Golden Turkey IX

Jeff, I need to relay a message to the Golden Turkey for me. Tell it not to get too comfy in the Lonestar State. I have completed a purchase in my quest to acquire the services of said Turkey.

Yes, I finally have a table of my own. I will no longer be practicing on the kitchen table using Stephen King novels as my pseudo net. No more drills using the walls and children as obstacles. The result? No more sleepless nights without the Turkey that has always belonged to me. No more nightmares of the penhold grip backhand coming at me at speeds rivaling Tony Stewart at Daytona. No more watching the old man twist my body into a human pretzel with his mix of spins and short-hand serves. The Turkey is coming home to the Land of Enchantment. I called Bill Richardson and now that his presidential campaign is over he is getting the parade down Central Street ready. They are printing the Rhett Street signs already to replace Juan Tabo Dr. I have already signed up to do autographs at Big 5, Sports Authority and during next year's Isotopes/Lobos exhibition game. The Balloon Fiesta is putting together a ping pong ball shaped balloon for October's festivities. The Lobos are considering changing "The Pit" to "Rhett's Killer Forehand Arena". Better wear your beret and munch on some baguettes Jeffrey because Golden Turkey IX will be your waterloo.

Reacclimation

We are 7 months back from our mission and are still trying to adjust. I am posting this comment to see what it looks like on the blog. If you want to see our facebook page go to www.facebook.com. Then search for Bruce L. Hunt. The site mostly pertains to our missionaries. We have been busy going to missionary weddings. We had 9 in January that we know of and probably a couple that we will find out about soon. I am busy in the ward. I am a young single adult advisor, a high priest quorum instructor, the men's basketball coach, chairman of the ward 35 year reunion and a home teacher. Marianne is a young single adult advisor and visiting teacher. She is signing up to work in the temple again.

Wake up people

Hey family. Is anyone reading these? You do all know that you can post, right? We'd really like to hear about what's going on with the rest of you. New Mexican winters just can't keep our attention.

Mom and Dad, make sure you get Emily on this thing. I want to know what she thinks of Shaq being a Sun. It's got to be killing her. I'm sure she went on a rampage shortly thereafter. Just tell her that the Jazz bandwagon is ready to get her 100% commitment.

Snow day New Mexican style

Just wanted to post some pictures of the boys so you can all see how much they've grown (and to see if I could figure out how to do it). Little Dieter (Andrew) already needs glasses. They don't make them his size though so we have had to improvise. He's the first kid to actually increase the amount of accidents after receiving glasses than before. Zachary celebrated birthday #4 last month He got some transformers, more transformers and a Doug Flutie football cake. He does, however, have to fight with his dad to play with the transformers. His dad's parents were to cheap to buy Transformers so he only got to
play with GoBots. We are waiting for the cast to come off so we can hit one of the local casinos for a birthday party. Ironically, the casinos are the only places with smoke-free bowling alleys and arcades. The last picture shows the boys during Porter's first snow day. ABQ public schools delayed school for 2 hours and then decided to just shut the entire day down. The snow was almost completely melted by 10:00 a.m. Porter was excited, Zach was enthused, Andrew was blissfully ignorant and Stephanie was undeniably upset. She tried to get me home from work, but I told her that I was lucky to even get there with so much snow and that I thought it'd be safer if I waiting for it all to melt. At 10:00 when it had all melted I was too busy matching debits and credits to answer any phone calls. I thought those of you in the Salt Lake blizzards would have a good laugh at this.

Life in ABQ

Finally, we are getting a family website up and going. We sent out invites to everyone to start making posts on this so we don't have to ask mom how everyone's doing anymore. I've also added links to stephanie's blog and jeff/diane's website (although I couldn't get the direct link since you need to sign in to get there). Let's all keep in touch on this or else dad has threatened to start a family newsletter.



Things in the Duke City are good. I continue to bleed green. I'm currently training my replacements so that I can start putting in for promotions this next fall. Yes, it does take two New Mexicans to equal the work of one Utahan. I finally have everything ready to submit for my CPA certification and may actually put it in next week. I passed the last section last April so I guess I've procrastinated enough.



Steph has 5 kids over twice a week for preschool. I guess three boys just wasn't enough work. She updates her blog religiously so make sure you check it out.



Porter is doing good at school. They are going to start having him read with the first graders because he's doing so well. Nice to be in New Mexico where we have the smartest kids.



Zachary's still on the IR with the broken leg. Just a few more weeks until he's free. Unfortunately we're sure it will be just like his last one where his leg was so weak that he had to be carried everywhere for a week after.



Andrew is absorbing Zachary's personality. It's making for some interesting moments in the Hunt home. There is a lot of yelling and fighting between the two. It must come from the Peterson side because I don't remember much fighting in our house. Andrew is, however, the happiest one year old alive.



Well, I've begun the kids' portion of updating this site. We here in exile would love to hear from those of you still in Zion and the others in the Lonestar State.

We are 7 months back from our mission and are still trying to adjust. I am posting this comment to see what it looks like on the blog. If you want to see our facebook page go to www.facebook.com. Then search for Bruce L. Hunt. The site mostly pertains to our missionaries. We have been busy going to missionary weddings. We had 9 in January that we know of and probably a couple that we will find out about soon. I am busy in the ward. I am a young single adult advisor, a high priest quorum instructor, the men's basketball coach, chairman of the ward 35 year reunion and a home teacher. Marianne is a young single adult advisor and visiting teacher. She is signing up to work in the temple again.