February 17 - Tell about your first favorite TV show.

I don't remember my first favorite, so here are a few of my favorites through the kid/teenage years:

Gilligan's Island
Lassie
Donny and Marie Show
Magnum P.I.
Wonderful World of Disney (a Disney show each week)

February 16 - Tell about your first kiss.

I will tell you about my "sweet 16 birthday kiss". I was in my typing class. There was a boy that I thought was really cute and I was kind of friends with. Well, my friends thought that it would be funny to get him to give me a kiss on my 16th birthday - at school! As I was sitting in class, he was sitting behind me a couple of rows back. He started towards me and just as he was going to give me a kiss on the cheek, I heard someone come up behind me and turned my head. Yep, you guessed......he planted on on the lips. I don't think I have ever turned that shade of red....ever!

February 15 - Tell about your first date.

One of the first dates that I remember was to Homecoming my sophomore year. I had just come home from a volleyball game and my mom informed me that Brian Anderson (who was a friend of my older brother, Joel; a graduate; and one I had a crush on) had come to the house looking for me. My Mom said that he was going to ask me to the Homecoming Dance that just happened to be that night. He did come back and asked me to go. Now I had a major crush on this guy, so I wasn't about to turn him down. The problem was that I didn't have a very formal dress to wear, but I made do with what I had. What a fun night and a dream come true. I felt like Cinderella for a couple of hours.

February 14 - Tell about a special valentine you once received.

February 13 - Tell about a special valentine you once gave.

February 12 - Tell about the Valentine's Day festivities at your school.

In elementary school, the big this was making valentine's boxes and hoping that special someone would give you a special valentine. I remember it being so exciting to read the valentine's and getting the candy and seeing who gave you what. At that age, we also would take valentine cards around to our friends in the neighborhood, drop it on the porch, ring the doorbell, and run. I loved the surprise of a valentine waiting for me on the porch and whom may have given it to me.
Once I got to jr. high and high school, it was always dances. I didn't like the stomps at the jr. high and the one at the high school was always a girls choice dance. Of course, I always asked the guy that I really liked....if he didn't have a girlfriend or hadn't been asked already!

February 11 - Who was your first boyfriend?

My first boyfriend was Kris Hunter. I started dating him when I was 16 and he was 18. I think I was a junior in high school though, so I turned 17 shortly after. He was in my ward and the Bishop's son. We had a lot of fun together.....we went to a lot of musicals - mostly church musicals; the rodeo; out to ice cream; and lots of other stuff. He got his mission call and I told him that I wouldn't wait for him and we would have to see what happened when he got home. I didn't think it was fair to either of us to say I would wait. Everyone in my ward thought that we would get married when he got home, but I didn't want to because I was only 19 and not ready for that commitment. I also did the unpardonable......I dated his older brother while he was gone on his mission and I was in college. I didn't date him very much, but I sure liked him and he became one of my best friends. His brother's name was Kyle. The sad thing about that was that he was in a plane crash and died when I was 19. They were both great guys and came from a great family.

February 10 - How did you get the nickname?

I go the nicknames from my volleyball coach. She gave us all nicknames. Coach Congdon was her name. I really liked her as a coach.

February 9 - Tell a nickname given to you by friends or classmates.

When I was in high school, I had a friend that I joked with about a T.V. show called Kung Fu. We would always quote lines out of it and so I started calling him one of the characters name....which was "Grasshopper". I gave him the nickname of "Grasshopper" and that is how he always signed his name when giving me letters, etc.

I played volleyball on the jr. high and high school team and I had a coach that called me "stubby" because I was a short setter. I was also called "golden hands" because of my setting abilities. Other than that, I don't remember any other nicknames given to me.

February 8 - Did you ever hop a train? Explain

No. I never hopped a train. We didn't really have a train close to where I lived and we had cars for transportation.

February 7 - Tell about a big fib you told.

Lying is something that I want to try and forget about, because I'm sure I did it and I didn't like how I felt after doing it. After telling a fib, I would get knots in my stomach for fear I would get caught. I know I would fake being sick sometimes so I could stay home from school. I don't really remember a big one, though.

February 6 - Who was the most famous person you ever met as a child?

I don't remember. When I was in 6th grade, though, I got to go and watch them film the "Donny and Marie Show". I loved Donny Osmond and some of his brothers. I had a big crush on him! I was so excited to go and watch it being filmed. I have a Donny Osmond scrapbook...that's how much I had a crush on him. I didn't actually meet him in person, but watching him that day was close enough for me!

February 5 - What were you doing to first smash a finger?

I was probably trying to hammer something. I don't really remember smashing my fingers too much. I remember smashing my toes. I dropped a big rock on my foot once. It wasn't a pretty site.
I remember smashing Ashley's finger, though. I smashed it in the door by mistake. I felt like a terrible mother at the time. It was smashed flat, turned red and purple, and she cried hard. I still remember how bad I felt. Ashley was not even two, yet.

February 4 - What was your favorite meat as a child?

I would have to say that my favorite meat was hamburger. I loved to get hamburgers at McDonald's and Arctic Circle. I loved to get McDonald's Big Mac (Two whole beef patties, specials sauce, pickles, lettuce, cheese, onions, on a sesame seed bun). Now a days, I would never get the Big Mac....I now know how bad they are for you. Although I loved hamburgers, I often would get the Footlong Hotdog from Arctic Circle with pickle relish...yum! Apparently, I had quite the appetite!

February 3 - Do you remember the first movie you ever saw and who starred in it?

I don't remeber the first movie I ever saw, but I loved a lot of the Disney movies. Some of my favorites are: (not all of them are Disney)
Herbie the Love Bug
The Million Dollar Duck
Flubber (old version)
The Parent Trap (old version)
Where the Red Fern Grows
Bambi (Thumper was my favorite character)
The Shaggy D.A. (old version)

These are just a few that I can remeber. We went to the drive-in theater a lot. When I was in Elementary school they had a program where you could buy a package of tickets and go see a movie every Saturday at the theater next to Cottonwood Mall. That was a lot of fun. A lot of kids did it and so it was fun to have your friends there with you.

February 2 - Tell about someone you envied and why.

I envied my older brother Joel. He was funny, good-looking, athletic, and popular (in my eyes). At the time, I thought it was the most important thing to be popular and "loved" by everyone. He always had a cute girlfriend, had people to hang out with, and had lots of fun. I wish that I hadn't cared about those thins so much when I was younger. I had lots of friends, lots of fun, was athletic, and popular in my own world. I just didn't realize it then. All the things that he had then, didn't always make him happy. That is the whole point...they were just things. I should have centered my envy on drawing closer to the Lord. Not to say that Joel didn't seek after those things, too, but I could have sought after them a little more. I did look up to Joel and admire him in a lot of ways. He always looked after me and stuck up for me. He let me be a part of his athletic life even though sometimes that wasn't so cool to have a girl participate. I loved having an older brother to look up to and admire.

February 1 - What extra's did you use on your snowman - face, arms, etc.

How to dress a snowman:
*Eyes - rocks
*Nose - carrot or stick
*Mouth - not sure what we used...maybe rocks
*Hat - one of our snow hats
*Scarf - one that we could find. We didn't always have one.
*Arms - sticks or broom handles.
We, of course, always tried to build the biggest snowman we could. Lifting the head up to the top was quite a challenge when the head was so big. I loved making snowmen.

January 31 - Tell what you used to go sledding in the snow.

When I was little we used a wooden sled....you would sit on top, hold a rope, put your feet on a wooden slat and push with one foot or the other to turn the runners. Another kind was a toboggan, but we usually used the wood sled. As we got older, we used plastic sleds and car tire inner tubes. We tried to get the biggest tubes because you could bounce high off it when you hit a jump. We loved to go up the canyon and find the biggest hill to go down. We usually went to a place up Big Cottonwood Canyon. We always made trains or would see how many people we could pile on one tube and who could stay on the longest. I loved going sledding/tubing up the canyon. I remember that my dad would sometimes pull us on the tubes down the street, behind the car. The streets were rarely cleared in our neighborhood so you could pull tubes behind the car, around the block. We loved sledding/tubing and playing in the snow.

January 30 - Tell about the worst winter storm you can remember as a child.

When I was a child, it snowed hard a lot! It seemed that we always got good storms with lots of snow. I remember being able to pull each other up and down the street on sleds because the streets never got cleared. We always had enough snow to build big snow forts so that we could have snowball wars or we had enough snow to build big snowmen. I don't ever remember it snowing enough to get out of school, though. But, we do live in Utah and they don't cancel very often for snow storms.
I would have to say that the winter of 1982-83 were probably the year we got the most snow because we had major flooding in the spring that year. We were able to get out of school to go help sandbag around rivers and houses. We also had a river going down the middle of State Street (downtown)....literally. They had built up walls to hold the water in and people could canoe down State Street. It was crazy!

January 29 - What was the dumbest stunt pulled by you and a brother or sister?