1- Weight: With all that talk of 50 and 100, I remember us being excited when we each weighed close to 50 pounds and could get on the scale TOGETHER and make it hit 100! (I don't really want to DOUBLE my weight these days, but it was fun at the time.)
2-Playgroup: Our mom's organized this as a "pre-school" of sorts prior to our starting kindergarten. Our playgroup consisted of pretty much all the girls our age in Logandale at the time: Corinne, Laurel McMurray, RaNae Reese, and me. We got together and played twice a week.
3-Playgroup treats: When we played at my house, the treat was always graham cracker/frosting sandwiches.
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| RaNae, Corinne, Kay, Laurel, and Bryce....Playgroup treats.....making our own graham cracker and frosting sandwich cookies |
4-Playgroup rides home: The mom who hosted gave the girls in the group a ride home after playgroup. We'd roll down the windows and flap our arms out the windows and sing (actually shout) "Nanny, nanny, nanny goat; you can't catch the billy goat." Not sure where this came from, or why we found it fun.....it's actually rather strange. And yes, these were the days before seatbelts.
5-Kindergarten rest time: We had to lie "head to toe" to discourage whispering and talking during rest time. Corinne and I always tried to find someone to lie between us so our heads would be facing the same direction and we could whisper and talk.
6-Hot Lava: Jumping from gold velour sofa to gold velour sofa in our "oh-so-fashionable" 70's living room to avoid the "hot lava" (aka avocado green shag carpeting.)
7-Sunshine family: See last post
8-Candy Violet: We both got dolls for Christmas when we were in kindergarten, and we both loved the names Candy and Violet, but we both liked the name Candy just a BIT better than Violet, so in order to be "fair" ("fairness" was a huge deal to us), we named BOTH our dolls Candy Violet. (We were so disappointed when my little sister was born the summer after our Kindergarten year and my mom named her Jill instead of Candy Violet......but my 5 year old niece did name her new Christmas doll this year Candy Violet-at the suggestion of her dad, my brother- so the name lives on.)
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| Kay with Candy Violet the first Christmas 1972 |
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| Paige with Candy Violet the second 2017 |
9-Teaching our Candy Violets to "fly": This involved standing on the back of the two big Lazy Boy chairs in Corinne's living room and throwing our Candy Violets to the seats of the chairs and then demonstrating how flying was REALLY done by our jumping as far as we could from the backs of the chairs onto the floor in front of the chairs. (I know....we were a bit strange.)
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| My Candy Violet today (2017) She may be a little worse for the wear, but she was well-loved and played with. |
10-Gum Collection: In Corinne's old house, she had a chewed gum collection on the trim of the door into her hallway. (I can't believe her mom let her have that, but it was an old house, and they were building a new one.) I always wanted to chew gum at her house so I could add to the collection.
11-Baby Chrissy Dolls: See last post
12-Teddie Holden and Tammy Collins: We grew up in the 70's; in the days of variety shows like the Donny & Marie Show and the Sonny & Cher show, so we invented our own movie-stars/variety show stars and spent hours drawing pictures of them in a variety of sketches and situations for their shows. I had a whole folder full of Tammy Collins drawings, and Corinne's Teddie Holden portfolio was just as impressive.
13-Sleepovers: Lots of these
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| Sleepover in our camper: Top: Corinne, Kay. Bottom: Bryce, Rex, Henry Whitmore |
14-Pet cemetery: This was located on the side of Corinne's hill. It seemed that we had lots of cats that died and were buried there. We spent a lot of time beautifying the pet cemetery, making headstones out of brick pavers, and picking wild flowers to put on the graves.
15-Yearly jaunts into the desert to pick desert holly and mistletoe for Christmas décor.
16-Birthdays: Our birthday parties were always epic; and I was always a bit jealous that Corinne's birthday was 3 weeks before mine.....so "unfair" that she was "older." (Ironically, I don't feel that way anymore ;)
17-Doll Birthday parties: And speaking of birthdays, we planned and held some epic birthday parties for our dolls. We'd spend weeks making presents, invitations, and refreshments and then gather all our dolls to play games etc.
18-Summer Carnivals: These were held in our family room and again involved hours of us planning and setting up booths with games like ring tosses, bean bag tosses, and even a fish pond. We also spent hours making the prizes for said games: awesome things like painted rocks and mini hand-drawn pictures. Tickets were 1 penny each, and the neighbors from "miles around" came to our "famous Hardy house carnival." (At least that's how it seemed to us.)
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| We used all our proceeds from the carnival one year to buy paint to paint this old abandoned shed, which we planned to convert to a cool fort......I think the painting of it was the most time we spent in it.....it's almost always more fun MAKING the fort than actually PLAYING in it when done. Left to right: Bryce, Corinne, Kay |
19-Going with each other on family trips: Disneyland, FishLake, etc.
20-Halloween Costumes, yearly school Halloween Carnival held in the old gym, and trick-or-treating together: Many times we had matching costumes, always homemade by our mothers. (See Raggedy Ann Costume in last post.)
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| Matching "baby" costumes.....even down to the booties, conveniently styled to go OVER our shoes :) |
21-Getting off the bus at each other's house and playing together daily
22-Calling each other daily.....still know her number (7-2458.....this was before the 398 prefix even existed....this was all I had to dial: five numbers)
23-Making houses and playing "old ladies" in her basement.
24-Making houses and playing in the trees behind her backyard fence.
25-Dressing up: It didn't matter in what-her dad's clothes or my mom's old prom dresses. We loved to dress up.
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| Kay, Corinne, and Trina dressed in my mom's old prom dresses.....quite the models....I'm surprised 17 magazine wasn't beating down our doors. |
26-Bike rides: I learned to ride a bike in her yard. Sometimes we'd go on bike rides to pick asparagus that grew wild along the open ditch banks of Wells road.
27-Playing together at recess, and being so excited when we FINALLY got in the same classroom for 3rd and 6th grades. (There were only two teachers for each grade, and somehow, we always ended up in different classes.....now as a teacher, I'm wondering if that was somehow orchestrated ;)
28-Swimming in the Reservoir behind her house.
29-Daily 2-hour swims at the Logandale pool EVERY day in the summer.
30-Riding the bus to school together daily: As I remember, there was ONE bus for the entire valley that started at the Indian Reservation and made its way to Overton. It transported all students grades K-12. I got on at the Old Logandale School, and always tried to find Corinne and her big sister Camille to sit with them. (It was a little intimidating as a young elementary student to be on the bus with all those big kids.)
31-Cheerleading: We were cheerleaders together all 4 years of high school, cheering for football and basketball, including a state championship football game our senior year!
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| MVHS Varsity Cheerleaders 1984-85: Jeri Thomas, Cobi Whitney, Patrice Pulsipher, Corinne Adams, Tiffany Simmons, Kay Hardy. |
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| Marty Taggart holds the 1984 State AA football trophy |
32-Climbing onto the roof of the school to hang signs: (Cheerleaders were responsible for school spirit signs.....I can't believe that we climbed onto the roof and leaned over the side to tape the signs to the side of the school building-not too safe.....one time we dropped our tape; Corinne asked Kent Barlow-a "scary boy" two years older than us to throw it up to us....When he bent over to pick up the tape, she spit on him! And when we came down, he put her in a dumpster. This was all done in fun, but I thought she was so brave to interact with an older boy, who was so cool.....and......I later married this "scary boy.")
33-Raising the flag at football games as JV cheerleaders: This was always a little unnerving; we were always worried about the rope pulley working properly, the flag being right-side up, and getting the flag up in a timely manner (before the band finished the star spangled banner.)
34- Studying for tests together: Algebra, Biology, Chemistry
35-Double dates in high school: Senior prom when we ate dinner at Tivoli Gardens at the Liberace Museum in Vegas since we had choir festival the same day as Prom and our group were all members of the choir.
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| Sad that I don't have any pics with our whole group: Kay with her senior prom date, Rob Cooper |
36-Being homesick together Freshman year at BYU.
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| Kay: First day of school at BYU: Fall 1985 |
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| Corinne: First day of school at BYU: Fall 1985....It was our first time to have backpacks....Corinne accidentally wore hers like a purse all day......she figured out how to wear it properly by day two. |
37-BYU Freshman year Halloween Costumes and cookies.
38- Other BYU Freshman year adventures: Burnt roast (our first attempt to cook Sunday dinner), Pink hair (an unsuccessful attempt at home hair color), BYU football games every Saturday, attending General Conference, night biology class with Moapa Valley friends Melissa Robison and Mendis Cooper. (This should probably be 4-5 separate items.....I told you I had a lot :)
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| Heritage Halls Young Hall kitchen with our burnt roast and pink hair |
39-Rooming with Becca, Jenn, and Tina at BYU: The Steve Lindsey drama and Tina's "Snookums."
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| Tina (left and "Snookums"-the well-loved teddy Bear) and Becca (right) |
40-Adopt-a-Grandparent weekly visits to the nursing home while at BYU.
41-Grocery shopping at Albertsons in Provo on Saturdays for all the free samples (especially the broken chocolate chip cookies.)
42-Hosting Corinne's bridal shower/ serving as a bridesmaid at Corinne's wedding.
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| Bridesmaids at Corinne's wedding: Shona, Dianna, Rebekah, Kay, Camille, and bride Corinne: Gotta love the big 80s hair! the bigger the better :) |
43-Double dates with Matt and Corinne while Kent and I were dating.....and plotting as to how to get Kent to ask me out/be interested in the first place......it was helpful that Matt was a member of and coached the intermural basketball team that Kent played on.
44-Corinne was a bridesmaid at my wedding.
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| Bridesmaids at my wedding: Standing back: Corinne, Jill. Sitting left: Jamie, Tracy. Sitting right: Carolyn, Lynne. Center: Bride Kay |
45-Being pregnant with our first children together: Austrie was born 6 days before Dallin, which was very UNFAIR since she was due about 3 weeks after Dallin. (She was a preemie.)
46-Having my daughters take Creative Dance and Clogging from Corinne.
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| Kaylee and Lynae ready for Creative Dance Recital |
47-3 generations of friends: Our dad's were the same age and grew up and went to school in MV together. Corinne and I are the same age and grew up and went to school in MV together. And our daughters, Kaylee and Mady, are the same age and grew up and went to school in MV together.
48- Having our daughters Kaylee and Mady room together at BYU.....and even live in the same dorm that Corinne and I lived in as Freshmen.
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| Kaylee and Mady-BYU football game, freshman year, fall 2012 |
49-Building homes in Logandale about a mile apart from each other.
50-I could go on: high school plays, FHA conventions, dance Saturdays in Vegas....and on and on, but I'll end with this for #50: BFFs for almost half a century! Here's to the 2nd half. Happy 50th to us (me in three weeks :)
