Top Reasons Why
He is the Best Vovó EVER!
• unconditional love!
• let us drive the boat
• let us drive the car (without a license)
• those fabulous siblings of his (and those famous Roy kisses)
• built an awesome house for us to visit
• taught Dana to drive standard
• two words: Milkin' time! –Dana
• always telling you what a 'crack shot' you were even
when you couldn't hit the side of a barn
• "We're off like Moody's goose!"
• "Let's go drown some worms!"
• Pretending to fall down into the well (when it was really just a barbeque
pit)
• Always had new fishing tackle when we came to visit –Craig
• let us drive the riding mower
• built us a cool sandbox
• long walks and deep conversation
• did we mention unconditional love
• great family stories looking at family pictures –Lara
•Thornbloom? Thronblom? Thornblum? keep em' guessin'!
• relatives somewhere in Sweden who must want us all to visit
• got to play with the horn on the boat
• put in a dock slide just for us!
• the Chicken Dance
• No matter where you were in the world, you always had the lake house to
go back to as "home"! –Tina
• letting us drive circles in the boat (Over, and over,
and over) and not getting mad.
• always telling us how pretty we are.....naturally!
• his "ummmm-boy! " ...especially when we gave him chocolate! –Kari
• Paddling out to the middle of the lake in the paddle
boat after Vovo told us not to go out too far b/c we'd get tired...he
would always come and get us!!!
• Swimming and collecting big shells on the "Little Island."
• Putting up/ taking down the flag at the lake house.
• Vovo had just received a HUGE box of Whitman's chocolates. Mom and Pat
left to go shopping. Once they were gone he said, "Now that they're away we can
dig in!!!"
• Not telling my parents I raked his brand new Lincoln Continental down
the brick divider in the garage. (Ugh. I still feel terrible!) –Nichole
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