Double Tag

Here is a lot of information about me, as I have been tagged twice. (Thanks Sidni and Chelsea). Hope you enjoy!

8 Shows I Watch
1. Dancing With the Stars
2. Jon and Kate Plus 8
3. House
4. Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Making the Squad- cheesy I know;)
5. BYU Football
6. Utah Jazz Games
7. American Idol
8. So You Think You Can Dance

8 Things that Happened Yesterday
1. I babysat Cameron all day.
2. I took and picked-up Keaton from the bus stop.
3. I finished reading a book.
4. We found out a few extended family members on Chad's side are critically ill.
5. Chad's Grandparent's flew in for the weekend.
6. Chad and I took the kids to Cornbelly's at Thanksgiving Point.
7. The Jazz won their first season game.
8. Got to bed a little earlier than normal.

8 Favorite Places to Eat
1. Outback Steakhouse
2. The Old Spaghetti Factory
3. The Brick Oven
4. Joe Bandidos Mexican Restaurant
5. Ihop
6. Wingers
7. The Cheesecake Factory
8. Hunan City

8 Things I'm Looking forward to
1. Taking the kids trick-or-treating tomorrow
2. Going to lunch with my sisters and Mom over the weekend.
3. Going to the next BYU game
4. Sam being FULLY potty-trained
5. The holidays
6. Another vacation with my sweetie
7. Another baby???
8. Seeing Chad's grandparents on Sunday

8 Things on My Wish list
1. A New Camera!!!
2. Trees, flowers and my deck finished
3. My basement finished
4. A big shopping spree for new clothes (I can dream, right!)
5. A new TV
6. A new entertainment center
7. I think I'll stop there, I'm greedy enough as it is!
8.

6 Unspectacular Quirks About Me

1. I like to pick my lips. I guess it is a nervous habit. Often when I am watching t.v or reading I find myself touching my lips, looking for some skin to peel off. Once I get peeling, it is hard for me to stop until I taste blood. Then I kick myself because my lips look horrible and I have gotten cold sores from it too. Gross I know, sorry.
2. In order for me to go to bed, I have to check the doors, and turn out all the lights. I blame the paranoid safety checks on my cute Dad, because I must've gotten that from him. I didn't think I would ever be so paranoid, but Chad doesn't do it and so I was forced to!! Now it is a habit. Even if I go to bed before Chad I still end up doing it because I don't trust him to do it right.
3. Also from my Father, I have been given genetically many many fatty cysts. They are just under my skin and are all over my body. They don't hurt and can't be seen by anyone, but I have a few that are on my arm that I like to poke at when I am bored. I really just need to get them removed.
4. I don't care for sunglasses. As much as I try to wear them when I am driving, they end up making me feel claustrophobic or give me a headache. Unless it is a necessity, I would rather squint.
5. I like to drive fast. I used to go fast as a teenager, but I married a man who definitely has a lead foot, and I have gotten much worse. No matter what I seem to always be running a little late and therefore see the need to go faster than the speed limit. Of course I am constantly behind people who are driving under the speed limit and I tend to get upset.
6. In conjunction with #5, I don't like to be late. I think it all stems back from drill team in high school where there was the threat of 100 high kicks, running laps or even worse, just being reprimanded by the coach if you were tardy. To my recollection, I was only late a few times in all my years of cheerleading and drill and that was enough to make me never want to be late again. Now that I have 3 small children, it is harder for me to get to things on time, but I hate when it happens and I try my best not to.

I Tag anyone and everyone who would like to!!

Pumpkins and fun night out...

Tonight we got messy. After a yummy spaghetti dinner we pulled out the garbage bags, and knives and made an even bigger mess with pumpkin guts. The boys were really excited about this and Keaton was actually a really good help. We got some halloween music going and used some patterns to make some cool designs. The "Y" pays homage to our favorite football team of course. I did the smiley face and Chad did a pretty good job with the spider web and spider. What did you carve on your pumpkins this year?
Saturday night Chad and I met up with one of my favorite people from high school, Sarah and her new hubby Ryan. We met at the Cheesecake Factory, YUMMY!!! It was so fun to see Sarah and finally meet Ryan. They are such a cute couple and sound like they are awesome parents. Sarah just had a baby girl a couple months ago, but looks so good! I can't say the same about me in these pictures, I'm afraid. It was such a fun night, Chad and I are hoping that we can do it again soon.

Where are you Keek?

Last week I was going out of my mind trying to find Keaton. It was in the middle of the afternoon and Sam kept asking me where Keek was. I kept telling him that he must be downstairs or in his room, but Sam kept coming back up saying that he wasn't. At this time I hadn't seen or heard him in awhile, so I started to get worried. I checked every room in the house, and outside the house while calling his name and still, no Keek. I started to panic and again, checked every place I could imagine that he could crawl into. I was one step away from calling Chad and the police when I ran back downstairs. I stood on the mattress to peek over the side of the drywall, when I heard a little noise below me. Sure enough, I peeled back the sleeping bag and found Keek snoring softly, his blankie and all. He was totally covered with the sleeping bag and wedged in there pretty tight. What a scare he gave me!!

Like Mother, Like Daughter...

This is a picture of my Mother Annette, and me when I was about 9 months old. Notice my hand in the bottom right corner... Yes, that is a cast on my arm. Somehow I managed to fall off the armrest of our couch and brake it (my arm that is). My Mom says that I didn't let it get in the way of me crawling and I even managed to use it as a weapon to hit my older siblings on the head when they teased me. A few years later, I spun around the front room a little too fast and hit my head on my Mom's hope chest (on Mother's Day no less :) and had to get stitches. I wish that I could stop there with my list of injuries, but in first grade I broke my foot and had to lug another cast around for most of that year. I guess it shouldn't be a shock to me when my own children get hurt, but it is, and of course it was my little princess to get the first stitches. It happened a few weekends ago now... it was Saturday morning and Chad was helping me can the last of the pears in the kitchen. The kids went outside to play and the next thing I know Sam comes running in the house saying Emmi fell. I ran outside and found her in the bottom of our window well. (Chad made it out of huge boulders, so it is too big for a cover.) From what I could get out of the boys she tried to shimmy down the rocks because the boys were playing down there, but let go and managed to hit her head on something on the way down. Luckily Chad volunteered to take her in to the doctor, and he got the fun job of holding her down while she received 2 stitches. These pictures were taken at the doctor's office, on the day that she got her stitches removed. I am very grateful now, because I know that she easily could've gotten more injuries that morning, and she was such a trooper. I am also very sorry for all the worry I must have caused my own mother with all of my catastrophe's, and am seriously hoping that my daughter won't turn out to be quite as accident-prone as her mother was.

Happy Birthday "B"!!

My cute Dad's birthday was today, and I just wanted to take a moment and tell you a few things I love about him. I love his friendly personality. I cannot think of a single person who I have ever heard of that didn't like him. He makes friends very easily and is very warm and caring. In fact, I remember wanting him to take of me when I was sick as a little girl, because he would always spoil me with Popsicles, and Sprite.

I love that he works for the security department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and he has since I was very young. I have always admired his testimony and willingness to protect our faith, and I love to hear all of his cool stories and experiences. I think that it also says a lot about him that for the last few years he has been given the assignment of driving President and Sister Monson to General Conference. I know it is a great honor to him and one he takes very seriously.

I love him and all of his "gadgets." My Dad is all about the newest and latest technologies and spends a lot of free time with them. It is very normal to call the house and be told that is down on his computer "shooting Nazi's" on one of his games. It is great to be able to talk and compare about computers, cameras and phones with him and get good advice.

Last but not least, I love how hands-on of a Grandpa he is. Since his first grandchild (my Keaton) was born, he has been following the kids around, making sure they stay out of trouble and harms way. My kids love him to pieces, and to my Mom's dismay, usually ask for him.

We are lucky to have you Dad. We love you and hope you had a wonderful birthday!

A New Baby

I am happy to announce that we have a new baby in the Hunsaker family. Chad's sister Lydia gave birth to a beautiful baby girl early Monday morning. They named her Brinley Lydia, and she weighed in at a healthy 7 lbs 9 ounces and 20 inches long. Chad and I got to see her and Lydia at the hospital later that night and all her dark hair. She is quite a cutie and I know all of us are excited to get another girl in the family. (Now we have an even 3 boys and 3 girls between the two of us). Congrats Lydia and Dustin!

TAG- I'm It!

(Thanks for the Tag Chelsea!) I was supposed to go to my picture file, to my 4th folder and then to my 4th picture and post it. This is what I found. It was one of those shots where I didn't get everyone looking at me, but a cute one of Chad and Emmi (and my Aunt Janet too I think?:) on Christmas Eve. We were at my Grandma's house waiting for Santa to come. It is fun to see how much Emmi has grown and especially how much hair she has gotten since December. I tag Erin, Becki, Holli, Jen and anyone else who wants to, to do the same!