Q & A

Thanks for all the feedback and fun questions to answer!!! Here we go:



From Lexie:

Who do you like musically, any favorite groups/artists?

I will be the first to admit I'm totally lame when it comes to keeping up with current music trends, bands, etc. For at least a 2 year stint, I listened to nothing but what was currently playing on Radio Disney... yeah, pathetic, I know.... Probably my favorite current band is Coldplay. I love all their albums and their sound... so much like U2 which was my generation in high school. My favorite CD of all time is the Les Miserables soundtrack from the Broadway Musical. I went to see that in my junior year (I think) and fell in love. I've loved that CD ever since and can sing the lyrics to every single song. A new music favorite is Mamma Mia... I don't have the soundtrack CD yet, but I love to turn on the movie while I'm cleaning house... it's the perfect sing-a-long movie for housework!



From Stacey:

How old were you when you had your first real kiss?

I'm not exactly sure on the age (somwhere around my 15th birthday)... I do remember who it was with and where it was... which puts me in 10th grade... after a friday night football game... with Edwin Wells... I think he was a lot of girls first kiss back in the days...



From Melissa:

Do you have a favorite author? Book?

Nailing down a favorite author is really hard for me. I LOVE to read and could list many authors as being my favorite! Some authors that I love include:

Shannon Hale, Stephenie Meyer, Orson Scott Card, J.K. Rowling and Gail Carson Levine. Currently my favorite book is still Twilight. I know it's my favorite, because I can sit down and read it again and again and never get bored of it.



From my mom:

Did you ever sneak out at night when you lived at home?

NO! Even though I had the perfect tree outside the window... NOT! I do remember sneaking out of a friends house once in 8th grade (?) and walking around her neighborhood in the middle of the night. We only did that once... and clearly I never ran into any serial murderers and lived to tell the tale. It was actually very boring, so there was never any temptation to do it again.



From my dad:

How many times a week do you check our blog?

The simple answer is whenever I'm online. The complicated answer is this.... I keep most of my blogs organized in Google Reader. Except you "private" bloggers... Google reader doesn't like those ones! I read most blogs almost daily, but don't actually visit the real blog page unless I plan to leave a comment. And then sometimes I do try to leave comments and google thwarts my attempts and I get frustrated if it erases my comment without saving it so I give up and move on. I don't comment as much if I've gone a few days inbetween blog reading... the more I have piled up to read, the less I comment.



From Marisa:

Now that you are Relief Society President, which calling did you like better... R.S. Pres. or Primary President?

Tough call. I'd rather be neither... I just want to be a Nursery leader or a Sunday School Teacher or the Activity Days leader... heck, I'd even be a Den Leader... but... I think Primary President is better... not because it's less work, because it isn't... it might be more work. But, it's easier work. For example, the Primary President doesn't have to plan funerals or do food orders. They get to play with kids and sing songs and be silly and it's okay. I don't get to be silly anymore at church... I miss that sometimes!



From Kayla:

Do you like Arizona better then California???

California will always be home to us. Well, Eric, me, Taylor and Megan consider it home. Ian is iffy and Brayden never lived there, so he'll be a true Arizonan. There are things I like better here than there, but on the whole, given the right circumstances, we've move back to CA in a heartbeat. But, we are adjusting and our blood is thinning, so the summers don't seem as bad as they did when we first moved. I could see us living here a very long time, but we're not so in love that we won't move somewhere else given the right opportunity.



From Sheri:

O.k. Currently, who is your favorite kid?

This was a tough one... I've thought about it all day. Then, I zeroed in on the word "currently" and I'm going to go with the 3 year old. I don't think I've ever appreciated this age before. Perhaps because it's my last one, I am more tolerant and appreciative of their quirks... or perhaps I now have 2 teenagers and 3 seems like a piece of cake compared to hormones, acne and mood swings... either way, I just love "chatting" with Brayden. Tonight while we ate dinner, he told me this elaborate story (of which I only really understood about half) about "my dad... went down the mountain and crashed in the snow... into a snowman... and...." it went on and on. It was so dang cute! And if you could have seen the gestures and sound effects to go with the story you would have cracked up!



From Elise:

If you could be any celebrity, who would it be and why?

This was the hardest question for me to think up an answer to. I'm just not into keeping tabs on celebrities in real life, etc. So, my answer will probably seem totally lame and as soon as I hit the "publish post" button, I'll think up a way better answer, I'm sure, but... here's what I can come up with at present... I think I'd like to be Stephenie Meyer. She took a "hobby" and wrote a novel for her sister, not intending to get it published and when she did get it published it became this amazing cult phenomenon. I'd love to have that kind of talent to share with the world... and then to see your novel be made into a movie... that would just be awesome!



From Karen:

If you weren't able to have any kids of your own, would you have adopted and how many would you have wanted?

I definately would have adopted. No question. I always knew I wanted four kids from the beginning. Seemed like a good compromise between my family (2 kids) and Eric's family (7 kids). If I had been forced to adopt I don't know if I would have pushed for all four... hard to say, and I'm grateful I never had to walk that road. I don't think I'm strong enough to handle it!

From Mandi:

If you could ask a question to three people who have died, who would you pick and what would you ask each one?

Hitler: How does it feel to be burning for all eternity?
Heath Ledger: Did you get to watch the Oscars?
My Grandpa K: Is there chocolate in Heaven?

From Heidi:
If you could relive any moment in life (in which you made a mistake) how would you relive it and why?

There are lots of moments I wish I could relive, but one that still haunts me is this: a couple years ago, I was at church, in the library and having a horrible day. I had really been annoyed by someone and their behavior and a friend, sensing my bad mood, prodded until I came out with it. Next thing I know, I'm ranting and raving about this person and their actions and then it hits me... they could be standing just outside the door listening in. I never saw them, but it still bugs me that I never resolved it. If I knew they had overheard, I would have gone to them and apologized. If they didn't overhear, then it didn't seem appropriate to bring up my grievances with them at that point. I still don't know if the wrong ears overheard me and it makes me sick everytime I think about it.

And one last one from both Carol and Karen:

How do you get those cute circle buttons on your sidebar?

It's super easy, once you know how to find them. If you have access to flair on Facebook, then you can get them. If you don't have flair, let me know and I'll send you some. Once you can look into the flair database, just find a flair button you like, right click on it, select "save picture as" and save it to your hard drive. Then you can pull it up and use it on blogger anywhere you can post a photo. Does that make sense???