25 Random Things about Me

1. I lived with my mother, sister, and grandparents in a two bedroom home with NO bathroom. Yep, I had to walk down the hill to use the two-holer outhouse with the Montgomery Wards Catalog as TP.
2. I took baths (during that same time period) in the kitchen in a washtub. After everyone had bathed, the washtub full of dirty water was taken out the front door to be thrown out.
3. My mom, Nancy, and I married "daddy" when I was 4 years old...almost 5.
4. I went to church at St. Christopher's Mission...a mile down the road from our house.
5. My house burned down when I was about 8 years old. The same person who burned down many houses in Bluff, to included the church at the mission, burned down our home as well.
6. Three of my grandparents and one uncle died within one year when I was nine.
7. I lived in a town of 200 until I went to college. It was a quarter mile off the Navajo Reservation. The white kids were the minority at our school.
9. I worked in my parents station and restaurant from the time they opened. I was waiting tables, cooking, changing money by the time I was ten. I could change a tire, tube and all, by the time I was eight or nine.
10. From sixth grade on, I rode a bus to Blanding to school each day. It was 26 miles one way.
11. I played in the All State Band in Utah when I was a senior.
12. I was baptized into the LDS Church on April 1st of my senior year in high school.
13. I attended Utah State University.
14. I played the clarinet in the Utah State University Band.
15. I earned a BS degree in Elementary Education at Utah State.
16. I was adopted by my dad when I was 12 years old.
17. I loved to sing and dance.
19. I play the guitar. It is apparently genetic.
20. I really enjoy genealogy.
21. I like to travel.
22. The most proud moments of my life have to do with the temple marriages of Craig and me and our children.
23. My most happy moments deal with the births of our children and grandchildren.
24. I have too many favorites foods to count. It usually has to do with me not cooking them.
25. In contrast, I do like to cook. My favorites are the simple and healthy things. I do love Texas Style Barbeque.

Miracle on the Hudson

Just last week a true miracle happened on the Hudson River in New York when birds took out both engines to an US Airways plane transporting over 150 people. The pilot made an emergency landing on the water and the plane FLOATED until ALL passengers were off the plane and boarded on the several well organized ferries and boats that had surrounded the aircraft. The pilot is a Hero...I'm sure, but what of the true miracle. They DO happen everyday! I cannot count the times that I have heard the safety rules for each plane from the flight attendant. I also cannot tell you the amount of times I wondered if a plane ever landed on the water if the passengers could get out those tiny windows or down the exit isles to safety in time. At least for one time...they did! What a miracle from God! Yes, they happen every day and I, for one, am grateful!