07.23.06
Posted in Memories at 3:52 pm by JudiMom
When Lucas got older he, of course, would follow Chance and Gabe into the woods for long summer days of fort building, cowboys and indians, creek wading but until he could keep up with them he played in the backyard with the hose. The hose ran every day until there was a creek in our back yard. It down too the fence and over to the tree house. I can remember going in to get the camera as he called me out the door one afternoon and wanted help washing his wagon. I knew that his cute blonde hair was soon going to disappear and he would be growing up fast. This is my most favorite picture of Lucas in the whole world….
And sure enough next year at the pool you can see his blonde hair is mostly gone and he is growing up fast….
We made a family trip to Callao… and annapolis in 1987…. he caught a crab…
We moved to Everest Drive in Montgomery and he played golf one summer in the Capital City Junior League…
but I remember the summer Gabe went to kicking camp at UTC in Chattanooga. It was a four day camp— Lucas and I took Gabe and left him there and we spent the days in Chattanooga…..I don’t think grandmother and PopPaw were there. I don’t have a picture of our time together but we went hiking.
Just– Lucas and I went up Lookout Mountain and walked all the way around it and back up to the road . Lucas knew exactly where he was going and I kept saying “we need to turn around and go back we are lost….” “Nooooo, mom, I know where we are just keep up with me and he would run off… I had sandles on and could not run.”
We walked for at least four hours up and down, across a river, and to the other side of the brow and then up to the road where we left the car. I know I was so proud to see Lucas knew exactly where he was and he turned to me and said “SEEE I told you we could get there…!!!” He had so much fun we went back the next day and did the same exactly thing but this time I had on tennis shoes and I trusted him to lead me …
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07.07.06
Posted in Memories at 1:47 pm by Tarlie Harris
As the younger siblings at both Chance and Gabe’s weddings, Lucas and I had a lot of fun.
For Chance’s wedding in Austin, Lucas got in much later than he was supposed to because he was flying in from NJ and had gotten in the habit of giving up his plane seat whenever they asked for volunteers. He took a cab straight from the airport to the bar where we were at, which caused a huge ruckus, since dad had gone to the airport (without hearing from him) to look for him. But he shows up at the bar no problem, which was so him, noone even remembered telling him the name of the place we were going to be. I think he was like, well I knew downtown wasn’t that big. It was so fun that we got to be in the wedding together, walking each other up the aisle after the ceremony. I can still remember our big grins the whole time. They had a celtic band playing, which I gotta say, was difficult to dance to, but Lucas found a way. My favorite part of the weekend was the end of the wedding night, Lucas and I went back to our hotel room and hung out with Rob and Natasha. David Berry had already been asleep in our room, I guess we told him to stay in our room (?), and I just remember us waking him up and he was hilarious talking about how Bethany had passed out in the bed next to him and he had no idea what was going on and felt a little awkard (he’s married with kids!) and Bethany wandered out of the room and we just laughed for as long as we could stay up, he was cracking us up! Rob and Natasha finally left to go to sleep at like 4 and we had to leave for the airport at 5. Lucas and I were on the same flight back to Nashville and then he was continuing on to NJ. Rob took us to the airport and we were all completely delerious. Lucas and I checked in and then laid down on the floor of the airport, with my head on his stomach, and slept soundly until our plane took off a couple of hours later. I’m not sure why I remember this so clearly, I guess it was just that there aren’t that many people you can lay down on the airport floor with and go to sleep, but Lucas was one of them for me.
For Gabe’s wedding in Barbados, we once again shared a room. It kind of got to be a joke between us, since were in our 20s and still sharing a room, but neither one of us minded, we just thought it was funny. Of course, we partied hard the first night and the next morning we were supposed to go on the boat cruise. I wake Lucas up and he pops up out of bed and is like, yea, ok i’ll get ready, he gets in the shower and then throws up twice and gets back in bed and is like, yea, i’m not going. So I get up, throw up twice, and am like, ok Luke, I’m heading out, see you later. I’m still not sure that my resolve to go was any better than Lucas staying behind since I spent the entire cruise face down on my stomach trying not to throw up while everyone else drank punch. My favorite memory of Lucas on that trip is during the party after the ceremony. They had these two Caribbean girls in sexy black dresses singing in this conference-like room and at first everyone was like, hmmmm, this might be hard to party to. But after a bit they started singing songs that we knew and Lucas was the first to stand up and dance right in front of them and sing along and try and get everyone all pumped up. So then Dad and I joined him and then everyone else, and I just remember thinking, our family is pretty cool as far as dancing and singing and trying to get people to have a good time goes. And Lucas was always the ring leader.
Here, most people are still sitting and Lucas is up trying to get things going.
And a short while later, everyone is up, and Lucas is in full on dance mode!
Oh, and I almost forgot about the horseback riding. We rode horses on the beach one afternoon, the guide who took us decided that Lucas was totally fine to ride on his own, but that he needed to hold the reins of me and Rob’s horses the whole time, what the hell?! I had definitely ridden more than Lucas, but he had that way about him, and he did do fine. It was a funny ride.
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