. She knew everything and when I didn’t know what something meant or had any question in general I would ask her first before anyone else. Well, whenever it came time to do something new Rachel always went first and it was always a comfort, perhaps even a bit of a crutch. I almost wouldn’t do anything unless I knew Rachel had done it first. One day, my dear sister taught me a great lesson. We were swimming in the canal by our house (I know it is super dangerous) and we came to a drop, it was probably like two feet down or something, nothing really big. I insisted that Rachel go first just to show me how safe it was. She stubbornly sat on the side and told me I needed to go first or we would go no further down the canal, or go back, until I had done it. I eventually went, after much protesting, but from that day forward I had no fear about going on without my sister by my side, though I still preferred her to be there, but the fear was gone. I was so proud of myself and it was a great change in me to know I could do anything I think to be scary. Thank you so much Rachel for pushing me to be better and helping me along my way growing up. Thanks for showing me to my independence.

Flash Back Friday #1

Here's Mikey for our first entry:

When I was a senior in high school, maybe I just got bored easily, but my friends and I came across an area hidden in the middle of Sacramento behind some government court buildings. It was really late one night and we drove around randomly and found a marsh land next to a huge open field with three full-size soccer fields and a play ground nearby. It seemed to be a very random and hidden place for this wide-open field. As we drove by, the headlights in the car reflected back several round, pinpoint eyeballs staring back at us. We decided it would be fun to get out and run after whatever it was that was staring back at us. We found out that they were rabbits. Extremely fast, and sometimes large, rabbits. This became our new favorite thing, and for weeks and weeks, we would go to this area late at night and chase rabbits! Eventually we brought along plastic wiffle-ball bats to see if we could catch one. To our dismay, after many many attempts, we never caught or hit a rabbit. We never actually decided what we would have done if we did catch one, but I think the consensus was at least that we woulnd't kill it or hurt it. We just wanted the bragging rights of saying we caught a jack rabbit. A few of us came very close once as we cornered one next to a chain-link fence and it was too big to fit through it like many of the smaller ones, but then it ran through one of our legs and took off like lightning. For some reason, we thought this was a very fun thing to do and did it all the time. Some other fun and interesting things happened while chasing rabbits, but I'll save those stories for another time.

I will always remember chasing rabbits with my friends in the dark, late at night, behind the government court buildings, hidden somewhere in Sacramento.

Flash Back Friday

I have been wanting to do this with our blog for a while now and what better time to start up something new then with a bit of a resolution. Often times my mind wonders and I think of experiences and people in my life that have really made an impact on the person that I am, weather for good or bad (but mostly good). I am very embarrassed about my lack of journal keeping in my life and I want to record these memories before I get much older and the fog that nostalgia seems to bring clouds these memories any further. So I am going to try out Flash Back Fridays.

Let me explain. I am not putting restrictions on my memory logs so they could be anything from yesterday to when I was a small child and they could include anyone at anytime. Also, they may end up being just my own person babbling and no really concrete memory per-say in some of these posts. Mostly these blogs will be commentary so if all you like is pictures (Gretta:):):) you might want to steer clear of these posts. Also I will NEVER or have NEVER clam I write well so if you are one of those people that gets so caught up in grammatic and spelling errors PLEASE do not read these post. I am going for content here and I am NOT writing a novel to be published to the world. So please don't be my editors. Also for those of you who don't know I am dyslexic and you should just be proud of how well I write with the restrictions I have. I may on occasion need a fact checker so feel free to help me out in that, but please keep in mind these are from my perspective only and they may not be a true witness of the "truth."

I have invited Mike to help me along with this so you may see some of Mikey's moments here too. He has some pretty fun stories that need to be recorded. We will try to do our best at keeping clear who is writing.