I grew up the youngest girl in one house, and the oldest at the other, so at one house I had to set a good example, and at the other I just kind of got away with anything. These are mainly from my pre-teen and teen years though. I don't have too too many childhood memories. I just don't remember that well. Anyway,
the first thing is that I want to give you all a visual of what I looked like when I was pre-puberty. Ready?
Are you cringing? Cause I am. With the lovely twig visual I just gave you, lets begin.
One of my fondest memories is playing hobos with my younger siblings. Katie, Carson, and sometimes Mackenzie. We were so creative. We could build a fort out of anything and everything. I remember using the tree limbs that Jeromy cut down to put against a tree, and then wrap a sheet around it to make it look like a teepee. We used to find these old dishes and play house out of them. Im not sure why we ever called it hobos because we technically had a house, so thats kind of contradicting itself. Maybe we didn't get the concept. Im not really sure. Some of our "games" were so good though. Like, I seriously think we could've been on TV for how well we got into character.
We used to have this go-cart. Katie and I would take turns driving it through the neighborhood our bakehouse was at. We would use landmarks for things like the grocery store, mc donalds...for example. If there were two trees in a row, one would be the window where you order, and the other would be where you paid an got your food. We would just play house kind of. We'd drive around for hours and I remember one time we were going WAY too fast on a turn and the go cart ended up in a ditch.
Katie and I would always tube together, and we were both stick thin back then, still are. So when Jeromy would hit massive waves we would go flying. And we'd get thrown off so easily, we were always so sore the next day. I remember watching that weird movie Nanny Mc.Phee and we were on the tube and overtime we saw a wave coming we would start screaming, "THE ONE YOU NEED IS NANY MCPHEE". Occasionally if one of us was thrown off, you could hear whoever it was flying behind you going "pheeeeeeee". Before they hit the water.
Something I enjoyed about being the oldest is that I got to be a kid longer. I didn't want to be that boring teenager who didn't really talk or do anything with her younger siblings. So of course I wanted the same amount of stuffed animals they got. I remember this day, we were at a lake resort and the claw machine door happened to be open. So Jeromy, after spending a ton of money trying to win us these things, opened it and just started throwing the stuffed animals at us. It was hilarious. Im pretty sure the yellow thing I'm holding was named Pedro. Also, we wore those masks all the way home.
This really isn't a memory, but I still have the same sized boobs as I do here. Help me.
Something that I think is hilarious that we used to do was be the "bartenders" at our parents new years party. We would of course never partake in the drinking, but we made the drinks for our parents. I don't care, don't judge us, or them. We were cool. We made shirley temples like complete pros. And we'd make ourselves virgin ones and look surprised when we ran out of the cherry flavoring.
My face. Why. Dress up days at school were always great, but this is horrible. I mean I have on the typical 80s day attire, but why does my face look like that?
Mackenzie has had her birthday party at Chuck E Cheese since she was tiny. Every year this is something Katie and I looked forward too because we would always put our tickets together and split them evenly at the end so that we could get the same things. I remember the purple headed trolls, which, I know I still have mine somewhere.
This was probably the coolest day ever. I think we were at Frontier City to watch Katie at her cheer competition or something. I think she went with her friends or maybe her mom, but we all stayed and came home with this. I actually won that huge rottweiler by myself, I remember how proud I was of that.
My mom and stepdad re-did the wood floors in our house once. And there were panels leftover. As you can see, we drew on them. But when winter came they were the perfect snowboards. They slid perfectly! Except when they cut into the ground and sent you flying forward.
I can't say that I necessarily miss this, because we still have an amazing friendship. We are even closer now than we were back then. But my most favorite memory of when we were awkward was when we made that movie of littlest pet shops. I can't remember the full title but it was like "The magical quest for something". We both had these chihuahuas and we named them El Chihuahua Del Junior. Im not sure why. And we used to make fake talk shows on Lorian's karaoke machine. They were supposed to be inspiring and I remember using stupid voices in them.
So, with my older siblings, like I said. I got to be the baby. I liked it. Being the little sibling is so much fun. One of my favorite memories is going to the lake with everyone. I remember Bryce used to do barrel roles on the tube. Also, one time when we were at the lake, everyone BUT ME, got the 24 hour throw up bug.
why.
This was at my Nona's house. We would "go to bed" and end up staying up until like 3. Shhh don't tell her. One time Carson and I stayed up watching youtube videos on how to make paper weapons. And we actually made paper crossbows. Another time we found this sombrero.
This family vacation. It was our first family vacation all together. It was so much fun and even though we were all getting used to each other we all had a blast. Carson, wyd.
Why did someone let me wear this??? I look like a slut.
I was chosen at school to participate in some pep rally and as you can tell I was thrilled.
I totally miss four wheeler riding. I remember one time Katie went through water and she was the only one who got stuck. It was hilarious. Sorry Katie.
Our walking dead premiere watch parties.
Being cute and looking functional is also something I miss. I thought I looked hella dope in this wedding. Carson, wyd. My dad also looks great in this picture by the way.
My first day at my new school. I hated it. I got made fun fall day, and came home crying.
This family vacation, I think my Grandma Ann was with us as well. We had so much fun together, also, I don't know why I'm wearing long johns int he first picture, gross.
So this went from childhood memories to roasting myself. Oh well, hope you all enjoyed my cringeworthy childhood.
~K
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