Stand by me...

Stand by me…

  ok – if you were at all interested in movies in the mid 80’s – you have seen this movie… It came out in August of 1986 and is one of most favorite movies…  It is a coming of age movie for 4 “tween” boys…  Not to mention, I love the song by the same title… Well it all started a month or so ago… the neighborhood boys found this area in a wash up the street with a hill.. they dug out some “jumps” for their bmx bikes… and now the place is called “the jumps”… Hank has been asking to go to the jumps w. his friends.. it is off a main street and is just a little farther that I have been comfortable letting him go w. out supervision…

about two weeks ago, during spring break – the boys wanted to go… and they had a friend over who is allowed to go… so I decided to bring my camera and go check it out.. I took some great pics of the boys and their friends jumping bikes.. it is one of those places as a kid, is special… We’ve all had a place like that (mine, for another post!) when we were kids, especially boys right? Now I am torn.. it is a cool place for the kids… but it is also one of those places, where trouble can brew… idle time and all that… So the boys are not allowed to go alone.. Jeff and I have gone with them now and then… and another mom has also taken them… she took videos..

 

For some reason, this place make me think of the movie Stand by Me… I just love this movie, did I already say that? Yeh well… So I saw the movie @ the grocery store last week for $9.99.. I bought it.. it’s a classic, must have to add to our library of favs! We watched it last weekend w. the boys (fri night) – I didn’t even check the rating, it’s rated R…. As we started to watch it, the boys were riveted.. I swear they didn’t move a single muscle the whole time, except to hop closer to us on the couch as the scene where they find the dead body approaches climax… I did notice a lot of cussing…. And some other topics that probably were not quite ready for prime time.. but all in all, a great movie… the kids were surprised when they found it that it was rated R, as we never let them watch R rated movies.. great movie to open up life discussions.. and just to bring up childhood memories… here are some pics from the jumps!