Heartbreaking and then Hope

Arizona was glued to their tv sets on Sunday. What a close game! The Cardinals only had 2 minutes and 37 seconds to claim their first Superbowl Title and they almost did it! However, tragedy hit and the Steelers with only 1 minute left made the most unbelivable touchdown!
It was such a heart breaker! This week has been sad. However, I felt a such pride and hope when the news showed all of the fans waiting for our team to exit the plane. I was so impressed that 4,000 fans rallied and praised the Cardinals! What hope, what support, we love our Cardinals. I spoke to a former Cardinals player, Dr. Ray Perkins, and he said that this year really helped the team being taken seriously. Maybe next year?

Heartbreaking

Go Cardnials!!

I enjoy watching a good game of football. I love the season of Friday night games and have liked it more when someone in my household is into too. I know it sounds weird to all of those women who wish their husbands liked it less. I guess if my husband was obessed, I might not like it too much. My son, Matthew really enjoys college ball and has followed his favorite teams, especially BYU. I grew up watching Pro Football every Sunday. I would attend church with my family on Sundays, then we would usually end up at my Aunt Maida's house, watching Football with the cousins, eating Red Velvet Cake, and drinking Pepsi. We loved the Dallas Cowboys and hated the Steelers. My dad knew one of the players and loved the coach so that was my team, too. That was our Sunday.
Well, we try not to watch too much Football on Sunday, but have made an exception, the Cardinals!!!! I loved that last game and really enjoyed it watching it on a friend's 96 inch tv! I'm impressed with the talent, and amazed at how Kurt Warner married a woman who had a special needs son from a previous marriage in which her husband left. Kurt and his wife have two more kids, too. I steel dislike the Steelers and hope the Cardinals win the superbowl tomorrow.

Gun Control

My kids and I had a blast doing one of Matthew's favorite activities

Shooting guns. Wayne Clement (now our bishop), invited several families

to join him at Mesquite Wash, shoot away and we did.

Wayne had it organized and was showing Zachary

how to properly shoot a .22 rifle
Wayne gave a quick discussion on how to load the guns

Luke Clement, and the group setting up targets

I was holding steady shooting a .38 revolver

Matthew shooting a .22 rifle

There was tons of power when he shot his favorite 9 mm pistol

Amanda and Natalie Clement looking tough

after they shot their revolvers

Zachary was brave and used the 9 mm pistol

hitting targets and having a blast!

Vacation in Utah

My dad took us to see temple lights in Salt Lake

They were beautiful and we were freezing. It was around 20 degrees!

Spent time with my highschool friend Jenai (Schroder )Reid- and we went shopping

Jenai's husband Steve Reid, David and I

Amanda was posing like Christine in the Movie "Phantom of the Opera'
at my cousin's secret room in St. George, Utah

She has two girls, Cierra 16, Saddie 15, the same age as Matthew and Amanda and
two boys, Shay 10 and Seth 7,a little older and one younger than my boys!

My half-sisters Cara Hansen, Elise, and Natalie and my step-mom, Carol

Carol made Pajama bottoms for all of her grandkids!

She is an awesome seamstress, and a wonderful cook.

We were spoiled.

Amanda was posing in the snow outside of my

parents home in South Jordan, Utah

Zachary was so excited to play in the Snow!

Jeremy loved the snow, too

Matthew was posing before throwing a snow ball

Constructing a Snowman outside in the back yard

Amanda was wearing a really warm eskimo headdress that

my dad bought in Alaska. I tried it on and it really worked well.

Grandpa Lunt, Zachary and Jeremy finished the snowman.

We also visited my cousins in St. George, Utah.

We enjoyed staying at their beautiful home

They have a secret 'Phantom of the Oprah' room.

Zachary and Jeremy went down their slide in their home,about 100 times

We visited Church History sites.

Chuck, Chris, Paul Gunderson and our family are sitting the Tabernacle.

Chris was a wonderful hostess and she is an awesome cook, too.

We had a five star meal after church and enjoyed spending time with their family.

Our vacation was short and fun. We had the best time!

Our life this past fall--Oh, I'm back!!

Little Duck -Jeremy and Zorro-Zachary

My good friend, Julie and I at our ward's 'Trunk or Treat'

I'm so sad that she and her family have moved out of our ward.

I really miss her and her family every Sunday!

My neice, Ashley Bushman got married

Amanda was in concert band and Jazz band at Rhodes

Amanda was in Choir at Rhodes

At one of Zachary's soccer games, Jeremy fell and had a

buckle fracture on his left arm

Our coaches eating too. The head coach on the right,

Coach Demassa has recently resigned after 8years at Dobson.

Crazy booster mom's getting ready to feed the Varsity players

on Thursdays. The team eats Thursday's and also Saturday mornings!

Braiding Amanda's hair before the game

Jeremy and I spent two weeks

during Dobson's lunch hour selling raffle tickets

I made Matthew pose around 10:30 pm

after a Friday night game. I started at 3:00 putting up banners,

then at 4:30 helping braid hair in the band room, then picking up babysitters for

Zachary and Jeremy, and then going to the game at 7:00, then waiting for Matthew

and Amanda after the game until around 10:00pm. These were our Fridays in Fall!

(Oh, and I had to change my hair back dark-no more blonde-bummer)

We all had football spirit. Zachary, Jeremy, a friend's dog and I,

all marched in our little Homecoming parade!

Our booster club bought a cool banner

Matthew # 72 ,played Varsity football for Dobson

playing her Alto Saxophone at a competition

at A.S.U. band day. Their show was called

"Waternight"

Amanda's joined marching band and loved it!

(She didn't like getting up at 5:00am for band practice at 6:00am four times a week)

Here is the band in formation after their half-time show, at

our Homecoming game

They were incredible and placed 2nd in state!

I'm back-----Our life this past fall