2013 Memory Jar (in no particular order)

·      Discovered and rediscovered Georgetown Cupcake

·      Holyoke 10K: me once, Matt 2X

·      6 Flags New England

·      Watching airplanes land and take off in Hartford

·      New Jersey Zinc Mine Dad and Coop

·      Dandelion Run

·      Rocky’s Batman Cake

·      Cooper’s 3 layer peanut butter ganache cake

·      Mom and Ruby’s Mint Chocolate Ganache cakes

·      Dad’s Disaster cake

·      Sharing the gospel

·      Secret Santa on Christmas Eve

·      Yankee Candle

·      Rocky’s face plant on his scooter

·      Quabin Reservoir

·      Collin's Creamery

·      Mom screaming like a little girl because she saw a mouse on the porch

·      Pinewood Derby: Coop came in 1^st in his division and Ruby was an “outlaw”

·      Cooper’s crazy birthday party with 15 9 year old boys.

·      Washington DC: Uncle Eric and Aunt Cathleen, Aunt Sarah, cousins, Seth Y, Marine Core Marathon, Ben’s Chili bowl, Metro, Natural History Museum, Parking lot picnic

·      Ruby’s fish Maj died

·      Ruby’s 5^th grade graduation

·      New York National History Museum and The Met

·      Daddy eating all the cookies that were individually wrapped for school lunches in the freezer

·      Archery

·      Betta Fish

·      Schenectady trip: Howe Caverns, Plotter Kill Falls, mining for gems, walking down the highway as a family, ice cream, mosquitoes

·      Keene New Hampshire Jack-o-lantern festival, Pecos Bill recording

·      Rocky’s DIY haircut

·      Moms guest post on Creative Geekery Blog

·      Rocky and Cooper on news at the Westfield splash pad

·      Rocky started primary

·      Stanley Park

·      Student Loan paid off.  Boo yea!!!

·      Face paint on Christmas

·      Sunday treats

·      Skunk in the garage

·      Triple Threat ½ Marathon: 13 miles of running to the next port-o-potty.

·      Ben, Celeste, Seth and Noah came to visit!

·      Walden Pond with Jen Hulse

·      Ruby’s fish came back to life

·      Cinnamon Roll Sunday X2

·      Rocky Joy School

·      Rocky’s Anatomically correct gingerbread MAN

·      East Longmeadow 4^th of July parade

·      New allowance system

·      Mom’s sad tooth

·      St Patrick’s festival with the Campbells

·      Ruby’s basketball team was undefeated

·      Hartford Marathon for Matt and me.  We did it!

·      Grandpa and Grandpa Rich’s visit

·      Ruby’s summer orchestra camp

·      Mom in charge of Faith in God

·      Pioneer Day plea for salt-water taffy filled 3 times!

·      Crazy Hair day at Wolf Swamp. Red bathtub!

·      Lego’s!!!

·      Primary trip to the Boston Temple

·      Sparti and Brazell Family moved

·      Trunk or treat

·      Rainbow Loom

·      Dad’s sweet garden

·      Hotter than snot!

·      Ashley Reservoir

·      Flour game

·      No manners dinner

·      More leaves than you can shake a stick at!  Dad’s genius leaf blowing

·      Running at 13 degrees

·      Connecticut River walk

·      Kissing llamas and frogs

·      Legions of Mosquitoes

·      Eating healthy

·      The Kit Kat Fairy

·      Rapuchis many parties: block party, skating, Christmas eve, cookie party

·      Someone like you played by Ruby

·      Walden Pond as a family

·      Cooper and the Hershey Track Meet

·      Soccer

·      Purple potty

·      Grandma Retta’s visit

·      Lighthouse beach

·      Faith In God Talent Show

·      Papa teaching Ruby about fire.  Millions of fires

·      Smores over a sterno and in the oven

·      Ruby’s neck injury

·      Ruby’s Easter basket on the roof, silly Easter bunny.

·      Hampden splash pad

·      Ruby’s bike from the Higgins family

·      Dads paintings

·      Pez factory

·      Underwood Family visit

·      3 Thanksgiving feasts! Springfield ward, Higgins family, and Campbells

·      Bottle Rockets for FIG

·      4 Square

·      15 year anniversary at the Tavern on Mt. Tom

·      Papa and Sharon’s visit!

·      Apple Cider Doughnuts

·      August

·      Bricnic at High Meadows

·      Rock and mineral collecting

·      Essex Steam Train

·      Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

·      Rocky game my iPhone a lobotomy.  Thank you Apple store!

·      Grandma Retta’s birth of Isaac the purse

·      Marisa Monte Concert in NYC for Dad and Ruby

·      Eccotarium; watched an Eagle disembowel a rat

·      Springfield Museums

·      Turner Park

·      Daddy working hard at Lego

·      Captain Jacks roadside shack

·      Pete’s Sweets

·      Acapulco Restaurant with Grandma and Grandpa Rich

·      Fox in backyard

·      Marathon training and then some

·      Rocky’s diamonds

·      Yoda

·      Brown E for April Fools

·      Knitting with Ruby

·      Moms trip to Salt Lake

·      Surprising Papa in Moab Utah for his 80^th birthday

·      Rocky’s love of tigers

·      Cooper boy scouts.  Model of wooden military ship

·      Cooper Violin

·      Boston Marathon Miracles

·      Ruby Survival Day

·      Coopers Lego 5K and turkey trot

·      Daddy’s toenail

·      Reading lots of books as a family and individually

·      Rocky’s purple light saber

·      Gas line

·      Ruby’s mustache cake and party

·      Movies on the garage

·      Mt Greylock with papa and Sharon

·      Papa’s book

·      Toilet taped shut on April Fools

·      Wanting to rent on Emmerson

·      Deli ham for Easter

·      Boston Girls Trip

·      16 Dozen heart sugar cookies for YW

·      Space Derby for Coop

·      Ditmars giant blue bubble

·      Ragnar

·      Rocky drinking salt

·      Snow snow cones

·      Ruby Springfield Armor with Sarah S

·      Cooper Norman Rockwell Museum Field trip

·      5^th grade Boston field trip

·      Middle school

·      Nemo storm

·      Cooper’s Christmas Legos all build by New Years

·      3D Despicable Me

·      Swimming at Jimmy Foards

·      Speech

·      Run Like a Mother

·      Dinner with my Gamma Xi gals

·      Running with Jen Hulse, Shelli Jenkins and Nancy in Utah

·      Temple trips

·      Color Run with Coop