What is your New Year's resolution for 2008?

A: Lose weight and get fit. 4 ( 68%)
B: Save money and get my finances in order.
C: Get more organized. 1 (16%)
D: Get a new job, or make a career change.
E: None of the above resolutions or I don't make New Year's resolutions. 1 (16%)

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Play Running Rooftop Santa!

Teach Me To Walk In the Light of His Love

I saw this video on my friend Melissa's Blog ... thought it was funny. Make sure your visits aren't like these (all except the last one of course!)

We didn't start the fire...

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I'm dreaming of a White Christmas

It was another joyful, wonderful christmas day at the Lingmann household. The kids opened their gifts from Santa and then gifts from one another. Alli got Disney Princess Castle (barbie size), Drew got a Car Garage complete with 2 story ramp and elevator, Jeremy got a cute Elephant that sings and talks, Chad got a Chair Massager thing, I got some beautiful Earrings, and the whole family got a digital picture frame and a new DVD/VCR player. The present opening didn't end there though (unfortunately... the kids get sooooooo many gifts it gets a little ridiculous - Alli at the end of the day was saying "Where are more presents to open? I want more!" That's when you know the gifting has gone overboard!) We then got visits from GrandJomama and Papa Lingmann and Uncle Jon (Chad's family). We opened gifts with them. (Simon Says Sit-n-Spin, Drum & Maracas Set, and Play Laptop Computer) We then tried to put the kids down for a nap - but that didn't work so well and then it was off to my parent's home for Christmas Roast dinner with Nana Karen, Papa Walter, & Aunts Sarah, Kathryn and Em and Uncle Sam...and of course....more present opening. (The kids got a Puppet Show, Darda Demon Car Loop Set, and Train Set were some of the gifts)

Somehow, we survived and made it through the jungle of wrapping paper, tissue and boxes everywhere. (Maybe next year we will give each other hugs for Christmas!) Our favorite thing was visiting with family and experiencing our christmas traditions with them. We are so thankful for how blessed we are in this world to have our freedoms, the gospel, and a family to share it with. We are thankful for the knowledge we have of our Savior, Jesus Christ and the comfort and happiness his spirit provides us. I know that He lives and is mindful of us and our needs. May the blessings of Christmas be with you and yours throughout the coming year. Merry Christmas!

(I didn't get pictures of my family because we forgot our camera so I will post them later whenever I get them sent to me!)

I took my brother to the department store. He wanted to show Santa his Christmas list. He stood in line and he shook like a leaf.

I don't know how I found this blog post but it's pretty funny. It shows a collection of photos of scared kids sitting on Santa's lap. And I thought my son was the only kid afraid of Santa! lol It probably isn't a good idea to force your kids to sit on Santa's lap for a picture unless you love pictures of your kids screaming :) I love the twin pictures - they both have the same scared funny faces.

What time do you or your kids wake up Christmas morning?

A: Before 6 am or Never go to sleep at all!
B: 6:00 - 7: 00 am 1 (33%)
C: 7:00 - 8:00 am 1 (33%)
D: 8:00 - 9:00 am
E: Past 9 am! Slept in! A Christmas Miracle! 1 (34%)

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Play Rudolph Revenge!

Want a Plane that loop-de-loops! Me, I want a Hula-hoop!

For those of you who have ever played World of Warcraft before these videos will be funnier for you... but they are still funny even if you've never played WoW.

This is a take-off of the The Chipmunk Song: (It's a little PG-13 just so you know...)

Cats and Rats and Elephants, but as sure as you're born, you're never gonna see a Unicorn.

Allison said at dinner Sunday: "Mom, is this chicken from the zoo or the grocery store?" then she continued to ask questions like, "Mom, do we eat little chicks?" and "So we let them grow up big and then eat mommy ones?" Needless to say, I lost my appetite.

This is a big improvement for her considering this was a girl that just last year, while watching Planet Earth episodes, said crying, "No Dad! We don't we don't eat animals! WE EAT MEAT!" and we responded with, "OK, Alli... whatever you say sweetie." Poor Thing. So at least she has come to grips with the fact that we do eat some animals and that in nature, animals have to kill other animals. I never ever thought I would ever even think about becoming a vegetarian until Alli started asking her questions. Luckily she doesn't ask them very often.

I strongly suggest not watching Planet Earth with your kids unless they love to watch animals die. This one clip of the Arctic Fox and the Snow Geese Goslings makes me cry every time I watch it. The poor parents don't realize what has happened to their babies before it is too late. Nature is just mean sometimes. WARNING: This video may prove to be unsuitable for children. Adult supervision required. lol


Planet Earth-Arctic Fox - Watch a funny movie here

Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday! Whoop-de-do, Whoop-de-do!

Happy Birthday Mom! (Not that she even will see this post...she has been on the internet like maybe 2 times, let alone used a computer.) Things I love about my Mom:

• Great, fun, exciting Grandma that somehow always has a surplus of Swedish Fish around and so it is now a ritual that my kids have that they can't leave Grandma Karen's without their baggie of Fish.
• She allows my kids to call her names such as Nana Kar-bear. If you knew my mom, you would know how hard that is for her to answer too - especially since every time she hears the name Nana, she things of the dog on Peter Pan.
• She is great to have with you at any kind of party. When my mom is in a good mood, SHE IS IN A GOOD MOOD! I love to play games with her and even sing some Karaoke!
• She is an awesome cook. Always good food around at my mom's house. All my favortie recipes are the ones I grew up eating and now my kids are eating them and loving it!
• She is an excellect housekeeper. Her house has always been spotless, even when I was a kid. She is a great example to me that it is possible to have an emaculate home. I am now realizing how extremely difficult that is for me with 3 little ones around.
• She is an encourager and motivator for self-reliance, independence, development of one's talents and education. She was always the one pushing us forward and not letting us be idle and lazy.
• She is right, 99.2 % of the time, whether you like it or not! And even if she is wrong and you are right, you will still feel like somethings not right and something must be wrong so then you convince yourself that you were not right even though you were not wrong. Is that right?

Well onto a totally but not completely different subject...I just found out today when I was trying to find this birthday song, that my brother Ben always used to sing (and then we all started singing it), that it is actually from Garfield and Friends. Binky the clown sings it. For some reason, I remembered it being from the Simpsons... Here's the proof: (definately my favorite Birthday song by far...)

When I Feel His Love

Last Wednesday we had our Ward Enrichment Night. Our theme was "Merry Christmas from Our House to Your House." and we had a progressive dinner. We met together at the church for appetizers and had a wonderful lesson on Christmas Traditions. Then we split up into small groups for Dinner at 10 different women's homes (had lazagna, rolls, salad) and we ended the night at Relief society Counselor's home for dessert. It was such a nice, relaxing occasion and we all did a lot of visiting and socializing... The presidency handed out their Christmas gifts this year - they were luminaries to go all along our neighborhood sidewalks to be lit on Christmas Eve. I hope we will be able to be there to see them all lit up but I think we will be with my parents in Ogden. It's going to look so beautiful! What a bright idea!


I went way overboard on the invitations for this enrichment (shown above)... I actually glued 7 little punched out snowflakes on 120 invitations, with some help of course! I printed out and glued a gingerbread house on them and I cut open the windows and doors to put the info inside them and then I put a ribbon on to hang to doors for delivering. It was so ridiculous! It took me way too long... next time it will just be a simple piece of paper to pass out! lol

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Play Elf Snowball Fight!

How about that eggnog?

A: Yummy! 2 (40%)


B: Disgusting! 2 (40%)


C: It's ok. I tolerate it during Holiday Season.


D: Never tasted the stuff. 1 (20%)

All the Things She Said

Allison said the funniest, cutest things the past few days, I thought I would post them....

1) "I am starting to look like Santa!" (she said after eating a big dinner)

2) "Look Mom! I decided to clean my room instead of taking a nap. I organized all my dolls and folded up all my clothes! Aren't you proud of me?" (I don't think I have ever been prouder!)

3) "You will never be able to find me in the best hiding place ever! The shower!" (she said to Sarah while playing Hide and Seek)

Do they know it's Christmas time at all?

It was our ward Christmas Party a week ago. It was a blast. From year to year, our ward switches off between Family Christmas Party and just Adults Christmas Party and this year it was just for Adults and the theme was Jingle Mingle and it was a table-to-table progressive dinner.

You were supposed to wear stuff from the 80s or dorky, cheesy, old stuff. So I wore a sweet Jean jacket paired with a checked red-white country dress and added some cheesy 80s pins. Then I put on some great bright red lipstick and put my hair in pigtails. (I also found this stocking that I had cross-stitched my name on when I was like 10, so I wore that too!) Chad wore a short sleeve white shirt with a Cheesy Christmas Tie and dorky jeans.

They took a picture of us all there and at the end they did a video collage of all the funny pictures and then they gave out awards for Cheesiest, Awesome 80's, Dorkiest, and so on and so on. Oh and the tables won awards too. They were all decked out different (There was Nightmare before Christmas, Snowiest Snowman, The Christmas Story - complete with the Leg Lamp, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Movie Decor, Disco Christmas, and a few more I can't remember). It was a blast!

It also was the first time we hired an actual babysitter. I know, I know pathetic! lol Luckily we were able to put Jeremy and Drew to bed early (Drew didn't take a nap) so Whitney just had to play with Alli for a couple hours. It was very nice!

Dashing through the snow, in a sleigh with Mrs. Claus

This year we were able to go to the IBM Christmas Party for the employees who live in Utah. It was at the Gardner Village in West Jordan and a treat for the whole family. They had a nice dinner, a sleigh ride with Mrs. Claus (pictured left), and a pony ride for all the kids. (The last 2 years we haven't made it on the IBM Utah email list for events, so we thankfully got on it this year... Last year they went on the Heber Creeper "Polar Express" - that would have been nice!)

Time Waster of the Week

Play Snowball Fight!

When you just met someone, what is the holiday greeting you would be most comfortable using?

A: Merry Christmas! 5 (83%)
B: Happy Holidays! 1 (16%)
C: Season Greetings! 0 (0%)
D: Bah Humbug! 0 (0%)
E: I don't greet people I just met. (0%)

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Elf and Scrooge Yourself!

Watch our family dance as elves! And Elf Yourself

Watch Chad as Mr. Scrooge! and Scrooge Yourself!

Snowball Fighting... in a Winter Wonderland

Non-Crappy Starring You! eCards on JibJab

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Mother, Tell Me the Story that I Love to Hear

This is a story that Allison told to me last Friday and it was so funny I had to write it down; so, here it is:

There was this one girl who met a boy. Then they got married and then they kissed and she died. She came back alive again just like Jesus. Then she ate all the candy corn and lied about it and that was not a good choice. Then she got killed by a monster and then came alive again, again, again and again. Then she asked her mom if she can fly in the robot machine and she said yes so she flew in it and killed the monster that killed her and then she woke up and thought, "Boy, that was a long day!"

It was so funny how she said it too! That same day my son, Drew came downstairs after waking up and said "I am not happy. I am not in a good mood!" and stomped around the house. He has since said either "I am not happy with you mommy." or "I am so happy now" (with a big smile) everyday just about every hour. He definitely has mood swings. He's my little Drama-King! I just can't pinpoint where he gets it from! lol

We are Family!

We decorated Christmas Sugar Cookies for Family Home Evening this week. The kids loved it - They of course put on more sprinkles than they had cookie! Maybe we will make this a Christmas tradition of making cookies together for FHE. Those cookies were good too!

Have a nice trip! See you next Fall!

Thought this was kinda funny... maybe not.. you decide...

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Play Santa Balls 3D!

Do you try to peek at your gifts before Christmas?

A: No! I want to be surprised! 4 (57%)
B: Yes! I can't wait that long. 0 (0 %)
C: I did when I was little, but I don't anymore. 3 (42%)
D: I don't ever get gifts. I'm on the naughty list. 0 (0%)

Thank You... Tube!

I found this funny video of a song with misheard lyrics on a cousin's website (The Alldredges) and thought I would post it for your enjoyment - I never could understand what Eddie Vedder was saying:

"Yellow Ledbetter" by Pearl Jam

Here's some more funny song interpretations of misheard lyrics if you are interested:

• "Numa, Numa" by O-zone



• ""I'm Blue" by Eiffel 65



• "How to Save a Life" by The Fray



• "Clocks" by Coldplay

Bowling for .... A Turkey!

It was our 7th Annual Kunz Bowling Tournament 2007 on Friday. It was lots of fun as usual. Dad used his new bowling ball. Allison bowled a strike, Andrew bowled a spare, and I bowled a Turkey (3 strikes in a row)... too bad they don't give you a free Turkey if you bowl a turkey. (Believe it or not - that is the 3rd time I have bowled a Turkey ... pretty good considering my family goes bowling once maybe twice a year! lol) I won with a score of 131.

I Believe I Can Fly... at the Hill Aerospace Museum

We went to the Hill Aerospace Museum in Ogden last Wednesday during Thanksgiving Break. The kids loved seeing all the airplanes up close and personal. They had 2 big hangers full of planes and more outside, all for free!

Happy Birthday!

Yesterday was my sister Emily's birthday. We had a fun time together as a family. We played a few games and watched a movie. One of the games we played was called Killer Bunnies... I'll just say it was a weird game and somehow I ended up winning. I haven't decided whether or not I would ever play it again. My mom's brother Kurt and his family were visiting from California. Also my grandparents Hunter and my Aunt Soozie were able to come. We ended the night with a classic ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins.

What are your favorite Thanksgiving Leftovers?

A: Turkey, of course! 1(16%)
B: Stuff me with stuffing! 1 (16%)
C: Mashed Potatoes and all the other good stuff 3 (50%)
D: Pies and Desserts 1 (16%)
E: I hate Leftovers. 0 (0%)

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Homer's Wrecking Ball Game

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Happy Thanksgiving 2007

Happy Turkey Day! Thanksgiving 2007 was as satisfying as ever before! The whole family was able to make it. Good Conversation, Fun, and Yummy Food! We had Saucy Zuchinni, Company Carrots, Candied Yams, Cranberry Salad, Tossed Salad (with Grapefruit, Pomagranite Seeds, and Avocado), Rolls, Mashed Potatoes, Gravy, Cranberry Sauce, Stuffing, and of course Turkey! The beautifully decorated dining room...
Mom, Sam, and Andrew...
Chad, Ben, Heather, Emily, Grandfather Kunz ...
Me and Dad...
Sarah, Allison, and Kathryn...

Grandmother and Grandfather Kunz...

Building a Mystery...Jenga Tower

Alli and I played Jenga and she did really well. We got up to I think 32 or 33 levels and I thought it was really good; but then I looked in the instructions and it says you are really good when you can get up to 38. So, I guess we aren't THAT good. Drew didn't play the game with us but posed for the picture so I had to post the photo of him too. :)

Over the River and through the woods to... dancing with Grandma we go

Alli's dance class had Grandparent's Day last Friday and both her grandmas were able to go. They got to dance with her and watch her do some awesome dance moves. Alli dances with Virginia Tanner Creative Dance Program. We will get to watch her perform in the spring program and we look forward to it!

Let's Eat the Turkey in a Big Brown Shoe

We had an early thanksgiving dinner with Chad's family about a week ago... We did it last year too (Cause Chad's Dad was out of town for Thanksgiving Day the last 2 years for work.) It really is an awesome deal to get to have 2 full blown big Turkey Dinners! So here are some pictures of the occation. (We forgot to take pictures before we ate all the food! Chad's sister Stefi, her husband Austin and their son William were all there but left before I remembered to take pictures!)...

Here's Chad's brother Jon with Drew:

This is Chad's sister Staci and her boyfriend Jason:

Allison:Chad and his mother Jolene: Chad's paternal grandmother Wilma: Chad's father Dale:Jeremy: