A Child Was Born, The World Rejoiced, And There Was Peace Throughout The Land

Date: July 3, 1981
Time: 11:45 PM
Event: A glorious human being was brought into this world



Date: July 4, 1981
Time: 10:00 PM
Event: The world celebrated with fire in the sky


And you thought it was to celebrate independence, shows what you know.


Date: July 3, 2009
Time: 4:30 PM


She wanted cupcakes.

She got cupcakes.

And she was happy.

She wanted Armenian Yogurt Soup.

She got Armenian Yogurt Soup.

And she was happy.

She wanted chocolate cake.

She got chocolate cake.

And she was happy.

And there was peace throughout the land.



Yes, it's a tale as old as time. Well, 28 years old at least. And if you haven't guessed, that NOT SO glorious human being is me and I am now 28 years old.


10 things I've accomplished in my 28 years

1. Ate dog food at the age of 4 thanks to a sweet older brother.
2. Eaten 10,331.5 bowls of cold cereal.
3. Had a bird poop on my head.
4. Participated in 14 piano recitals.
5. Dressed up as a cactus 2 times.
6. Kissed __ boys and __ girls.
7. Fallen in love.
8. Participated in 9 ballet recitals, 2 Nutcracker ballets, 12 high school drill team competitions, 2 college drill team competitions, and 4 solo competitions.
9. Laughed so hard that my dairy queen milkshake squirted out my nose.
10. Been a pizza maker, a waitress, a telemarketer, an at home data entry employee, a customer service rep, a money market operator, a student, an accountant, and a wife.

Congraduation!

This is my mom.


She is very pretty.


She is very smart.


She borned all 5 of her kids and she also loves anything with chocolate and peanut butter.


She also loves me.


She loves me more than she loves any other child she borned. I know because she tells me this every time I see her.


It's science really.


The proof is right here in my brother's face, total jealousy.

Speaking of science...

My mom just graduated! But not in science. She graduated with a Bachelors in Health Service Administration (Or something like that).

Yep, my Mom The Graduate. I am so proud of her, this was no easy task to accomplish. It's hard to go back to school after not setting foot in one after 60 years!




Not only did she work and do an internship while going to school, but she also had to take care of my baby sis Alyse! That right there is a full time job. A full time job with no pay. Don't deny it Alyse, we all know that you are the problem child in this family.

It's science really.




Growing up my mom engrained in me how important it was to get a college education. She did not finish college when she was younger and it was her biggest regret. She was the main reason why I went to college and she inspired me to be independent. I love my mom.

And look at her now!




I think this picture is kinda funny. The guy is squirting hand sanitizer into her hands after she had finished shaking hands with everyone. You can't risk the swine flew at graduation ya know!

So here's to you mom! A big tootildoo and wootipoo to you! I have no idea where that came from. I apologize. I'm just so proud of my mama!



And maybe a little hyped up on caffeine.

We Are Just That Cool

I remember the days of staying out late going dancing and to parties until 3 and 4 in the morning. You know those good old college days when you could survive on 3 hours of sleep with no problem?


Well now a days Albert and I are just a bunch of party poopers, seriously. I start getting tired at 8:30 pm and staying up late for us is like 10 pm. There are rare occasions when we stay late at a friends house on the weekends but still, we just can't stay out as late as we used to.


Is this a sign of old age or just uncoolness? Probably both.


Well, I think we figured out how to fix this problem. Last Friday night we had ourselves a rockin good time and stayed awake until the wee hours of the morning. How did we do this?


Did we inject ourselves with speed and 400 mg of caffeine? Well maybe, but the main reason we stayed up late was this:





Do you want to feel young and hip again? Get yourself a puzzle. Specifically one with 500 to 1000 pieces, I'm talking hardcore, none of that 100 piece sissy stuff.


We started this puzzle (brought to us by Mamarazzi) at 8:30 pm and by 3:30 am I about had it, I told Alex that we are too old to be staying up this late and we should go to bed. But that puzzle had some sorta power over him and he couldn't break free. He couldn't let the puzzle win. I finally went to bed assuming that he was right behind me.


When I woke up in the morning Alex was passed out next to me and I went into the kitchen to find this:





He had he stayed up until 5:30 in the morning to put that damn puzzle together only to find one piece missing. Of course he immediately blamed me and thought I hid the piece to sabotage him.


Come on Al, I would never do anything like that!


It wasn't until later that he found the missing piece in the pocket of my hoody that I wore the night before. I still deny having anything to do with that, the piece must have fallen in my lap, I'm not even joking people.


Oh dear, we are just that cool.





Once the last piece was in place, we could finally relax and peace was restored to the Silkman household. The puzzle is still sitting on our table, Al refuses to let me put that thing away after all the hard work we, well mostly he, spent on it.


He thinks that he beat the puzzle. Really?


You beat the puzzle that you couldn't walk away from? The puzzle that made you stay up against your will until the ungodly hour of 5:30 in the morning? The same puzzle that laughed at you when one piece somehow went missing? That puzzle?


Ok Al, you beat the puzzle, you win.


Now can I put it away?

My Lazy Ass Post

Brought to you by facebook. Please pardon these pictures, I don't yet have a scanner!

My Firsts

1. Who was your FIRST prom date?.....Never went to prom, but my first dance I went to was with Ben (Crap I forgot his last name) and I can't believe I'm posting this picture on the internet!

2. Do you still talk to your FIRST love? .....He never officially broke up with me, he just disappeared into thin air and I haven't seen him since...long story.

3. What was your FIRST job? .....Good old PPP (Peter Piper Pizza)

4. What was your FIRST car?.....92 Red Honda Accord with a smashed in bumper my parents bought me & my brother to share.

5. Who was the FIRST person to text you today? .....My lil sis Lindee, she left her school books over at my house last night, very typical. But the good news is that she has to come over tonight to get them and for a bonus she's taking me to a party while our hubbys play Halo 3!

6. Who is the FIRST person you thought of this morning ? .....My dog, does that count? He had to go potty, then Lindee after she sent me the text.

7. Who was your FIRST grade teacher? .....I don't remember, but here's my picture:

8. Where did you go on your FIRST ride on an airplane? .....To Texas with my fam to visit my cousins.


9. Who was your FIRST best friend & do you still talk? .....My very first best friends were Lindsey Kerr and Andrea Stanger. Andrea dropped me once she started sixth grade (I am a year younger) I was no longer cool enough for her. I'm still friends with Lindsey however we haven't talked for a long time.


10. Where was your FIRST sleepover? .....Probably Lindseys house. I loved sleeping over there because she always had white bread, peanut butter & Count Chocula Frankenberry cereal. All of which were banned from my house growing up.

11. Who was the FIRST person you talked to today? .....After my dog, it was Alex, the hubster. Whenever he wakes up he can only open one eye so it looks like he's winking at me. He says the lights are too bright in the morning.

12. Whose wedding were you in the FIRST time?.....Actually in, was DeAnna's. I think that's the only one I was in. Well besides my own. Speakig of DeAnna, here is some old pics of us from Jr. High! BFF KYDN DAMEZ FOREVER DE!

13. What was the FIRST thing you did this morning? .....Made me a mocha and watched a rerun of 90210 (the college years)

14. What was the FIRST concert you ever went to? .....Blink 182 with my big brother and his wife. I was always the designated driver!

15. FIRST tattoo? .....None, but I did get a fake tattoo on my hand of a butterfly one time.

16. FIRST piercing? .....I was about 6. Then got 5 more holes in high school & college, I was such a rebel.

17. FIRST foreign country you've been to? .....Cancun Mexico

18. FIRST movie you remember seeing? .....The Goonies

19. When was your FIRST detention? .....I don't think I ever went to detention, but I was sent out in the hall one time for being too loud in class.

20. What was the FIRST state you lived in? .....Utah

21. Who was your FIRST roommate? .....DeAnna Marie Cluff, Liv Stutzman and Heather Livingston Good times!

22. FIRST pet? .....Gerbils, way too many gerbils. I bought them from a girl at school for 7 beaver pelts. Yes, beaver pelts (fake currency in 4th grade) She swindled me into buying both gerbils because she convinced me they would get lonely if I didn't. I'm still a sucker!

She's the one on the very bottom right hand side. Don't let that innocent look fool ya! She's a gerbil shark!

23. Who was your FIRST kiss? .....Bradly Thompson Mr. Disappearing Act

24. FIRST place you called home? .....Layton, UT

So there's my little Facebook tag that I decided to share on my blog because I am too lazy to write about my amazing & eventful life.

And if you already read this on face book.....deal with it.

"Am I Related To You?"

Dunn Family Reunion of The Killer Summer 08


We road our Harley to Park City to participate in a make-shift family reunion on the Dunn side of the family. I don't remember the last time the Dunn family were all together in the same place at the same time! Most of my Dunn relatives are from Idaho so we don't see each other often, although most of them live in Utah but I have no idea where.


This little get together was to celebrate my Grandma Geane's birthday which was actually back in March but apparently not everyone remembered her birthday which in return possessed her to send this notorious letter to all guilty parties (me included):





As you can see from the card, my grandma is a very sarcastic person and needless to say she received a lot of attention from the letters which was exactly what she was going for. So here we are, some guilty some not, making up for the missed 75 year birthday of Grandma Geane.


Here is Grandma Geane and her much older husband, Dale, blowing out their candles. I guess all of Dale's grand kids call him on his birthday because they weren't there!


I don't think there was one person there that knew everyone else's name so I went around with my camera and asked everyone:


"Am I related to you?"


If the answer was yes, I got their name and took their picture. I am now posting all the pictures and corresponding names and relations in hopes that I will never forget my Dunn relatives again!


My "Cheesy" aunt Kathy (pun intended!) She is my dad's sister and ever since I was born my dad could not for the life of him keep our names straight! I know whenever he has recently talked to Kathy because he will start calling me Kathy instead of Kelly. He is so funny, I tease him all the time about it!



From right to left (ignoring my sister Lindee who ran into the picture at the last minute!) Kathy's husband Dan, Aunt Kathy, Kathy's son Heath and his Heath's girlfriend (I didn't get her name because she answered "No" to the "Am I related to you?" question.


My cousin Brooke, Kathy's daughter. And yes, my sister Lindee...again, but isn't she cute?!?!


Okay...right to left...it's just easier that way...My uncle Kim, my dad's older brother, the next guy is Britney's boyfriend and after him is Britney herself who is Kim's youngest daughter. Next to her is Travis, no Trevor (I think) Kim's youngest son.


There is one other cousin named Judd who didn't come to the reunion. He is Kim's middle son and I think he was my favorite out of all of them. When I was younger he used to make me laugh so hard and I always tagged along with him.


When I was living in Cedar City going to SUU I received a phone call from someone asking for Mandy. I explained that they had the wrong number and started flirting with the caller. We talked for a minute or two and I found out he was from Idaho so I told him I had family from Idaho. I proceeded to name off all my cousin's names and the caller was silent for a second before he said "Uh, I'm Judd, who is this?". Yeah, it was my cousin Judd I was flirting with!


Turns out that Grandma Geane had given him my phone number because he was in town and needed a place to stay except she told him the phone number belonged to his cousin Mandy, hello Grandma don't you remember my name? It's Kelly! Anyway, he and a friend ended up going to a concert with my roommates and I and sleeping over at our apartment, can we say awkward?


Hev, do you remember that?


This is my uncle Jared, my dad's youngest brother. I forced him to take his sunglasses off for the picture, I don't think he liked that!


So I think that's enough of the relatives for now...Here are some other pics from that fun day.


I love this picture! My bro Chad and his wife Amy and Amy's daughter Kelsi.


Me and my ever so handsome papa!


My baby sister chillin with her boyfriend.


We love each other sooooo much!


Lindee, shamefully trying to steal the umbrella from the pregnant woman!



Lin's son Logan, so innocent. You wouldn't have guessed that just a few seconds later he started yelling "SHIT" over and over again laughing harder each time he said it. Of course I had nothing to do with that!


Proof that Lance, Lindee's hubby, actually went to the reunion!


Proof that my husband beats me.


This was before I asked Albert what he thought of the reunion...


...and this is after!I think he loved it!