Mitch

Well I dont have early memories of Grandpa Yamane obviously :) But one memory that i do have is when Julie was doing the Miss Syracuse Pageant. I had only talked to Grandpa Y a couple of times and as we all know he is very soft spoken. But that day at the pageant, he was grinning from ear to ear and was talking up a storm. You could tell how proud he was of Julie and how much he loved your family. It was really cute to see.

Grandpa Yamane

One of my first memories of Grandpa, was one time when we were in Idaho he had given me 5 dollars. Well, I thought it would be cool to wave the 5 dollar bill out the car window. Grandpa told me not to do it, but my rebellious nature got the best of me as the 5 dollar bill left my finger tips and into the road. We all know Grandpa is so generous and he gave me another 5 dollars.

Grandpa used to give us skittles and call them "smart pills". The other day at the hospital Mom and I were talking to him about it. Mom misquoted the skittles as "vitamins" but Grandpa still remembers they were smart pills. He's still got it.

Julie

Yeah, Sarah is right. Grandpa was a very different person when we were younger. I remember him teasing me a lot:). Now that I think about it, I can totally see where Daddy gets it:). Grandpa is a regular "Wise Guy." In fact, all my memories of Grandpa are of him teasing me. One time I told Grandpa that I was bored, and so he told me to busy myself by twittling my thumbs cuz that's what he said he did when he was bored. He said he could do it for hours and so I remember attempting to twittle my thumbs for as long as I possibly could. As a 5 year old, I'm sure twittling my thumbs for just a minute felt like hours:). I learned the card game "52 pick up" from Grandpa, and we all know how one teaches how to play that game:). But as a little kid I LOVED it! I remember racing to pick up all the cards and quickly stuffing them back into his hands. The worst fib he ever told me was during Easter, at least I think it was around Easter. Grandma and Grandpa gave me a big stuffed bunny rabbit. All that day I carried it everywhere with me. That is until Grandpa told me that he gone outside his house and shot that bunny to give to me. I remember telling him I didn't believe him, however it had planted the seed, and for the rest of the day I didn't carry it around quite as much. I was such a gullible kid!

New Topic- Grandpa Yamane

So it seems only fitting that we talk about Grandpa this week. I think it is good to reflect on some memories of him. When I was little he was very different. I remember thinking that he was the strongest man in the world. You should have seen his muscles!! He was a good-old-hard working farmer and it showed. He used to joke around with us and even play with us (a little). I remember when we would beg him to show us his biceps that he would always refuse at first. Eventually, he would flex them and we would be in awe! Then he would tell us that he swallowed a tennis ball and it went right to his arm. I remember him always saying, "Try it, you like it." I remember on my birthday, riding in the back of his small pick-up truck into the dirt fields at the farm in Idaho and shooting off the illegal kind of fireworks. And eating banana cremies with him on the porch. At the farm, he made us a giant slip-and-slide out of a huge piece of black plastic. One of my favorite recent memories is off him and Sam. Sam just walked right up to him and made him play with him. I think they were coloring. If anyone has that picture please post it.
Grandpa has always been generous to me. Remember on Christmas when we opened our cards from him expecting $20.00 and getting a check for "Five-hundred dollars!!" To a 16-year-old that was more money than I knew how to spend. I'm excited to hear all of your comments on Grandpa this week!

Sorry Im Late

Ha ha ya that must be an unspoken rule not just in your family, because my older sister jessica for years would sneak up and punch me in the head and then run away to my mom as I chased her. And I would always get in trouble for it. Took my mom years to figure out what jess was doing. But by then, the brain damage had already been done. :)

So my funny memories are right along with Matt's, the dishwasher incident was a classic. I really didn't know whether to laugh or not but when i saw Matt busting a gut i couldn't help it. Or how about before the one dance that Mommy Cindy taught me to "line up Julie's necklace" with . . . . . . ya. That was a good one. All sorts of awkwardness. Good memories ha ha. Sorry i was late posting

I know it is about time...

So when I think of some fun memories I think of all the trips that we did growing up. One that I remember was when we went down to four corners and had a blast looking at everything. I still remember piling on Pops for a picture of us in four states at the same time. It was for sure one of the best ones that we did as a family. One that needs to be mentioned was when we were traveling from Utah back to Colorado and Matt innocent Matt was driving Sis and I crazy for a few hours. And I think that Mom finally got fed up with the whole thing and she said that Sarah and I could torture Matt for like 10 minutes. It was a glorious 10 minutes! I have to say that if you ever ask Sarah about this you'll see that her and I both remember this as a moment to get back at the kid that tortured us. It was great fun and I think that Matt bounced right back in a matter of seconds, but it was true payback for the manipulating. Like when he used to tell me that I didn't have to clean up the toys in the basement and he would sneak upstairs and tell mom that I was not helping, just so that mom would make me clean up all by myself. But hey what are brothers for right. Besides I am sure that I passed that right onto Jules and Mur Mur. It's the circle of life!

POPs or daddy or poppy or papa bear or padre

we started out having unique experiences right from the time we were on our honeymoon camping in a KOA in Idaho in a small tent. i remember not being able to start the camp stove our first night camping. we traveled in a 1977 chevy vega with such a small engine that you could hide in the engine compartment.

We were told cindy would have a difficult time getting pregnant so we did not take any precautions. well they were wrong and we had sarah within our first year. we will always remember having sarah because she started out as gas pains from too many cherries and ended up being a 4th of july baby. those were memorable times with the childs family reunion in keetley utah.

sarah will for ever be known as "skippy" and matt will always be called "Bubba."

more to come in the future. i am old too and tired to finish.

Scary Email

I remember getting an email from a friend about a car advertisement, or so I thought. I was all alone in the morning, and I was practicing the violin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhlCHMWXuis I open the email, and it was a video. On the email it said that if you looked really close to the screen you can see this mist by the car and you can hear the mist talk, but you needed to turn the volume up loud. Of course I wasn't very bright and did exactly as the email did. So I watch the movie, and I'm looking everywhere for the mist, but as the car goes past the trees a scary man screams loud on the screen. I didn't make a sound, but I sat there in the chair, and I didn't move at all. I was too scared to move. I got all creeped out, and I kept looking out the door, because I thought someone was there. When I told everyone this story they all just laughed at me, if you could just imagine me like that. Well, we decided to show it to Krissy when they came over. She did everything the email said too, and after the man screamed on the screen she yelled and then punched me in the arm. It was soo funny, and she made a classic face. We also did it to granny, and she said, "Why did you show that to me?" "You silly kids!"

Better Late Than Never

So I'm a little late, but here it goes. My first official blog entry. My funny story involves my first date with Sarah. It was just before Halloween and we did dinner and activities at the house. It got off to a great start, within just a few minutes I was greeted to "someone come and wipe me". Mark must of just felt comfortable in front of me knowing that I was his future half brother. Sarah was as embarresed at that point as I think I'd ever seen here and quickly rushed the family out the door. It was a full night, I had been introduced to the whole family, Mark's famous line and even my first game of hand of foot. I didn't fully realize until the end of the night that the date was actually with Sarah and her best friend Janette. As I was leaving, they both were kind enough to walk me out to my car. The only thing that was missing was a "booty smack" from Mark. You can see why I wanted to stick around and am still here 8 years later.