My day

Today was actually kind of fun. In case you didn't know, a few weeks ago I applied to the Jordan School District to be an administrator. Well today I had an interview. It was an all-day event.
There were about 28 candidates there (they're doing interviews Monday, too so I guess they are considering about 56 people). BYU has an administration program called the LPP program where people get their Master's degree in one intensive year of internships and night classes. Apparently, everyone in the LPP program applied and was offered an interview. I had to stop myself from chuckling as I overheard some of their comments--they showed a complete lack of experience. For example, one of the questions was: How do you promote teamwork? I talked about how I have worked with good teams and bad teams and the kinds of things teams need to be effective. I overhead one guy quoting from a book he had read in his program and how interesting the book had been. Little things like these made me think that I might actually get hired.
All in all, I feel good about the day. I feel like I really got a chance to show what I know. They say they'll let me know around Dec. 17th if I will be called back for a 2nd interview.

Hard Decison

We got a dog not to long ago. We thought that our family was ready for one. We fenced in our yard over the summer. Olivia really wanted one. In Septemeber we went to the pound and picked a dog. We picked a 1 year old dog thinking that we would do better with a dog that wasn't a puppy.

This dog, ended up being more then we could handle. She had way to much energy. She was constantly jumping up on you regardless of how many times we told her not to. She destoyed lots of things (shoes, clothes, our apple tree, alarm clocks, garbage from the can, leashes.) She also had a problem of nipping at you when you tried to pet her or play with you. She was never mean but she did hurt Olivia and Garret on several occassions with her rough play. We decided that she was not the right dog for our family. We put an add for her in the local classified and yesterday someone called about her and came to see her. He took her. Olivia was really sad that she had lost another pet. She cried and cried. I felt really bad. I didn't want her to be upset but I also knew that we could not keep this dog.

We hope that Kaylee will have a bettter home with him than she did with us. The guy who took her has a farm with animals, has another heeler like Kaylee. Kaylee seemed to like the guy, his son and the other dog right away.

It will be a long time before we will try having a dog again if ever. If we ever get another dog it will have to be a smaller dog and our children will have to be a little bit older.

Elfed Ourselves

Here is what our kids would look like if they were Santa's little elves.
Click here to see them in action.

Hyper Kids!

Christmas Preparations

We put our Christmas decorations up today. It was kind of an all day thing as we stopped a few times to fix Jennifer's car (It's all fixed now thanks to a nice neighbor and a Checker Auto right down the road). It's neat having the decorations up and Christmas music playing. We love this time of year.

Thanksgiving

We had a big Brunner Thanksgiving yesterday. We met at a church where there was about 40 people there. We had some great food and enjoyed visiting. We cooked the ham, brought rolls, a green jello salad, a tossed green salad and the yams. I had never made yams before but everyone said that they were good. Olivia especially loved seeing Brent and Shayla. For those of you who don't remember Brent and Shayla stayed with us for about a month when they were waiting to buy their house in Eagle Mountain. Garrett loved eating the rolls.




(This picture Jere and Garrett are sneaking rolls before the blessing) : )

I took the pictures from Theresa's website. Thanks Theresa.

Baby Update

Robin had a doctor's appointment today. Everything's good. That's 29 weeks down, 11 weeks to go.

The microwave bit the dust

After 10 years of marriage, 3 apartments, 1 house, 2 kids later, our microwave that we got used from my sister for $20 when we got married finally died. It kept blowing the circuit and it didn't heat things very well. Now this microwave that has been apart of our lives, is now going in the trash.

Jeremy and I went and bought a new one. We were amazed at how quickly it would heat things. We hope it will last 10 years too.

Happy Birthday to You, You Live in a Zoo

Jennifer celebrated her 26th birthday. She had to go go to work all day, so while she was at work we went and decorated her car. When she got home we had a dinner and I made her a bat cake. Olivia was really excited for her and couldn't wait for her to open her presents. Olivia drew her a picture of a dragon and gave her candy from her tricker treat stash. We have had lots of treats lately from Olivia's Birthday, Halloween, and Jennifer's Birthday. Plus our neighbor brought over a cake too.

Halloween Costumes

Here are a couple of pictures of how Robin and the kids looked on Halloween before leaving in the morning.

The Mad Scientist

Here's something you can try at home with some dry ice. Something I didn't mention in the video is that you probably want to soak the cloth in the soapy solution overnight.

Birthday in a nutshell

We went to Chuck E. Cheese for Olivia's birthday. She got to invite two friends. We all had a ton of fun! Thanks to everyone who sent gifts!

Trunk or Treat

Here are 3 pictures from our ward Trunk or Treat last night. Robin was at a faculty party so it was just Jennifer, Olivia, Garrett, and me. Olivia was a snow princess, Garrett was a motorcycle racer, Jennifer was Poison Ivy (think Batman), and I was a mad scientist. I stayed with the van and Jennifer took the kids around.

After all the candy had been passed out we went into the church for a few other activities. We had donuts, decorated cookies, and did the fishing booth. Garrett was so mad when he got his prize from the fishing booth. He totally expected a real fish!
We all had fun. And just think, we get to do it all over again in just a few days.

Pumpkin Time

5 Day Weekend

So we are having 5 days without students and loving it! We spent all day yesterday "nesting". We went through our storage closet and took out everything that wasn't food storage. Robin went through all the baby clothes to find the ones we'll use with the new baby and to also find the ones we'll never use again. I went through our old college boxes and computer boxes to find books and things to either toss in the garbage or try to sell on eBay.

Today we made the trip to Deseret Industries. Here's a picture of what our van looked like:


We had 8 big trash bags full of clothes and toys. We can actually walk into our closet again. It's such a great feeling!