The Many Adventures of You & Me

A well needed trip down memory lane...

Part 1

After my little spring cleaning escapade, I decided to take my mom and aunt Sara on a trip down memory lane. It was so much fun, I thought you would enjoy it too. Warning: Lots of reading,but well worth it if you ask me.

These are my mini Pound Puppies. I LOVED these things. I would take them to school and put them in my desk and play with them all day long. As you can see I have quite the collection, there are actually a few missing from this. Sorry little puppies it does not mean I don't love you. The ones to the right are the "wanna be" mini pound puppies, they just couldn't quite make the grade.

#1 The troll: Justin gave this to me for Christmas one year. We were at Jobbers Odd Lot (back in the good old days before 7-11 took over the corner) buying each others gifts. I guess I was into trolls back then (don't ask, I only acquired two so I made it out of that time period better off then a lot of others) so being the sweet, thoughtful brother he is, Justin decided to get this for me. Well I walked around the corner and saw him picking it out and didn't want to ruin the surprise so I ran and he didn't see me. I was so excited for my troll and on Christmas morning I acted really surprised. Don't ever tell him, I wouldn't want to break his little heart.

#2 Kitchen Accessories: HELLO only the best toy ever made! I love my kitchen, I had everything to go with it too, the blender, bowls, measuring cups, frosting, and my all time favorite the syrup (it disappeared when you poured it) Too bad my mom gave it away to my little cousins WITHOUT my permission. She kept a few things as you can see (the mixing stand,but where is the mixer I ask?) and my heart broke when she said she had given away my syrup pour thingy. The kitchens these days are more high tech, but not as fun. The have all the sounds, and stuff so you don't have to use your imagination or make the sound yourself (one of the best parts)

#3 Cow and dog: These 2 little joys are the two stuffed animals that both Josh and I have and we would play with them together, I miss those bonding days!

#4 My glow in the dark bunny: The little pink bunny was awesome! You leave it in the light all day and at night the stars on it would glow and keep you feeling safe (if your were afraid of the dark, which to tell you the truth I don't think I was)

#1 My Cabbage Patch Baby: The only Cabbage Patch I ever owned was this sweet little baby, The bib held the bottle and it had one of those outfits where you cinch the kids legs up in it. It also had a little tuft of brown hair that I always covered up with the bonnet because I thought it looked ugly. Oh he memories.

#2 LIZARDS: I don't like creepy crawlers in real life but these things were filled with sand and they were so much fun to play with. Remember when your mom would drop you off at the mall and you would collect call your friends mom to come and pick you up when you were done. Well I bought these during one of those outings. The big lizard was the biggest purchase I made when I was little. It was like $45 or something like that (I really don't know where I got my money from or why I thought it was ok to spend that much on something this dumb, I don't think I would spend that much now, lesson learned) I bought it at Natural Wonders....The coolest store in the mall. I would always spend a huge chunk of my time playing around in Natural Wonders...what ever happened to that store?

#3 Bean Bag frog: Brittany had 3 or 4 of these and I was a little jealous, I finally got one and we played with them for hour. Brittany made clothes for hers, I let mine run wild and free.

#4: Bongo: Sara said this was Grandma Frogley's and she must have given it too me, either way it does thumbs up and you stick the thumb in its mouth.

Well that was part one, stay tuned it gets a lot better. I love days like this when you just laugh and think of how fun life was a few short years ago. My question to you is where did all the good toys go? and the good cartoons on Saturday morning? What has life come to these days, my poor kids will have high tech toys and learning cartoons. We all turned out okay, give me back simplicity, imagination, and creativity. Part 2 will come later, be sure to scroll down and check out the other posts, there have been a few good ones this week, don't ask me where I found the time.