July 21, 2010

Tell about the neatest shoes you ever owned as a youth.

Sorry there wasn't such a thing. Due to a disease called "perthies" and a leg brace for several months as a child of three, I had to wear corrective shoes until I was 19 years old and even then one pair that I took on my mission were corrective shoes. So my neat shoes always looked like sunday shoes but so did everyone else's. I did have Converse All-Star shoes for gym and a pair of track shoes for races but other than that my shoes were there to keep me from walking on the sides of them. I am thnkful too for Mr Kelch that made them for me all those years for I walk in my shoes not on the sides of them now as I would have had I not had them.

July 20,2010

Share a birthday party memory.

(Here is the version from my history stories.)

15th Birthday Party.

I have had several birthday parties to remember but the first one that had left an impression far too strong to forget was my 15^th one. As many of you know it is a standard in the church to not date before you are 16 years old so this birthday was pretty important since my girlfriend and I could not date. I remember going out to do chores and coming in to change my clothes and spend the evening doing I didn’t know what. As I entered the back porch and put away the milking items and the milk I started down the steps to the basement where my room was located. Little did I know that Marie Behrmann was scurrying as fast as she could to exit through my room and out the door on the other side so that I wouldn’t see her. She had come to throw a surprise birthday party for me and before long I was surrounded by several of my friends from school and of course my only true love Marie. I only remember Marie, Serena, and Don of my friends that were there and of course my sisters but I am sure that there must have been others. I only remember playing a couple of games as well but I will always remember being told how close I had come to seeing Marie at the bottom of those steps before I was suppose to know that she was even there. We started dating after she was 16 on the 16^th of December a full year and a half later and I can’t remember if we even had a party for her but I know that now I am glad that she was willing to be my girlfriend and later my wife and eternal companion. We have both had a lot of birthdays since them and some of them with parties and I will always remember my 15^th birthday party first when I think back on them.