Dating and Marriage
This is what Dallas and Diana first noticed about one another’s physical traits.
What is eyes? They both noticed the other ones sparkly eyes.
The top grossing movie in 1976.
What is Rocky?
This one plans the parties. This one considers every location a potential reading room.
Diana plans the parties. Dallas reads the books.
When you ask the kids their favourite memory of their parents they all say the same thing. This is that memory.
What is dancing together in the kitchen?
Out of all these countries where have Dallas and Diana travelled, they have NOT gone here. Jamaica. Dominican. Mexico. Puerto Rico. Cuba. Belize.
What is Puerto Rico?
When Dallas fought the bull, this one of them ended up with cracked ribs.
Who is Dallas?
This is where Dallas and Diana went for their first and for their second honeymoon.
What is 1st- Salt Lake City
2nd- Disneyland?
Canadas Prime Minister in 1976.
Who is Pierre Elliot Trudeau?
This one falls asleep while playing cards while this one, according to family lore, wins all those card games.
Diana falls asleep and also wins the game.
These four words were the thing the kids hated most when they lived on the acreage.
What is “the cows are out!”?
This is the number of years of full time education between the two of them.
What is 11?
While living in Magrath, Diana worked here and from that place of employment she brought something with her for tonight. This is the job and this is what she brought for tonight.
What is worked at a restaurant and brought a recipe the cook shared with her for tonight’s supper?
This is where Dallas and Diana went to eat for their first date.
Where is A&W?
The Canadian city that hosted the 1976 summer olympics.
What is Montreal?
This one tells all the dad jokes. This one wears the meal while they eat it.
Dallas tells the jokes. Diana wears the meal.
This is what you’d hear Dallas say to each of the kids on a road trip (probably while listening to the pharmasave cassette tape).
What is BRENT… enough! LAURA… enough! PATRICK… enough! WILLIAM… shut up!
Dallas and Diana have always been willing to serve in church callings. This is a calling they have not served in.
What is primary ward presidency for Diana and primary teacher/ ward clerk for Dallas?
This person asked Diana if she needed a ride home on her wedding night.
Who is Diana’s dad?
This is what Dallas called his little Cortina that he drove back and forth from Grand Cache to Creston to date Diana a couple of times a month.
What is the greyhound pup?
What major song was a hit by ABBA in 1976 that became one of their signature songs?
What is Dancing Queen?
This one almost died of pneumonia and this one has been hospitalized for mystery ailments multiple times.
Diana had pneumonia. Dallas has mystery ailments.
In their regular cab truck with 4 kids, this is where the kids sat for road trips. And this was used for communication.
What is in the box of the truck with walkie talkies?
This is Dallas and Diana’s current never ending project.
What is their house reno?
This is what Dallas and Diana ended up between when they were hiking, putting them in pretty serious danger?
What is a mother grizzly bear and her cubs?
On their acreage in Creston they kept all these animals but this one. Pigs. Cows. Ducks. Chickens. Rabbits. Sheep.
What are ducks?
This Canadian singer had a hit with the song The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. 100 bonus points if you know the location associated with the song.
Who is Gordon Lightfoot? (Lake Superior)
This one went scuba diving without training. And this one lost their lunch while parasailing.
Diana for the win on both counts.
This family member started a story with “When I was a teenage girl…”
Who is Dallas?
These are Dallas and Diana’s favourites of all the places they have travelled together. 100 bonus points if you know their favourite family trip.
What is Costa Rica and Belize? (Disneyland)
This is what Diana told Dallas to take out of the oven when she was sleepwalking. (Sadly for Dallas he didn’t know she was sleepwalking and was disappointed when he looked in the oven to find nothing)
What is a pie?
How many descendants do Dallas and Diana have? (Include in laws in that number, because they do)
What are 17 (soon to be 18)?
This popular arcade game was released in 1976 and involved controlling a spaceship.
What is Breakout?
This one went waterfall climbing after it had been raining. While this one rappelled down a waterfall.
Both of them went waterfall hiking and rappelled down a waterfall.
This is what the hitchhiker did when all six members of the family were crammed into the cab of their truck on the way to church, with people on laps and kids in the footwell.
What is he put his thumb down?
This is something people consistently told me about Dallas and Diana that in their perspective has kept them together all these years.
What is, they are best friends and genuinely like each other?
This is the animal making all the noise in the water when they were trying to sleep on their harrowing canoe trip with Derrys.
What is a beaver?