Tuesday, September 30, 2008

High School Memories

1. Did you date someone from your school?
Well you could say that I dated quite a few guys from my high school and other surrounding cities but mostly just first dates.

2. What kind of car did you drive?
A bright red 1965 Ford Falcon!

3. What was the most embarrassing moment of HS?
I would have to say that I had a bit of an incident with some lovely seagulls during lunch one year in front of quite a few viewers!

4. Were you a party animal?
Oh yeah partying it up Mormon style!

5. Were you considered a flirt?
Maybe but probably more like a tease!

6. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir?
Nope just sports.

7. Were you a nerd?
No I thought I was the coolest girl ever! J/K I think I fit it somewhere in the middle.

8. Were you on any varsity teams?
Nope I did sport for the social aspect.

9. Did you ever get suspended/expelled?
Yeah right. I was such a good girl!

10. Can you still sing the fight song?
Some of it.

11. Who were your favorite teachers?
Definitely Mr. Dedolder.

12. Where did you sit during lunch?
Some times in the Pavilion, or my house and lots of trips to Taco Bell.

13. School mascot?
Scottie Dogs. Oh so intimidating I know!

14. Did you go to homecoming, and with whom?
Yep with Chris Tolman. It was a great night and he was a good date to me even though he had a girl friend at the time. We did take a pimped out limo that was a bit embarrassing. Yes at my high school people spent lots of money to take a limo to your high school gym for homecoming. I think homecoming was bigger than prom at my school!

15. If you could go back and do it again, would you?
I would go back to enjoy the easy life and good times. I would not want to deal with all the high school drama though.

16. What do you remember most about graduation?
Mostly grad night and meeting my husband there!

17. Where did you go on senior skip day?
The Beach. I remember Debra calling her work from a pay phone (yeah no cell phones for us) to tell them she was sick, with the sound of the waves crashing in the background!

18. Were you in any clubs?
Nope.

19. Have you gained some weight since then?
Um yeah my 30 year old body is nothing like my 18 year old body! I guess you can say that age and babies have taken their toll on me.

20. Who was your prom date?
Depends on which prom you are talking about. I went to four so David, Jason, Darren and Luke.

21. Are you planning on going to your 10 year reunion?
Nope. It already happened and I'm not too sad about missing it.

22. Looking back, what advice would you give yourself?
Just have fun and enjoy the easy life. Oh and of course to stay away from all of the drama of teenage life!

Kevin's Birthday

Kevin's birthday was back in August and if you read in a previous blog he got a new surfboard for his birthday. Well I couldn't just let his birthday pass by without any type of celebration. How fun would that be? So the morning of his birthday I decided that I would come up with 31 presents that would reflect things he enjoys. So to say the least the day was spent thinking of the items and then finding them and wrapping them. The items consisted of things like clothes, favorite candies and snacks, favorite drinks, games, books, movies, etc. I made an extra effort to wrap each item individually and I used a bunch of my scrap decorated paper and ribbons. Kevin came home in the middle of the wrapping process and helped watch the kids so I could finish. It was great the look on his face as I started to bring out his gifts and continued to bring out more and more. He started to get worried about just how much money I had spent on him. As soon as he started opening the presents he knew he had nothing to worry about and just enjoyed all of the gifts. To end the evening we all went out to dinner at our favorite Japanese restaurant Yamas. I hope Kevin had a wonderful birthday celebration.

Utah Trip

Our family took a trip up to Utah at the end of July. We started out trip off at about 3:00 am and got to our final destination of West Jordan at around 7:30 pm. Yes it was a long day in the car but the kids did great. We had to make multiple stops to feed Brooke and we also made a stop to visit my sister April and her daughter and a visit to Kevin's second cousin Shelby and her family. We had some great visits and it helped to let Garrett run around and get some wiggles out. We started our vacation by having a wonderful BBQ at Wayne's house with fireworks to celebrate the 24th of July. It was great fun with great food and wonderful friends. Wayne also recently bought rock band so while everyone else was outside enjoying the fireworks my good friend Debra and I decided to try out rock band with no one watching. We had a blast. I was playing drums and Deb was singing. We were busting up laughing at what a awful job we and loved every minute of it. During our time in Utah we stayed with our friends David and Sonya. It was so much fun staying with them. We would stay up late playing games and talking and enjoyed some wonderful meals thanks to them. We love them and can't ever get enough time with them since them moved away. We had a wonderful week with them. We also enjoyed swimming, playing in the water fountain at the Gateway, visiting the dinosaur museum, walking through some awesome houses in the Parade of Homes and rocking out to Rock Band all night long.
We also got together with my friends Megan and Debra from high school and their kids for a nice evening of homemade barbecue pizza and smores. It was so much fun to watch the kids play and to catch up with each other. Megan even pulled out some of our pictures from high school and had us all laughing at some of the things we did.
Kevin was also very good to me and let me go out for an evening to hang out with Deb and our friend Jason. We enjoyed a nice dinner and fun conversation at La Vigna. Again it was fun to get together with old friends and catch up.
It was a great trip and the kids had a wonderful time. We always love the time we have to visit with these friends and always create great memories when we get together.

Sorry I can't find my picture from this trip so maybe they will make it later.