Facts about Mom
This is the state where Mom was born.
What is Connecticut
This is the model name of the utility vehicle Gpa used to drive around the farm.
What is "Mule".
When we all went out to Dairy Queen in Shawnee, KS one night, this is the reason we had go back home without getting anything.
No one had a wallet or any way to pay for it.
This is the gift that Dad called several stores to find and ultimately drove to Junction City, KS to meet a Wal-Mart employee on his dinner break that Dad had bribed to hold the last one.
What is Sophie's ballerina bar?
This is Mickey D's to Joe's friend group.
What is "Don's"
This is the High School Mom graduated from?
What is Kapaun Mt. Carmel in Wichita, KS?
This is the name of hand puppet which has apparently been hidden all too well.
What is "Kissy Wolf"
At Camp Tekawitha Family Weekend, this happened right at the pond bank when Dad tried stepping out of the canoe.
What is "it capsized sending both Joe and Dad into the water" (will accept it tipped over).
This was a plug & play game with the first floor TV in Salina that was supposed to incorporate exercise into the game.
What is "The Smart Cycle"
In Lawrence, KS, this is the street between 8th and 10th.
What is "Ninth" (Sophia's pronunciation required).
When Mom lived in California, she would participate in this nautical activity.
What is Sailing?
After collecting a bunch of these off the ground, Gpa would drive the kids over to the steep creek bank and we would throw them into the creek.
What are "Hedgeballs"?
On a boat ride in Florida to see Manatees (and supposedly dolphins), this is the reason the boat got stuck.
What is "weeds were tangled around the propeller"
(Will accept: a passenger had to jump in water to untangle it)
This is the name of the set which included remote control vehicles that transported red and blue balls into elaborate conveyor systems.
What is "Rokenbok"?
This is a spice derived from the inner bark of certain types of trees.
Cin-nee-mon (Joe's pronunciation required)
Mom's Bachelor's Degree is actually this subject.
What is "Human Development & Family Life" with a specialization in Early Childhood Development
This is the name for a fishing hole in the bend of the creek that was quite small, but very deep at the very west end of a pasture. (Hint: named after a creature often saw there).
What is "the snake pit"?
Because of this incident, Dad and Sophie got to ride in a tow truck this past summer.
What is "Dad's alternator went out and truck died on I-35" (will accept "Dad's truck died on highway" or something close).
Uncle Dave had to help secure this gift in California because there were none to be found in Kansas.
What is the Wii?
What is "Basic Mart"
These are the 8 different states where Mom has lived.
("Lived" means a place she considered her residence for at least a month or more).
What are: Connecticut, Florida, Texas, Illinois, Kansas, California, Arizona and Nebraska
This is the number of ponds located on Gpa's farmland.
What is "Six"?
Of the following vehicles: Oreo, Tijuana, Bluey, and both Dad's black truck and white truck, how many of those vehicles have NOT been in some type of accident or fender bender?
What is "zero"?
This is the name of the place we went snow Tubing with Crazy and Bebe.
What is Snow Creek?
(will also accept name of town: Weston, MO)
Sophia came home from school to tell Mom that a student had called another student this "S" word.
What is "stupid".