My Fortune Today

So I found a forgotten fortune cookie in my purse tonight while sitting through Dexter's basketball practice. Of course I had to open it immediately and eat it. I had to laugh at the fortune: "You will have full contentment by summer's end." The timing is hilarious since I have been having a hard time lately emotionally. I was actually up late last night doing some thinking and serious pondering. Just trying to figure life out I guess. Wondering if I'm the person Heavenly Father wants me to be...feeling a little lost. Not sure if I'm on track and having a basic self pity party for the most part. So the question is, "Do I really have to wait until summer's end before I feel contentment again?" What do you think....and when do you think I'll ever find myself again? (I use to be fun :) but now don't feel like I am anymore.)

I Blog Like I Write in My Journal

So I'm not too good at keeping this blog thing up-to-date. I write in my journal about never either....ha ha. When I do, it's usually in the fall. Maybe because I'm now stuck inside because of the bad weather coming....hmmmm...who knows. I was reading a friend's blog today and thought to myself, "Will I be able to even get to my own blog? It's been awhile since I've looked at it or added to it." Well I definitely still have a blog but it's got to be one the most boring blogs EVER.

So football is over for the year. Only Max played this year. He loved loved loved it. He was the quarterback. Dexter opted to play basketball year round. I was able to handle the whole football thing much better with only one kid playing. Dexter is going to play on a competitive basketball for the winter and Max is playing Junior Jazz. McKensie is dancing still so I still run around quite a bit but I don't have to do it everyday so I don't get too bugged out. Mandi is now a senior and had to grow up (poor girl) I made her quit dance and get a job. :( Life is rough.

Brooke got married this summer on July 22, 2010, to Andy Wasden. I now officially have six kids. We love Andy and are so excited to have him in our family. They are a cute couple together. Both are in school and trying to work towards their degrees.

So that's about all for now. See ya in another year? We'll see!! :)

Up to My Eyeballs with Football

So my boys decided to play football this year. This is the first time they've played. It's been an interesting experience--one that I actually don't really like. My husband, however, is a football FREAK and thinks it's great. He played football growing up and is loving all of this BUT he also isn't the one getting them to practice everyday. Yes you read that right--practice EVERY day. Now I know I don't know much about football, but practicing 2 hours a day, six days a week, seems a little over the top. They have been practicing since the end of July. I told Chris that it wouldn't hurt my feelings at all if the boys decided to not play this sport ever again. Chris told me that I am being negative. How would you all feel about this? Am I being a bad sport? Oh well, like everything else, there is an end to this but not until November. Ugh!!!

When You Need A Good Laugh

There is a very funny video on Hulu.com that I absolutely love. I look at it whenever I need a good laugh. I would upload it to my blog but I don't know how to get it loaded. Sorry. So if you go to Hulu.com and search for SNL (Saturday Night Live) Lawrence Welk. It's a video with Anne Hathaway singing with her 3 sisters and they are in yellow dresses. Go look it up and then leave me a comment and let me know if it made you laugh too. Happy Laughing :)!!

Max's Birthday

As I was looking through some pictures and trying to find something to blog about, I came across this picture of Max on his 8th birthday. Poor thing was asleep and we had to wake him up to sing "Happy Birthday" to him.

He was so tired he didn't even enjoy a piece of cake until the next day. I guess we'd better start earlier for his next birthday.

This picture makes me laugh. I can't even remember what we did and why it was so late before we had birthday cake.

Olympic Junkie

So I have decided I am officially an Olympic Junkie. I have stayed up far too late watching everything. I even watched the basketball game on Sunday (so not myself--I usually don't even turn on the t.v. on Sundays except maybe to watch Music and the Spoken Word.)

Tonight I am just listening to the Olympics as I got on the internet to find out what was going on in the big outside world. I was trying to find out if a friend of mine had her baby yet. I hadn't done any blogging for months. All I can say is "Working full time all summer is NOT fun." Oh the guilt too!! My little son, Max, came up to me tonight when I got home, and said, "Hi, mom! I don't get to see you very much anymore." Could that be because of working or watching too much Olympics? Poor kid!!

40th Birthday Trip

A few years ago, my friend Joni (we've been friends since we were 7 years old) and I decided that when we turned 40 we needed to go on a girls trip somewhere. We ended up going to Mazatlan since Joni's mom owns a condo down there. It was my first time to Mexico. It was so relaxing and nice. The condo was right on the beach. Chris tried to invite himself a couple of times but got turned down, because this trip was only for girls. We went with Joni's mom and a friend that Joni works with.

This is a picture of the condo. It's the one in the middle. The resort to the left is the Holiday Inn. On the right is a nice resort called El Cid. We went down there one day and swam in their pool since it is more fancy than the pool at the condo we were in.

Instead of going to feed the ducks, we went and fed the turtles. We fed them tortillas. They must not be able to see too good though, because when you'd drop the tortilla in the water they couldn't see it too well. Alot of the times, the fish would swim up between all the turtles and snatch the tortilla away before the turtle had time to even figure out there was some food right by it's head. In this picture, Joni was holding the tortilla out of the water, and the turtle is actually coming out of the water to get it.

The transportation down there is a hoot. This is in the back of a little red truck. We were going to town to the market. The extra ladies in the truck with us are Joni's mom's friends that she has met down there. They all stay down there during the winter months.

And this little piggy didn't make it home from the market. So anyone up for pighead roast dinner? The market was full of all kinds of interesting things that you don't see back home.

The last night there, we went and ate at Senor Frogs. What a crazy place. I don't have any pictures of me there because I was out of memory space on my camera by then. When we first walked in and were waiting for a table, the waiters grabbed us and made us jump rope right there in the middle of the restaurant. They also made everyone in the restaurant get up and dance on their chairs to the YMCA. We also had to join the conga line that took us all through the restaurant and outside. The music is blaring loud and the waiters were all blowing whistles. We didn't get our dinner until 10 p.m. The second they sat us down, a guy comes up to us and makes us these crazy balloon hats, shoves them on our heads, and then proceeds to tell us that he needs a tip. It was funny. We had to pay for a goofy balloon hat that we didn't really want. If ever in Mexico, you need to go experience Senor Frogs at least once. It's the craziest restaurant I've ever been in. Nothing compares to it back at home.

Time Flies

Man time flies. I've have been busy with dance competitions and baseball and working. So I haven't had time to really sit down and blog.

Tonight my daughter told Chris and me that we were old. She just turned 15. We told her that time flies and someday soon she'll be our age. She said that it take forever before she's our age. Do you remember those days? When a year felt like FOREVER? I can't believe how fast a year comes at me now but yet time hasn't changed. Just me. Oh to be so carefree. It made me think of first being married and just starting our family. It feels like only yesterday yet it was 20 years ago. WOW!! With the kids all going different directions, I feel like time flies so much faster now.

I went on my girls trip to Mazatlan last month. When I get time (hee hee), I'll post some pictures and talk about my fun time. The trip was at least a good excuse to turn 40.

Ouch!!

McKensie is my first kid ever to break a bone. She has a broken arm. The poor child went a week before we got an x-ray and found out that it was actually broken. At first, we thought that maybe it was just sprained. She wasn't complaining too much about it either. No more teasing her that she has no pain tolerance. She is also getting braces and had gotten spacers in her teeth a few days after her fall. She complained more about her mouth than her arm so I didn't think it was broken. For some reason, I was under the impression that if your bone was broken, it would hurt really really bad. I guess not.

Contractors' Time Zone

Hey there everybody. It's been awhile since I've last blogged. I've been stuck in Contractors' Time Zone. For those of you who don't know what this is, I'll explain. It's the unfortunate time when you have to endure those contractors in your home. It starts with a phone call that they'll be there at 9:00 a.m. and then show up at noon. It also includes that your shower will be installed on a Monday and it doesn't actually get installed until a Thursday. And, apparently, while you're stuck in this time zone, you have nothing else to do but wait around for them to show up.

I also started working part time at Chris' work on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so I am going a little crazy getting use to my new schedule while stuck in contractors' time zone. It's hard getting anything done while stuck at home on this time zone. One day I didn't even get in the shower because they were suppose to show up, and I didn't have time to get in before they were going to arrive. I postponed my shower all day because I knew the second I was buck naked ready to get in the shower my doorbell would ring. Chris said that was exactly why I should have gotten in the shower because then they would have shown up. Needless to say, by the end of that day, I had no shower and also no contractor showed up to install the shower glass door.

So we are still waiting on the bathroom to be finished completely. It's getting a little closer every week but not quite there. Luckily, for Brooke, her room is done and she has been able to reclaim her space.

Building a House Is Fun To Do

Building a house is fun to do, fun to do, to do, to do. Building a house is fun to do, to do, to do, to do. We have been in our home now for 7 years and have just found out that they never installed the shower correctly in our master bathroom.

On Valentine's Day my daughter, Brooke, comes upstairs and asks me what I was doing in my bathroom because water was dripping from her ceiling. Uugh!! When all was said and done, I had ripped up the carpet in my bedroom because the carpet was wet, cut out one wall of the shower to see the problem, and cut away part of Brooke's ceiling. We were in a mess. I then called my hubby to tell him all about our Valentine's Day disaster. Right before I found out about the rain in my basement, I was on my way to get stuff for my hubby for Valentine's Day. He ended up with a big mess instead.

Our insurance is paying for this mess to be fixed. The total is $7,200. Wow!! I suggest that when your shower needs caulking, do it quickly. Although it wouldn't have helped that much for us since the shower was installed improperly. Gotta love building a home.

I'm Sick of the Snow

It's getting down right depressing always looking at the white stuff. My back is hurting from shoveling the snow. Worse than that, I swear half the snow in the driveway is probably the same snow I've already shoveled. The wind is blowing terribly and it moves the snow back into the driveway. Uugh! Everybody keeps hoping this will end soon, but it doesn't seem to. Just when we get our hopes up (we actually enjoyed three days in the 40's), it dumps snow all over again. Help!! We're getting buried.

The kids were quite pleased this morning though with the appearance of the white stuff. School was delayed for two hours this morning. There was a school down in the Alpine district that had the kids overnight because the buses couldn't get out of the parking lot. I guess the parents couldn't get there either because the roads were closed. I don't think I could have let my kids stay at school all night in those conditions. I would have freaked out if those were my kids. I probably would have packed up all their snow clothes and walked to the school on foot to get them.

We are escaping to St. George for the weekend and it's suppose to be 61 degrees on Sunday. We are very excited to feel such temperatures again.

Love Tag

What is your husband's name?
Christopher John Hunsaker--aka Toph, Bishop, Honey Bunny Boo, (okay just kidding about the last one)

How long have you been together?
I meet Chris when I was 18 right out of high school but we didn't date until six months later--married a year after our first date(not exactly to the day but close)--just celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary last December.

How long did you date?
One year

Who eats more?
Chris. Anyone that knows me well knows that I wish you didn't have to eat to stay alive and when you do eat why does it always have to be healthy?

Who said I love you first?
Chris. I was still confused about my missionary I was "supposedly" waiting for. Boy did I do a bad job waiting!

Who is taller?
Chris

Who has more speeding tickets?
I don't think we should even go there. But if Karlene is reading this she is probably laughing. She knows all about my woos and woes when it comes to my little hubby and his driving habits.

Who is smarter?
If you need an accountant, then Chris. If you go by grades you got in school, then me. Ha ha. I was under the pressure of a father that told me I would be grounded for a whole month if I ever got a C. I never wanted to test his threat.

Who is more sensitive?
Me but Chris would say that I'm too sensitive. Actually Chris is pretty sensitive too. A neighbor once asked if Chris grew up in a family with all girls. No, he didn't (in case you're wondering)

When there is a fight, who usually wins?
A smart man always lets the wife win.

Who does the laundry?
I usually do and most of the time prefer to. But Chris has gotten so smart over the years. He now knows when there is a pile of laundry on his side of the bed, he needs to fold it.

Who does the dishes?
The whole family. I have five kids and a hubby. I make everyone take a night. It's so nice. But I still do all the morning and lunch dishes and the dishes from the night before because the kids decided to take a night off. Chris got a good dose of how many dishes I really do when I was sick most of January and the dishes sure piled up. Our first fight as hubby and wife were actually about the dishes. Funny. The dumb things you fight about.

Who sleeps on the right?
Right side when you're looking at the bed or when you're laying in the bed? Hee hee

Who pays the bills?
We have taken shifts over the years. Right now, it's my turn.

Who mows the lawn?
Chris. This is one area that I won't touch because I feel if I start mowing the lawn, he'll gladly let me every week. I pull the weeds and Chris takes care of the lawn.

Who cooks dinner?
Usually me if you count warming up frozen food cooking. Okay I'm really better than that but lately I feel like I've been bad about planning meals. Sometimes my kids have asked if they have ever had something for dinner before that I've made and the sad but true answer is "yes, when we lived in Sandy". Chris can cook and does so every now and then. Usually breakfast for me or buffalo wings for everyone but me. I hate those things.

Who drives when you are together?
Chris because he uses the excuse that he gets car sick when he's the passenger. I may get a turn to drive with Chris in the car when he's tired and we're driving home from St. George.

Who is more stubborn?
Sooooo me.

Who kissed whom first?
I say Chris and he says I did. Whatever!

Who asked who out first?
Chris did. We worked together for months and I would tell him all about this guy I was trying to dump by giving him major hints and then go to work and tell Chris all about my date and ask him "Would you ever ask me out again if I did that to you?" Chris would tell me that he would never ask me out because I was ruthless. I guess he decided to take a chance on the ruthless girl.

Who proposed?
It was kind of mutual and not very romantic. We took the practical approach and made a list of expenses to see if we could even afford to get married. It's actually a funny memory. Chris told me that he was going to propse to his wife on a carriage ride downtown. I'm still waiting for the carriage ride.

Who has more siblings?
We both have 3 siblings. Chris is from a family of three boys and one girl and I am also from a family of three boys and one girl.

Since nobody really knows about my blog yet, I'm not tagging anyone.

YES! An 1/8 of an Inch Does Matter

I'm turning the big 40 this year. My friend Joni has always said that we need to go somewhere on vacation together when we turn 40. So the time is soon approaching. Joni grew up going to Mazatlan every year for Christmas and now her mom actually owns the condo that they always went to. So we are going to stay in the condo at Mazatlan. I'm a little nervous though. I have never been to Mexico. Needless to say, I need a passport. Wow my first passport.

On Friday I went to go tackle to task. First, I stopped by the local post office to see what to do. They only accept passport applications by appointment and the first appointment was Feb. 21. The man also told me that it was taking 6-8 weeks to receive your passport and to expedite that time it was an additional $95. Ouch! I asked him if there were any post offices that received walk ins. He told me the only post office to receive walk ins was the downtown post office. Okay great! I get to go venture downtown which I don't do very often. You know how any downtown is in any city. Parking is a big pain. Now I'm mad about waiting too long to obtain the passport.

So I head to Walgrens to get a passport photo. It goes smoothly. Only takes 10 minutes. I head downtown, but it's now around 3:50 pm since I had to get the kids from school first before heading down. Boy oh boy it's crowded. I get in line and the postal worker makes us all shuffle out the door. Everybody in line is worried that when 4:30 hits (which is the last time they'll take walk ins) that they'll just close the door on us. I don't even have an application and there is nowhere to just pick one up and start filling out while you wait. Finally a man applying for a passport sticks his head out the door and asks if everyone has an application. Whew! That will save some time. I finally get up to the counter after a half hour. The worker process everything. Staples the passport photos on and then tells me to wait for another worker that is currently helping someone else to pay for everything. When the next worker starts helping me, he looks at the picture and pulls out a tape measure and says that my photo is too big by 1/8 of an inch. I'm thinking can't you cut it down by 1/8 of an inch but that's not the problem. The man at Walgrens made the photo from my head to my chin an 1/8" too big. The worker tells me that I could try to send it in and see if it's passes but if not they will send me a letter telling me to submit a new photo. I'm thinking I don't have time to waste since my trip is in 9 weeks. So now I have to pay double the price I did at Walgrens and get a new photo taken at the post office. Then there were four people behind me that had taken their photos before me so I never even saw the new photo. The worker that first helped me and took the photo said I didn't have to wait that he was sure the photo would turn out okay. How much does anyone want to bet I'll get a phone call on Monday from the post office saying that my photo didn't print and I need to come back in? It wouldn't surprise me after what I was going through to get this passport.

On the way home, I stopped by Walgrens and had to get a refund for the bad photo. You know if Walgrens is going to advertise that they make passport photos, you'd think they would train their employees better. Anyways, I ended up taking my whole Friday afternoon just to apply for a passport. So if any of you need a passport, don't put off applying for it. Do it sooner than later. And remember: an 1/8 of an inch does matter!

Clips in my Video Bar

I added the video bar on my blog and wanted to explain my choices. I love Anita Renfroe's Mom overture. It totally sums up what a mom says all day long. I had never seen her singing the Don't Breath song in the blonde wig. It's pretty funny. I love to laugh and help other people laugh too. Chasing Cars is a song I love by Snow Patrol. Those three words.....I've said too much.....but not enough.

Trying to Get Computer Savvy

Okay I just set up my very own blog. I can't wait to see if anyone out there wants to read it. I really need to join the computer world and get more savy. It's pretty sad when your kids can figure more out on the computer than you can, so I decided to join the blogging world. This should be fun. I guess we'll see by how many blogs end up on my spot. Here's to the Zulu tribe for the inspiration. Thanks guys.