I really want to thank everybody for a really fun time on the Alaskan Cruise. I thought I had a chance for MVP of the cruise, but my failures in Kareoke might have hurt my chances. I am still voting for myself though.
I thought everybody had an awesome time, except maybe Karen at the end when she looked like Rocky Balboa "Cut me Mick, cut me". I want to thank Mom and Dad the was great and a great idea to get us all together again. It was cool being with all my brothers and sisters again. You are all so dang nice.
Please register your votes for MVP-take into account everything ie: taking charge at airports, taking charge before and after the cruise pertaining to ground transportation, fun on the cruise, eating the most Coconut Ranger cookies, salsa dancing, coolest outfits(headbands, wristbands,vests, mock turtlenecks) you know stuff like that. Sorry but you cannot vote for Van as he is not one of Larry and Jewel's children or a spouse.
Thanks again everyone, especially Mom and Dad. We love you very much.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Sometimes I get sad because I miss our old house on 1476 Oak Lane
I miss the water fights with 7-up bottles.
I miss pulling weeds in front of the family room window.
I miss running into the mirror in the orange living room.
I miss sleeping out on the tramp in the summer.
I miss the swinging chairs in the kitchen.
I miss looking at my reflection in the 70s wallpaper in the sewing room.
I miss lying on the waterbed and watching the little TV in Mom and Dad's.
I miss getting ready in the gigantic bathroom downstairs with the stuffed boxes of winter clothes.
I miss doing olympic events of the bar in the family room.
I miss helping mom move all the plants into the greenhouse.
I miss seeing the mountains through the hole in the roof out the kitchen window.
Cam never got to go in that house (unless you count the tour we took a year or so ago because one of my students was renting it--talk about traumatic). And no matter how hard I try, I can't really explain why I loved it so much.
I miss the water fights with 7-up bottles.
I miss pulling weeds in front of the family room window.
I miss running into the mirror in the orange living room.
I miss sleeping out on the tramp in the summer.
I miss the swinging chairs in the kitchen.
I miss looking at my reflection in the 70s wallpaper in the sewing room.
I miss lying on the waterbed and watching the little TV in Mom and Dad's.
I miss getting ready in the gigantic bathroom downstairs with the stuffed boxes of winter clothes.
I miss doing olympic events of the bar in the family room.
I miss helping mom move all the plants into the greenhouse.
I miss seeing the mountains through the hole in the roof out the kitchen window.
Cam never got to go in that house (unless you count the tour we took a year or so ago because one of my students was renting it--talk about traumatic). And no matter how hard I try, I can't really explain why I loved it so much.
Friday, June 8, 2007
Karen: I remember being so mad because Dad took us to the neighbors because Mom was at the hospital having Joe. And the lady babysitting us was telling us that dad was so excited he was walking three inches off the floor because it was a boy--that dad was so glad it was a boy. And I was so mad. What's wrong with girls.
Mom: Every place we've been there's been at least two or three Mormon families that we've been friends with.
Karen: There was a big event in Escondido village when that one family got a color TV and she served cream puffs. It was Ream. El Ream. It was the biggest night and it was the wonderful world of Disney and there were fireworks, etc.
A: Tell about that swim meet.
D: In Los Altos. We entered a Los Altos family swimming meet. Some pool in Los Altos. It was after we moved. And anyway, we did really well in it. There was individual events and so on and our family was the best of course. I'd been out of town for part of the time before the meet and I guess they called before the meet and wanted to know what everyone was going to swim. And someone entered me into two events without me knowing.
M: Laughing.
D: It was the medley relay family one and an individual father freestyle.
M: Who do you think entered him?
D: you did.
M: No.
D: yes. But anyway, we were winning as a family but then they said, "Okay it's time for the father's individual freestyle" and they called my name. I was shocked. I acted like I didn't hear. I heard my name again. I was clear on the other side of the pool with a couple of the kids and I just ignored it. There was no way I was going to swim. They announced my name a couple of times and then they said, "well, I guess he isn't here." That's when my kids betrayed me. They started yelling "He's right here. Here he is!" And they were all pointing at me. I said "no, no. I'm not doing it." but everyone said "we'll wait." I kept saying, "Please, no. I dont' even have my suit on."So i went and put on my swimsuit and all the other guys are all muscuclar in their speedos and tan and here i come out in my trunks all white.
Karen: All my friends were like, your dad is blue.
D: So I jumped in and I was a lenght of the pool behind everyone all splashing.
A: why didn't beat everyone?
D: I didn't know how to swim. I learned how to swim when I was an adult and I wasn't very good. Our kids were really good.
M: we saw to it that our kids were good. We were a california family. You have to swim.
D: Anyway, that's the story. Everyone had a good time.
M: Oh my gosh, how did we get through all those years, all those kids, all those activities.
A: Didn't you go swimming with all the stanford guys?
D: I did occasionally.
K: Yeah, naked.
D: I did sometimes.
K: He had a back problem so he was supposed to lie on the floor and when he did, we'd all jump on him.
A: Mom, what would you do all day?
M: Are you kidding? How many children did I have? I sewed the clothes, washed the clothes.
D; she did substitute teaching. She taught at a school on el camino and there was black kid in the class that got smart with her and she grabbed him by ear and took him to the principal.
A: Well, like would you go to t he park every day?
D; There were play things.
K: Mom was always the primary president or the RS president. Really active and busy with the church. And she had cute girls who liked her. Except remember when that Tuft girl stuck her tongue out at you?
M: No.
K: You were mad for weeks. You also used to go swim laps at the pool.
A: Where were the kids?
K: We'd all go the pool and then they'd have adult swim for ten minutes. All the kids had to get out and they'd do laps.
M: It was really fun because all our friends would be there and we'd just hang out and siwm
K: And then when the snack bar opened, we'd get all kinds of stuff. Do you remember dad?
D: It's new to me. I knew the Eikler but I didn't know you guys were eating and playing.
M: Karen was a powerful swimmer.
D; They were all great but she was amazing at the butterfly.
K: I had to do it because the coach just threw me into it right before a race.
M; i Remember that.
D: I remember they had a coed relay in their meets and karen would always do the butterfly and she'd always beat the boy.
M; She'd always get them ahead.
A: All the kids were good until you moved to Utah.
D: Well, Sam swam. We swam here for awhile. Didn't yo learn to swim?
A: I was in the Provo Pikes but I wasn't very good.
D: I think katy can swim.
A: Katy got hit by a car on her way to swim team.
Mom: Every place we've been there's been at least two or three Mormon families that we've been friends with.
Karen: There was a big event in Escondido village when that one family got a color TV and she served cream puffs. It was Ream. El Ream. It was the biggest night and it was the wonderful world of Disney and there were fireworks, etc.
A: Tell about that swim meet.
D: In Los Altos. We entered a Los Altos family swimming meet. Some pool in Los Altos. It was after we moved. And anyway, we did really well in it. There was individual events and so on and our family was the best of course. I'd been out of town for part of the time before the meet and I guess they called before the meet and wanted to know what everyone was going to swim. And someone entered me into two events without me knowing.
M: Laughing.
D: It was the medley relay family one and an individual father freestyle.
M: Who do you think entered him?
D: you did.
M: No.
D: yes. But anyway, we were winning as a family but then they said, "Okay it's time for the father's individual freestyle" and they called my name. I was shocked. I acted like I didn't hear. I heard my name again. I was clear on the other side of the pool with a couple of the kids and I just ignored it. There was no way I was going to swim. They announced my name a couple of times and then they said, "well, I guess he isn't here." That's when my kids betrayed me. They started yelling "He's right here. Here he is!" And they were all pointing at me. I said "no, no. I'm not doing it." but everyone said "we'll wait." I kept saying, "Please, no. I dont' even have my suit on."So i went and put on my swimsuit and all the other guys are all muscuclar in their speedos and tan and here i come out in my trunks all white.
Karen: All my friends were like, your dad is blue.
D: So I jumped in and I was a lenght of the pool behind everyone all splashing.
A: why didn't beat everyone?
D: I didn't know how to swim. I learned how to swim when I was an adult and I wasn't very good. Our kids were really good.
M: we saw to it that our kids were good. We were a california family. You have to swim.
D: Anyway, that's the story. Everyone had a good time.
M: Oh my gosh, how did we get through all those years, all those kids, all those activities.
A: Didn't you go swimming with all the stanford guys?
D: I did occasionally.
K: Yeah, naked.
D: I did sometimes.
K: He had a back problem so he was supposed to lie on the floor and when he did, we'd all jump on him.
A: Mom, what would you do all day?
M: Are you kidding? How many children did I have? I sewed the clothes, washed the clothes.
D; she did substitute teaching. She taught at a school on el camino and there was black kid in the class that got smart with her and she grabbed him by ear and took him to the principal.
A: Well, like would you go to t he park every day?
D; There were play things.
K: Mom was always the primary president or the RS president. Really active and busy with the church. And she had cute girls who liked her. Except remember when that Tuft girl stuck her tongue out at you?
M: No.
K: You were mad for weeks. You also used to go swim laps at the pool.
A: Where were the kids?
K: We'd all go the pool and then they'd have adult swim for ten minutes. All the kids had to get out and they'd do laps.
M: It was really fun because all our friends would be there and we'd just hang out and siwm
K: And then when the snack bar opened, we'd get all kinds of stuff. Do you remember dad?
D: It's new to me. I knew the Eikler but I didn't know you guys were eating and playing.
M: Karen was a powerful swimmer.
D; They were all great but she was amazing at the butterfly.
K: I had to do it because the coach just threw me into it right before a race.
M; i Remember that.
D: I remember they had a coed relay in their meets and karen would always do the butterfly and she'd always beat the boy.
M; She'd always get them ahead.
A: All the kids were good until you moved to Utah.
D: Well, Sam swam. We swam here for awhile. Didn't yo learn to swim?
A: I was in the Provo Pikes but I wasn't very good.
D: I think katy can swim.
A: Katy got hit by a car on her way to swim team.
Discussion with Mom, Dad, and Karen on Wednesday, June 6th, 2008 about Grandma Knight, Joe, Kids, and Tootsie
Mom: Grandma knight didn't love me. I was not her choice.
Karen: Dad was that true?
M: Change the subject.
Dad: Karen wants to talk about her.
Ann Dee: You said Joe had a leash?
M: If you have babies that little and they run that fast, you have to manage.
A: What was it like with all those kids?
M: Joe did run away every chance he got.
A: Where would he go?
M: I was always right behind him what ever way he went but he went everywhere.
D; He'd just run off in the store.
M: The first time I ever took himto the store we walked in and before we even came to the first counter he was gone. I was panicked. I had never been so panicked in my life. I must have had Sandy with me and I didn't know he was going to take off. I wasn't prepared. After that, I got prepared.
A: Where did you live when you first got married?
D: We lived in Orem. We lived on about 16th south. We lived within a block of the Westmore school in Orem.
M: Because I taught there. It was a block west of westmore school.
A: Was it an apartment?
D; Yeah, it was a basement apartment and a guy named Madsen was the landlord and he lived upstairs and he was a relative. We didn't know him very well. He was pretty old--like seventy(ha ha from Dad) But he was a relative and he was famous because he left his wife and married this cute little chick. So we were living there with him and his cute little chick.
A: Did you hang out with him?
D: No we didn't do much with him but he was nice. But all we really knew is what people told us about him.
A: Mom you used to get bullied? I never knew that.
M: In the second grade a little girl named Marilyn got all the kids to hate me and mom didn't care because LuJean was going through the same thing I was but she was in high school. So Mom didn't really pay any attention to me.
A: Why did that girl do that?
M: She was new in town and everyone wanted to play with her and she got all the girls not to like me and she gave Tootsie a beautiful gift if she would not be my friend. When she first moved in all of us would go to her house on the way home from school and her mother would always have doughnuts and cookies and punch and wonderful things so Marilyn got really popular. I got to go a couple of times until she told everyone to not be my friend. She bought everyone away. Tootsie stayed with me a long time but then she called one day and said Marilyn was going to give her an a big beautiful present if she wasn't my friend. Tootsie told me she was sorry but she couldn't turn Marilyn down.
A: Really?
M: It was so bad. We didn't have that happen to our girls did we? Karen had that in the fifth grade.
D: Well, when your mother was little she and Tootsie went around singing "I don't want to play in your yard" all over the place.
M: Tootsie's mother taught us the song. The motivation was she wanted Tootsie's sister Jeraldine to learn how to accompany people on the piano so she made us learn songs. Then we got scheduled all over.
D: But Jewel's little grandmother came over to help her memorize songs. That was before Tootsie.
M: Oh , yeah. I sang when I was really little. They thought it was remarkable that I could memorize those songs. I was like five. I didn't do the stuff with Tootsie until I was in elementary school. I sang by myself all the time. They would put me on a stand kind of in front of the piano and I'd sing these songs at the top of my lungs.
K: remember when you made me sing I am a child of God all by myself when I was like three?
M: No, I would never do that to you.
A: Do you remember any of the songs?
M: "I'm a big girl now." we used to take turns singing different lines.
A: How'd you get back together with Tootsie after the Marilyn thing.
M: It just took time. For a long time she wasn't my friend but then we worked it out. Sometimes Me and Tootsie and Arlene Jorgenson would go to the top of the hill past Manila and ride our bikes clear to the other side of Pleasant Grove. We'd fly down that hill.
Mom: Grandma knight didn't love me. I was not her choice.
Karen: Dad was that true?
M: Change the subject.
Dad: Karen wants to talk about her.
Ann Dee: You said Joe had a leash?
M: If you have babies that little and they run that fast, you have to manage.
A: What was it like with all those kids?
M: Joe did run away every chance he got.
A: Where would he go?
M: I was always right behind him what ever way he went but he went everywhere.
D; He'd just run off in the store.
M: The first time I ever took himto the store we walked in and before we even came to the first counter he was gone. I was panicked. I had never been so panicked in my life. I must have had Sandy with me and I didn't know he was going to take off. I wasn't prepared. After that, I got prepared.
A: Where did you live when you first got married?
D: We lived in Orem. We lived on about 16th south. We lived within a block of the Westmore school in Orem.
M: Because I taught there. It was a block west of westmore school.
A: Was it an apartment?
D; Yeah, it was a basement apartment and a guy named Madsen was the landlord and he lived upstairs and he was a relative. We didn't know him very well. He was pretty old--like seventy(ha ha from Dad) But he was a relative and he was famous because he left his wife and married this cute little chick. So we were living there with him and his cute little chick.
A: Did you hang out with him?
D: No we didn't do much with him but he was nice. But all we really knew is what people told us about him.
A: Mom you used to get bullied? I never knew that.
M: In the second grade a little girl named Marilyn got all the kids to hate me and mom didn't care because LuJean was going through the same thing I was but she was in high school. So Mom didn't really pay any attention to me.
A: Why did that girl do that?
M: She was new in town and everyone wanted to play with her and she got all the girls not to like me and she gave Tootsie a beautiful gift if she would not be my friend. When she first moved in all of us would go to her house on the way home from school and her mother would always have doughnuts and cookies and punch and wonderful things so Marilyn got really popular. I got to go a couple of times until she told everyone to not be my friend. She bought everyone away. Tootsie stayed with me a long time but then she called one day and said Marilyn was going to give her an a big beautiful present if she wasn't my friend. Tootsie told me she was sorry but she couldn't turn Marilyn down.
A: Really?
M: It was so bad. We didn't have that happen to our girls did we? Karen had that in the fifth grade.
D: Well, when your mother was little she and Tootsie went around singing "I don't want to play in your yard" all over the place.
M: Tootsie's mother taught us the song. The motivation was she wanted Tootsie's sister Jeraldine to learn how to accompany people on the piano so she made us learn songs. Then we got scheduled all over.
D: But Jewel's little grandmother came over to help her memorize songs. That was before Tootsie.
M: Oh , yeah. I sang when I was really little. They thought it was remarkable that I could memorize those songs. I was like five. I didn't do the stuff with Tootsie until I was in elementary school. I sang by myself all the time. They would put me on a stand kind of in front of the piano and I'd sing these songs at the top of my lungs.
K: remember when you made me sing I am a child of God all by myself when I was like three?
M: No, I would never do that to you.
A: Do you remember any of the songs?
M: "I'm a big girl now." we used to take turns singing different lines.
A: How'd you get back together with Tootsie after the Marilyn thing.
M: It just took time. For a long time she wasn't my friend but then we worked it out. Sometimes Me and Tootsie and Arlene Jorgenson would go to the top of the hill past Manila and ride our bikes clear to the other side of Pleasant Grove. We'd fly down that hill.
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Ummm, Brady Whittingham was on the front page of the paper for a new Family Film Festival he's started here in Utah Valley. Are you going to any movies Dan? Is anyone? I'm curious.
Also, I have a new interview to post about Mom and Dad when they lived in California. I'd like to post pictures with it. Does anyone have swim meet pictures? Eikler swimming pool pics? Or any from that era? I'm hoping to post one interview week with pics.
Also, I have a new interview to post about Mom and Dad when they lived in California. I'd like to post pictures with it. Does anyone have swim meet pictures? Eikler swimming pool pics? Or any from that era? I'm hoping to post one interview week with pics.
Monday, June 4, 2007
June 3, 2007 at Murray City Park
Here is a picture of Mom with Van
Tyson hurt his knee and Luke tried to console him.
To see more pictures from the park, go to www.knightkids.com
By the way, Jewel, Jessie and Katy beat Jordan, Luke, Tyson and JC at some weird throw sticks at blocks game! Go girls.
Tyson hurt his knee and Luke tried to console him.
To see more pictures from the park, go to www.knightkids.com
By the way, Jewel, Jessie and Katy beat Jordan, Luke, Tyson and JC at some weird throw sticks at blocks game! Go girls.
Lava Hot Springs
On Sunday we discussed possibly camping/staying in hotels at Lava Hot Springs for a weekend and going to see where Dad grew up. I'm thinking beginning of August would be good.
Maybe the first weekend?
That's August 3-5th. What does anyone/everyone say?
I also think we should figure out our own accommodations. There's plenty of places to camp and vacation rentals and lots of hotels. Leslie even said you could get up early and do a day trip on Saturday. If everyone plans what's best for their family, it will be a lot easier.
So . . . .
Who can go?
Who can go?
Saturday, June 2, 2007
I cannot get into this blog...
This blog is called that's a word with 'a' bark on it. We all know Jewel says 'that's a word with THE bark on it'. In most cases the a vs. the would be no big deal...but since this is a blog that has to enetered exactly this 'mess up' messed me up and that is a word with THE bark on it.
AnnDee did not grow up in the 'Damn you hide', 'oh hell', 'hells sakes', 'get you cummy (sic) over here', 'I'm gonna tan your hide', 'word with THE bark on it' era. So we can forgive an honest mistake. AnnDee grew up with a kinder gentler Jewel as a mom.
I grew up in the beat by Jewel or beat by Karen (or her boyfriend) era. Donestic violence ended in the Knight home when Kate and AnnDee came along.
AnnDee did not grow up in the 'Damn you hide', 'oh hell', 'hells sakes', 'get you cummy (sic) over here', 'I'm gonna tan your hide', 'word with THE bark on it' era. So we can forgive an honest mistake. AnnDee grew up with a kinder gentler Jewel as a mom.
I grew up in the beat by Jewel or beat by Karen (or her boyfriend) era. Donestic violence ended in the Knight home when Kate and AnnDee came along.
Now You Can TOO!
I just wrote this really awesome post and it got erased.
I don't even care.
Here's a link to how to get to Murray Park.
We're planning on meeting there on Sunday at six.
Here's a picture of me.
It's right after I went swimming and it's really really cute.
I'm just saying.
And here's a picture of Dad.
It's pretty cute too.
If you open the email I sent you and log in, you too can post really really cute pictures of yourself and Dad.
You can also contribute to this living history of our family.
That sounded really really good.
Wow.
Okay.
Here's one last picture:
I don't even care.
Here's a link to how to get to Murray Park.
We're planning on meeting there on Sunday at six.
Here's a picture of me.
It's right after I went swimming and it's really really cute.I'm just saying.
And here's a picture of Dad.
It's pretty cute too.
If you open the email I sent you and log in, you too can post really really cute pictures of yourself and Dad.
You can also contribute to this living history of our family.
That sounded really really good.
Wow.
Okay.
Here's one last picture:
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