Author: Stephen Parker

We climbed the South Teton with Dad, Michele, John, Lisa Just, and Uncle Gary. We started at the table rock trail head and then bush whacked out way up to hurricane pass. Then straight up the ridge of the south.

Here Stacie and I are laying brick for the chimneyWorking on the 1056 Barney Dairy Rd house. We spent most of the summer helping Dad, on the extra long days Dad would take me for a blizzard on the way home.

Mom and I make a great team
		planting tree as a family

One of my favorite things to do as a child was to invent ways of pulling or transporting my sisters. Here is what I called the house on wheels. It even had a car light and battery inside for after hour trips.

Elk Hunting with Dad, Lance, Craig Davis, JD, and Kurt Hawks, Craig called the elk right to the car, I got a little nervous and got in the truck just in case things got out of hand.

When I was just 12 years old my dad asked me to follow him out to shotgun west. He was driving the road grader and I was following him in the pickup. I got little behind so I sped up to catch him…not a good choice. It turned out to be good time spent with Grandpa fixing it.

Here is one of the first times I hiked table rock with my dad. We hiked up the face to make it more interesting.

Mount Owen and the Grand

We rode our bikes from Aunt Nancy and Uncle Gary’s house in Syracuse out to Antelope Island, I remember thinking this is sure a long hard ride for a 9 year old.

Starting young I was fascinated with taking things apart, and sometimes putting them back together. This picture was most likely taken on a Sunday afternoon, I would take my shirt off so I wouldn’t get it dirty (guess I should have taken my pants off too). I am thankful my parents let me do what I did because I did learn a lot about how things work by simply breaking them…

I guess I thought it was the cool thing to have glasses, because when John Bryant got new glasses I just had to get them too. I told my parents I couldn't see and out of either pity or to get me to stop bugging them they had me get and eye exam. Of course I failed it 🙂 I worked hard to make sure I kept my story straight when they would put the letters up for me to read. I am sure the eye doctor saw right through me but he went along too. When I finally got them I found it was fun to chew on the frames, so they had to dip them in a special chemical to try and make me stop, of course that made it that much more of a challenge. I only wore them for a few month until I realized they looked goofy. Lesson learned is to be yourself don't try to follow the crowd they are surely just following someone else too.

Comments:

Jodi said…

Those are some great shades, and I love the story! I thought glasses were cool too. I used to tell people I had a retainer in third grade (it was simply a paper clip crudely bent to resemble a retainer). I’m sure 50% of the class did it, but I thought mine looked authentic.
Sunday, April 06, 2008 6:08:02 PM

Mom and Dad Parker said…

We remember those days. Remember them when you need some extra patience with Mason or Lily. Life is great.
ps. We really loved those old pictures.
Monday, April 07, 2008 2:38:48 AM