Hunt Family update - sent 10/25/09

Sunday, October 25, 2009
Happy Birthday to dad, Tanner & Shay. We ate plenty of treats for you today. Dallin’s making me stay up to watch a movie with him – The Mountain of the Lord, so I thought I’d type a Hunt Family update…

We had our primary program today. It was so wonderful. I would love to have them once a month. I was particularly impressed as our primary presidency has only been called about 6 weeks ago. They pulled it off well. Elizabeth accompanied a violinist and the primary singing “I Am A Child of God”. She did a beautiful job.

We got to visit with Brendan on Skype today. It’s fun to be able to see him and see and hear the boys in the background messing around and laughing. He’s supposed to come home this weekend for a visit. The girls don’t know it yet – it’ll be a surprise for them. A young man who lives nearby was planning to come home this weekend and his mom said he could come as long as he filled his car – I think he’s succeeded – 5 people in a small car. Brendan hopes we will let him take his car back to college with him, but no luck…He’s enjoying school, his roommates and friends. He went to General Conference with friends and enjoyed it very much.

Dallin has learned an important lesson this year as he’s mowed lawns – men and women do things differently. I tell him if he’s learned nothing else, that will be a valuable lesson for him. Sometimes we see eye-to-eye and sometimes we have our differences, but we’ve spent some quality time mowing lawns together. He says, “Mom, I’ll be glad when I can drive myself – then I can make the lawn mowing decisions”. I assure him that I’ll be glad when he can drive himself too – then I won’t have to mow lawns – works for me. I’ve enjoyed the time with him. He likes to drive whenever he can, of course. Dallin starts teaching piano lessons to a little girl this week. Should be a good job for him…

Aubrey’s just finished cross country – she improved about 4 minutes from her original time and really enjoyed the socialness of it all as well. She starts tutoring a little boy this week. She likes to babysit and had three calls to sit last night. She’s done well in school and I love that she enjoys cooking in the kitchen. I love those Young Women goals that ask the girls to cook a meal. She cooked a meal for extra credit for home ec last week – she only has 99% in there. I’ll take the cooking help anyday.

Elizabeth and Calla have been playing soccer. Calla scored 5 goals yesterday – she was a scoring machine. We keep waiting for Elizabeth to score, but it’s tough to score from the defense position. She definitely saves her team from being scored on – a great save yesterday. The girls are playing a piano duet coming up and Elizabeth is also accompanying a group of girls singing in a few weeks – Calla will be one of the girls singing. I love to hear them work together. Jonathan & I took Calla to dinner the other night – it was her birthday dinner, which we never took her to, which is fine because she wanted to go to “Cinco de Mayo”, which, in my opinion, isn’t a good place to on “Cinco de Mayo”. So 10/24 seemed like a good day. We sit down to order and Calla wants…a hamburger. It was a teaching moment – when we’re at a Mexican restaurant, order Mexican food.

Elizabeth’s school teacher has breast cancer. She is teaching the children things they will always remember, things they can’t learn from a book. They will forever be cancer supporters, more compassionate and have a better knowledge of chemo, cancer, radiation, etc.

Jonathan seems to be enjoying his new job. The office seems to work more “regular” hours than Jonathan has in the past. So I suggested that Jonathan “do as they do” and come home earlier than normal. I thought maybe I’d have dinner on the table at 5:15 p.m. and if he wasn’t home, he’d have to eat cold dinner. Then I realized that wouldn’t work because he often eats cold dinner and doesn’t mind. Dad suggested putting ice cream on the table for him. So sure enough, I put ice cream on the table at 5:15 and he was home to eat it before it melted. I can get used to that. He was called as a high counselor recently and gave his first talk – in his parents ward. I told him not to say that it was his first talk and nobody would even notice. The Bishop introduced Jonathan as a new high counselor member and said, “I think this is his first talk…” so I guess Jonathan didn’t need to say anything else.

I’m doing just groovy. I held a vinyl lettering open house this weekend – I usually do it about once or twice a year. This one was the best turn out. Calla, especially, loves to help me with cashiering, putting things away, etc. It’s fun for us all and of course, always ends up with pizza. I’ve been enjoying exercising, lunching with friends and trying to keep up with the household – the usual.
Love to each of you…