Because we are on year 11, day 12 is also from Pied!
B and I are excited to read this together!Monday, December 27, 2010
12 Days of Christmas 2010 ~ Day 11
11 Pipers Piping!
We've been looking forward to this year for years wondering if they would do a Scottish Theme!
You can imagine how musical my house was 2 seconds after we opened this gift! The kids have loved the recorders! Josh and I think we may have found the perfect place for our little piper...but you'll have to wait till summer to see it.12 Days of Christmas 2010 ~ Day 10
10 Lords a Leaping!
This one is all about learning!
This one is so crazy! Didj games, books, stickers, phonic games, etc! Just amazing!12 Days of Christmas 2010 ~ Day 9
Nine Ladies Dancing!
It's all about B!
This is a card enrolling B in dance lessons from January to the Spring!
This plays music...all the time! She loves it!Monday, December 20, 2010
12 Days of Christmas 2010 ~ Day 8
Eight Maids a Milking!
The bags on this one are my favorite!
This was all about Elijah!!!! He got 7 tickets for 4 hours of fun at Cowabunga Bay (a very cool new water park in Draper), 7 Soft Serve Ice Creams while we are there, and a large pizza with a pitcher of soda! Crazy!!!! I'm really hoping we can convince them to let us bring in food my the kiddo's with allergies, but either way it will be extremely cool! To check out Cowabunga Bay goto www.cowabungabay.com12 Days of Christmas 2010 ~ Day 7
7 Swans a Swimming
We had my sister's birthday party last night and cute Elijah wanted to take the swan candle because it was so pretty and he thought it would be a nice touch to the dinner!
12 Days of Christmas 2010 ~ Day 5
Five Gold Rings
Vera Wang Card!!!!
B and I have been having a blast doing our nails for Christmas!
12 Days of Christmas 2010 ~ Day 3
Three Fench Hens
These character's are some of my favorites to hear from!
12 Days of Christmas 2010 ~ Day 1
A Partridge in a Pear Tree!
The Pear Tree Phantom started the whole thing!
12 Days of Christmas ~ 2010 Year #11
I can't believe I haven't posted anything on here since March! Can you tell I'm not that much of a blogger...but I couldn't pass up blogging about our annonymous friends who are doing the 12 days of Christmas again! 11 years they have been doing this! We are so extremely blessed! Thank you whoever you are, you are amazing!
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Dating & Bullet Interviews
Being in the Young Women's program has truly opened my eyes to new technology and fun things like Facebook! I've never really done anything like it before and was a little leery of it at first...however it has been so fun to instantly connect with my girls and their parents, so I kept going! Then I started finding friends from Petaluma California, which was by far my favorite place to live and the one I speak of most frequently!
It was in finding an old friend of mine from Petaluma that something like the following conversation took place...
Me: "Hey do you remember going through the bullet interview?"
Friend: "How could I forget it!"
Me: "Do you still have the bullet?"
Friend: "It's not exactly something you throw away!"
Keep in mind this bullet interview took place in 1993! That's right 17 YEARS ago! (Which is older than MOST of my Young Women!) Anyway I started to wonder if other young men still had their bullets... I'm not about to start contacting all of my old dates/boyfriends so I asked the young man who ONLY asked me out so he could see what this "bullet interview" was all about! Yes that's right I got asked out so someone could have a bullet with their name on it! Sigh, can you tell what kind of dating life I had? That conversation went a little something like this...
Me: "Hey I know this is totally random, but I'm just wondering if you still have the bullet from the ONE date we had all those years ago."
Mr. I really only want to take you out so I can have a bullet: "That's not exactly something you throw away...I even know where it is!"
I have to admit that I was really surprised by this! I figured one MIGHT have it but not the other and for sure not both.
Okay just so everyone is on the same page...here is the story about Bullet Interviews:
My Dad had two daughters and to ensure their safety while in the dating years (16-18 years old) he came up with "The Bullet Interview"! When a young man asked my sister or me out we had to politely ask them to come a few minutes early so that my Dad could talk to them. When the young man arrived I was instructed to not be around so that my Dad could answer the door and issue the young man to the garage where ALL MY DAD'S RELOADING items were. The two would sit down and begin the interview while my father reloaded 2 shotgun shells. The first shell had the date on it, was filled with rock salt, and had no primer. The second had the young man's name and the date on it, rock salt, and a primer. The conversation would be about opening the car door, being polite and respectful, that the young man was in charge of my safety for the duration of the date, etc. Then my father would load the bullet with the young man's name on it into his shotgun and tell the young man that what was discussed in the interview was not EVER to be discussed with me and to have me home by midnight...or else! I always asked what was said in the interview and not one of the young men I dated ever told me...and now I know why! The deal was that once we got married my Dad would make a gift of the bullets to us and tell what was said in the interview...but not until then.
Every date reacted differently to the interview. One came out looking pail and refused to touch me closer than arms length, another sat in the garage and chatted it up with my Dad for 30 minutes, another never asked me out again. I loved the bullet interview because it took the pressure off of me to explain things and it meant that if you mess with me you answer to my Dad...and he can be pretty intimidating. Here are the bullets...
I found this whole thing to be rather amusing and shared it with my Dad. He then said "Oh, ya I think I still have those bullets!" and went looking for them!
Oh, ya he still had them! I picked them up today and we talked about each one...the last one I picked up felt a lot heavier than the rest so I asked "What's in this one?" to which my cute Dad replied..."I was a little worried about that guy so that one is real!" WHAT?! I had to laugh!
Can you guess which date it was? If you guessed the guy who came out pail and wouldn't touch me you are right! He was the only guy I dated, minus my cute husband, who never made feel bad for having high standards and never once asked me to lower them.
So what was the BIG mystery that I wasn't suppose to know about until after I was married? At the end when he loaded the shotgun shell into the shotgun he not only warned them not to say anything to me and told my curfew he also said "Never let the little head tell the big head what to do"
I was almost 23 when I got married and my father told me the secret behind the interview! I was so embarrassed! "Oh, my gosh Dad I can't believe you said that to my dates!" Now that I think about it...why did he have to stop at 18? I should have had him keep going until I got married!
It was in finding an old friend of mine from Petaluma that something like the following conversation took place...
Me: "Hey do you remember going through the bullet interview?"
Friend: "How could I forget it!"
Me: "Do you still have the bullet?"
Friend: "It's not exactly something you throw away!"
Keep in mind this bullet interview took place in 1993! That's right 17 YEARS ago! (Which is older than MOST of my Young Women!) Anyway I started to wonder if other young men still had their bullets... I'm not about to start contacting all of my old dates/boyfriends so I asked the young man who ONLY asked me out so he could see what this "bullet interview" was all about! Yes that's right I got asked out so someone could have a bullet with their name on it! Sigh, can you tell what kind of dating life I had? That conversation went a little something like this...
Me: "Hey I know this is totally random, but I'm just wondering if you still have the bullet from the ONE date we had all those years ago."
Mr. I really only want to take you out so I can have a bullet: "That's not exactly something you throw away...I even know where it is!"
I have to admit that I was really surprised by this! I figured one MIGHT have it but not the other and for sure not both.
Okay just so everyone is on the same page...here is the story about Bullet Interviews:
My Dad had two daughters and to ensure their safety while in the dating years (16-18 years old) he came up with "The Bullet Interview"! When a young man asked my sister or me out we had to politely ask them to come a few minutes early so that my Dad could talk to them. When the young man arrived I was instructed to not be around so that my Dad could answer the door and issue the young man to the garage where ALL MY DAD'S RELOADING items were. The two would sit down and begin the interview while my father reloaded 2 shotgun shells. The first shell had the date on it, was filled with rock salt, and had no primer. The second had the young man's name and the date on it, rock salt, and a primer. The conversation would be about opening the car door, being polite and respectful, that the young man was in charge of my safety for the duration of the date, etc. Then my father would load the bullet with the young man's name on it into his shotgun and tell the young man that what was discussed in the interview was not EVER to be discussed with me and to have me home by midnight...or else! I always asked what was said in the interview and not one of the young men I dated ever told me...and now I know why! The deal was that once we got married my Dad would make a gift of the bullets to us and tell what was said in the interview...but not until then.
Every date reacted differently to the interview. One came out looking pail and refused to touch me closer than arms length, another sat in the garage and chatted it up with my Dad for 30 minutes, another never asked me out again. I loved the bullet interview because it took the pressure off of me to explain things and it meant that if you mess with me you answer to my Dad...and he can be pretty intimidating. Here are the bullets...
I found this whole thing to be rather amusing and shared it with my Dad. He then said "Oh, ya I think I still have those bullets!" and went looking for them!Oh, ya he still had them! I picked them up today and we talked about each one...the last one I picked up felt a lot heavier than the rest so I asked "What's in this one?" to which my cute Dad replied..."I was a little worried about that guy so that one is real!" WHAT?! I had to laugh!
Can you guess which date it was? If you guessed the guy who came out pail and wouldn't touch me you are right! He was the only guy I dated, minus my cute husband, who never made feel bad for having high standards and never once asked me to lower them.
So what was the BIG mystery that I wasn't suppose to know about until after I was married? At the end when he loaded the shotgun shell into the shotgun he not only warned them not to say anything to me and told my curfew he also said "Never let the little head tell the big head what to do"
I was almost 23 when I got married and my father told me the secret behind the interview! I was so embarrassed! "Oh, my gosh Dad I can't believe you said that to my dates!" Now that I think about it...why did he have to stop at 18? I should have had him keep going until I got married!
Bullet Interview
Just in case you were wondering "Well, what about Josh?"...Josh and I met right after I turned 20 and when Josh took me out on our last date before he left for his mission to the Czech Republic my Dad pulled him in for a bullet interview and gave him this...
it goes to my Dad's 45 special police edition...ya think that was a hint? I love you Dad!
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