OK so tomorrow is February 1st and as if 2007 wasn't hard enough, losing my Aunt Carol, my Dad, my uncle Norm my brother-in-laws step father, not to mention numerous friends, along with my Sister getting breast cancer, I was anticipating 2008! Well I just found out that my sisters cancer has returned in the breast that she didn't have cut out of her! (Sorry to be so graphic but this is how I feel)!! Why? Is all I want to know...I just keep thinking she is the nice one in the family. As if she hasn't gone through enough, now she has to do it all over again and that is the least of it. She will have to have a screening done and a lymphnoid checked next week and we are just praying that it hasn't spread! It was Valentines Day exactly one year ago that we found out about her breast cancer, and here we are again one year later. Seriously?! She and I just got back from an awesome weekend in LA where we went to see the Garth Brooks concert and to get into some trouble. After bull riding on Sunset, running in the rain and mimosa for breakfast at the beach, I was praying that when we returned her results would come back negative. To no Avail! I can honestly say that I would trade her places in a heart beat...I love her that much. But God doesn't seem to work like that so here we go again!


The Garth Brooks concert that we went to at the Staples Center was selling "Pink Edition" Ultimate Hits album and $10 goes to Susan G. Komen for the Cure. It is an awesome 3 disk set and for only $15 and you can still get them online.

So Tony and I went to Uranium Stadium tonight to watch my Clippers take on the Jazz. This is the proof the Clips led at one point.













At the very least, I got to see the Alien Sam Cassell!!

While forcing Brian to join me in organizing and throwing out all of our excess Shit (Calm down...I am not using shit as an offensive word or speaking about feces, but rather to describe the magnitude of things we have both accumulated over the years and its worthless existence in our house, so bear with me) he stumbled upon a rather large box of stuffed animals. These stuffed animals are probably from exes and or 12 year old fans or obsessed soccer moms back from his "glory days". Well, he decided to give the only stuffed animal out of the huge box that sheds incessantly to Nesta. Was there some sentimental value there Dunseth?
So to my surprise this morning this if how I find Nesta's little stuffed monkey!

Yes as you can see she ripped the innocent monkeys eyes out! And Brian wonders why I insist Nesta be put away when we have friends over, especially toddlers and infants. He just keeps promising that Nesta just wants to give our poor guests kisses, but as you can see Mr. Dunseth, I am right again.

Current Dunseth Score
Brian 3
Jade 53

This is what we found this evening. Little bastardo!

This fun little obstacle was in my way this morning for no reason whatsoever.











Both ways east and west.

Looks like Jessica Seinfield is getting sued along with husband Jerry for stealing and slandering.. Sounds like it's gonna get interesting!

If you want to see some great shows, check out A&E Psychic Kids and Paranormal State. Some interesting views on some very special children..

Tuffer, Staci and Dayton came over for dinner tonight. While Dayton was downstairs watching Jungle Book and Little Einstein,the adults were upstairs crushing some Paella, pita bread and caprese' that Jade made.
Old school stories about the Upland Celtic were being thrown around, where Tuffer and I played together. This is Dayton rockin the BP hat.

It may be cold as hell outside tonight, but it sure is purdy after is snows.

I'll give you three guesses to what we're going to do at Brighton..











Just three..

Ok, where has the time gone? I know I'm 30 (which makes me want to throw up just thinking about) and I'm not sure how it happened, but now my brother Nick is turning 24 and I just don't understand.
I get this whole calendar system and the fact my little sister Whitney (20) is also an adult (don't get me started), but this is just not right.
What happened to braces, the first time he had to shave and that big brother/little brother talk where I found out he already knew about those birds and those bees.
Jade and I just watched our wedding video for the first time last night and while being the best man, Nick had the duty of first toast which he killed. He's never done life anyway other than his own and I love him more than I could ever express, so Happy Birthday man. I love you.

We always show a lot of love to Rohan and Nesta, but what about that other dog you ask? You know, the one who sits on the counter all day long? The one who won't walk on hard wood floors? The one whose tongue hangs out the right side of her mouth?

This is Missi, Jade's baby and she's been around a whole lot longer than I have. Missi is estimated to be around 5 or 6 years old and will bite your ankle if you're not careful.

So that's Nesta as our home security system and Missi as our achilles slasher. Just a little warning.

A couple of days ago I found and posted a few pictures from my single days in Sweden. Today, after a day of snowboarding and dinner at Chipotle with my wife, I found these pictures.












It's a little gross, but High/Low can get that way sometimes.

Jade and I get up, start some breakfast and while we're doing that, this is what we get. Nesta will sit patiently for a minute or two, then we get the look. Then it's a "snarf" and if she still hasn't gotten any food, it's a full out high jump competition!

Missing the days of laughter
shakes, trash days, Jim and Mary's
avocados, roses, beach trips and bike rides
peanut butter waffles and Go fish
So many things taught back then when my understanding was growing
now I understand
the person I am is because of you
morals, personality, it's all because of you
and even though almost 16 years have passed
you're in my mind everyday, constantly helping
knowing I don't always make the right decisions
but trying to
utilizing the work ethic taught by you
wishing I could still fix a car
laughing when i can't and think of you immediately
wishing you could still take me by the hand
teaching me all the things I'm clueless about
wondering if I will only get to see you in my dreams
that one time in a blue moon
the madness of life blurring visions
chapters of the night, fighting with myself
falling victim to fading memories
remembering the relationships you made
that is the person I strive to be
but you already know that because you are already with me
everyday, every experience, every thought

For Xmas Jade got me the box set of Planet Earth, a show I absolutely love. But, this is what happens when we try to watch a DVD.













It starts with Nesta listening, then jumping up because she wants to play with whatever animal is on the screen.










When she can't figure how to get to them, she looks around the corner in hopes of finding them behind the television.

So this guy, wait, THAT GUY to the right is Joe. I found this picture that he'd sent to me a LONG time ago and I just can't help myself. I have to show the 3 people who read this site this picture.

Quite possibly the funniest person i know, Joe will be heading out to LA and then driving back to Salt Lake with me. I cannot wait!

WARNING! (I would first like to apologize for my frequent use of exclamation points in the following rant. Thank you for your time.)

So for the past two and a half weeks I have been a stay at home........WIFE? Yes, I quit my job exactly 1 week before Christmas for some dramatic reason not mentioned here, and quite possibly a Pre-menstrual and unintentional Prozac detoxification panic attack. So all day long I stay home! "Great" some may say, "you are so lucky" I have been told. NO NO NO! I am bored and going out of my mind, I want to go to work everyday, please someone give me a job! What have I done? My home has been cleaned, organized and reorganized from top to bottom, something I normally love doing , but I AM SO OVER IT. So here I sit blogging away in the middle of the day and painfully realizing....I like to work, no, love to work! Oh no when did this happen? I was not supposed to be this girl. I was destined to be "banking off my husband" by the time I turned 25, right? I feel like such a failure I have disappointed my family and past friends with this enjoying working nonsense. I knew I shouldn't have gone to college and become an "educated woman". I should have stuck to the ditsy promotions girl gig I had set up for myself and not let anyone know that I was capable of being a communications director and magazine editor at age 25. Now not only do other people now have higher expectations of me but I have higher expectations for myself! Eeeewwww!

This is THE Jamaican Wolde Harris and I in the hotel in Gothenburg before our last practice, before our last game. Wolde and I had played together in New England for a couple of season, so when he joined the team in Sweden, my partner in crime was back.

Somehow I just came across some pictures from when I lived in Sweden. These two guys, Perry AKA Snowflake and Robert AKA The Swedish Brad Pitt, were my closest friends while I lived there.

When it comes to Man U, I can sit down and watch any place, any time. Watching Wayne Rooney whack balls at the boys from Dirty Sanchez (my favorite show when I lived in Sweden), heaven.

How could you not miss this guy. Rohan, who I adopted at Furburbia at Cottonwood Mall, is living in Cali at my parents house. When Jade and I lived in Hermosa Beach, we couldn't have Ro with us because there was no room or yard.

So the big guy stayed at my parents with their dog Marley (another rescue), and when the time came for Rohan to move back to Utah and our new home, we couldn't imagine making him leave Marley, my Mom and Dad.

In November Rohan started having seizures, so we had to put him on medication to help limit the seizures and helping with the recovery time. So far he seems to be doing better, but is still having a seizure every once in a while. At least my sister Whitney can be there as well and help take care of him the way needed.

Jade and I just found this little one chillin on her day/night bed/our couch.

Last night was a blast down at Mr. Acosta's place. Skip, Joyce, Adam, Jana, Jimey, Andrea, Danny, Tanner, a few more and then the surprise of the night, a Mr. Jay Nolly and his fiancee Alicia who were in town for the holiday.









The "Big Butt Dip" went over pretty well and at the very least, I enjoyed it. Drinking, dancing and watching the ball drop three times was had by all. Adam had his iPod running on overdrive as Dance party USA broke out in the living room.








Jade and I are looking forward to the new year and hoping that 2008 will be a good one for you and yours.