Parent's Particulars

Enjoying Dinner before we headed north, Jill and Thain to the east, and Jeremy and Kathryn westward.

Jill, Thain, and Kathryn at BJ's Grill (where we celebrated Alisa and Justin's rehearsal dinner) in Folsom last Sunday on our trip to Plymouth !

Jeremy and Kathryn with the mint chip Coldstone cake for his 26th birthday!

Dad's and my contribution to Alisa's brainstorm celebrating our family's 100th blog!

1. Most importantly, the Easter Bunny, Dad, and I are inviting YOU to come to Easter Dinner on Sunday, April 12! Let us know if you can make it - we know it's a long way and you are horrendously busy, but .........!

2. We are seeking a new wall bed mattress. The adjustable one did not win any raves and was awkward and difficult to use. Love that Costco - they are arranging pick up and crediting our account!

3. Honey sales are booming, despite Dad's yard having declined to only two hives.

4. We enjoyed celebrating Jeremy's birthday with him and Kathryn, John and Cris, and Jill and Thain. Thain repaired the Dunlap yard on Stearns Rd. while he was out!

5. The wildflowers and green grass this spring make a beautiful cover for the blackened hills along Skyway, Clark, and Neal Rds. from last summer's fires.

6. Dad's making an amazing recovery! He says the pain now rates only a 0 to 1.

7. Thain is brimming with an array of activity suggestions and possibilities for our Utah vacation.

8. Dad said last night at dinner to ask all of you, "How about going back to Hawaii, maybe Maui, in 2011 after our Maine vacation next summer?"

9. None of our 1986 lettuce, pea, and radish seeds sprouted! The new seeds all have however!

10. Jill and Thain rented Nights in Rodanthe and left it with us. We watched it last night and loved it and Dad says, "If you haven't watched it yet, you should!"

11. Our favorite TV shows are NCIS and the Unit! We keep Tivo recording like crazy!

12. We took a trip down memory lane Sunday in Plymouth with Jeremy and Kathryn and Jill and Thain, passing Young's Winery and eating at BJ's Grill. Trouble is Alisa and Justin (the bride and groom) and Jen and Nate and John and Cris and their families were not there with us!

13. Dad is the night owl and I am the early bird - but it gives us each some down time!

14. We have lived together in only one state, but visited more than half of the US states. And no, we are NOT moving to Nevada!!!!!!

3 pictures bring us to 17 - but they are at the beginning!

17 stupendous facts about the Anderson/Dunlaps

1. We are both early to beders....some days we've seriously gone to bed at 6:30 pm but most days we go to bed at 8:30 or 9 ish. We just love being comfortable and cuddling in bed.

2. We watch a lot of the game shows lately...who wants to be a millionare, family feud, lingo etc. We also like fox news, medical diagnosis, travel chanel and the cowboy channel.

3. We like to play a lot of sports. Thain is great at and played raquetball in college. We enjoy playing raquetball or tennis, volleyball and soccer or anything together and with Amber and Heath

4. A favorite treat of ours is carmeled apples from lagoon, they are so good and in the summer we love to go down to lagoon even with out the kids and ride a few rides and eat a carmeled apple :).

5. A favortie date, especially of Thain's is for us to get fast food take out, like Panda Express and go eat it at a good show. We also like to go get something easy like Arctic Circle's halibut and go have a little sit down picnic in the park.

6. We both love to camp out in our motorhome or back of the jeep too and go induro riding (off road motorcylcing), make campfires and just be out in nature.

7. Thain is very handy he can fix many mechanical things. He got to learn a lot about how things work from destroying many of his family household things. He borrowed his brother's radio to take it all apart and also took apart the family vacuum.....he learned a lot but was probably a handful to deal with sometimes. He's very smart and inquistive.

8. Thain and I both went to BYU but he a little earlier and didn't graduate from there he graduated from Idaho State in Electrical Engineering and with a minor in political science, he wanted to graduate in Political Science a passion for him but was told there wasn't many good jobs in it.

9. Thain grew up on a farm and working in his Dad's dairy shop...they sold ice-cream and cheeses and things...mmmm. Too bad they don't still have it because I love ice-cream.

10. Jill's favorite past times lately are fiddling on the computer, reading, walking, finding organizational projects or things to do around the house. or just plain wasting time thinking about what to do.

11. Jill once tried to run away from home growing up went a few blocks down the road sat on the side of the street by the rocks in front of the Scarins for a little while.....realized she had no were to go or a way to take care of herself and went back home, I don't think anyone even realized I was gone except possibly Jeremy if it was the time I told him I was running away and made him cry because he was only 3 or so and was very tender hearted. I don't even know why I felt that way it's pretty funny. I still have this side that gets pretty frusterated and irrational and dramatic sometimes.

12. If Jill could have any superpower out there it would be flying....she used to even dream about bieng a flying super hero when she was 10 or so....I remember having dreams were I'd fly around save the neighbors or just give them fun rides everyone thought I was so cool and I even remember loving the feeling of flying.....I'd love having those dreams I wouldn't want to wake up.

13. Spunky Anderson our dog is very cute and fun but also stubborn sometimes but he probably has the most names out of any dog anywhere I call him Spunky, Spunks, Punks, Spunky Punks or such. Thain sometimes calls him a lot of those and ruffian, Amber and her friends call him Charlie and Heath calls him Scamps or Scampy...I think he even gets a few other nicknames once in awhile as well.

14. We have fish also for pets right now and had before hamsters, bunnies, chickens and salamanders. one of my favorites suprisingly was the salamanders except for the fact they needed constant live crickets for food.

15. We live in a 3 bedroom, cute, nice manufactured home right now and have a small yard with a trampoline and hammock and little garden and flower area outside. It's got everything we need or want and is nice but we plan on getting in a house in the next few years. When the kids are over lately they love to play hide and seek in the dark and fit in some of the craziest places.

16. Here's a few pics. opps ok they just decided to be on top. 16 and 17 will be some fun pics. a tubing one of us all from last year or so and a favorite honeymoon one of us in front of the Oahu temple and a recent trip to the narrows a place in St george were we visited with Thain's best friend Cole and family and family friends of theirs.

100 Things About the Dunlap's...starting w/J&A

In an effort to revive the family blog, I thought since our family blog hit 100 posts recently I thought it might be fun to do a “100 new things about our family” post. If each family posts 16.6 new things about their family we will have 100 new fun facts…good luck trying to find something that fits the .6 (I say we round up to 17 things, this can include fun pictures too)!

17 Fun Facts about Alisa and Justin:

1. We have lived in 3 states together (California, Massachusetts and Oregon)

2. We have traveled to 5 foreign countries (Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, Mexico and Canada) & 26 (I think) US States together

3. We love to run and therefore, love bodyglide and sweat wicking workout clothes

4. We have a combined Netflix queue as well as separate accounts

5. By the end of June 2009 we will each have an advanced degree

6. We enjoy fresh baked bread almost every week (courtesy of Justin's newfound love of bread making)

7. Alisa uses duct tape on her feet to help prevent blisters; Justin has perfect, non-blistered, non-callused feet

8. We are both slightly obsessed with the internet

9. Justin is a night owl; Alisa is an early riser

10. Friday night has become unofficial date night, usually cooking dinner/getting take out and watching a movie from combined Netflix queue

11. Every Valentine’s Day we eat a different Trifle for dessert; we also take turns cooking Valentine’s dinner

12. We plan to open a bottle of our wedding wine or champagne every year (we have 8ish bottles of the red wine and the champagne is produced every year)

13. We take turns hiding Easter baskets; this year it’s my turn to hunt for a basket and Justin’s turn to hide one

14. Zoey, our little four-legged track star, has run approx 50 something miles & walked approx 20 miles in the past month (she has her own training log)

15. Zoey’s shoe destruction count is at 8 fully destroyed, 2 with minor damage but still wearable

And for the last two, here are a couple of pictures…

16.

One of my favorite pictures from our honeymoon.

17.

Wine tasting as a family in Healdsburg.

I'm looking forward to reading all the fun facts/seeing pictures of the other Dunlap family's!

Welcome, Sunshine!

Jill arrived and brought us some golden sunshine! Now can I get on with my life, Mrs. Mom-to-be tagger?

Stomach Contents

Just thought I would share the contents of my stomach as well!
(OK, this is actually a test post more-or-less to make sure the blog still works.)

P.S.

I've started to get into my personal blog a little more too so I'm just letting you all know that I've posted a few new things on Anderson Adventures as well and will do that more for all those of you interested in knowing and who can't get enough of me on the family blog :)>

IT's a .......

baby :). It's a healthy baby boy as far as anyone can tell, pretty sure on the boy part it was obvious. He kept moving around a lot though so it was hard to get good pictures and these are more from a skeletel view but all looked good and the blood test for problems came back all negative and good too, so I'm very happy to know that. Happy to report that you all will have another nephew or Grandson. I honestly was happy either way not feeling too strong one way or another and was I guess leaning very slightly towards girl since I knew Thain wanted that a little more but we are both happy and I think it will be great having a boy for a lot of reasons as would have been for a girl for a lot of reasons. :). I'm feeling like I want to meet him and hold him more and more as I watch these baby stories on TLC...Anyhow wanted to give you all the happy news. Hope all is well. Love you. Jill and Thain