Childhood
What is Mesa?
“Long distance ______ is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.” – Rich Davis
What is running?
Secretariat became the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years, and Mom was born.
What is 1973?
Nickname for a Liverpool FC player, as well as Mom's favorite color.
What is red?
2016 Super Bowl Champions from this city, and one of the reasons that Mom and Dad both connected when they met.
What is Denver?
No, not the Golden State Warriors, but the Warriors of this high school, which Mom attended.
What is Westwood High School?
Just as pieces stitched together in a quilt warm our bodies, _______ bind together memories to warm our hearts. ~Author Unknown
What are scrapbooks?
Hakeem Olajuwon's Rockets won the NBA Finals, and Mom and Dad got married.
What is 1994?
Bono is the frontman of this, Mom's favorite band.
What is U2?
Shut up and do this, one of Mom's favorite activities.
What is dance?
Mom's friends would pay her a quarter to solve this popular puzzle during recess, though she was never quite as fast as Tanner
What is a Rubik's cube?
“The brain may die, but my compulsion for useless ______ lives on.” - Molly Harper
What is trivia?
Mom received her first paycheck after a long hiatus.
What is 2021?
This historian and Pulitzer Prize winner is Mom's favorite author.
David McCullough
Mom's "happiest places on Earth."
What is Disneyland?
Mom's most infamous password, and the address of the house she lived in from kindergarten to fourth grade.
What is Indigo 1215?
"Why waste your money looking up your ______? Just go into politics and your opponents will do it for you." — Mark Twain
What is a family tree?
Mom learned to ride a bike, and Ronald Reagan was elected president.
What is 1980?
Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks exchange emails in this 1998 film, Mom's favorite.
What is "You've Got Mail?"
An Irish name meaning "great."
Who is Darren?
Both Dallin and Mom grew up riding it, and one of them continues singing about it to this day.
What is the Trail 90?
"Today a ______, tomorrow a leader" - Margaret Fuller
What is a reader?
The first time Mom set foot on foreign soil.
This British clothing retailer is Mom's favorite.
What is Boden?
Mom's parents got this dog right before she was born... she never was too stinky.
Dinky