Flashbacks.....

I was the only one awake the other night...was flipping through the channels on the tube...Channel 15 had NFL Football on. I heard the commentators voice and I immediately had flashbacks of my childhood!!! Growing up, I used to sit and watch NFL football with my dad...and I always knew that it was football season when it started to cool off outside. We would ALWAYS have our front door open at our "toltec" house...I sat with my dad, feeling the cool breeze, watching football on our old HUMONGOUS television. I loved the "toltec" house...it was the one I grew up in from the age of 3. I remember being able to hear the commentators at Mesa High announcing what was going on at their football game...if I wanted to know the score, all I had to do was look over my backyard fence. I remember attending most, if not ALL of my brothers wrestling matches at Mesa High...going to his tournaments and feeling SO cool because MY brother was a WRESTLER! I remember going to my other brothers matches before he couldn't wrestle anymore, then it was his singing concerts we went to. I remember playing rugby in the baseball field in the irrigation in the MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT! with my brother, his friends, Nathan, and most of his family, the weekend before Nathan left for his mission. I remember being so ANGRY with where my room was in that house though. It was right next to the kitchen and living room, where ALL THE NOISE WAS...i felt like I never got any sleep. I remember having to put ear phones on and listening to music to drown out the noise. One time I had them on, hooked up to the radio, and my brother came home from a date...came in my room, grabbed the radio and RIPPED the earphones off my head. I was one UNHAPPY girl that night. I remember one of my brothers friends putting himself in the clothes dryer and us turning it on...that same friend saw me naked in the shower because him and my brother were trying to play a trick on me while I was taking a shower and the curtain fell...lovely to have that happen when your going through puberty. I remember my brother going out of town, leaving his magic marshmellow car at the house...my friends and I took the car out one night (did NOT have a drivers license yet) and went cruising around at midnight. (did i ever tell you that Corey???!!!) We marked exactly where the car had been parked before we took it, so we knew exactly where to put it when we got back! I remember playing basketball out front night after night after night. My dad had the craziest shot...no arch to it...just a straight shot to the basket, and he almost never missed. I remember the STUPID bush that was in the front yard close to the basketball hoop that CONSTANTLY popped our basketballs. I remember being able to go play at my friends houses after school, but as soon as 5PM hit, I HAD to be home...that was dinner time. And if I asked what was for dinner, the answer was ALWAYS....FOOD. I remember standing in the back of my dads old chevy truck, waiting with my brother to go motorcycle riding, a fly flew into his mouth and he swallowed it. I remember coming home for lunch one day and our backyard fence falling down...my friend and I had to stand out there and hold it up until my dad got home. Ahhh, and who could forget the endless swimming adventures in our pool??!!! *sigh* Good memories....