About Dad's Dad and Mom

Mom: Well your mother told me that your parents kissed under the stars.
Ann Dee: what?
D: I don't know if they did that. They probably camped a lot.
A: Why would they camp a lot.
D: They lived in Idaho.
M: and no money and everybody went camping.
D: They met at Idaho State College in Pocatello when they were both getting their teaching credential.
A: Did they get married right away?
D: I don't know. I think they got married when they got out of school. They ended up going to a little town/village called Thomas. It was a village just west of Blackfoot Idaho and just east of them was a place called Riverside. And west of them was Rockford Idaho which is where they lived and my father's parents also lived there. My grandfather had a farm there and my father built a log cabin on the lot next door to them.
A: So they lived next door to his parents.
D:Yeah. And they didn't have children for a long time but finally when my dad was about 26 years old and my dad was 30 years old they had me. They were living in that log cabin but I was born in the Pocatello ID hospital. And they taught in a two man school house. First grade to eighth grade. Dad was the principal and Mom was a teacher. I think she taught in Malad for awhile--and Elkhorn. She taught her brothers and sisters and she didn't like it. and my father died after I was about a year and a half old. And they are buried in the cemetery that is called the riverside Thomas cemetery and it's right across from Snake River High school.
A: Are the houses still there?
D: No. But I know where they were. There's an elementary school where their houses were. The farm has obviously been taken over by a big corporate farm. Leslie and Terry said they went there and they couldn't find the grave and they asked the sexton and they said, oh yeah, the school teachers and they knew right where they were. and Karen said when we went to bury mom they all said, oh, I wondered what happened to her. So obviously the community all knew about them. He died so young and they all remembered.
A: We should have a family reunion out there. That's a really good idea I just had.
D: We should.
a: Is it close to Lava Hot Springs?
D: Lava hot springs is in between. We should go there. I have a cousin who lives there.

If anyone wants to go camping in Idaho and then go see where Dad sort of grew up, please reply here.

How I Met Your Mother

Ann Dee: Mom, how did you meet Dad?
Dad: That's controversial.
A: Why do you say that?
D: We'll see what your mother says.
Mom: Well, Dee's girlfriend invited us to come to her house. Dee brought me and she brought your Dad.
D: We were in high school. Mom was there with Elaine Kimball who was engaged to Dee.
A: What?
D: Elaine Kimball was the daughter of Eddie Kimball who was the athletic director at BYU and her younger bro. was David Kimball my buddy. And she was engaged to Dee and she invited Mom over to her house (the Fagg's house now) that they built. And I was over hanging out with David. And Elaine came in and introduced us. She said, This is Larry. And then she kind of teased us around.
A: Like what?
D: I dont know. Just teased us. Then your mother left and she asked me if I liked her and I said yes and she said do you want me to line you up and I said yes. But then nothing came of it. I didn't see her for two years. Then at our wedding she said that she asked Jewel if she wanted to go out with me but Mom said I was too tall and she said she asked you but I said no, she's too short. But obviously neither of those were true. So she was lying. She lied all the time.
K: how did Dee get rid of her?
D: Mom caught her running around with other guys all the time. She was kind of a crazy girl. She was always doing weird stuff like saying outrageous things and a little overbearing.
A: So you guys didn't see each other for two years.
D: Yeah, we didn't see each other until my mission. The other connection was Kathryn used to work for my mother in the library. My mother ran the circulation desk and Kathryn got books from people. And i went there and dusted books. Actually I got a job when I was about six or seven picking up papers on the lower part of campus for 10 cents an hour. So Kathyrn remembered me from when I was kid. She saw me in church when I was a missionary and figured out who I was and invited us to dinner.
A: Did She know that you guys had met?
D: No but it didn't matter. I don't think Jewel even remembered.
M: I did too.
D: And Jewel says that she had designs to get us together.
M: And that was it for both of us. We didn't date another person.
M: There was a point where Dad thought I was too short.
D: No. I never said such a thing.
M: Yes, you did. And my mom was worried Dad was too tall.
A:So how many times did you eat at Kathryn's?
D: Oh, quite a few.
A: and mom was always there?
D: Yeah.
M: I lived there all summer. She had tons of kids.
D: She invited other people too. It wasn't just us. She'd have a bunch of people to dinner.
A: So you guys like flirting or something.
D: Of course not.
M:He always shook my hand after church and then he said will you write to me? I said yes. I'll write two words for every one your write and I did. I actually counted.
A: Whoa. So then you guys wrote. and then when you got home from your mission . . .
D: What?
A: You called Mom? Was she at the airport?
D: I didn't fly I drove.
M: He drove a poor old car that was white and had a hole in the floor that you could see the road.
D: I drove it home from Fresno. It was my own car. I had to travel all up and down the San Joaquin valley and because I was the district leader (it was different then) and I had to drive from Merced to Visaila.
A: SO you drove that car all over.
D: yeah, I drove that home by myself through Barstow and then up highway 91 which is now I15.
M to V: You know what your grandpa used to do? He used to teach the kids to hang on and pull themself up.
A: So when you got home did you call Mom?
D: Yeah, I called her and I went over to see her.
A; Were you planning on marrying her?
D: I can't answer that. We went on a little drive.
M: UP the canyon.
D: The American Fork canyon.
M: And he gave me a little kiss.
D: Oh.
M: you did. And were you released?
D: I don't know. the president knew where i was going.
M: We're probably still breaking rules.
D: we probably are.
A: So, ummm, how long after you got home did you get married.
D: well, that was probably April or something and we got married in August.
A: Dad, a bit soon.
M: Grandma had all kind of cute little tall girls all picked out for him and I know she was disappointed. Daughters of professors.
A: Is that true?
D: No.
M: yes. It was true.
D: we talked about waiting but then we just got married.
A: And then, you had Karen in a year.
D: Yeah.
A: But was mom done with school?
D: Yes. She was done with school and was teaching in Orem.
M: Fourth grade.

*There was some talk about Dad writing in his love/missionary letters how he'd heard that every kiss takes one year off of your life and he wondered if Mom would help him commit suicide . . . or something.

Coke Machine

A few unanswered questions . . .
Did Dan really get his hand stuck in a coke machine?
Did Sandy's friend Simon ever pay the BYU ticket he got driving Dad's car?
Did Karen REALLY have a huge party when the rest of the family drove across the country?
Did Sam actually punch Dan in the stomach when he snored?
Did Joe really hold a babysitter hostage by spraying her with the hose?
Did Katy actually enjoy being Dod Richen? and if so, why?
Did Leslie really drink a screwdriver at a friend's house in California?
How many times did the BMW get crashed?
How many times did the station wagon get crashed? The mustang? The Honda? etc.

Soap Operas or Practicing the Violin

AD and I used to pig out and watch soap operas when we got home from school. The second we heard the garage door open, we'd run into the orange carpeted living room and start practicing the violin to make mom believe we had been doing it for a long time. We were brats and I'm sure she knew cause we didn't really improve at the rate we should have if we were practicing that much! I really wanted to know if Jennifer Horton and Jack Devereau ever got together. Did Marlena ever get that devil out of her and who was Stefano trying to kill?

Because this is easier . . .

Mom and I are going to start doing some interviews. I'm going over there tomorrow. I'm going to ask about the time KT and I stayed at night games too long and I didn't want to stay long but KT did because she had a crush on BB but she's going to say she didn't have a crush on him because she says I lie but I don't and she did.

That was the only time I remember getting spanked. Mom and Dad were standing on the front lawn and were there police? I can't remember. It feels like there were police or at least that they told us they had called the police. I was so scared.

V just threw up on me. That's okay. I fed him to much rice cereal. My bad.