What's my rock star name?

1.YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car) – Puff Venture
2. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fav ice cream flavor, favorite cookie) - Chunky Monkey Snickerdoodle
3. YOUR “FLY GIRL” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name) - TCol
4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal) – Red Dog
5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born) - Ann Provo
6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first) - Coltr
7. SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd favorite color, favorite drink put “The”) - The Lavendar Juice
8. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers) - David John
9. STRIPPER NAME: ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne, favorite candy)- Happy Snickers
10.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names ) Dickson Harry

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had such a fun Thanksgiving with the family! Everyone pitched in and made a really great meal.

The men relaxed and watched football...or just relaxed.

We ate in Lee and Tricia's amazing new kitchen, large enough to fit 3 tables with room to spare. I forgot to take a picture of the adult table, but you get the picture. Here is also a picture of the meal. I know you're curious... we ate TURKEY.

Weird Family

I came home from Thanksgiving Dinner and found that someone had taken some creepy, scary pictures while we were at Lee's house.

Lee's art

Well, Thanksgiving was great at the Wright house, but before I write on that, I'd like to show you some WONDERFUL pictures Lee took. He was trying his hand at art. What do you think? Lee, don't quit your day job!

Steve Tagged!

Steve was tagged by mom, here goes, 7 things you may not know about him... in his own words.

1. I told Tracy I was going into politics, and ended up being a janitor.

2. I used to have a mullett.

3. I sang in church with my brothers...once. We ended up laughing and were never asked again.

4. I got the tip of my finger cut off. I was looking out of the upstairs window at a couple of girls, trying to show off, and the window fell down and cut it right off. I went down to tell my mom, and she went into shock and told me to march right back upstairs and find my finger!

5. I was in a priesthood ordination when President Faust (Elder Faust at the time), gave the priesthood to someone. I didn't know at the time that he was an apostle, I just remember feeling what a powerful man he was. I later found out that he was an apostle.

6. I used to ride my bike to school from Kaysville to Woods Cross, then to work (Farmington) and back home. I did this every day for 3 months.

7. I lost my driver's license before my mission (too many tickets). I went to talk to the probation officer before my mission and found out that he had a son going to the same mission as me. After my mission I went with my dad to buy a car. They looked up my record to see how many tickets I had had in the last 3 years and it came up 0. The probation officer had cleared my whole record.

TAGGED

Seven facts about me... don't know if they are interresting, or little known, but here goes!

1. I love to find out how things work and repair them. I know this drives repair men, mechanics, and plumbers crazy, but I watch them work the entire time they are here, and I ask them any question that pops into my head. I had a 15 year old boy come over to work on a 4 wheeler, and he kept saying I didn't have to stay, he knew what he was doing. After about 30 minutes, I decided he was really uncomfortable with me there watching, so I left. I think I would have enjoyed auto shop, wood shop, work as an electrician, etc.

2. Steve helped me with this one, I get really crazy sometimes. He says that doesn't give you the full effect... I get boarderline psychotic! I get so crazy, funny, out of control that I give myself headaches sometimes. Dancing out of control, Singing opera at the top of my lungs, trying to see the highest note on the scale I can reach by screaming my lungs out, Cranking the hard rock scary music in my car as loud as it will go and head banging with my windows down all the way home. I have issues.

3. I was a gymnast when I was younger. I could do back flips, and front flips on the ground, and I spent almost every day on my friends trampoline doing back flips, and front flips. I can't even jump on the trampoline anymore without getting dizzy and scared.

4. Now that I'm in school, I am finding out that the human body is so interresting. I absolutely love learning about anatomy and physiology. I come home and tell Steve, "I can't believe I didn't know this for 37 years, it makes so much sense!" But I hate chemistry, I dread chemistry labs & I dread chemistry lectures.

5. I am a very careful driver. I have had a driver's license for 21 years and have never had a speeding ticket. I have only been pulled over 1 time. However, I have been in 3 accidents. For some reason people like to run into me.

6. I am petrified of mice, call it trauma in my childhood, or whatever. I have no fear of spiders, or other bugs, but if a mouse runs past me, I break out in a cold sweat, and my heart starts pounding, I have screamed several times.

7. I have started collecting nativity sets. I have started going to an event in Midway every year where the LDS church fills every room, including the gym, chapel, and even the high council room with nativities from all over the world. It is so neat to see, so I decided that every trip I go on, I'd like to see if I can find a nativity from that area.

I tag Molly, and mom, sorry, my only blogger friends are my family! Have fun, the rules are post seven interesting things about you, tag 7 more people and let those who you tagged know by commenting on their blog. I hope this is easier for you than it was for me. Thanks Kim and Casi... I owe you one!

Scary Halloween Slide Show

STATE CHAMPS!!

Conner had his state finals today in Salt Lake City. They played against Woods Cross. Conner's team has won all 12 games they have played, there was only 1 touchdown made by another team, and that was the first game. They won the State Championships today 24-0. When the boys got back to Grantsville there were 2 firetrucks decorated that they climbed on and got to ride all through town with the sirens going. I think this was a GREAT day for Conner.

Cruisin'

We just got back yesterday from our vacation. We took a 5 day cruise to Mexico. Just wanted to let everyone we went with to know we really enjoyed the time we spent with you! What a blast! We went to the Mayan Ruins of Chichen Itza, and took a jeep tour of Cozumel where we went snorkeling and had an authentic Mexican lunch on the beach. I found out first hand how fun it is to sleep in the same room with dad! Learned that subconsciously Jamie chases large bald African American men. And now I'm just trying to get my land legs back. I will post most of my pictures on Flickr, but wanted to show you a few.

My finger story

Here's the scoop. Last Wednesday night I was going to bed around 11:30, I turned off all the lights, and as I was walking past the stairs I saw that Kaylea's light was on. I decided to go investigate. As I walked down the stairs I stepped on something and started to slide down the stairs. (I found out later the phone was left on the stairs) As I was falling I threw my hands out and hit something. All 3 girls heard the THUMB, BUMP, BANG, BUDUM BUDUM, and came out of their rooms. My right pinkie felt totally numb, and as I held it out to look at it, they all gasped. It looked freaky. (as seen in the previous pictures)

Steve took me to the hospital. My finger was just dislocated, but the ER doctor said he was sure I had ripped my ligament in half. He told me I needed to go to an orthopedic surgeon for a second opinion, but if that was the case I would have to have surgery to repair the ligament, and go through physical therapy. If I didn't repair the ligament, my finger would be dislocated every time I bumped it wrong, or bent it. He sent me home in a plaster splint so it wouldn't move until I was seen by the second doctor.

I had to wait a day before I saw the doctor. During which time I had a stake training meeting. Basically, everybody I know around here was there, and I was asked about 40 times what happened. Many people said, "I bet you've told your story 20 times... so what happened?" It was kind of funny.

Well, Friday morning I went to see the doctor. He gave me another x-ray and said tape it up and it will heal itself. I went from a huge plaster splint to a small piece of tape around my finger. It has swollen to about 2 times its original size, but is a lot easier to do just about everything. I guess the ER doctor went a little overboard. The good news is it won't affect my trip too much. That was my main concern.

OUCH!

I fell down the stairs Thursday night, and had to make a quick trip to the emergency room. I'm going to see an orthopedic surgeon today, so I will give you all the details later. I actually can"t type real well right now.

Jess goes to State

Jess ran cross country at State on Thursday. The race was at Sugarhouse park. She did really well, beat her time for last year, and finished around 20th place.

MORP

The name for the girls choice dance here in Grantsville is MORP... prom backwards. Jessica and Sage just had MORP last night. I think the things they ended up doing were a lot of fun for them. Jessica invited Brian Peterson, and Sage invited Marty Reukert. They went to the Gateway (an outdoor mall) and took a pad of art paper and colored pencils, water colors, and markers. They sold portraits of people for 25 cents each. They ended up making about $4.50. I think a few customers were somewhat satisfied.... Then they used their money to take their chances at the claw machine. (I don't know what it's really called) They were able to get two very large water balls with plastic spikes, (again, I don't know what they are called) from the claw machine. Both of the water balls popped, and that's when the fun began. Jessica started to blow it up like a balloon. This gave Marty and Brian the idea of putting it on their heads and blowing it up with their noses! They then ran through the fountains with these giant spikey ballons on their heads, chasing kids, and making fools of themselves. (Isn't that what teenagers do?) They came back to our house for dinner. They had to draw out of a hat what they would eat with, and what they would eat on... the table, or a plate. Sage ate on a plate with a spaghetti server, Marty ate on the table with an ice cream scoop. Jessica ate on the table with a rubber spatula, and Brian ate on a plate with a pastry brush. They had a wonderful dinner of salad, spaghetti, and ice cream. Then they went to the dance, got pictures, came back to our house for a video, and went home. The boys they asked were really nice, and very funny, I think they had a great time.

Temporary Hair color? RIGHT

Steve and I went to Park City on Friday night, and came home Saturday afternoon. While we were gone, Sage and Kaylea decided to have a little fun with hair color. They bought a $10 temporary, pink hair color, and both colored a pink streak in their hair. Problem was when they tried to wash it out, it wouldn't come out. They ran back to the store to buy some brown hair coloring, but could only afford a $2 fix. They put the brown hair color on for about an hour, but it wouldn't stick. Luckily they put the pink under a little bit so the only way it will show is if they pull back the top section of hair. NEVER TRUST temporary hair color!!!! Don't change your hair while mom is out of town!!! A couple of good morals to live by!

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Jessica is famous

Jessica is in the paper again, this was taken at the end of a race about 3 weeks ago. Not sure why they waited so long to put it in the paper.

I think the caption at the bottom of the picture might be too small to read, it says, "Grantsville's Jessica Collings catches her breath after finishing in first place in a meet against Bear River at Deseret Peak Complex. Collings is the top female runner on the Grantsville cross country team."

I'm very proud of her (if you can't tell). Tracy

October 6, football game

Clarence's Funeral

We sure enjoyed the time we spent with family at the funeral of Uncle Clarence. Everyone was so warm and loving. I have posted all of the pictures from the funeral and our trip to Wyoming on my flickr account, (look at the 'My Pictures' link on the right) but wanted to post a couple on my blog. It was amazing how many family members we saw from all over the country. We sure have an amazing family.

Traveling with the Wrights

Kaylea and I just took a trip with Lee and McKenna to Lovell, Wyoming for the funeral of Clarence Zeller, our uncle. The trip was full of lots of fun memories. We past herds of antelope and deer, the world's largest mineral hot spring, and saw many new towns including our favorite town of Thermopolis. I have to say, we were anxious to get to Lovell in time for the funeral to start, so when I drove, I drove extremely fast. There was nothing out there but sage brush and dirt, very few cars were on the road. We got to the town of Thermopolis, and Lee loved the name so much he wanted to get out and take a picture. After our stop, Lee took over driving, he decided he could go quite fast too, although not as fast as me. He was about 5 minutes outside of Thermopolis when he came upon officer Taylor driving the other way. The police man did not waste any time turning around and pulling us over. The girls thought it was the funniest thing ever. They took pictures of the police man, and even talked him into posing with them. I don't think Lee was as amused as the girls, but he didn't take it too hard. We only wished Officer Taylor was a little more lenient.