Most Embarrassing Story

Dustin:
In 3rd grade I chose to wear that little cat costume for Halloween that was in the costume box. It wasn't until the very end of the day on the way home that I realized the tights that I wore we're quite see-through and you could see my ninja turtle underwear.

Jana:
During my first year of EFY, I was eating dinner with my group. The chairs we were sitting on had rubber on the bottoms of them, and were on top of carpet, which made it pretty difficult to scoot your chair in and out. When we were done eating, I was trying to get out of my seat, but I couldn't scoot back. So I held onto my seat and sort of hopped up with it while leaning back. My chair tipped over backwards and I hit the table behind me, knocking it partway over and making those people's trays slide off the table and onto the floor. There was food everywhere, the entire room went silent, and everyone was staring at me while I was stuck leaning backwards in my chair against this table. Thankfully a really cute boy came up and asked me if I was okay and helped me out of my chair...

Tyson:

My most embarrassing moment occurred thw summer between my junior and senior year of high school while boating with a fairly large group of friends at Deer Creek Reservoir. We were tubing with 2 tubes, having battles and seeing who could stay on the longest. Being the wire that I was I could hold on for a very long time and the boat driver had to get pretty crazy to knock me off. One round I waited until my tube bumped into the other tube and I grabbed my contestant's tube and pirate jumped to their tube and started pushing them off. Once I pried their hands off they tumbled into the water. This left me holding onto both tubes, with my body between them. I was determined to never let go but as my body was skipping across the water and the driver was trying to shake me something happened. I'm not sure whether the bumps somehow untied my shorts or the force of the water just ripped my shorts off but either way, there I was, skipping naked across the water stretched out between 2 tubes. It only took me a couple seconds to realize that something was missing so I let go. We never found my swimsuit, but Mary did throw me some ugly red pants that she had made in sewing class so I could at least cover up. It was pretty funny and totally hilarious! Mary never wanted her pants back after that.

Skyler:

One of my most embarrassing days was in 6th grade. I had diarrhea that day and had already gone to the bathroom a couple times before lunch. I had to go again about 15 minutes before lunch, but I was scared to ask the teacher to go for a third time, so I decided I could just wait it out. It got pretty bad, but the bell finally rang and I zipped out to the bathroom. I got to the stall and everything, but it took me too long to undo my belt and everything and I lost it all literally right in front of the toilet. It got all over my shoes and everything, so I tried to hide them behind the toilet and clean everything off the floor. But there was no way I was going to be able to go out, so I ended up just crouching on top of the toilet so nobody could see I was there. A few kids ended up seeing my shoes behind the toilet and started laughing and I'm pretty sure if I wasn't already crying by that point, I started balling then. Finally someone figured out I was barricaded in the bathroom and had the office come check on me. They called mom, she brought me some extra shorts and I just went home for the day. It was terrible.

Trinsica:

My embarrassing moment was when I was in 4th grade. I was gossiping about one of my friends. All my friends made a weird face and left the table. To my embarrassment, the girl i had been gossiping about was sitting right next to me. I say next to get in class after that and it was so awkward. I'm sure she hated me.... 😳

Mom:

Embarrassing moment #1  I was assigned to hostess BYU sports for Education Week.  As a hostess, you have to make sure everyone who enters the class has a ticket or they don't come in.  They are supposed to wear the ticket on a lanyard. I had just finished one class and the people were coming in for the next one.  I was checking the lanyards and this gentleman started to come in the class without one.  I stopped him and told him he needed a ticket or I couldn't let him in.  He said "I believe I am the next speaker".  I asked "Who are you?".  He looked at me like "are you for real"? and then said "I am Lavell Edwards"!  Then he laughed and I let him in.  Then when the class started he began by saying "the hostess just about didn't let me in because she didn't know who I was! Would you come bring me a drink of water so they all can see who you are?"  He had a big grin on his face which was something he was not known for so I gave them all a good laugh. 

Embarrassing moment #2  When I was a Sr. in High School, my boyfriend was in college and he was a great dancer and very strong a 2 time state champ wrestler and he was 6'3".  He came home on the week ends and we went to the Stake dances together. He could do all kinds of crazy dance moves with me so at the beginning of each dance we would be the first couple on the floor and it was kind of like a floor show with just us out there for the first couple of dances.  One night I wore my very cool red satin disco wrap around skirt that had short ruffles down the side where it wrapped and around the bottom.  It looked great while dancing.  I usually tied the bow in a double knot so it would stay tied.  This particular night as we were dancing our floor show, he did the dance move where you twirl the girl away from you and then bring her back in.  Well in the process of twirling me out, he accidentally grabbed the end of my tie on my skirt and I twirled right out of my skirt until it was on the floor!  We both grabbed for skirt and wrapped it back on me as we ran off the dance floor! 

Embarrassing moment #3 I  While working on the wagon train during the summer the only way to get clean was to go skinny dipping in the cold mountain creek and wash our hair and bodies.  One sunny summer day the other camp cook, Patty Hardesty and myself rode the horses up to a creek to take a bath.  We laid our clothes on the creek bank and proceeded to bath in the very cold water, gasping and screaming as we did so.  As we were just about finished, we heard a helicopter coming nearby so we hid under the bridge that we were near.  The chopper was some forest service people and spotting our clothes on the creek bank, they decided to have some fun.  They came really close and hovered right over the creek so they could see us under the bridge and they stayed there for several minutes just laughing.  Finally they flew away and we were able to haul our numb bodies out of the fridgid water and get dressed.  Those naughty boys!

Travis:

Tyson and I were selling for apx in Buffalo, NY and myself and a few other geniuses decided it would be a good idea to skinny dip after hours in the community pool. Apparently we were being a little too loud so someone called the cops... They flipped on their spotlights and I scrambled out of the pool looking for my shorts with 2 cops getting a free show. They threatened to write is up for indecent exposure, luckily we were salesmen and weaseled out of it somehow. So... Yeah.

Amber:

So I didn't think I had any embarrassing moments.. that I could remember... I am well aware that I get embarrassed often I just couldn't think of any. But today I have been reminded about a few I could share. So at our wedding lunch my friends shared about how we went to Dennys for breakfast and I was so excited because we were finally seniors so we could get a discount now ha ha to bad a sr in high school didn't count :-)

Best Date Stories (The good, the bad, and the ugly)

Travis:

Bad date: I was in a group date w/ Capri Olsen (the girl with eternal hiccups) and we were playing games and I was impersonating Tigger for charades, and hopped onto the tin box and crushed it... I was pretty embarrassed and sorry, but it gets much better... we were sitting in a circle, I was sitting on the couch and she was sitting on the ground in front of me (that's the first problem) I was laughing so hard at one point that I spit me gum out... Straight into her hair! The rest of the date was spent finding a way to get it out without cutting her hair... She loved her hair and it was pretty long... It all worked out in the end though cuz we were good friends :)

Tyson:
I have 2 funny stories about the whole Utah craze of asking and answering for dances: It was either Sophomore or Junior year and Jenn asked me to a dance. That very same day with the help of Travis I found a super duper ugly brown jumpsuit from Savers,  like a mechanic might wear, and taped "I'm going to the dance with Tolman" on the back. We doorbell ditched the jumpsuit with a note telling her that I'd go to the dance with her if she wore this outfit to school the next day. Watching Jenn and her mom find 'the answer ' was hilarious. That night I hardly slept, realizing that my bright idea may have been over the border of acceptableness. The next day she showed up to school with an ugly jumpsuit and a big grin on her face. I was relieved and we all had a good laugh. Luckily this was more embarrassing for me than for her. I'm not sure why I thought that was a good idea.

Later Jenny asked me to a dance and I answered her with a really fancy triple decker checker vanilla chocolate cake that I made myself and was very proud of myself for making. It was beautiful. I wanted to frost it with mom's signature mint chocolate frosting. I asked mom for help but she was either busy or thought I could do it just fine. I guess I put too much mint in it because later when I asked Jenny how the cake was she was like "of course I just threw it away, I didn't want to eat toothpaste" HAHAHA! I was disappointed and told her it was mint chocolate and delicious but she just laughed and didn't believe me. I guess I'd have a hard time trusting me as well after making Jenn wear that ugly brown polyester jumpsuit.

Dustin:

My story is also about a date Travis went on. He was going to take a girl to go see A Walk To Remember, and somehow I convinced Mom to make him take me with him (I wasn't very old, but wanted to test along). So he took me with him. Well we got to the theater and there were no spots with 3 seats together, so Travis let me sit next to his girlfriend while he sat a few rows up and across the aisle. We could see him hiding his face during the sad parts so we didn't see him tearing up.

I remember that Tyson told me about his jumpsuit idea to answer his date. So I took it a step further: I left a package with a super ugly sweater and some home made checkered MC hammer pants and a note that said, "if you want to find out who is asking you to the dance, wear this to school tomorrow". So she showed up with this awful outfit on and I waited until near the end of the day to approach her and said, "so when are you going to give me my clothes back?"

Skyler:
So I don't think I have any crazy date stories, but I can say a couple that come to mind for good/bad dates. For the good one, this is sort of random, but one of the dates I remember most was when we got a bunch of cardboard, duct tape, scissors, and crayons then made cardboard boats to float down the river. My date and I made this cool speedboat shaped and colored like the Superman sign and it was just a fun simple cheap date. One of my other favorite dates was when we made a bunch of cookies together then used LDS tools to pick a few random people in our stake then wrote them each some goofy motivational card and then doorbell ditched the card and cookies.

I really haven't had many bad date stories, but probably my most awkward date was when I was interested in this girl who said she liked to climb mountains, so I thought it would be awesome to take her rock climbing. It turned out that she mostly just liked intense hiking and had never really climbed much before. Either she was scared of heights or just didn't trust me, but she didn't want to do rope climbing (at the Quarry) so we just did bouldering only. She didn't really have the upper body strength to do hardly any of the routes, but she was also a little competitive so she felt really dumb that she couldn't really do anything. I felt really dumb that I was the only one climbing, so I think we stayed for a total of about 20-30 minutes and then just left. At least I took her to ice cream after about wasn't a total disaster.

Cameron:

My interesting date story is when I stole Klarissa Ludwig from redhead Taylor. I can't remember the exact details but He asked her to prom like days after the previous dance (way too early) plus he went to that dance with her. I feel like I was respectful about it by asking Taylor if I may go with her, and he said thats fair and that I may. I brought her a red rose and asked her in person. She was excited to go, but me and Taylor put her in a weird position because after I asked her Taylor kinda changed his mind. He came to my house and pretty much said "we'll see who she chooses" and I was like "no way we can't place her in that position". I told him if he was going to be a baby about it he can just go with her to save her from having to choose. Then after he left I was ticked and called him and said something like
"Taylor if sorry you put yourself in this position, but you gave me permission to ask her, and I already asked her and she said yes, you went to the last dance with her. It's my last year of high school, I AM going to prom with her. Good luck next year"
(he's a year younger)
Anyways I ended up going with her and had a great time.

My bad date was when I was asked by a girl to I think it was Sadie's. I didn't know the girl at all or her group of friends. We made cookies, went to chili's for dinner (i got steak and it was delicious) then went to the dance. During the dance one of the girls got sick and was throwing up. I also felt nauseous. The dance was kind of lame and I didn't have any friends. Then I ended throwing up in the bathroom as well, but I told nobody because I was ready to endure to the end and All the attention was on the other girl who was sick. We ended up leaving early and the drive home was the worst. We had the leftover chili's food in the car and the smell was so that it was very difficult for me not to throw up. During the drive home we stopped at least once pulling over for the other girl to throw up and in the meantime extending my period of time in the verge of throwing up prolonging my arrival to home. It was terrible.

Amber:
So I have an awesome worst date. I feel like it's much better in person but I'll try and do it justice. I was a freshman at Utah state living in Logan. My cousin lived there and called me practically begging me to go on a double date with her and her boyfriend. She set me up with another of her friends, blind date for me. Now, if you knew my cousin you'd know, like I did, that it was going to be an interesting evening.            About ten minutes before they were going to pick me up my cousin called and said she couldn't make it but that her friend still wanted to take me out and asked if that was ok. I actually enjoyed blind dates so I said sure, why not?                   So I watched my roommates all go out together while I waited for some mystery guy to come pick me up. I wish my roommates had stayed because none of them believed me, but my date looked just like Richard Simmons!! He was much taller than me with a brown tightly curled afro, hairy arms and a goatee. He was wearing a white shirt with rainbow suspenders and flood pants. I almost laughed out loud thinking my cousin had to be there hiding because this was some kind of joke. Luckily I held it in and introduced myself while looking around for any more clues that this wasn't for real. I had no witnesses!      We proceeded with the date just him and I and he took me bowling. We got to the lane and started putting the bowling shoes on (which made him look like a legitimate clown) and he asked me if I "liked to get crazy". I wasn't sure what he was asking and didn't really answer and then he pulled out a deck of uno cards. He said we were going to bowl crazy.     So here we are just the two of us drawing an uno card and skipping, or reversing while we went down the lane. It wouldn't have been so awkward if there was a group but we were getting all sorts of looks. Plus I was with Richard Simmons! I have never been so excited for a game to end. It was pretty funny. He was very interesting, we talked for a while at the bowling alley and he had like a list of questions he asked me. I felt like it was an interview. I remember he asked about music and I told him some bands I liked and he hadn't heard of any of them so then he proceeded to tell me his and how much he really enjoyed Latin music. I'm pretty sure we had almost nothing in common, except for my cousin of course :-)

Mom:
Dating experience:  When I went to Ricks College, my roommate's brother used to drive from Alpine Ut, to Rexburg to date me.  He drove a restored antique T-Bird and it was beautiful.  One time he decided to take me to to the sand dunes that are out be Rexburg.  It had been raining a couple days before (it was about this time of year) so it was cold.  He had brought some wood and a grate and steaks.  We were going to build a fire and grill the steaks and he had sparkling cider and side dishes.  He did a lot of prep work and it was planned to be really fun.  However, we got part way to where we were going to go and his car sank up to the axles in the muddy wet sand.  We ended up spending the whole evening trying to get the car out by putting the wood under the tires to back it out of the mud hole, so we used up all the wood getting the car out.  We were thirsty, so we poured some of the sparkling cider in the glass goblets he brought and as we poured it in, it froze to slush.  I remember being really cold and so glad when we finally got the car out. We ate frozen chocolate kisses and sparkling cider slush instead of a nice steak dinner.
My first date with Dad was ice skating at Utah Lake.  We met on a Saturday morning choir practice for the Utah Tech College institute choir.  He and his friends were going to go ice skating so they invited me to go.  I told them I couldn't because I was cutting a guys hair.  Dad said "I may need a hair cut, can I get your number and call you for a hair cut?" So I gave him my number and he called me for a hair cut and then took me ice skating.  While on that date he asked me on something like three more dates.  I thought OK, this guy must really like me, but he is too young.  However he must be older than I think because he has a pretty hairy chest!  Ha Ha!  We did end up going on more dates of course but most of them he would say, "this is not a date", I'm just giving you a ride".  I think he did that so if I had a thing about dating the same guy too many times in a row, those times together wouldn't count.  He won my heart really fast though!
Another date was he told me he was going to take me somewhere special and surprise me.  He took me somewhere special to eat and then when we got the bill, he looked and found he had forgotten his wallet..Surprise!  You get to pay!  Good thing we were married by then.  Love you Brad!!

Family Memories

Landon: 
One of my favorite family memories is when we played Bumpkins at palacade lake. The game that Travis started where we all go out onto the floating dock and start at the four corners. Then you begin by saying "BUMPKINS UNITE!!!" and you run at eachother facing backwards and play king of the hill but the rules are no hands no legs. Only back end against back end. Last man standing wins!!!

Skyler:

One fun family memory was on Annabelle's first birthday when we all started playing on the park and then decided it would be fun to jump from rooftop to rooftop and eventually were all jumping simultaneously in a circle. And when that wasn't enough, we even had Landon run and do a backflip off of the tube so all four of us were in the air at the same time.

Trinsica:

My story is when Landon, Ben and I were on our way from school. We were at the rented house while our house was being fixed from the flood. We saw a kitten that had a wound on its side. We wanted to help it, so we went into the forest that was located on the side of the house. As we were going through the forest searching for the kitty. Ben (who was in front) let out a yell. Landon made fun of him for over exaggerating. Soon enough both of them were screaming! I was still getting down from the road when both of them came running back toward me and the road. As they sprinted down the road, they ripped of their shirts, screaming in pain. I ran after them desperate to find out what was wrong. I looked to my left only to find an old man sitting outside on his porch laughing at the sight. 😂

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  That was my favorite story

I later found out that they both stepped in a yellow jacket nest and abs had been bitten several times

Travis:

Mine were the night hikes we did up Y mountain and Timp... Also playing with our RC cars in Park City parking garage is my new favorite...

I was in the basement room at the suncrest house and Tyson needed to use my computer just as I was going to bed. Enya was playing and it was a little loud so I asked him to turn it down... Just then, the song said "turn it up, turn it up, turn it up up up!" We both looked at each other and busted up laughing!

Dustin:

I enjoy our random, impromptu activities. Info particular, kitchen jam sessions.

Dad:

Here is an early hunting story of mine. When I was about 7, I went with the neighbor boys shooting birds with BB and pellet guns (no one told me I would shoot my eye out). This trip was with older boys. I did not know at the time but his gun had a hair trigger (touchy and would fire with just a touch). I was careful to stay behind him and follow the safety rules, but the bird he was trying to shoot flew behind him and he turned and the gun went off and shot me right through the arm. I guess the blood was squirting quite bad. I fainted and they had to carry me home and hold my arm where it was shot. I woke in the hospital and they told me what happened. I had a few stitches when it went in and where it went out (good thing it did not hit a bone, but it hit a large blood vessel). You just never know what the other guy is going to do… no matter how careful you are.

Tyson:

When I was in 4th or 5th grade I found exciting ways to con Dustin into helping me with my paper route. When it snowed it was easy; I would load all of the papers into a sled and Dustin would sit on there and hold them all on white I pulled the sled through the snow to each doorstep. Towards The end of the route when there was enough room I would get in the sled with Dustin and we would use or hands to paddle through the snow like a rowboat. This method of paper delivery did not save any time or energy but mixing things up and making a game out of it was sometimes necessary!

Mom:

As you all know, I love to play games. My favorite game story is when we were playing "Catch Phrase". We were at Dustin and Jana's home and her parents were there visiting. It was Landon's turn and he begins describing his word. .."it's how you check to see if the baby's diaper is full and poopy" (or something to that effect). We had no idea what the word was. Time ran out and he told us the word was "dipstick"! Obviously he had not checked the oil on a car before, or been around babies enough to know the only thing you check a diaper with is a nose and a finger in the back only to pull the diaper away only enough to see if they are really poopy. I've never laughed so hard. The next word was described as "they come in different sizes, "A, C,D" we guessed "bra" then everyone lost it again. The word was "batteries". A very memorable game.

Another one is when Travis started the Tolman baby balance on the hand trick with Trinsica. Along with that he would put the little child, not always Trinsica in a little duffle bag and zip them up until only their head was sticking out. Then he would give them a ride by swinging them around and up and down like a crazy roller coaster ride. Also I remember the Tolman tower when all the children would climb on Travis' back from oldest to youngest. I think we had as many as five siblings on his back. I always think of the song "He ain't heavy, he's my brother", when they all piled on. I'm so grateful for the love you all have for one another. I'm so blessed to be your Mom.

One more thought from me. I don't recall how it came about, maybe if you boys remember toy can help me out, but some how Travis said something like "what's a heinous?" I right he was being a smarty pants and said "That's a body part and you know it!"