Life at the Dunbars'

Life goes on everyday, one thing after another. These last few months have been busy, busy, busy. There's just no spare time with Mom teaching seminary every other week, Dad working and taking care of scouts and the young men's program, and I have, since December, been working at all the home high school basketball games and would often not get home from seminary until 9:30 at night. It's been a lot of fun, but I'm afraid we don't ever get the camera out and feel like updating our pictures.

Chris is at home right now though, and that's a lot of fun. He's working out at the church farm right now. He'll be heading back to Rexburg next month. On St. Patrick's day I was trying to help him fill out a resume for a job at BYU-Idaho, but I don't think he appreciated my help.

With the basketball season over now, I'm fully engaged in track. Our regular league meets start next week, and I'm hoping to see some real personal improvement. I've been running anything and everything from the 4X100m relay, the 100, and the 200, to the open 400, and the 4X400m relay.
Our most recent meet was a pre-season meet against Paradise High School. It wasn't what I would call the most fun meet because they didn't really have any varsity girls. I had to race against my own team all day, but the real problem was that when it came time for the 4X4, my relay team had to race against the varsity boys. Not only that, but I had to run my leg against the fastest guy on the track team, who you see right behind me. It wasn't that big of a deal, but my whole family was laughing at me. It wasn't really a fair race; it was just pretty funny.

My goal was for us not to get lapped, which we didn't. I even promised one of my coaches that I personally wouldn't get lapped (because I was the first leg of the relay). Anyway it's pretty fun, and I'm hoping to be successful this season.

Brigham Young Here I Come!

Wow! I know everyone's tired of waiting for the Dunbars to update their blog. I'm not sure if that's supposed to be my job or my mom's, but we're all pretty busy around here. My latest news, though is that I got accepted to BYU!I'll be heading there sometime in August for the fall semester. When I leave depends on whether or not I make it into the marching band, so we'll see. I'm way excited though, and I think my "senioritis" is kicking in a little bit.

All Together Again

We were able to have all of our family here for Christmas. We had so much fun together and even went sailing in the San Francisco Bay. The only problem is that we feel out done on the sailing blogs. All of our sailing pictures are already on Joanie's blog and Ben and Andrea's blog. So go check 'em out!

Thankful Turkey Duel

So I went on Ben and Andrea's blog the other day and saw their thankful turkey. I told Ben that it was really cool and that we should make one too. So we did, and the whole time we were saying, "We have to make it bigger than Ben's!" So Ben wanted to see how big we made it. I think we're winning, but there's still one more day before Thanksgiving.

See Ben, I told you I'd put you and Andrea on your own feather!

Carnegie Hall and New York City

This weekend Mom and I went to New York City! We went because my hero, Adam Gyorgy, was coming all the way from Hungary to play the piano in Carnegie Hall! It was the most incredible thing I've ever seen. It was so beautiful! It all seemed so unreal. I couldn't believe it! We got to sit on the second row, so we could see every expression on his face. His delicate touch and the feeling he put into his music was unlike anything you could imagine. It was inspiring.

This isn't the best picture, but it was taken from where I was sitting, just to show how close we were!

This is me and Laszlo Gyorgy. Laszlo is Adam's brother, and he was kind enough to introduce me to Adam personally after the concert. I got to talk to Adam for a while, and he signed my piano music that he inspired me to learn. It was great!

This is the view from Holly and John's apartment!

This picture is for my brothers. We got to ride "the Spiderman tram"

This is the view of Roosevelt Island from the tram.

"It's grand and it's central" -Madagascar

We were able to see the Statue of Liberty from the Brooklyn Bridge.

Pictures in Central Park.
Can you play I-spy with the angel Moroni?Me in front of the Manhattan Temple.

We had such a great time. Everything worked out so perfectly, it was unbelievable! Being able to go to that concert is definitely something that I will remember for the rest of my life!

Almond Bowl 2008

Friday was the Almond Bowl! Ryan and I got to march with the PV band. Our theme this year was video games. We played music from the Legend of Zelda, Halo, and Mario Brothers. Everyone really loved Mario. It was a lot of fun, and I think we did a pretty good job. I'm just glad it's over because I'm sick of the music! It gets really old after playing it every single day. Unfortunately however, the football team didn't do as well as the band, but that's okay. They still did a great job!

I am front and center right on the 50 yard line

This is supposedly a star for Mario Brothers

This is our "M" for Mario, and we even had a Mario. He held up a star on the sideline like he turned invincible, and then he ran around and tagged people who then squatted down like he was taking out the band members. It was pretty funny.

Dad's Boat House!

Check it out! Dad's boat house is finally finished. There are still a few minor details left to complete, but for the most part it's all done, lights and everything. It's great to have the ski boat out of the garage so we can put both cars in it. I think Dad's really happy. Isn't it fancy?