Things in my life I will never forget

1. Bobby
2. Dancing to Grease songs the night Bobby died. Strange thing to do, but it felt so right.
3. Granddaddy's cheese sandwich and Seal Beach
4. Marcus & Welby, not Marcus Welby, but seperately.
5. Eskimo Pies
6. The Mecca
7. Mountain View Park
8. Sledding in the snow--that one time--with Bobby. Magical. Perfect snow. Perfect Sled. Just 2 kids having fun.
9. Katie's face when she was born
10. Heather's face when she was born.
11. The man who gave my mom the couch and rolled his hips around and around like he was hula hooping
12. Ethel Hayes
13. E&Js
14. The Bahooka
15. Sequoia National Park and the bear
16. Corona and the swimming pool we snuck in to with the kids
17. The booger on my ice cream from Tastee Freeze
18. The little girl at church who stole my chocolate bunny I had won
19. Riding double
20. The smell of the blacktop getting re-tarred at Potrero
21. My first kiss, and Chino's face as he came out from hiding, laughing.
22. Getting kicked off the beach bus and Bobby hitching us all a ride, and him strategically putting me in the front with him
23. The Rose Parade with Heather and Bobby
24. Riding the 266 bus to the beach--good times
25. Camping out on the rocks at Seal Beach
26. Heather's graduation vacation in Arizona, at the resort
27. Heather's beautiful curly hair and having to comb it out in the bath tub
28. Heather's swimming (floating) lessons
29. Donnie falling out of the back of the Ranchero
30. the Streets (outreaching)
31. Titos
32. Taxcos
33. Seeing the Poppies for the 1st time
34. Sedona
35. The Grand Canyon
36. Grandma's big pillow cushions and night lights and cigarette lighters
37. My mom and Joyce being drunk. Scariest and saddest times in my life
38. Playing with my cousins and going to Bible camp in Tujunga
39. Crashing into a van on a bike with no brakes and getting a scar on my leg
40. Telling my mom I was pregnant
41. Singing on the Altar with Bobby
42. Watching Heather be a mommy and knowing that she now understands how much a mother loves her baby
43. The heat at Heather's baby shower
44. The Christmas with the Bells, Gabe, Travis, Ashleigh. Best Christmas ever.
45. Seeing Bobby in the casket and thinking I might die myself
46. Wearing the same clothes, not eating or bathing for a week after Bobby died
47. Picking up Heather from Highland with a scar on her face from a hockey puck
48. Picking out prom dresses with Heather
49. That red lipstick candy we could buy for a penny
50. Lighting my mom's cigarette for her when I was 5-16, when I finally wouldn't
51. Going to the drive-in and sneaking our friends in by putting them in the trunk
52. Driving without seatbelts and riding on a motorcycle without helmets
53. Sitting backwards in a station wagon
54. Going to the snow barefoot with Uncle Steven and granddaddy
55. Singing, "our camper is better than your camper" all the way up there, even though ours was NOT
56. Camping at the beach one Easter with my cousins, granddaddy and Joyce.
57. Leo Carillo
58. Seeing Anthony walk down the hall with his newborn daughter, Hannah
59. Seeing David laying in an adult bed at Children's Hospital, with a boom box playing nursery songs
60. The fuzz on David's premature tiny body
61. Ashley with a cast on her legs
62. Lauryn's thick hair
63. Holding Bobby's hand for the 1st time and knowing I loved him
64. Blake's 1st birthday, right before we moved to Palmdale
65. The little neighbor girls carrying a basket of baby food for Blake, for his 1st birthday
66. Mrs. Doan telling me, "just because you finished first, doesn't mean yours in the best", about my leprochaun. I was 6. Scarred me for the rest of my life and I always went slow from then on.
67. Heather sneaking into our bed and hiding under the covers
68. Having a crush on Mr. Herd
69. My first slow dance, with Paul Urena
70. The way Heather crawled, without using her knees, with her butt straight up in the air
71. Being a girl scout leader and having to pay for everything with my welfare check because none of the girls paid their weekly dues
72. Going to birthday parties with $2 in a card that my mom gave me, and buying gum and tossing the card away with a promise to "bring the gift later".
73. Christina Cosgrove laughing so loud during lunch that a massive booger flew into my lunch tray and having to turn it in to the lunch lady who must have thought it was mine, and I was disgusting
74. Mr. Sid
75. Selling avocados and lemons to Mario
76. Doing plays in the backyard and believing that they were really good
77. Pretending to be stars from the Mickey Mouse Club
78. Spinning under the avocado tree until I was dizzy
79. The maggots that came out of the walnut trees
80. Almost being picked up by the pickle wagon and hiding in the Taco Bell restroom
81. Azusa Canyons and Chantry Flats
82. The tacos at Pup N' Taco
83. The "witch" that lived next door to the Potrero 1st grade classroom
84. El Monte Holiday House
85. Anthony holding his ears at Knott's Berry Farm because the roller coasters were too loud
86. The way Heather dragged her poor hamster around the house until he escaped to some unknown corner of the world, never to be seen again
87. Jumping into the pool fully clothed to get out of the heat
88. The feeling of total loss and despair when I first felt like I could call Bobby's cell phone, and he might answer
89. The night I got saved
90. Goodnight, I love you, Don't forget to pray
91. Heather, asking me to say the sinners pray with her, and her being baptized
92. The first time I ever saw Bobby's feet.
93. The carnival at Legg Lake
94. Seeing Guns & Roses live, and then, years later, Elliott Yamin
95. Central Baptist Church and Arlene Thompson
96. Summer Camp
97. Buying a Jetta that was an absolute lemon and crying while I signed the papers, then having the door fall off the hinge
98. Bobby throwing pennies at my window, in order to sneak in and his friends naming him "Penny Lover"
99. Bobby passing out gum cigars when Heather was born
100. Anthony and Heather dueling like "real" power rangers and Rita Repulsa
101. Our first REAL snow in Palmdale, and waking up Heather and Bobby to play in it at 3:00 in the morning
102. Blake's birthday, when it snowed and we all ran around barefoot or in sandals
103. "Tinting" the windows on our pinto with black spray paint and ordering food at the drive-thru while intoxicating the employee with our fumes from the Pinto.
104. Sticking my head out of the window to see the "fire" only to realize, it was the dust from the hovering helicopter. DUH! Bobby and I both had dirt faces
105. Desiree begging for Orajel when she went in to labor
106. Raddish
107. The cockaroaches at the Basye apartments
108. Fitting the 20 foot couch in the pinto hatchback
109. Sleeping behind Vons in the moving van because we couldn't go anymore
110. How I felt when I knew my class was graduating, and I had a one month old
111. The way God moved for Bobby
112. Conference
113. Tippy sitting ON my head in the car
114. Bye Bye, Car Car, Leash
115. Being mad at Becky and accidentally stabbing her with a pen, then hiding and praying in my closet because I thought I gave her blood poisoning
116. Stealing an Easter candy and being caught, then hiding in my closet for hours
117. The Asian boy who tried to touch me and offered me money at Toy Villa when I was only 12
118. Wrap-Around shorts and vans
119. Watching cholos run through the klingerman's and sometimes Potrero, with long black whips, to fight. Scared me to death
120. Getting lost at Disneyland because I left to soak my feet
121. Getting lost at the rocks at the beach
122. Wrestling with Bobby when we were 10
123. Going to yard sales with my mom
124. Fishing off the pier and floating with those enormous truck innertubes
125. Wednesday movie night and Friday ice cream night
126. Being 6th grade class queen at Maxson
127. The way Mr. Russell read, Carlotta, Mice and Men. My favorite class
128. Being asked to a dance by Jimmy Fernandez, but then being too scared so I ran home through the field at Kranz. I was sure I heard him yell out my name. He never spoke to me again.
129. The Christian Bobcats
130. Desiree running across Peck road to go to Penny Pinchers Paradise with me
131. Anthony carrying his bike upstairs at 4 years old because a dog was chasing him
132. Jew Boy trick or treating at our door
133. The Keepie sponits (they always told the kids they "speak Spanish" but with their accents, the kids thought their names were keepie sponits
134. Inga's dog ripping Blake's pants
135. Singing on the church bus