Tuesday, June 4, 2013

I am AWESOME!! Survey :: Natalie and Andrew Eldredge's Family (7 in one!)


Your name and age:
            Natalie (36),
Andrew (34),
Martin (10),
Mary (9),
James  (6 and 3/4),
Luke (3),
Sally (2 months)
Your parents names:
            Natalie:  Neal and Christine Clark
            Andrew:  David Arthur and Mary Alice Eldredge
    

If you have children, how many? Names and ages.
            Natalie and Andrew:  see above.
Mary: I want to have a kid names Richie (I love that name).
            Martin:  None.
            James:  (wants to have) 1,000,000, 000,111,111, 222,111,111,222,333, 999,999,999.

If you’re married, what is your spouses name and how did you meet?
Natalie: Andrew had the hots for my roommate and was trying to date her.
Mary:  Are you SERIOUS?  I’m a kid!
If you’re in school what grade are you in, what is your favorite thing about school, what is your least favorite thing about school?
            Natalie:  I graduated from college, but I want to take a Chinese class this summer.
            Andrew: Not in school—yeah!, aww…
            Martin: 4th, lunch, math homework
            Mary: 3rd grade, I love Mrs. Bee, I hate homework
            James: 1st grade

Where did you go to college? What did you major in?
            Natalie:  BYU; Family Science with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy
            Andrew: BYU; Mechanical Engineering

If you went on a mission, where?
            Natalie:  Arkansas and Tennessee
            Andrew:  Germany, got sick, and ended up in Iowa. 
           
Where were you born and raised? Where do you live now?

Natalie:  Murray, UT; South Jordan, UT then Cameron Park, CA.  Provo.
            Andrew:  Denver, CO; Wheatridge, CO.  Provo.
Martin, Mary and James:  Orem, UT.  Provo.
Luke:  Tucson, AZ.  Provo.
Sally:  Orem, UT.  Provo.
 
What is your favorite place you have visited - or place you would like to visit?
Natalie:  Rio Secreto, near Cozumel, Mexico.  I want to visit Mount Rushmore.
Andrew: I’d like to visit the Great Wall of China.
Martin: Lagoon
Mary:  Lagoon or camping in Zions.

What is your favorite food?
Natalie:  Lasagna
Andrew: Pineapple curry, five star spicy.
Martin: Spaghetti
Mary: Brownies/ Doritoes
James:  Macaroni and ketchup
Luke: Ramen Noodles
Sally:  Milk

What is your favorite book, movie or both.
Natalie: Books- Little House on the Prairie books, Anne of Green Gables.  Movie- The Scarlet Pimpernel.
Andrew: Movie-The Right Stuff.
Martin: Harry Potter
Mary: Book- The Tale of Despereaux.  Movie- The Croods
James: Books-Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
Luke: Books by Dr. Seuss or Pat Hutchins.  Movies-Wreck It Ralph and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Sally:  Anything as long as mom is holding me.
What is your occupation? What would your dream job be? Or what do you want to be when you grow up?
            Natalie:  Domestic Engineer.  I am what I wanted to be when I grew up.
            Andrew: Engineer.  I want to be a teacher.
            Martin: Miner, Author, Engineer, Pilot, Artist.
            Mary: I want to be a baker, Artist or Zoo Keeper.
What are some things that you enjoy doing?
            Natalie: Sewing, reading, singing, playing piano, writing, hiking.
            Andrew: Flying, Ham radio, Scuba diving.
            Martin: Gymnastics, Rubik’s cube.
            Mary: Art, baking, yoga, gymnastics.
            James:  Creating things out of random stuff.
Luke:  Playing airplanes.
Sally:  Smiling, eating.
What is a goal you have?
            Natalie: Get another college degree.
            Andrew: Earn my instrument rating.
            Martin: Finish the Harry Potter series.
            Mary: Keep up reading.
James:  to get $1,000,200
Luke:  Not break my leg.
Sally:  make it to my 1st birthday.
What is your pet peeve?
            Natalie:  Looking for shoes when it is time to leave.
            Andrew: Commies trying to take over the world.
            Martin: People getting angry at me.
            Mary: Waiting.
            James: Siblings mocking me.
            Luke: I have to eat my dinner before I can jump on the trampoline.
            Sally:  Mom putting me down.

What was your most funny or embarrassing moment?
Natalie: If you really must know… Back in college I went on a five mile run on a very hot day.  I was dehydrated and there were no bathrooms around and, well, I had a #2 accident in my running shorts.
Andrew: I ran a red light this morning.
Martin: When I tried to (I can’t read this word on Martin’s survey.  Some trick on the trampoline, I think)  on my back but did a back flip.
Mary: This survey.  Farting or someone telling something I said that should be private.
James:  (I don’t think James gets embarrassed.)
Luke:  (Luke, either.)
Sally:  (Has no shame)
What is your best quality?
Natalie:  I am a good listener.
Andrew: My wife says I am a good lover.  There’s more to me than that.  So much more; I can also solve a rubik’s cube.
Martin: Smart.
Mary: I’m Smart.
James:  I’m a type 1 (energy profile.  A hobby of mom’s lately.).
Luke: Is very fun.
Sally:  Is adorable!

Share an interesting fact that we don’t know about you.
Natalie:  I have never had braces, and I don’t have any cavity fillings.
Andrew: I don’t know who you are or what you don’t know.
Martin: I made my own language.
Mary:  I have a freckle on my bottom lip.
James: Speaks Chinese
Luke: Says “please”, “thank you” and “sorry” without being told!
Sally:  Just learned to say “goo”.
Share something you would like to do or see some day, or a dream that you have already fulfilled.
Natalie: After being on anti-depressants for ten years, I have been healed from depression.
Andrew: I have a family.  I’d like to see my kids become super-kind super-geniuses.
Martin: Rubik’s tournament.
Mary: Be the nicest mom ever.
James:  Get a robot.
Luke:  Ride in a helicopter.
Sally:  I was born!  I want to run around with the other kids.

What do you love to do most with your family? 
Natalie:  Read stories.
Andrew:  Throw a ball.
Martin: Go on the trampoline.
Mary: Jump on the trampoline.
Do you have anything else to add about yourself or interesting facts or stories from your life?
            Natalie:  I can’t believe I found enough time to type all this!
Andrew:  I swam with a shark.  The shark could swim faster than me.  I like morse code.
            Martin: None!
Mary: I have lots of friends:  Paige, Lizzy, Zoe, Kaitlyn, Alison, Grace, Kiersten, Breianna, Zidia, Jaylen, Siena, Addie, Sally, Lily, Hannah, Cami, Lindsey, Mrs. Bee.
James:  When James was two years old, he developed a kidney disease as a result of an untreated Strep infection.  That’s when we discovered James catches strep without showing any symptoms.  Luckily his body healed from the kidney disease on its own.
Luke: When Luke was almost two, he shoved a metal rod through his soft pallet and had to have emergency surgery.

I am AWESOME!! Survey :: Stella Ungricht


Your name and age:
Stella Bray Ungricht
age 5

Your parents names:
Kellie and Bubba

If you’re in school what grade are you in, what is your favorite thing
about school, what is your least favorite thing about school?

Kindergarten (next year) 
I like to write my name
I don't like to sit on the rug.


How would you describe yourself?
Happy & silly

Where were you born and raised? Where do you live now?
At the hospital, Hollywood avenue.

What is your favorite place you have visited - or place you would like to
visit?
My cabin. Disneyland.

What is your favorite food?
Ice cream and donuts.

What is your favorite book, movie or both.
A princess book
My Little Pony and HorseLand


What music do you like to listen to?
Princess music

What do you want to be when you grow up?
A nurse

What are some things that you enjoy doing?
Go to McDonalds. Play with friends. Crafts

Do you have any special talents or things you’re learning to do?
good handwriting. Good at making crafts. Want to learn the violin.

What is your pet peeve?
When I'm behind a branch and the branch touches me.

Have you been on any adventures?
Went under the bridge at boston's baseball game with my friends.

Something you’re afraid of?
Halloween.

What was your most funny or embarrassing moment?
We were making chalk with this kit we got and there were different molds you could do, they were all space themed: moon, rocket, etc. and there was just this part of the plastic that went down like a little cup in the middle, not meant to be a mold, just there to strenghen the plastic and we were deciding who would do which shape and she asked me "you want church cup?" She is always saying funny things and making me laugh till I cry!

What is your best quality?
Nice and helpful

Share an interesting fact that we don’t know about you.
I'm a ballerina

Share something you would like to do or see some day, or a dream that you
have already fulfilled.
Have my own horse.

Favorite thing you like to do with your family?
Go on a walk.

I am AWESOME!! Survey :: Boston Ungricht


Your name and age:
Boston William Ungricht
age 6 and 11/12ths

Your parents names:
Kellie and Bubba

If you’re in school what grade are you in, what is your favorite thing
about school, what is your least favorite thing about school?
In 2 days I'll be in 2nd grade

How would you describe yourself?
fun & nice

Where were you born and raised? Where do you live now?
Hospital. The house.

What is your favorite place you have visited - or place you would like to
visit?
Bear Lake. Disney Land.

What is your favorite food?
Crepes & Ice Cream

What is your favorite book, movie or both.
Book: Captain Underpants. Movie: Cars 2

What music do you like to listen to?
One Direction.

What do you want to be when you grow up?
Vulcanologist and an astronaut

What are some things that you enjoy doing?
playing video games, playing with my friends

Do you have any special talents or things you’re learning to do?
Math, front flips, starwars (I have 30 levels completed). I want to learn to do backflips.

What is a goal you have?
To complete every video game I have.

What is your pet peeve?
When I'm watching something and Stella wants to watch something different. And when my parents make me eat stuff I don't like.

Have you been on any adventures?
Yes. I walked with some friends to a sunflower patch at the dad and kids campout. Went on a water slide by myself.

Something you’re afraid of?
My parents being downstairs and I'm being upstairs all alone.

What is your best quality?
That I can go on water slides all by myself.

Share an interesting fact that we don’t know about you.
I collect pokemon cards.

Something you would like to do or see some day?
Parachute out of a plane.

Favorite thing you like to do with your family?
visit the fire station when dad's there.
go to raging waters
go to lagoon
go to the cabin
go to bear lake

I Am AWESOME!! Survey :: Bubba Ungricht


Your name and age:
Nathan Jerry Ungricht AKA Bubba age 34

If you have children, how many?
3 kids. Boston is almost 7. Stella is 5. Fisher is 1.

How would you describe yourself?
Bubba is outgoing, friendly, not afraid of anything, loves people, has to always be doing something, ambitious, usually can get whatever he sets his mind to.

Where did you go to college? What did you major in?
He went to SLCC and now UVU, general studies, wants to major in Fire Science.

If you went on a mission, where?
Dublin, Ireland

Where were you born and raised? Where do you live now?
Born in Oklahoma, adopted and raised here in salt lake and still live here.

What is your favorite place you have visited - or place you would like to
visit?
Ireland to both questions.

What is your favorite food?
Shrimp

What is your favorite book, movie or both.
Book: Lone Survivor  -   Movie: Band of Brothers

What music do you like to listen to?
Indie Rock

What is your occupation? What would your dream job be? Or what do you want to be when you grow up?
He is a firefighter and also works at the Sports Den - and anything to earn dough (mowing lawns, selling cars, fixing bikes). Dream job would be a U.S. Navy Seal.

What are some things that you enjoy doing?
Road biking and Mtn. Biking, Snowboarding.

Do you have any special talents or things you’re learning to do?
Bubba can figure out how to fix anything and can get a deal on pretty much anything because he knows someone everywhere - it really comes in handy. He wants to learn how to play the bagpipes. He is talented at taking an hour to get to the end of the street when we go on walks because he stops and talks to everyone for-EVER!

What is a goal you have?
To be in love and stay in love with my wife for the rest of my life. (Awwwww)

What is your pet peeve?
eating with your mouth open, loud eaters

Have you been on any adventures?
Yes, everyday I go to work is an adventure.

Something you’re afraid of?
Kellie

What was your most funny or embarrassing moment?
Falling over like a tree at the dog park (He slipped down a muddy slope and just went stiff straight - arms at sides, didn't even try to catch himself, it was hilarious looking. I think I laughed all day.)

What is your best quality?
His optimism and ability to talk to anyone.

Share an interesting fact that we don’t know about you.
He played the saxaphone in highschool and was the singer in a punk band. Despite all the war movies he likes, he also likes teeny-bopper love story movies like A Cinderella Story starring Hillary Duff hee hee...

Share something you would like to do or see some day, or a dream that you
have already fulfilled.
Normandy and the areas around Euorpe to look at the WWII history.

Favorite thing you like to do with your family?
Go to Ireland.

I Am AWESOME!! Survey :: Kellie Ungricht


Your name and age:
Kellie Sue Ungricht

Your parents names:
Jan Clark and Larry Clark

If you have children, how many?
Boston is almost 7. Stella is 5. Fisher is 1.

If you’re married, what is your spouses name and how did you meet?
I met bubba a couple of times in high school then one day when I was in collage I was up at brighton ski resort and my friend who was a liftie said “Bubba is looking for you”  and I saw him the next run. Which was weird because we hadn’t seen eachother for about 3 or 4 years before that.  I’ve been hanging out with him pretty much everyday since then.

How would you describe yourself?
Quiet, not very good with words, pretty good with kids. A work in progress.

 

Where did you go to college? What did you major in?
Graduated from the U of U in graphic design.

Where were you born and raised? Where do you live now?
Born and raised in and around Salt Lake area, still live here in the sugar house area.

What is your favorite place you have visited - or place you would like to
visit?
I’m such a home body, I just like to be at home, but my favorite vacation was when Bubba and I took a trip to southern Utah on the motorcycle. I was so afraid for my life, and even wrote out a will before I left (ha ha) but it was so fun! Bubba has some friends that work at Harley-Davidson of SLC so we went with a group of them, we were part of a biker gang! It was hilarious, we felt a little out of place  but I loved riding on the motorcycle and seeing Zions and all the scenery on the way down out in the open like that, it was amazing.

What is your favorite food?
Greek potatoes from Sugar House Barbeque – you have to try them!

What is your favorite book, movie or both.
I like “My turn on Earth” a book from when I was a kid, makes me cry every time. Also I just read, “Love is a Verb” By Mary Ellen Edmunds. It’s great! Funny and inspirational. And movie, right now I like the Lorax.

What music do you like to listen to?
I like instrumental mostly. I like The Piano Guys a lot.

What is your occupation? What would your dream job be? Or what do you want to be when you grow up?
I am a mom and a graphic designer at night. I’d love to be and illustrator or a nurse (totally unrelated I know).

What are some things that you enjoy doing?
Drawing, reading/studying, holding sleeping babies (the best thing in the world), art projects with my kids, teaching them important things, riding on the motorcycle to BYU games and snowboarding.

Do you have any special talents or things you’re learning to do? 
I guess I'm talented at making posters for church and school activities - I do enough of them! I am trying to learn the piano, slowly, very slowly.

What is a goal you have?
To be more confident.

What is your pet peeve?
Listening to chewing, especially on ice. And when someone in my house has a relentless cough.

Have you been on any adventures?
Marriage and parenthood. Whoa.

Something you’re afraid of?
Tornados, the ocean, getting trapped on an elevator.

What was your most funny or embarrassing moment?
I’ve forgotten my kids names twice when people have asked me. My mind literally goes blank sometimes when I’m talking to people.

Also one time on a boating trip with some friends I packed cortisone cream instead of toothpaste and started brushing my teeth with it, when I realized what was in my mouth I  was too embarrassed to attract attention to myself so I just held it in my mouth until I had a chance to spit it out unnoticed!

Most gross moment recently: squishing a spider between my fingers that was running up my neck while I was asleep. EEEEEEEWWW!!!!

What is your best quality?
I’m pretty good with kids and I'm compassionate.

Share an interesting fact that we don’t know about you.
I can fold my tongue in half backwards too like aunt Chris!

Also I tend to unintentionally give really weird nicknames to my kids that seem to evolve over time. Right now stella is Shnoozit or Snelzy, Boston is Soft-it (there is a story behind that one), Fisher is Duddy-wee-boy or Fur-thur.

Share something you would like to do or see some day, or a dream that you
have already fulfilled.
Someday I’d like to learn how to oil paint and play the piano effortlessly. Also I hope I have the guts to foster a child at some point in my life.

Favorite thing you like to do with your family?
Go to the school track and run around and play football or catch or ride bikes. Go swimming and skiing.

Saturday, June 1, 2013

I am AWESOME!! Survey :: Mindie Clark

Your name and age: 
Mindie Clark, 23

Your parents names: 
Neal and chris clark

If you have children, how many? 
1 birth daughter, Nora Barrett, 11 months


If you’re in school what grade are you in, what is your favorite thing about school, what is your least favorite thing about school? 
Just graduated with a BS in exercise science

How would you describe yourself? 
Positive, fun to be around unless I'm hungry. Attempting to be athletic!

Where did you go to college? 
What did you major in?
UVU, exercise science


Where were you born and raised? Where do you live now? 
 born in south Jordan, grew up in Northern California and flagstaff Arizona. Currently live in Provo Utah!

What is your favorite place you have visited - or place you would like to visit? 
I would LOVE to travel to Peru and/or Switzerland. We went as a family to the Mediterranean which was amazing! 

What is your favorite food? 
Chocolate:)

What is your favorite book, movie or both. 
Movie: Remember the Titans. Not sure on fave book

What music do you like to listen to?  
Country

What is your occupation? What would your dream job be? 
Currently a retail manager and temporary professor at UVU. Would love to get a PhD and be a full time college professor. Or a teenage popstar!

What are some things that you enjoy doing? 
Outdoorsy things, breaking bones, sleeping.

Do you have any special talents or things you’re learning to do?
 Making my way to a marathoner/long endurance running. One of my biggest talents is losing EVERYTHING (some might say even my brain)

What is a goal you have? 
Have a giant family

What is your pet peeve? 
Picking up hair on the floor between my toes

Have you been on any adventures? 
Mostly life. I lived in DC as a nanny for a summer...interesting experience 

Something you’re afraid of? 
Swimming with fish. Ew! Or snakes in the water.

What was your most funny or embarrassing moment? 
One Sunday at church my niece rubbed her hand on my unshaven legs and screamed "ouch! Mommy it hurt me!"

What is your best quality? 
Making up song lyrics (cause I don't know any real ones)


Share an interesting fact that we don’t know about you.
 I love turtles. I think they're the coolest thing ever. 

Share something you would like to do or see some day, or a dream that you have already fulfilled. 
Something that changed my life was the day I placed Nora with her family for adoption. It was heartbreaking for me but I knew she would have amazing opportunities with her new family. I hope that one day she'll be proud of me for making that decision. 

I Am AWESOME!! Survey :: Steve Clark


Your name and age:
Steven David Clark, 34


Your parents names: 

Neal and Chris Clark (the second, and most favorite, son)


If you have children, how many?

3-but I want as many as my wife will give me

If you’re married, what is your spouses name and how did you meet? 
Erica-we met while wearing bathing suits at the local pool where she worked and I pretended to work.


If you’re in school what grade are you in, what is your favorite thing about school, what is your least favorite thing about school? 

I am no longer in school—yea!!


How would you describe yourself? 

Tired but happy


Where did you go to college? What did you major in? 

Utah Valley University; Technology Management


If you went on a mission, where? 

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma—Whoop whoop!!

Where were you born and raised? Where do you live now?
Born in Sandy, raised in South Jordan, lived in Cameron Park, CA. Lived in Provo for the last 10 years.

What is your favorite place you have visited - or place you would like to visit? 
I would love to go to Yellowstone.

What is your favorite food? 
There’re so many I can’t choose

What is your favorite book, movie or both. 
This one is even harder to choose

What music do you like to listen to?
Classical, instrumental, movie soundtracks especially

What is your occupation? What would your dream job be? Or what do you want to be when you grow up? 
Steel Detailer (AKA Time Slave). My dream job is to be a Disneyland Train Engineer with Benjamin.  I want to be a stay-at-home dad when I grow up.

What are some things that you enjoy doing?
Sleeping, playing with the kids, going on dates (with my wife).

Do you have any special talents or things you’re learning to do?
I am what my wife calls the “master packer.” I can fit anything into our car, with inches to spare.

What is a goal you have? 
To become a project manager and move my family into a home with a big backyard (pool for my wife and train room for my son), master bathroom, and a GARAGE!!

What is your pet peeve?
 Honking horns when there is no legitimate need for it!

Have you been on any adventures?
Northbound on I-15 every morning

Something you’re afraid of? 
A bear in an alligator suit

What was your most funny or embarrassing moment? 
Dropping a gallon of milk at my surprise graduation party. My kids still won’t let me forget it.

What is your best quality? 
I am super good at interacting with kids—sometimes it is easier than interacting with adults

Share an interesting fact that we don’t know about you.
I am Iron Man

Share something you would like to do or see some day, or a dream that you have already fulfilled. 
Graduate from college—it was a long time comin’!