When I was a newborn to around 6 years old I lived in this house in Sandy, Utah that my mom was renting. I wanted to share some stories from me growing up. Keep in mind I was 6 or under so some of these will be really dumb and silly.

1.Christmas morning of 1999 my mom got me a dog named Rascal, he was a Cairn Terrier and with being an only child he was like my brother. I remember my mom opening the door to the house and called his name and he came running inside and came over to me and licked my face.

2. One night I was taking a shower and the bathroom door was open, my dog Rascal walked into the bathroom and sat down and just looked at me. I started thinking maybe he’s thirsty so I grab the shower head and put it on the bathroom floor and turned it on. He started drinking so I left it on, my mom came up a minute later and started yelling at me because water was dripping onto her home office downstairs. Whoops.

3. My mom started thinking Rascal was getting lonely so we got another Cairn Terrier to play with named Buster. This dog was SATIN. My mom and I went to breakfast and then came home and the couch, shoes, just about everything was chewed up. There was also dog crap and pee everywhere. It was like out of a movie! We ended up giving him away to my moms friend who said that he could train Buster. He ended up not being able to do it because he was too wild, Buster was then given to a woman who worked at a day care. Buster was brought to the day care one day and one of the parents saw the dog and wanted him. The parent ended up being super rich and Buster got his own toy chest and bed. (Not sure if the whole thing is true, this is just what i’ve been told)

4. One day I was playing Super Smash Bros for the Nintendo 64 and I just defeated the Master Hand boss and I was super pumped, so what did I do? I ran over to my mom and punched her…Yes I got grounded for that.

5. In the summer there was a lightning/thunder storm but it wasn’t raining. A few of the neighbor kids and I sat out on the lawn and watched/listened to the storm. It was really cool until a loud BOOM and a close strike of lightning sent us all running. I was walking around or street the next day and the lightning had struck a brick wall up the street. (Next to the hose I’d eventually move to)

6.I had gerbils growing up, my mom and I went to the pet store and got 2 “females” but one turned out to be a male an they had babies like crazy! They’d eat anything, I even think they started eating their glass cage. Anyways, I used to get babysat all the time and my babysitters would have gerbil races down the hall. We’d block off the doors with towels and pick our gerbil for the race and then let them run.

7. One night I was being babysat and I remember sitting in the living room watching the Disney channel show called Motocrossed (Awesome movie btw), and my tooth was loose and I pulled it out and I lost my first tooth. I put it under my pillow for the tooth fairy that night and I woke up and there was a $50 under it! I ran to my mom to share the news and she seemed shocked and said, “Maybe it was dark and the Tooth Fairy messed up on what she gave you.” Then I remember I “lost” the $50 but I have a hunch my mom took it.

8. My mom used to have a Station wagon, so old school right? We pulled up to our driveway and she had to run to the garage to grab something. My inner Ricky Bobby came out and I drove the Station wagon into the garage and knocked over tons of boxes and things. And I almost hit my mom too.

9. Another incident, I was in a big truck and my mom left it so I was in there all alone. I moved over to the drivers seat and I put the car in reverse and I started backing out of the driveway. Then the car started going down the street and I had no idea what to do. My dad (one of the few times he was there) was yelling at me from the lawn and I got over to the passenger seat and he pulled me out of the truck. The trucked turned out of our street and then went down the road with nobody in it.

10. One of my neighbors used to farm butterflies or something. One day he released all of them from his back yard and all of these butterflies just flew right over me and it was super cool!

11. I went to Challenger for pre-school and kindergarten. Challenger is a private school type of thing. Anyways, there was this girl named Ashley and I was 5 years old and was totally in love with her. I guess I got her gifts or something (I don’t really remember this) but it happened. I was that awkward 5 year old. Ashley invited me to her birthday party at Chuck E Cheese,(whenever I went here as a kid I always got sick, I had Chronic Croup) And so I went, it was an all girls party and then me. It was so freaking awkward. Years later Ashley and I started talking and now we’re super good friends!

12. My mom and I would always go to breakfast at this restaurant called Johannas Kitchen, we’d drive there listening to This Kiss By Faith Hill. I’d get the teddy bear pancake, always.

13. My mom and I were eating dinner one night and then there was a knock at the door, I opened it and it was a cat. We thought it was weird but we got the cat some milk and then it would go away. This was going on for months. We started calling the cat Iggy. Iggy showed up to our house one night and was breathing weird, we took her to the vet and she had cancer and we put her down. So we either put down a stray cat or we killed one of our neighbors cats.

14. Now all of the memories can’t be good, we used to have these two dogs named Sampson and Bear. Sampson was a husky and I can’t remember what Bear was. My mom went out to feed the dogs and then they started fighting and they ended up biting my mom pretty bad. The rest of the night I remember that my dad came over and I watched James and The Giant Peach in my room.

15. On St. Patricks day I came downstairs and a lot of the furniture was knocked over. My mom told me that the leprechauns did it and I believed that for years. Now that I look back on it, that was an awesome thing to do.

16. I was playing the Nintendo 64 with some of the neighbor kids at my house, I showed them some of the games that I had and they thought they were really cool. The kids left and I put the games away. My mom and I left to go somewhere then came back and the games were gone. The neighbor kids broke into the house and stole games while we were away. Game like the original Mario Party, Mario Party 2 & 3, Mario Kart, and other games I loved.

17. One morning I was was watching Disney Channel, probably Rollie Pollie Ollie, and my mom and dad were fighting about something. I remember them fighting right behind the couch where I was sitting. I stood up on the couch and yelled at them to stop fighting and then my dad left for good and I didn’t see or hear from him for about 10 years.

18. On my birthday one year my mom hired a magician to come and preform at my party.

19. I was being babysat again in the winter, it was snowing outside and my babysitter and I went out and built and igloo. I have absolutely no idea how she did it but it was really cool.

20. I was at my neighbors house, they had 6 kids or something 1 guy and 5 girls. I remember being down in the Taylors (the guy) room and he was playing I miss you by Blink182. Years later I heard that song on the radio and I had a total flash back to that point in time.

I can’t remember anything else, so I suppose this is what I remember from my early childhood. I hope you enjoyed my wacky adventures.

-Ryan