The adventures of Tan in the YI3

Holy cow family, it hasnt been to long since i last wrote but it feels like the world has gone and orbited some other star! First lets start off talking to the family. Chelsea, YOU NEED TO WRITE, I love reading yours! (mom make her write) Joe, is it wierd bein in my room without me in my room? Hows the guys? Ashe-Babe, I do remeber mrs. Tanner and if you can believe it or not i can remeber her when i was in first grade probably doing the same dance that she is doing for you still! 12 years later! Dad I want you to write too, I love hearing differnt perspectives on the same events! Mom, you went to a high school football game?!? What did dad do to force you into it? Everyone, even though I fought it all the way up here, I love reading this blog so you all need to write in it more and put some personality into it, dont just relay the events! I makes it feel like im there and it reminds me of you!
Well now for me, first we will start with the good news (actually its all good news...haha nothing bad happens up here) For an update on my apartment, they finally fixed up our bathroom. It still always smells like pee (Ryan and I think coy pees on the ground haha) but i cant stand going to the bathroom. Our lights went out in half of our apartment so for like 4 days i went without lights in our shower kitchen and hallway. Yah i had to take showers in the dark, feeling around for my shampoo and my body wash, hoping i covered every part of my body. It was kinda fun actually, made me almost want to be blind for a week. We still dont have a tv, its been 3 weeks now and we only had it for a day haha. My apartment is always freakin messy and guess what?! im the clean one that always has his room the cleanest and always has to end up cleaning up after other people cause im sick of it! I also made those cookies you sent me family, turns out i had all those ingredients haha (coy has them and lets me use what ever i want) so pretty much you sent me the idea to make cookies lol and i loved it! my roomates loved it too.
Im still longboarding everywhere i go, skateboarding when i get the chance (i landed my first kick flip today! i was way stoked but none of you probably even know or care what that is lol so ill celebrate my own little victory. Yay Tanner *puts a little tiny flag in the air and waves it back and forth*) Anyway....So I had this date thing planned for friday night, and it didnt work out. I was going to go on a date with Lindsey (art chick) and we were going to go out to the dunes but than we were waiting for alexs jacob lakes friends to get here from utah but then they had car problems and to make a long story short they didnt get here till 12 so we didnt go to the dunes with lindsey, i felt bad. But anyway we met up with one of alexs friends from jacob lake that lived up here and went to her apartment and met her roomates and hung out with them. There was one named named Megan, shes pretty cute so i got to know her pretty good, so keep your eyes open for her on these adventures, shes got potentiel. when it came curfew time everyone else went home but me and alex went out to the dunes and slept there, it was a blast! Than on saturday i was dead tired from the night before but i went and hung out with Megan but she had a date to go on so i went and hung out with sammi after she left (alex was hanging out with jacob lake friends) Man was i out of it, it was funny. Than later on that night i took a nap and when i woke up i went back out to the dunes with alex and his jacob lake friends but it was gay so i went back to Megans apartment and hung out there till curfew. so it turned out ok. And that brings us to now so i guess no funny storys but oh well! This is Tanner signing out, stay tuned!

Lady Luck Liz comes Home

Okay, so Friday night it is Homecoming for PV.  Football, hmm, that sounds like it could be fun.  Besides, Chelsea was dying to go to be with all of her buddies and fall in love with -- who was it again Chels?  Even Ashley wanted to go because she wanted to hang out with all of her friends (one of the great joys of growing up in a small town -- EVERYONE goes to the high school football games).

So at about 7:40 we all (Dad, Chels, Ash, Caroline, Matthew and I) got into the van and drove over to Hutchinson stadium.   By the time we got there it was second quarter and the score was Moriarty 20, PV 3.  Oh boy.  It was homecoming for heaven sake.  Just because we were 1-3 and they were 3-1 (ranked 4th in the state).

We sat down next to Jo-Jo and his buddies (Graham, Matt-hue and Derrick) at the 50 yard line.  As the game progressed, my luck -- just like my luck for the BYU -- started to shine through.  The other team never made another point and WE WON!  (Kent you can quit rolling your eyes now!)  It really was a good game and we had a great time.  It was fun to see so many people that we knew there and watching all the kids and their excitement to be with their friends -- Just like the song by Courtney Nelson says, "Friday Night Football Games".  

Saturday was the actual homecoming dance and Chelsea went over the Hollands to help her get ready for her date with Alfonso or Adrian or Allegro or something like that (what was his name again Chels?).  She looked gorgeous and had to borrow Chels' id to get into the dance as she lost hers. Fun times.  

Mom

Boredom!!!!!!!

So it had been awhile since I wrote so here I am. So as we all know I'm back at home again living up to my nickname, jobless and bored out of my mind. Well today Derek text me and said we should go board during their lunch. So we went. Later on I was trying to catch up to them on a level part in the road and as I broke my foot forward to push off the ground my toe caught the ground and i went down, it was pretty cool actually because it looked like I was sliding into home plate. My right foot was under my left knee and I was sliding on my wallet for about three of four feet. Well we thought it was cool anyway. So now i have a cut up elbow, knee, and ankle all on my right side, oh and a new pair of longboarding shorts. I also just got done looking at the durango mountain resort page and it says there opening on November 27th which is almost exactly two months away (lets just hope I'm still here by then). Well thats all I cant think of so i'll talk to you all later. Love ya lots!!

But whose counting?!

So today is Dad's and my anniversary. It was 21 days ago today that Dad and I knelt across from the alter and held hands and said that one word that made all the difference in the rest of our lives -- "Yes". A year later little chubby Jo-Jo came and then 2 years later TanTheMan came and 3 years later little Chels came with all her wild hair and then almost 3 years later another wild haired beauty came named Ashey-babe. What a ride we have had over the years and I wouldn't trade anyone in our family for anyone else. Now we just have to make it another 21 years and beyond -- doing those things that will keep us together in the hereafter.

Love to you all, especially you Kent.

Liz

School!

So i'm sitting in class right now and im done with my work so i decided to write. We have a sub today and she is the weirdest thing alive. Tanner and joe do you remember mrs. tanner? well she is still alive and dancing as always. she did some irish dance for us today and i was scared out of my mind. i was sent an email the other day of this video of a ghost rocking a chair and at the very end this video a thing jumps in front of the camera and scared the poop out of me. I am watching ghost videos and they are flippin scary and the are gonna make me have nightmares. just kidding so how is life going on in idaho. sorry i have to go bye 

The Mama Test

I was out walking with my 4 year old daughter.  She picked up something off the ground and started to put it in her mouth.  I took the item away from her and I asked her not to do that. 

'Why' my daughter asked.
'Because it's been on the ground, you don't know where it's been.  It's dirty and probably has germs', I replied.
At this point, my daughter looked at me with total admiration and asked, 'Mama, how do you know all this stuff?  You are so smart!'
I was thinking quickly.  'All moms know this stuff.  It's on the Mama Test.  You have to know it or they don't let you be a Mama.'
We walked along in silence for 2 or 3 minutes, but she was evidently pondering this new information.
'OH...I get it!' she beamed, 'So if you don't pass the test, you have to be the dad.'
'Exactly!' I replied back with a big smile on my face...
 
(When you're finished laughing, send this to a Mama!!)

Tan in the YI 2

Whatsups my family! So i just went through and read all of the last post and heres what i got to say to them, 1st That picture of the family is freakin hilarious, but i still feel apart of it because of my creepy picture that is staring right at all of you all the time haha! 2nd your hanging out with matt now chel-c? thats kinda odd but hes a funny kid. 3rd You finally met Nich-o-las? its about time, hes huge huh?! and hes funny. i used to hang out and talk to him at random differnt events. 4th PIERCED EARS?! what is going on, i leave and my girls all grow up... and i think thats it for comments on the post. So now lets start with my life up here at the Y. Lets start with the most imporant part of my reason for being up here, school. I really really love all my classes so far, like no joke. My book of mormon mission prep one is my favorite, it makes me dig deep into the scriptures and really learn them, its awesome. It also makes me read some talks and stuff from general authoritys and they (despite my ignorance) have very interesting things to say. My next favorite class is my art class id say. Me and lindsey (a girl i sit next to in that class) sit there and talk or make fun of the good people cause we suck at drawing. (yes i found out i suck) My next favorites would be my social dance, my science class (had a great great lesson today about how relativly small we are in the universe, it was fascinating) and then my writing class than my developing world class. But so all in all i love my school classes. I dont get behind on homework, if i get some i do it right when i get home (i go to youtube and put on eighter my playlist on there or go check out chelseas, keep posting more videos chick i do watch them). So so far i havent had any stress just cause i take care of it quick.
So now for some funny storys. First, my apartment is so freakin/flippin ghetto is hilarious. My roomate was in the shower taking a shower and all of the sudden the roof starts pooring water from the shower above us. it was hilarious! he starts yelling and screaming and like gets out of the bathroom super fast. So then we go and put in a paper to get it fixed and all they do is come and drill out our ceiling. So were left with a huge hole in our ceiling that we can see into the bathroom above us and like talk to the people taking a shower ( i went in to go to the bathroom in the middle of the day and there was a guy in the bathroom above us that was singing at the top of his loves vunerable by secondhand serenade lol, random information) The shower is still not fixed today. Also our cable broke, our door wouldnt lock, the screen broke on the other room that im not staying in, the shower goes cold suddenly, the toaster smokes when you use it so the toast taste funny, and our kitchen is way freakin small. Those are my rants. Another good story was one night when i got home (whenever i get home all my roomates are always asleep) the toliet was clogged and it had a huge dookie in it. So i just held it and went to bed and then when i woke up the next morning my roomate byrant/taylor came up to me and asked me if that was me. I of course said no but he didnt believe me cause he had already asked ryan and coy earlier that morning and they both had said it was them. So we went through the whole day of playing mind games with the other roomates in trying to see who clogged the toliet! Finally, byrant comes out when we are all sitting on the couch and puts his arm to the square and promises on the book of mormon it was him. Me and ryan did likewise but when it got to coy, he went silent and all he could say was (i could find a plunger, i didnt know what to do) it was freakin hilarious and so now if anything goes wrong with anything or if we dont know who did what we always blame coy haha. Another story that has happened to me this week was i got my hometeaching assignments. I got the elders quorum president as my companion and if you guys knew him he is just really socially awkward. So we were told to go around and introduce ourselves to our home teaching people after church. My roomates went and did theres and were back in like 10 minutes so i was like, oh good that was quick. So then Aaron (elders quorum dude) get back from meetings and come and gets me and asks me if im ready to go introduce ourselves. I had just made mashed potatoes and so i thought, oh this will be quick ill just go do it. So we go to the first place, its an apartment from pineview. We stayed for like 8 minutes talking to them so i thought, hm that was a little long, nothing big. We go to the next apartment and its a girls apartment. The girls that we accualy hometaught werent there but we stayed and chatted withthere roomates for 10 mins. Still long and by now my mashed potatoes are defintetly cold at home. But than we go to the last place. Theyre there and guess how long we spent there? 1 hour and 15 minutes there!! just "introducing" ourselves!! an hour and fifteen minutes!! you could tell that the girls there wanted us to go at like 10 but no, aaron stays and talks and talks and talks....It was bad.
Well so thats my funny stories, as for everything else i still hang out with alex alot. We still go over to Sammi and Jodis apartment alot (me and jodi are justs friends now) Both of them makes us dinner like everyother night which is great. Alex and I have gotten into skateboarding alot now, its so much fun! I've gotten really good on my longboard too just because i have to use it everywhere i go. I dont hate my football fanatic roomates, in fact i love them! they are so funny! we laugh all the time when we are together. I did my first laundry the other day and my whites came out white so im greatful for that. Ramen, soup, cerel, toast a nd mashed potatoes are my regular food. Alex and I have an appointment to donate plasma for about 300 dollars a month for some extra money which im kinda nervous about but excited for the money. I dont know what i plan on doing for next semester yet wether i want to stay up here with a loan or go some place else, im just not sure yet. Well I'm loving life, Im hoping you all are too cause its wonderful. Read yours scriptures chelsea, they are awesome. Also keep your head up, youll make it through your freshman year and high school will fly by. (I can still remember when me and dad were hometeaching sis. Rusted and she told me the exact same thing. and i said well it isnt flying by fast enough)Keep bugging me about writing on the blog mom, ill keep calling you just to talk. Ashley, don't grow up to fast, or youll freak me out when i get home. Dad, hows the bishopless life treating you? Joe, i was freakin excited when i heard you were moving to utah! you gotta come up here and visit me. Well i think this is almost a book now and its only covered a week so i better go.
This is Tanner Signing out. Stay tuned for more Adventures of Tan in the YI!
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Decisions Decisions

Well hello family if everything goes good ill see you all here in a couple days. Even though everybody already knows, I'm moving to Utah sometime next week. I'll probably just work till i get my residency in Utah then ill go to school and by then I should have enough money to just go to school and not have to work at the same time which really sucks!! Well i gtg. love ya bye

Volleyball

So this is going to be short but at the moment i am in extreme pain. Well we had a game today and we were clobbered big time by heights. Well as you know i got my ears pierced thursday and ur supposed to not take them out for 6 weeks well my coaches made me take out my earrings and by the end of the game i couldn't get them back in. I finally got them in and my ears are throbbing like crazy so i just thought i would write bye.

 

 ashley

Families and Friends

I am in homeroom right now and i thought i should write about the Arizona trip that we just got home from. Well on the way up there was ok not as fun as it could've been if Tanner and Joseph were here. So when we got there we went to the hotel and it was a pretty good hotel. We saw the swimming pool and it was flippin small so i wasn't too excited about that but anyway, we went to aunt Verda before we checked into the room. We went to her house and talked with her for a little bit then we went back and checked into the hotel. We got inside and immediately started watching tv. Well we got hungry so we went back to Verda's to get dinner. Greg and Shirley's family was there so i started hanging out with Hailee and i showed her my earrings (guess what???? chelsea and i got our ears pierced i know amazing huh) and we had some chicken. Well then we took Hailee back to the hotel with us so we could go swimming with her. We tested the water and it was the coldest thing i have ever felt we were surprised there was no ice chunks floating on the top of the water. Dad bellyflopped into the water and just about froze but the rest of us got in and it was dark in the water because it was night time. We Got out and went back to the hotel and went to sleep. The next morning we went back to Verda's and had the most amazing breakfast ever pancakes and this amazing vanilla syrup. Then we went down to the church and played there for a while. Then everyone else came and we started playing all these amazing things like sing star and guitar hero and all that kinda stuff. Well then dad, chelsea, hailee, holly, steven(i think), and i went to a lake to swim in i cant think of the name at the moment but we found out that hailee can't swim. she would hang on everyone and everything till it just about sank but we had fun anyway. Then we went back to the hotel and went to bed. The next day at church we played with baby Kael until he was not happy he is such a chunker now he's huge. We went back to Verda's and then went to the hotel and i stepped on some kinda slug and it exploded under my foot it was sooooo gross. Then we went home and went to bed. That is pretty much what happened so Joseph and Tanner you missed some great fun. I love you bye.

Huh? Did you say something?!

This is our family now. Thanks to Farmington Municipal Schools, Ashley has her own computer, Chelsea has the home computer, Kent has a work computer as do I. Consequently, many nights we all sit together and work on different things, TOGETHER. That is what I call togetherness, huh?

Life is... Life

Hola Familia,
Haha Mr. Marrett (spanish) is paying off. So Tanner, Joe, and Ashley have written so I better before mom drives me insane. So freshman year is retarded, so far I hate not being able to go off campus for lunch. While all my upper classmen friends (Tanith Hanna Matt etc.) are, but I'm glad they sometimes they bring me food :) Tanner I hope you love collage. You better for how excited you were and that dose suck (stink for you mother) that your roommates are football faniticks. But I think you'll be fine. As you said its a lifetime of efy, and at efy you can always find someone to hang out with. Joe just go to collage. lol i love you though. It is so flippin werid to have to whole downstairs to myself . Haha Joe and Tan you were right the bathroom is the dirtest I've ever seen it, make-up is everywhere and all this crap (crude for you mother). School is so hard. It like drains me I feel like I'm going to just break down and sleep. I know I need to find the goodness in it but I just cant find it maybe its hiding. (that joke was for mom haha) Ashley I'm so proud of you for making jv. Now just work your butt (bum for mom) off and you will not regret it its sooo much fun to be on varstiy it makes you feel so good about yourself. I'm loving volleyball at the high school. Tanner you know the last thing you said to me before you left well I applied it and I can totally tell a difference. my life is sooo much more fun! Thanks Tanner. Well Tan the one friend tht you hung out with is the one that I found is the most fun (matt). Matthew is just being so stupid. He talks to me when he wants and thats it. Caroline and I went to this stake activity yesterday and I had alot of fun. Tanner I would like you to know that after caroline and i set up something afterwards. We went to a movie at ricketts park they played enchanted it was fun a bunch of people came. It felt weird without you there, but I met this kid who is named nick he is 14 but he looks like he's 17 haha he's a forigen exchange student. he's so sweet. He reminds me of Alejandro, but his accent sounds is hotter lol. Lakin I think likes him haha finally, a guy she likes. Well i miss you Tanner and Joe. Dad is doing good he hasnt driven me insane. (yet.) Mom is driving me insane though with her "your not going anywhere while your grades look like that" talk. Ashley is.. Ashley. She is my sister and I love her.
Well love you family.
Chelsea your daughter, Sister.

The Adventures of Tanner in the YI 1

I finally made it onto the site, crazy huh? Well lets see what i got to report on, besides like everything! We went to utah on tuesday because some certain law people had to give a ticket for expired insurance so i was not happy about that. Well we arrived and i decided to go shopping the next day at DI and the Gateway mall. I didnt find anything suprisingly so i went to the mall by grandmas house and Chel-c let me tell you that that mall is a ton better than gateway just so you know if you ever convince mom to take you shopping in this world. So the later we headed up to Idaho. I was pretty nervous on the way up there I wont lie. We arrived up to Alda house and talked to her for a while. I found out that she is an amazingly nice and fun lady. (And mom if your wondering, I have every intention of going to go visit her sometime). We than went to bed and woke up and headed out to my new home, the BYUI. We signed in, went and found out that i couldnt get a computer from the school which was way not cool but ended up being a good thing in the end but anyway.... than went to my apartment for the first time. Went in and to my suprise some guys were in there, not moving in but out. The place was a MESS!! mildew all through the refrigerator, every surface had some sort of residue on it and it was just nasty! I did not want to move in after them. So me and mom, i mean mom and i.... left and went and did differnt things here and there and came back and our apartment was clean....luckily! Oh yah during this time i had meet up with my i team, which was an important part to my college transition. In my i team was my first roomate, Coy. (Sorry Matt it wasnt George) The chicks in my group to were really fun, the ones worth mentioning were Jodi and Sami. So yah throughout all my activities and i hung out with Jodi and Sami and Coy. Than later on in some activity, I saw alex morrow standing in some line by himself so i went up and talked to him and he wasnt checked in he had just saw a big group of people walking to some place and he decided to follow them. Haha the same old alex. So he went and checked in and...yah end of that lol. During the free time me and alex hung out and went and played 360 at his place and drove around, im not totally carless! yes! After this day was over mom took me home from Ashleys parents house and when i got there it was 11 and my roomate still wasnt home which really confused me cause hes not exactly a social butterfly so i decided id wait up for him and went for a run around the campus (45 mins all the way around the campus, not cool) Coy didnt get home till 1 which was crazy. Then went to bed and that day was done. Next day had a bunch of I team activities and got my computer from a local computer store thanks to mom. Also my other roomates moved in today and they both are Football fanatics, which is so freakin not cool its not even funny but oh well ill live with it. And off the top of my head i think that this is all worth mentioning from today...next day we did I team stuff too and went to this i night extravagansa or something like that, it was a huge activity that had a BUNCH of activities. Laser tag sumo wrestling, boxing, bungie cord things, ddr, free GOOD food, rollerskating, the list goes on FOREVER it was so much fun. Hung out with Alex Sami and a girl named ashley the whole time, it was fun. After that was over we went over to some persons apartment, (i dont remeber whos it was, i think it was like jodis friends apartment or something) and we played catch phrase, it was way fun. Than we had church today which was AMAZING, it was fast and testimoney meeting and it was way freakin awesome,
in the middle of sacrament though i sat next to this big fat guy and since its a singles ward the whole ward was quiet throughout the whole meeting and this guy kept sleeping and SNORING! way way freakin loud, it sounded like he was gonna eat me or something it was scary. and then the worst part was he would do those sudden loud snores when he like wakes himself up and those were the worst cause they would make me jump. it was crazy.
after church though, i went with the elders quorum president and did fast offerings and it was fun and then after that it brings me home to now where I am.
Well this is Tanner siging out, please stay tuned for The Adventures of T in the YI
Well i just wanna say, THANK YOU mom for bringing me up here and helping me get all settled in and situated, it really ment alot and helped a bunch for sure! LOVE YAH!

Heylo family!!! Well mom finally got me onto this thing we'll see how long it will last. Lets see my car is in trouble again, the cotter pin popped out and now my bolt is stripped and wont go on so im gunna have to go see what I can do to fix it. I was outside for maybe fifteen minutes and I came inside and I was drenched it was so friken hot out there!!! Just had a new roommated move in today, i cant member her name but oh well, she is black and seems pretty cool. My other roommates, Jon and Nate, Nate is pretty cool I watched some TV with him yesterday we talked bout some stuff. Now Jon on the other hand, i think he has said maybe a total of 20 words to me since i've lived here (and i think he ate my package of ham :(). I started work the other day on friday. I missed work, I was going crazy not working, i missed it and i need the money. Well im gunna go watch my dirty jobs now :) ttyl have fun Love Ya'll