SaSSy SuNfloWerS

So the other day I saw some of these

And they reminded me of the band my sisters and I started when we were little. Our band was called The Sassy Sunflowers. I was Classy Colette, Shae was Rockin' Rachel and Misti was Dancin' Danielle hahaha cheesy I know. Shae would write the songs and all three of us would be on vocals haha hilarious I know. We would record ourselves on tapes and use background music from other songs. It's a really good thing you can't really find tape players anymore because bringing that old dusty tape out of the dark and pressing play would be pretty scary I'd probably be rolling on the floor laughing. We would dress up and go "on tour" pretending we toured with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera but we were bigger than them hahahha We would go around the house outside singing our songs and I think we even used the hose as our microphone...classy huh! Oh I love those days and miss them it made me think more about childhood memories that I miss....here are a few ok a lot but not all of them I have to consult my sis's for more I know I missing a ton!

Running up the hill in the backyard and playing for hours on Castle Hill

Night Games

Sledding down our hill in the winter

Flying Bags

 Filling up the Barrel to swim in

Playing Mailbox, Upset the Fruit Basket, The Present Game, Hot Lava, Graveyard, Hide-n-seek, The Water Game, Fruit Octupus

Building forts in the Basement

Parades around the house banging pans or riding bikes then switching

Switching Rooms

Playing dolls/barbies with Misti (we had like 50 of them and I always remembered their names and Misti always had to ask me "what's her name again?")

Playing Small people castle with Shae

Swimming in the pool--getting numb on your bum, makin waves, whirlpool- going around the pool in a circle singin "whirlpool whirlpool", saying biskae biskae hoping it would make the water warmer

Sleeping outside on many summer nights and whoever went in early we told them they had to wear grandma's undies--mom would make us breakfast and bring it outside

Makin slip-n-slides or a waterslide down our slide

Lying in the road and seeing who could stay there the longest before a car would come (we live on a highway)

Picking plums and apricots off the fruit trees I always hated the apricots

Having Sales--  we would sell our stuff to our other siblings--Kirk tried to sell a hanger for $11 once hahaha

Gettin' tan on the van- a random moving van some people dropped off at our house cuz it broke down--we had it for years...we also slept in in and would swing on the doors. We celebrated when it left...it was bittersweet.

Inventions- finding what food we could in the kitchen to make new inventions

Wearing all my sisters clothes (misti and I doing each others hair)

Trading Candy after trick-or-treating

Making music videos or commercials

Putting on plays (the famous Johnny Lingo)

Going to look at "the signs" we would always get so excited when we found out "the signs were up!" at eagle elementary meaning we would find out which teacher we had for the next year

playing baseball in the field for FHE our family was big enough to have two teams

staying up late talking about memories, quoting lines from movies and listening to 80s songs.

This is my childhood. (Well most of it) Couldn't have asked for a better one or for better siblings. love em.

Jared, Me, Shae, Nikki

Shae, Me, Kirk

Jared, Shae, Me

Me, Misti, Shaelyn

I'm Staring at you in front

Nikki, Shae, Misti, Shiree, Me, Eric, Jared

In the White dress...I was 8 my baptism dress

15 years later from the above picture...Nina, Shana, Chad, Laura, Trent, Krista, Shiree, Nikki, Eric, Shaely, Jared, Me, Misti, Daren, Kirk, Dad, Mom