Past lists

Found these two lists in the backlog of drafts. Thought they were worth sharing. 

Winter 2012 highlights

Listening to music and painting during scene painting class.

Giggling with the cast of Enchanted April when things went wrong.

Jamming with Dave and Jacob and sometimes Camilla.

Playing with baby Kaitlynn in the mornings, and her joy at eating.

Talking with Kyrie, Camilla, and Dave for hours over Olive Garden one Saturday night.

Laying in bed with Jacob and watching the Beatles Anthology during the weekends.

Running around at the Dry Farms in the moonlight and the snow, freezing our butts off and falling over every few seconds.

Sitting on the roof outside our bedroom window the few times it was warm enough.

Cuddling with Jacob on lazy Sunday mornings before church. 

The fact that it wasn't super snowy miserable all semester. 

San Francisco August 2012 Trip highlights

Five hours in a science museum with Jacob.

Talking genealogy with Opa and Oma, sifting through records and learning German vocabulary.

Everyone reading together in the living room in Fremont.

Watching Jacob eat the best mango curry he's ever had in San Francisco.

Family get-togethers with hot dogs, rolls, German talking and laughing.

Pic-nic-ing on a river and wading in the water.

Riding a motorboat really fast, pretending to be Harry Potter riding Buckbeak over the lake at Hogwarts.

Naps in our little attic bedroom in a cabin at Lake Tahoe, listening to the rain on the tin roof.

Stargazing with Jacob on the lawn of the Lake Tahoe cabin, talking about books and watching bats fly over.

Scattergories in the evening with parents and grandparents.

Rafting a river, which included getting marooned on a rock under a bridge (and un-marooning ourselves), and being randomly applauded by a small group of people on the shore for having an umbrella.

German tempers. Enough said. (Occasionally exacerbated by hearing loss.)

Walking with Jacob through pinewood neighborhoods of charming cabins and imagining our futures.

Nearly dying of chocolate-covered raisin overdose.

Listening to Steely Dan with Mom, Ray and Jacob as we drove around Emerald Bay.

Good times.