Tagity Tag

Well, my wonderful friend Amy tagged me so here it goes...
10 years ago...
I was 14...that's weird. I was heavily involved in...soccer (you all thought I was going to say drugs didn't you!...well, you're wrong!) All I did was eat, drink, and play soccer. It was my life and I loved it! My sisters would probably tell you I was entering my "black death" phase were I hated everyone and everything, but I like to look at it as my intropersective years. I was starting to grow out of my tom boy phase and I think that's when I finally started growing my hair out. If you can all recall, I used to have a boys haircut and was mistaken for one all the time, but I think by this time I was starting to like boys and so I decided I shouldn't look like one
5 things on my to do list
-homework (never ending. I'm always behind)
-triathon training (thanks to Christy...i have to whip my butt into shape)
-clean my house
-go to the gym
-register my car (it's due...today)
5 snacks I enjoy
-dried mangos (sugary goodness)
-yogurt and granola
-candy (of any kind...we Hutchisons aren't picky)
-ritz toasted crackers (they are delicious)
-chips and pico de gallo (the mexican in my craves this)
5 places I've lived
I don't even think I've lived 5 places...that's pretty sad
-Pleasant View
-St. George (my true home)
-Salt Lake
What would I do with a billion dollars
Man, I would be stoked if I had a billion dollars. All my worries would go away. I would first and foremost pay off my house (after tithing of course). Then I would pay off all our debt. We have a lot...Les's buisness, cars, and school. Then I'd probably give my family some money, donate to charity, saves enough my kid's college (I know how bad it sucks to have to pay for your own) and then find some way to spend the rest. I'm with Amy all the way. Money is temporal and why not spending
5 jobs I've had
-McKay Dee Hospital (working in the kitchen)
-Sonic (in St. George, my uncle used to own it..my 1st job actually)
-Kindred Health Care (also in St. George. I used to feed the crazy old people and I love it)
-Sorenson Genomics (if you need to find out who your baby's daddy...I still have the hook ups)
-Nanny (my favorite job...most days)
5 things you don't know about me
-I secertly wish I was a female bodybuilder. most think they are really gross but I think they are beautiful and I wish I had enough discipline to achieve that level of fitness
-I have a really bad habit of only vaccuming my house once a month, which I agree is kinda gross especially with a dog (if people come over I vaccum) but I hate vaccuming.
-When I grow up all I want to be is a mom. My own mother thought I would be the one to move to New York and be some high end buisness women but really I want to do is raise a family. A part of me would love to be that type of buisness women who wears a powersuit everyday but I just want to have a kid of my own. Don't get me wrong I love taking care of my nephews but I want one of my own
-I have this weird thing with eye boogers. Dixie gets boogers in her eyes all the time and I have this thing where I can't leave them alone. I have to wipe her eyes. She hates it to no end but it's something I have to do (call it an OCD)
-I hate the sound of people brushing their teeth. It's like nails on a chalk board. I have a hard time brushing my own teeth because to me it just feels like I'm scraping my teeth so hard that they'll eventually wear down to nothing. I dunno it just erks me

I tag Marcia, Megan and Whitney

For The Love of a Pickle

So today as Brittan and I were enjoying our daily lunch, which consisted of chicken nuggets, grapes, and pickles Bronson kept trying to rip the food out of my hand. So I decided to hand him a pickle. Who would have thought that one little boy could enjoy a pickle so much.

He was stoked! He was shaking he liked it so much.

Here he is looking at me like "Why do you keep looking at me with that thing!?" (the camera) but he could care less he was way too busy eating that pickle!

Brittan decided he wanted to be in a picture so I took this shot for him

Here's Bronson after he enjoyed his pickle. Just happy to be playing and happy to have eaten a pickle.

Silly Dog

So last night I was getting ready to go to bed and I started looking for Dixie (I can't sleep without her) So there I am in my house yelling her name in a high pitch voice so she'll come running (she loves her mom) and I couldn't find her. I walked around the whole house looking for her and in our backyard but to no avail I could not find her. Then I walked into our computer room and lo and behold...there she was. Apparently she was playing hide and seek.

she was hiding in our closet full of sweaters and refused to come out

Hutchisons Easter Fun

On easter we went to my parents for an easter egg hunt and dinner. It's always lots of fun to go to my parents...but I mean come on, my family is fun. Well in true Hutchison Holiday fashion my mom spruced up the place to the 9's. It was very festive. Here's a picture of the table

each of our places had a chocolate egg from Mrs. Cavanaughs (spelling?)....yum!

My mom got the little boys an easter basket (which I was greatly offended that she didn't get me one). She's moved on from children to grandchildren. She could care less if her own kids are there just as long as her grandbabies are...what a gip!

Brennen got a tool set from the easter bunny and he was pretty excited for about two seconds before he found the candy and after he saw the peeps it was off to grandpa to get him to open it

Brennen scored from the easter bunny. He got all sorts of stuff...again me, jealous

Here's Brennen after he successfully suckered grandpa into giving him candy before dinner. He was pretty pleased with himself

Bennett made it out pretty good too, he's just more quite about it.

So before the grown up had their easter egg hunt we let the boys go first. We wanted to save the bloodshed until the end. It was hillarious to watch the Brennen go for the eggs. He was very meticulous about picking up each egg.

Brennen would pick up an egg and immediately hand it to Marcia to open to see what was inside. He would have been happy with just one egg but Marcia and Kurt made him keep going.

Here's Marcia informing her child that he needs to pick up the egg. Christy and Robert on the other hand had a different approach

Bennett made a killing in the easter egg hunt. He found 7 dollars. Once Marcia found out there was money in the eggs for the little boys she abandoned her child and went racing for the remaining eggs, but all the money eggs had been found.

As you can see there are no pictures of the adult easter egg hunt. It was far too competetive. I was in too big of a hurry to find the bonus eggs ($5) to give someone my camera and explain to them how to take pictures. Not to worry, we all survived the hunt and live to see another day.

Happy Easter Everyone!

Happy Birthday Natalie!

Us Hutchisons are very efficient. We like to optimize our time together. On Easter we also celebrated Natalie's 22 birthday. She's getting old! Well, in lue of the easter theme (holidays are big for us if you haven't noticed yet) This is Natalie's cake.

Marcia even made this lovely card. Ask her about it...she's tell you herself that she's amazing!

Here are some pictures of Nate getting all her presents.

She's examining what size...

This her finally getting what someone was telling her...Although we are great fun...some of us aren't the brightest!

Happy Birthday Nate! Hope it was a good one!

The Roses Happy Easter

So to start the Easter weekend off, Les and I went up to his parents house. It was good to see him and spend some time away. We played a mean game of cards. Boys vs. Girls. Sheila and I were triumphant much to the dismay of the boys but that's what they get for calling us out. Sheila sent us this really cute edible arrangment for easter. It was delic! I ate the whole thing because Les doesn't do fruit...oh well his loss.

There is still a lot of snow up at the cabin and so it doesn't feel like spring...quite yet. So even though it was Easter weekend I was bundled up like it was the dead of winter. This summer my family is going on our annual backpacking trip and this year I want Dixie to go. I had to buy her hiking shoes because we will be hiking 5 miles a day and that's tortue on her little paws. So this weekend we were trying to break them in

Here's a picture of her refusing to go any further until I took off the boots. They're a work in progress.

Sorry that the video gets a little shakey at the end. I was walking her down the road. I apologize.

Spring Is In The Air

So I'm so excited that spring is just around the corner. I was so happy to see that darn snow melt. I hate the winter. If it was up to me it would be a cool 85 degrees year around. I love the heat. Everyone thinks I'm crazy but I love it in St. George when you walk outside and you can just taste the heat. Its my favorite. I would rather be freaking hot than cold. I hate being cold.

Anyway, a few weeks ago I was so excited when I came home from school and I saw these little flowers poping up in my front year. I jumped for joy because it was so good to see something other than the color brown

I'm so lucky because the lady who owned the house before us did an awesome job at planting perennials. Every few weeks something new is popping up and another is in full bloom. So I just love to brag about my garden even though I can't take any credit for it.