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| Breckenridge Family Trip 1990 |
I remember Kaylie first of all from church. We did our first communion catechism together in second grade under the strict tutelage of Sister Margaret at St. Martin DePorres Catholic Church in South Boulder. I was an enthusiastic hand-raiser and always eager to discuss our teachings with my little church friends, including Kaylie. She wasn’t too interested in parables, but she loved to play together in between lessons. Even I can admit that mass was *pretty* boring for a second grader, but always better when we sat next to Kaylie! We used to mock the worst singers in the congregation, or giggle when the altar boy rang the bell loudly during the Eucharistic prayer. Once, somebody’s grandpa farted in the pew in front of us and we practically turned purple trying to hold in our laughter.
Kaylie’s mom worked at Ball Aerospace with my dad, and we started spending time together with their family: her mom Lynnette, her dad Scott, and her little sister Corrie. In our family it was my dad Phil, my mom Ema, my little brother Andrew, and my little sister Valerie. We had picnics, parties, and hikes together. Sometimes her grandparents would invite Kaylie and me to play in their tree house and eat special snacks. Soon we started having weekend sleepovers and attending each other’s birthday parties. Then we started playing together very regularly and sleeping-over all the time too.
Girlhood Memories with Kaylie
- The dozens of clubhouses, secret passcodes, and saved treasures hidden under rocks
- Catching water striders in the ditch and naming them after Disney princesses
- Invented bread recipes, hard as a brick, that we gnawed and choked down because we were “master bakers”
- Playing “travel agent” in high heels using an old type-writer and an etch-a-sketch
- Ski trips to Breckenridge: finding empty warming huts, stripping off our wet clothes to heat them on the stove, playing cards, and joking for hours
- The legendary fart pillow (girls can be gross too ok?)
- Selling “special rocks” and dandelion bouquets to joggers along Greenbriar (Free- Tips Accepted) - One guy gave us $20!
- Disney World and Sea World during the year my family moved to Florida
- Getting windswept in a canoe in Florida in alligator-infested waters, calling my dad from some random distant neighbor’s house to rescue us
- Expanding our girlhood “Now-and-Then” group to include Brittany, Megadeth (Mere), Karin, Wendy, and Tali
- Ouija board shenanigans, seances, and scary stories
- Trick-or-treating (well into middle school), Halloween parties
- Wandering the woods alone on family camping trips, building stick forts and wading in the river for hours in our undies.
- Videotaping our own version of Jerry Springer or 90210
- Spin-the-bottle in 6th grade
- Fashion advice, bad haircuts
- Movies- especially funny and scary ones
- Mix CD’s every 2-3 weeks with ALL the genres mixed in there
- Belting out Motown hits or the B-52’s with very dramatic dance moves (again I always got the boy part)
- Pulling faces- the uglier and freakier the better (think Quasimodo crossed with Jim Carey)
- Joy rides as teenagers, stealing parent’s cars to drive around South Boulder (especially Scott’s Thunderbird. . . shhhh)
- Late night gossiping
- Gawking at boys in Mexico. Family trips in general- having fun with our siblings and parents
- Watching Ren and Stimpy and Spongebob in the middle of the night together
- Smoking pot instead of doing math homework
- Eating goldfish and all the other glorious snacks at the Julliard house
- Listening to Reggae on the houseboat. Again- family trips in general!
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Headbands and Vests 1991
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A Chilly Day at Seaworld 1992
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| Mesa Elementary 5th Grade Sock Hop |
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Casa Bonita with Crusaders Youth Group 1990's
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| Family Trip to Lake Powell |
