Kelsea in High School

1. Did you date someone from your school? Not really. I dated lots but I never got to the official boyfriend/girlfriend stage.
2. What kind of car did you drive? I didn't have a car in high school or through college. When Dee and I got married neither one of had a car. For the first year of our marriage we drove Dee's brother's truck (Matt's) while he was on his mission.
3. Did you pass your driver's license test on the first try? Yes. I got my license a few weeks before I turned 18 so I could say I got my license before I turned 18.
4. Were you a party animal? Yes, I was at the same tame parties with Dee.
5. Were you considered a flirt? I thought I was a flirt but since Dee was in high school with me I asked him if I was a flirt and he said "No, you always glared at people".
6. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir? I was in choir for half of a year. All my friends were in choir so I was a choir wannabe.
7. Were you a nerd? I was a nerd. But I thought I was less of a nerd than Dee. All those hard subjects like Calculus came so easy to Dee.
8. Were you on any varsity teams? No
9. Did you get suspended/expelled? No, I was a goody goody.
10. Can you still sing the fight song? Nope
11. Who were your favorite teachers? Ms. Poe, we called her mama Poe. There were 10 kids in our class so everyday we ordered pizza or sent someone to bring back tacobell. That was a good class. I also liked Mr. Masterson. He was cute and the last day of calculus he played his electric guitar for us.
12. Where did you sit during lunch? I went to the choir room for lunch which was slightly weird because I wasn't even in choir. Then we had a section of the courtyard where we hung out. We called it Mormonville.
13. What is your schools full name? Chaparral High School.
14. School mascot and colors? Cowboys, orange and black.
15. Did you go to Homecoming and who with? When I was a junior I went to Homecoming with Dee. I don't know why he thinks it was such a bad date. I had a lot of fun.
16. If you could go back and do it again, would you? No.
17. What do you remember most about graduation? The weekend before graduation Tom Peterson had a big graduation party. At his party I hurt my hand on the trampoline and so for graduation I had my hand all bandaged up in a sling. So in all the graduation snapshots I posed with my thumbs up to show off my poor bandaged thumb.

This is where Kelsea stopped about two weeks ago. I decided this needed to be posted before I could post anything else, so I kept waiting, but now I'm taking matters into my own hands and finishing this post on her behalf.

18. Where did you go senior ditch day? She probably went the same place I went.
19. Were you in any clubs? Kelsea was on tall flags. I'm not sure this counts as a club, but it's also not a sport, and I don't know if she lettered in tall flags. Granted, it was more athletic than anything I did in high school.
20. Have you gained some weight since then? Yes, during each pregnancy, and then she lost it all, except that she is currently pregnant.
21. Who was your prom date? I don't obsess over my wife's past dates, so these might be wrong. I think she went with Tom Peterson junior year and then Chris Daly senior year.
22. Are you planning on going to your 10 year reunion? already did.
23. Did you have a job while in high school? Yes, she worked as a file clerk at my dad's office. I know she had other jobs, but I'm not sure which ones were during high school. She worked at the quilted bear for a while. I think that might have been just after high school.

Ok, so I'll give this a day or two, then post some pictures from my boring trip to South Carolina, and we'll also have some Halloween pictures (hopefully) before long.

If you thought this was amusing, or think your answers would be entertaining, feel free to fill it out for yourself. Happy Nevada Day!

High School thingy.

In honor of our ten year reunion, I'm doing this high school questionnaire, since I haven't posted in a while. I will try to get Kelsea to do it too.

1. Did you date someone from your school? Not really. I went on a few dates, but only for special occasions, and mostly because the situation required pairing up.

2. What kind of car did you drive? I didn't drive in high school. I didn't even get my license until after graduation. Then I drove a 1981 Subaru 2 door hatchback with AM radio only, and no A/C. I called it Old Yellow.

3. Did you pass your driver's license test on the first try? Yes. But not until after graduation.

4. Were you a party animal? Yes, but only at very tame parties.

5. Were you considered a flirt? I highly doubt it.

6. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir? I was in choir for four years.

7. Were you a nerd? Absolutely I was. Past tense.

8. Were you on any varsity teams? Varsity quiz, Varsity choir... wow, I was a huge nerd, wasn't I?

9. Did you get suspended/expelled? Not in high school.

10. Can you still sing the fight song? Naturally.

11. Who were your favorite teachers? Ms. Ginger, Ms. Victor, Mr. Ching, Mr. Fullman, Ms. Moses. I liked most of my teachers.

12. Where did you sit during lunch? When we still had a lunch break, I think I would go to the choir room. When lunch was abolished for "nutrition breaks" I would sit in the courtyard.

13. What is your schools full name? Chaparral High School.

14. School mascot and colors? Cowboys, orange and black.

15. Did you go to Homecoming and who with? Kelsea - junior year, Lena Wilcox - senior year. Neither turned out so well.

16. If you could go back and do it again, would you? No.

17. What do you remember most about graduation? Taking pictures of the valedictorians, oddly. I think Josh Johanson gave me his camera specifically to take pictures of him.

18. Where did you go senior ditch day? I think I went to visit Tom, but I'm not sure that was senior ditch day.

19. Were you in any clubs? Not really. But I would have to check the yearbook. (I'm counting Varsity Quiz as a sport, not a club. So there.)

20. Have you gained some weight since then? Yeah. I don't remember how much I weighed at the end of high school, but I've put on somewhere between 10 and 35 pounds. Some of it was height.

21. Who was your prom date? Never went to prom.

22. Are you planning on going to your 10 year reunion? Yep. It's tomorrow.

23. Did you have a job while in high school? I worked at homework hotline during the school years, and I had a few manual labor jobs during the summers.

Boy oh boy!

Here's the full scoop on the baby. The due date is March 10, 2009.

Huh, I guess there wasn't that much more to tell after all.

Well, anyway, we've been looking at baby boy names, and I think it's kind of funny. Kelsea showed me a list of about 30 names she sort of liked, and asked me to cross some out that I didn't like. So I did, but apparently I didn't cross enough off, so then she crossed off most of them, and told me to think about Tanner. Personally, I like lots of names, I just don't think any of them are right. I mean none of these names matter until the baby is actually born. And we change our minds enough that I don't want to go around telling everyone the baby will be named something, cause it probably won't end up that way. That's not to say it won't be Tanner, but we would probably change our minds at least twice (maybe coming back to Tanner, but probably not.)

I always liked the idea of naming our kids from the Bible. It hasn't worked out that way for our girls, but there are a lot fewer girl names in the Bible than boy names. And there's one of two problems with boy names in the Bible. One; they're too common, like Adam, Jacob and Michael. Not that those names are bad, but we want something a little less common. (You know, like Dee or Kelsea). The other problem with male Bible names is that they're too unusual. I know, I always complain. But think about Japheth, Naphtali, Nehemiah, Mordecai. I liked the name Zadok (biblical), but Kelsea thinks it's too weird. We may have a possibility in Eli or Elijah, but time will tell.

Feel free to make suggestions in you comments. Unless you're the type of person who would be offended if I ignored your suggestion. If you're that type of person, please, no suggestions.