ANTELOPE BEWARE!!!!!!!

SSSSHHHHHAAAAAAZZZZZZAAAAAAAMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!! WELL EVERYONE I FINALLY DREW OUT FOR ANTELOPE! I KNOW YOU ALL JUST HAD INSTANT FLASH BACKS TO THAT EARLY MORNING SOMEWHERE OUT ON THE WEST DESERT, ENDLESSLY BOUNCING AROUND IN THE BACK SEAT OF THE TRUCK, TRYING TO SIP SCORCHING HOT CHOCOLATE WHILE LOOKING FOR ANTELOPE. AND HOW CAN WE FORGET, THE TRAGIC MOMENT THAT BROUGHT TEARS TO TANIS'S EYES WHEN DAD ACTUALLY SHOT ONE! I REMEMBER THAT DAY AND HOW COOL IT WAS, BUT ALSO REMEMBER HOW BAD THAT THING STUNK! ANYWAY TOTALLY PUMPED TO GO CHASE SOME SPEED GOATS THIS FALL. I HAVE BEEN DOING SOME RESEARCH ON THESE BAD DAWGS AND FOUND OUT THAT THEY CAN SEE 320 DEGREES AND ARE THE SECOND FASTEST LAND ANIMAL BEHIND THE CHEETAH! YEAH, AND I HAVE TO KILL WITH A BOW. SO WE WILL SEE IF I HAVE ANY SWEET BOWHUNTING SKILLS....
MOVING ON, LIFE IS GOOD HERE IN SPRING TOWN. SHELANE FINALLY GOT HOME FROM GUATEMALA, AND IT WAS ABOUT TIME. DAD I CAN BEGIN TO FEEL A LITTLE OF WHAT YOU DO WHILE MOM IS OUT TOURING THE WORLD, IT WAS GOOD TO HAVE HER HOME AGAIN. NATURECARE IS MOVING ALONG AND WE JUST FINISHED UP EARLY SPRING TREATMENTS. WE BURNT UP A FEW LAWNS A LITTLE BIT BUT THEY BOUNCED RIGHT BACK AND ARE DOING WELL. WE HAVE SOLD RIGHT AROUNG 48 NEW SALES THIS YEAR AND ARE RETAINING CLOSE TO 3 OUT OF 4 OF OUR EXISTING CUSTOMERS, SO THINGS ARE COMING ALONG. I HAVE BEEN LOOKING INTO NATURAL GAS VEHICLES BECAUSE THEY CAN FILL UP FOR 63 CENTS A GALLON, WHILE I SPEND ALMOST 100 BILLS EVERYTIME I FILL UP MY SERVICE TRUCK SO THAT WOULD SAVE SOME SWEET CASH IF WE COULD REALLY DO IT.
SHELANE HAS STARTED THE TWIGHLIGHT SERIES AND IS READING NON STOP FOR THE PAST WEEK. SHE HAS ALREADY READ ONE AND IS ALMOST DONE WITH THE NEXT. WE ARE SO EXCITED TO SEE EVERYONE IN CALIFORNIA, IT IS GONNA BE SOME GOOD TIMES. LOVE YOU ALL!

It's finally spring!!!!

Well I guess it's time for a few words from the frozen few in the north countries. The sun has finally made it's presence felt. It's beautiful in Idaho in the spring! We are in a frantic rage to fertilize and stay ahead of the farmers who want to plant. We are down to about 5 fields left and then we can sigh in relief and head to sunny California to meet up with you all! I can actually say I'm looking forward to Disneyland. I guess it's true when they say, "time heals all wounds". I'm making it known right here and now that I speak to take the grand kids on Peter Pan, Pirates and the spooky mansion. There will be no discussion on the matter. Grandma and I still have a few privileges.
Today we had stake conference which was really regional conference via satellite broadcast from SLC and it was great. Pres Uchtdorf gave us some interesting stats and thoughts. He said that there are 270,000 people in this area and I know that the growth is projected to be 1,000,000 in the next 5 years. He said people would come here as a refuge. He said there are 67 stakes in this region with 1832 missionaries in the field from here. He said that historically this is a great place from which many missionaries come, but challenged every young man to serve a mission. If you figure it out that's about 3.5 missionaries/ward. We're making more perspective elders than we are making missionaries. He asked us 2 questions. What are you doing to increase your personal faith? What are you doing in your family and marriage to increase your faith?
He said 3 things must happen. 1. We must all have a current temple recommend. (CTR) temple worthy all the time! 2. Study the word of God. (2 pages) 3.Speak with God each day and listen. This old world is in chaos. Do your best to prepare for tougher times to come. We love you and pray for each of you each day. CTR and keep smiling, Love Dad

Hello everyone, Well it looks like Tanis is the only that is safe so the rest of you including myself are grounded and if you look outside your window you might find your bike up in the tree. My bike is not in the tree but over the past week I have forgotten my combination for my lock so the grounding powers seem to come in different packages. My bike is worthless right now, I might have to cut off the lock. I don't know.

I am so excited for everyone to come. I am so grateful that you are all coming, I have the BEST family in the world. You really don't know how much this means to me. It makes me want to cry. I can't wait to see how full my house can be. Richard, I have already reserved the counter for you to sleep on. But don't worry, you are no where near the cupboards and so the honey will not attack you but I do think that this experience will bring back the good old days of the 5th wheel. It's going to be fun.

I heard Porter has been measuring himself like crazy. Buddy, I know you are going to be tall enough to ride all the rides! Get ready to go on the tea cups, those are my favorite. I am sure Dad is super excited to be going to disneyland again :) It will be fun to have the kids, can Claire where her bell dress one day? I want her to.

Well as for me, I am surviving. I only have about 5 more weeks of grad school left. That is so crazy to think about !!!! But I am excited for the next chapter in my life. I hoping that chapter involves a young man or just a man that I really like but not a old man. Now I am just rambling. I am apply for jobs right now so if you hear of any send them my way. Mostly that comment was for Joni. I am apply for Laguna High School right now. This is the high school MTV does that show about. It will be a lot different from Provo High but we'll see. I went to there dance concert last night and I had to call mom and vent to her for about an hour. The show was Moulin Rouge and the costumes were bought from victoria Secret. It was frightening at times. But it would be a good challenge.

Well that's about it for now. It's getting hot here and I can't wait to see all of you.

Love ya,
marci

Slacker

Hey everyone! I know, I too have been a slacker on this blog site! It is just killing me though-I post so much stuff on my personal family blog and I feel bad that I haven't posted here for quite some time. The truth is that it just takes so much time for me to post on my other site and they are so funny (sometimes) and blogger has changed its thing so I can't cut and paste anymore from my site-re-typing the rambling madness would take years! And for my house's sake (because if I neglect my children for twice the amount of time, my house would be a tornado disaster) I have just posted there...but I do vow that I will re=post on here when the kids are sleeping and napping so everyone has the best of both worlds-mommy and sis-in-law/daughter-in-law...but in the meanwhile I love you all and can't wait to see Marci's concert in just a few weeks! Tuttle family time is the best! Check out my blog-you all have been invited!!!!! Come on! It's www.tuttlefamilyarchive.blogspot.com. You HAVE to check out what your sweet brother and son gave me for my birthday! It's a secret until you go there and find out! He's the best! Love you all---Erica

Awesome experience

Hello Everyone,

I feel like I haven't written on this blog for ages. But I really don't have any awesome news. Life is about the same. Ballet is good. We are doing Swan Lake (well the 2nd act, there are 3 acts for all who wanted to know)but it is going good. School is OVER!!!!!!!!!!! I am so happy about that. I think my 20 pg. english paper almost did me in, but with the help of my sisters, I was able to pull it off. Thanks sisters so much for all of your help. I love you. As far as everything else goes, it is about the same. All I can say, is I am so excited to go to california. AH, it is going to be AWESOME.

So I have to tell you about this awesome experience I had. Ok so two guys from Ballet West (which is in Salt Lake) came and performed with us during Legend of Timpanogos. One boy, named Alex, started to ask about our church. He grew up in a christian high school, so he knows the bible extremely well, but he wanted to know things about our church. He went to temple square to look around and found this awesome couple missionaries that started to work with him. He went to General Conference with Rachelle, and then he started to become really interested. Rachelle and I, met him up at temple square to go see the Joseph Smith movie, and all I have to say is you MUST see it. It is so good. I was crying, and I felt the spirit so strongly in that movie. It was so awesome. Anyways, we then talked to the couple missionaries for about 2 hours after the movie. It was awesome. I felt like a missionary, and I knew Alex felt the spirit too. Rachelle and I totally felt like he was going to read the B.O.M and know it was true. Well the next day he found out about polygamy, and how Joseph Smith practiced it and he freaked out. We don't really know how he is doing now. After the freak out, we still took him to institute and the lesson was amazing. We are still hoping that touched his heart, and he is able to understand the things he is seeking for. He went home to Tennessee, and we know he is going to finish the B.O.M so we hope he lets in the truth. Anyways, even though it did not go as well as we would have liked, it was such an amazing experience to contribute to the lord's work. I grew so much from that experience. I just hope he can read the B.O.M and feel what we have all felt.

The gospel is so amazing. I know this isn't any new experience for the RMs, but it was really neat for me because I have never experienced anything like that. That is about everything that is happening. Only like 3 weeks until I can see most of you. YEAH!!!!!!!! Well I love you all, and miss you all alot. Talk to you soon, and yes I still have brown hair. No one recognizes me anymore. I saw grandma right after I got it done, and she thought I was someone's girlfriend. It is kind of sad, but i like my brown hair for now. I guess I will see how it grows out and then make a decision. Just thought I would give you an update on my appearance before you all see me so you can recognize me. haha Love you

More of my recent pics.......

I don't want my bike in the tree......

Ok, so it has seriously been forever since I have posted. It is ridiculous really, and I am not sure why it has taken me so long to repent and suck it up. So sorry everyone. I am sure you all have been just freaking out wondering if we are still alive here in Pittsburgh, so let me resolve all of your concerns.

We are alive........barely, but at least we can say that much. No really we are doing great out here. Pittsburgh has finally turned spring which I cannot tell you what it has done to my outlook on life here. Thank heaven that seasons change and that the sun can actually repair what seasonal depression disorder has done to me over the winter months. Not to mention the mere fact that I don't feel like I am going to throw up constantly anymore. I am 18 weeks now and just plugging along. Hudson is talking more and more all the time and definitely getting older. I am starting to get the feeling that the terrible two's might be coming on here pretty quick. The constant "no, i don wan it" (yes that is the pronunciation)is starting to wear on me, so we continually have the talk of "no, you don't tell mom and dad no" and "are you listening to me?" I think I may be in for it. But, we will keep going of course and hope that somehow things will work out and I can at least have the patience I need to get through it!

So, I don't know if you all watched the video of Jeep Hunting with Hudson. I will attach it here so you can watch it again, but it is pretty hilarious how much this kid LOVES and really is OBSESSED with Jeeps or "Pee Pee's". I kind of had to get used to the idea of him being in public, seeing a Jeep somewhere off in the distance and him screaming "Pee Pee" at the top of his lungs. It really is crazy though how he can spot them. He says it and then I will seriously look for at least a couple of minutes until I find one clear down the road, parked behind another car or something. He just loves them so much and is constantly saying "bye, pee pee". He wants to ride in the jeep all the time. It is pretty cute.

So I have to tell you a funny story. Erica already got the low down on it already, but I thought you all would enjoy it since there seems to be a little of the Tuttle temper in all of us. I probably have more than most and realize through this experience that I might have to learn to fine tune it just a little bit. So Friday, Tim, Hudson and I went to the mall to let Hudson play at the little play place there. He had been stuck in the house all day and was just dying to go somewhere and with it being rainy, there was not much of another option. So, we proceed to take off his shoes and begin to run around with the MASS of children that were running, jumping, skidding, flying off all of the slides that were in this place. Hudson has a specific slide that he just loves but it was a little tricky trying to manuver around all the kids. Well after dodging everyone for a little bit, Hudson came over and was busting Tim after managing to go down the slide the SLOWEST of anyone it the place. He didn't have good pants on. Anyway, out of no where this little black kid came over and started staring at Tim. He sat there for a minute and finally Tim said Hi which he replied with a Hi back. He then asked Tim what his name was and exclaimed that his name was "Marcus". He then went on his busy way. He was probably about 6. So a little bit later, I notice that Marcus is hanging around Hudson quite a bit.....just kind of following him a long. Hudson was just playing not really paying any attention to anyone specifically when all of a sudden he starts getting bumped into by Marcus. I of course was watching at which point my insides started to heat up a little bit. I sat there assimilating the situation for a minute and watched as Marcus would run and just hit into Hudson, making him fall over and then crawl on him when he was down. I turned to Tim and said "Marcus is doing that on purpose and if he doesn't knock it off I am going to go over there". Tim at that point was just like "Hudson is fine, don't worry about it", when all of the sudden, Marcus knocked him over again and bulldozed him to the ground. I immediately sprung into action, not even really thinking about it. I walked over to them laying on the ground and picked up Hudson and looked Marcus in the eye and said, "Marcus, I don't want you to touch Hudson again. That is NOT NICE. If you cannot play nice on the playground then you won't be able to play here anymore." Marcus just stared at me, probably wondering what in the world I was doing scolding him, but it seriously ticked me off. This six or seven year old kid, purposefully picking on a little two year old. Come on......parents where are you? He was definitely old enough to know better. So then I went back to my seat and Hudson followed me over, upset by the whole situation. Of course I would be too, having had a six year old smash my face in the carpet. I held him for a minute until he settled down and wanted to play again, but of course I just felt the blood boiling while I sat there. I honestly had to make some serious mental exertion to get it out of my mind and move on and it wasn't until the car ride home that I finally let it go. It was probably ridiculous really, but it was the first time that I had experienced someone deliberately trying to hurt my child and I didn't like it. I guess I am going to have to learn some patience there or something, either that or attack anyone who attempts to hurt my children. I guess I am a little protective...............

Well, other than that, life is good. I have been doing a little more photography lately and am working on a blog to showcase some of the pictures I have taken. I have really enjoyed it and it has been nice to have a little something to do that makes me feel like I have an identity outside of Tim's wife and Hudson's mom. I hope to do a little more now that the weather is starting to warm up. I have posted a few of the recent shots I have done.

Mostly, I just love you all so much. I am so thankful for the family that we have. Keep posting- actually start posting. I can say that now because I finally did. I love you all and hope that I can see the brunette Joni before you change back into your normal identity. Love you all. Tanis

Hey Things, Everyone needs to post something by Friday or your grounded and Dad is going to throw your bike up in the tree!

Love Marci