The first time I ever did anything "interesting" with my hair was when I was a sophomore in high school and I put a pink streak in my hair. I remember asking my mom if I could do it and she said, "Ellen, as long as you don't get any tattoos or irregular piercings I don't care what you do to your hair." And so began my obsession with hair color.

A quick post because I want to share family photos and recent happenings. Eric is loving his job and doing very well. We are so incredibly grateful to be in Arizona, it's so nice not having to live paycheck to paycheck! I'm also so excited for the holiday season. This is the first Christmas for Eric and I where we don't have to drive from state to state. Also last Christmas I didn't really decorate because there really was no point. We wouldn't be there for Christmas and Eric and I were barely home with me working and Eric with basketball. So now, slowly but surely, my apartment is getting a holiday makeover and I'm so excited! We also recently took Hunt family photos and I AM IN LOVE. Annie Ruby Photos took the photos and they turned out so well! So of course I have to share!

We drove around American Fork Canyon and I couldn't believe how beautiful the trees were. While I love the desert, the Utah trees definetly took my breath away. Can't wait to experience a Utah winter.

God works in mysterious ways...

You hear that phrase all the time, and even though it's very true it definetly loses its luster. I'm always reminding myself that God is infinitely smarter than I'll ever be and whenever something happens, whether it be good or bad, I try to remember that God knows exactly what I need and exactly when I need it. So on that note, this past week a friend and I had a very close call while on a road trip that really added to both our testimonies and reminded us that the hand of God is all around us. And so...

My friend Annie is a photographer and last Wednesday she called me in the morning and she told me that her mother had mixed up her flight destinations and that she had to drive to Utah that day for a weekend full of photo shoots. I asked her if she was driving by herself and I offered to go with her so she wouldn't be alone. And so we started our long 10 hour drive to her parents house in Utah.

10pm. We were in the middle of a canyon and not thirty minutes prior Annie and I were feeling a bit tired but we had started talking about the gospel, and our patriarchal blessings and were feeling a bit more awake. We were going about 75 mph and we couldn't see the road very well because the lights on Annie's car weren't very bright. Suddenly mid-sentence I look forward and there is a herd of ten to fifteen elk in the road. Now we know these were elk because they were extremely large creatures, larger than any deer I had every seen.


I start screaming and Annie turns the steering wheel hard left because it seemed as if the majority of the herd were on the right side of the road, but as she turned the wheel we saw there were four or five on the left side as well and we were headed straight for one of them. We were so close that I could see the eyes of the elk we were about to hit. Suddenly it seemed like everything was happening in slow motion. I can see Annie close her eyes and brace herself for the impact, and suddenly I see someone's hands take the wheel and turn it hard to the right. The car instantly changed directions. As we turn I look to my right and I see one of the elk running straight for my side of the car. Annie swears that she was slamming on the brakes, right down to the floor, but at that point the car somehow accelerated and we barely missed the elk that was running straight towards me. Now when I say these elk were huge it is no exaggeration. If we had hit one, it would have killed us. Also I'm so grateful that Annie did not turn the car to the right when she reacted because we would have gone straight off a cliff. When we had cleared the herd, Annie opened her eyes and was amazed that we didn't have a scratch on us or the car. We look at each other and immediately start crying and laughing. Our nerves were so out of control and a mixture of fear, relief, and happiness just washed over us as we realized how close we came to losing our lives. If you look up a car that has hit an elk there is nothing left of the car. The images are horrifying to look at. Annie's car is very small, there was no way we would have survived that kind of collision. We pulled over and immediately started to say a prayer thanking God for watching over us. As we calmed down we both started to put together what had happened and shared the things we both saw. All Annie knew was that when she saw the car heading straight for the elk she was slamming on the brakes and closed her eyes because she knew we were going to crash and when she opened her eyes we were completely ok. When I told her of the hands that I saw taking the wheel and the acceleration of the car we knew that we were being watched over by our Heavenly Father and our family in Heaven. I am still amazed that we didn't hit a single thing and we had no damage to the car. There is no way that we should have survived that.

All in all we walked away with the only damage being to our nerves. The rest of the way to Utah were were on edge, constantly looking around us and now we have a hatred for all types of deer. I am so happy that we are ok and I'm so happy that I came with Annie because can you imagine what would have happened if she had been alone?? Oh man!

The rest of the Utah trip was awesome thankfully. It was my first time seeing actual Fall and the leaves were gorgeous. Adventuring around Utah was way fun, and it was nice being able to wear my jackets and sweaters. 

Annie's family, the Tuckett's, own Provo Bakery and they make the most delicious doughnuts I have ever had, and I'm pretty picky about doughnuts! If you are ever in the Provo area make sure you stop by there! 


The day before we left back home we took a trip to Salt Lake City and saw the Temple. It was my second time seeing the SLC Temple in person and it is a castle. It is so beautiful. I'm sad to see that they build a huge wall around it, but in this day and age it's regretfully necessary I suppose. We drove around the area and stopped by the mall and I ran into a missionary who had served in mine and Eric's ward in Riverside, CA. It was so random but so incredible that out of nowhere I run into this guy. So cool! 

So, I had a very eventful and wonderful week. It was extremely spontaneous and so much fun, I hope to go back to Utah really soon! My testimony was extremely strengthened and I guess it was a great bonding experience for Annie and I. ;)

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Also go check out annierubyphotos on Instagram or Annie Ruby Photos on Facebook to see Annie's photography skill. She takes gorgeous photos and has recently moved to Arizona! Hit her up for an incredible session! She doesn't disappoint. :)

A photo Annie snapped of me between her photo shoots. Thanks girl!

Annie Ruby Photos

If you're in Provo or making a trip to Utah make sure you stop by Provo Bakery! It is freaking delish. <3

So a pretty short blog post. Small and simple things have happened this month, but just wanted to share how the Hunt's are doing. :)

Nothing compares to an Arizona sky for me. As I was driving into Arizona around sunset on the 6th of August I was absolutely mesmerized at the beauty around me. California sky is ugly and dirty. In my opinion even a sunset over the ocean cannot compare to the yellow, orange and red glow of an Arizona sunset followed by the beautiful blue and purples once the sun disappears over the horizon. It's breathtaking.

I'M HOME!

Eric and I are back in Arizona FOREVER. I'm serious. Living in California for a year makes me never want to live anywhere else then my gorgeous desert home. I know other people can't wait to leave Mesa and go but I definetly don't want to live anywhere else.

It's funny how you don't even know how much stuff you really have until you pack it all up and move it somewhere else. Our apartment was the size of someone's living room (not an exaggeration, it was tiny) and it's insane how much stuff we have! We're so happy to be back with our family and friends and in this beautiful place. Every morning I wake up so excited just because I know that I'm here to stay and that California has turned into a vacation state once more. Eric will be starting work on September 1st and I will be staring school! When Eric and I started talking about marriage he was in his junior year of college and we were talking about the future. I know that I wanted to go to school but I had no idea what I wanted to study. If this was a perfect world I would be able to sing everyday and get paid millions of dollars for it...but that's not the case. So as we were discussing what we would do we decided that while Eric finished school I would work. Since I didn't know what I wanted to study quite yet I didn't mind putting school on hold. When we got to California I started my job as a caretaker at an assisted living facility, and I just loved it. A lot of the girls I was working with were studying to be nurses and I thought that might be a good fit for me. As time went on I just became more and more sure that that was the path that I was suppose to me on. So that's what I'm going to be! An RN. :)

Settling in has proved to be quite difficult for Eric and I. There is just so much stuff! I didn't realize how many clothes I had...not like I'm going to downsize or anything. But with Eric's leg it's just kind of difficult. Rehab is going well but he's definetly not 100%...he's not even 60% to be honest but he's doing very well. I'm really proud of him for doing so well in his schooling and his physical therapy. He's just awesome. I married an awesome guy. :)

This week has been really crazy with Ryan (Eric's brother) getting married. Getting everything ready and all that has been stressful on everyone, but their reception is going to be beautiful. Ryan's fiance, Andrea, is from Guatemala, and so it was so hard to get her visa and such approved. Honestly it's really stupid how hard it is to get into this country. You kind of understand why people live illegally because it's so dang hard to get in this country. My lanta. But after some phone calls, and some nice connections we got her all approved and so everything can be set into motion. :) When you livin' right God makes things happen people! So we're very excited from them, and weddings are always fun.

Well that's basically it! It's been stressful but so worth it because I'm so in love with Arizona. Even the unbearable heat that makes you feel like you're physically melting. ;)

This past week and a half has been insane! The first and most important news is...

Eric finally got his ACL surgery!

Eric went in for a doctor's appointment on the 23rd of July, five months after the initial injury, to discuss the status of his knee and to schedule a surgery time. So he sat down with the doctor and the doctor basically said, "Alright, surgery will be this Tuesday." WOW. Five days. Now, apart of me is really happy that Eric can have this surgery and that he doesn't have to wait a long time and he can finally get on the road of recovery. But we are also moving. We are packing boxes up and going up and down stairs, and I'm not the strongest person in the world. Well whatever, I got over it and looked forward to Eric getting better. It's sad, I can't really remember what it looks like for him to walk without limping.

July 28th

So Eric's father had come to stay with us for a couple of days to help with Eric and packing. We got down to the surgery center and Eric was feeling nervous. He got all ready with his hospital gown and surgical blue cap. He was pretty adorable, and his only complaint was that he didn't like how he had to be naked. Surprise, surprise.

So Eric and I were in Arizona this past weekend for 4th of July and I can't tell you how much it made my heart ache having to come back to Cali. I used to love California. I used to get so excited when someone wanted to plan a beach trip. But now? No way, I will take Mesa over California any day of the week. A timeshare in a beach house? That would be awesome. But anything else is a no for me.

But this isn't a California hating post, I just needed that bit of a rant.

So I've been really down in the dumps lately, and the reason being is because I really am extremely unhappy in California. Here it's hard to make friends with the same values as you because you don't meet many members of the church, or people with standards that really match yours. I've had a couple strokes of luck with finding a good friend in Kellie Carnohan, and a couple girls at work that I've been able to bond with (shout out to Millie Moro, you keep me sane) but that's about it. For anyone who knows me, I am an extremely social person. I love being around people, and so does Eric. I married someone exactly like me. Yes, I live with my best friend, and it's wonderful, but we both need social outlets that are not each other!

A little advice to couples getting married or discussing marriage...

DO NOT CUT YOURSELF OFF FROM YOUR FRIENDSHIPS.

You will drive yourself and your partner crazy if you are around only each other all day, every day.

*Disclaimer* Just because you may get annoyed with husband/wife/boyfriend/girlfriend does not mean that you don't love them more than life itself. It's a human feeling to have!

Yeah at the beginning, it's ok. Anyone who enters in a new relationship just wants to be with their significant other every moment they can. You're married, it's wonderful and you are soaking in the joys of being with your one and only all the time. For about three months all I wanted to do was be with Eric. Friends would ask me to hang out and I would lie and say I was doing something else already and end up just sitting all night with my hubby playing Borderlands or COD. As much as you love your partner there will come a day where he or she will do something that will bug the crap out of you that wouldn't normally bother you. Kind of the same feeling you get when you hang out with a friend for too long. Every body needs space, everyone needs their own activities and everyone needs time with their own friends. I love going to lunch with Emily, going tanning with Kira and doing a Dutch Brothers run with Megan because I need that time to de-stress. And Eric needs that same time to himself with his friends.

For me this lack of friendships has really put a damper on my spirit. To be honest there are times where I'm by myself and I'm extremely depressed. Don't get me wrong, Eric really is my best friend and it's not hard spending all my time with him, I love him, but I need some estrogen around me! So that's why it was so hard coming back to California. I spent basically all weekend with my best friends which was a blast and it really gave Eric and I the boost we needed, but it made this returning trip really hard.

Let's just say Eric and I are excited to move home and once again be around the people who uplift us and make life wonderful.

ONE MORE MONTH OF CALI LIFE



Extra:

Earlier this week I emailed one of my best friend's who is on a mission right now and I told her about how being in California, away from everything has been taking a toll on my spirit and she wrote me this...

There are three things you can do to lift a heavy heart:

I am 20 years old.

I have lived for two decades. 1,040 weeks. 7,300 days. Goodness...I love it! :)

So much has happened in my life, and I'm truly grateful for the things God has given me. He's given me a wonderful husband who loves me through all my craziness, awesome in laws, a better relationship with my own family, and lots of great memories with friends. I'm very grateful. :)

SO...

Eric and I have a move back date! We will be moving back to Arizona on the weekend of August 8th! Well, I will be moving back, Eric is staying in California for another week while he finishes his last classes. BUT WE ARE SO EXCITED! Arizona is our home through and through, and we can't wait to come back. We have been counting down the days from the minute we got to California! It's just not for us. The only thing that made it bearable were the friends that we made (shout out to Kellie Carnohan). But I'm very excited to start school and start building a life for Eric and I and our future family. Way future family. ;)

Kimberly is on her mish! My sister-in-law left on June 10th for the MTC and it broke my heart. Don't get me wrong! I am so insanely happy for her that she gets the opportunity to serve a mission. She is happier than she has been in a long time...I just really miss her! She's one of my best friends, and I miss the long talks on the phone, the sending of funny pictures and tagging in funny vines. She will be serving the  people of Independence, Missouri and I am so stoked for her. I wish I had gone on a mission! I see Niki, one of my best friends, serving her mission in Peru and she is having the best time and I am so jealous! But marriage is good too, so it's not too much jealousy. :)

Well that's about it! Seriously I feel like once I move back to Arizona my life will get a little more intersting. :)

P. S. Regarding to the name change, Eric has chosen his career, and he wants to coach basketball. I'm very proud of him for his decision and his determination to want to continue to be apart of a sport he loves. So I'll still be a basketball wife! :)

One year down, I can't believe it. It seems to have gone by so fast, and so much has happened! Getting our puppy Skyler Mae, moving to California, a new job, basketball games, Eric's graduation. Life has been pretty cool. I love Eric even more than on the day I married him, which is a good thing I think. ;) I laugh everyday, whether it be by tickles, or by Eric shaking his butt in my face. Whenever he says I look pretty or comes and kisses me and tells me he loves me I get this huge smile on my face and butterflies in my stomach. At the end of a long day at work my favorite thing to do is come home and cuddle with him and watch our latest favorite show. I'm crazy about him, he's everything I could have hoped for myself. Two years ago I had my heart broken, and I felt very naive and extremely stupid. Before that I was confident and very content with myself, and I felt like I was in control of my life. All that disappeared in a moment. I had never been so depressed and I was in this dark hole, and for a week I really hated myself. Isn't it incredible how one person can make you feel like that? I didn't understand how I let one person destroy me like that. Little did I know that the Lord had something better in mind for me. CHEESY, I know, but the Lord really did hand pick Eric Hunt just for me. Eric brought me out of that dark place and made me feel like the most beautiful and amazing girl in the world, the way a man should make any woman feel. Eric reminded me that I deserved to be treated like a queen, like the daughter of God that I am. I am so grateful for my husband, he built me back up. It was so easy to fall in love with him.

And now here we are. We started dating two years ago, and everyday has been wonderful. Don't get me wrong there have been hard times, I married someone with a temper to match mine, but through out everything, every argument, every disagreement I have loved Eric through it and he's loved me. We have grown so much together. He's wants me to be the best person I can be, he's patient with me, and encourages me to love and forgive. Because of him I have a greater love for my family, my siblings and more importantly my mother. Any one of my friends could tell you how volatile mine and my mother's relationship was, but watching Eric's relationship with his mother, it made me sad that I couldn't be that way with mine. It took changing on both sides for me and my mom, but with Eric's encouragement I was able to forgive her, and I was able to grow a deep love and appreciation for her. By seeing Eric's relationship with his brother's and sister I wanted a better one with mine. My siblings and I are very different, every child in my family is different. We are our own person with our own lives, and as children, especially with the age difference, it was just hard for me to have a good relationship with them. I love being with my family, I love dinner with them, I love laughing with them, and bonding with them in a way that just couldn't be done when we were younger. I'm so grateful to God for how we are now and grateful for my husband for helping me see how important it was to have a better relationship with them.

I am a better person with Eric, I really believe that. He's exactly what I need, and exactly what I wanted. I have never been able to be 100% myself with anyone that I have dated. I've gotten close with a couple great guys, but Eric is the only one that has seen every single part of me, the good and the really bad, and has loved me. God knew I needed someone like that, someone to just love me and be there for me through anything and everything. I am so incredibly lucky. Sometimes I wake up and I look at him all snuggled up next to me and just think, "How could this guy love me as much as he does?". I am eternally indebted to God for giving me such an incredible companion, for giving me someone who makes me smile everyday, and who makes me feel loved, who makes me feel important, and makes me feel like no matter what I do he will always support me. It's the kind of happiness I want every person on this earth to experience, because it's magical. I love you Eric. I'm so excited to start a family with you, I'm excited for all the adventures we have planned, I'm excited to experience everything with you by my side. Thank you for everything you do for me. Happy One Year Anniversary. :)

So we have an incredibly busy week coming up and I'm so excited for it. The reason I haven't blogged much in the past couple weeks is because they have been pretty quiet and, to be honest, quite boring! Summer is coming and with it some changes for the Hunt family. :)

Eric is Graduating!

Eric has wrapped up this semester and has been cleared to walk on May 2nd, 2015. He will be graduating with a Bachelor's in History with an intent to coach basketball. I could not be anymore proud of my husband. At the beginning of his time at California Baptist University Eric's initial goal was to get a bachelor's and then a master's degree in Kinesiology. His plan was to become a Physical Therapist and he wanted to work with athletes. Well as time went by, being a PT just didn't seem like Eric's dream job. When he first started talking about wanting to do something different, which was about the time where we first got engaged, I had, quite selfishly I might add, a panic attack. The only reason I was panicking is because at that point I had no idea what I wanted to do in terms of a career. I was thinking "Eric, one of us has to have an idea about what we want to do with our lives or we're screwed!" Let me tell you, I look back on my reaction and I can't believe how selfish I was about Eric's feelings. I really am embarrassed about it. It was one of my most immature moments that I wish I could go back and change. I really have grown in the past year. Anyways, so at the beginning of this school year we were called as Sunday School teachers for a group of awesome 14-17 year old's, and Eric took on a real leadership role on his basketball team. It got Eric thinking more and more about what he wanted to do with his life. He loved basketball, and he loved working with the youth of our church. He made up his mind. He wanted to be a coach. Now, Eric was afraid to tell me because of my initial reaction a year prior, and that makes me so sad! But when he finally told me, I had no other answer than that I would support him unconditionally. You would not believe Eric's sigh of relief! Granted at this point I had finally realized what kind of career I wanted so I wasn't too worried about the future, but through that one year I realized that you have one life, ONE. Do something that makes you happy. My number one concern, even though I didn't tell Eric, was about money. That sounds horrible, but a lot of the fights between my parents were about money and I didn't want that for Eric and I. But then I thought of something, something silly but very effective to my situation. I thought of Mary Poppins, a Disney movie that I hold close to my heart. I thought of Mr. Banks and his job at the bank. Yes, he made enough money to keep his wife and children very well taken care of and to live an extremely comfortable life, but he hated his job and he wasn't happy. Now because he wasn't happy it affected his attitude at home, causing his children to think that he didn't love them and that he didn't want to be near them. How sad is that! The only way it got better was when he left the job that was making him so miserable and he got back into what made him happy, and in return he was able to gain a better relationship with his children as is shown in that wonderful closing scene where they all go fly a kite. This just goes to show that no matter what age Disney always has something to teach you, it really is some kind of magic, but what that revealed to me is that I would so much rather have a happy husband who loves what he's doing and comes home and loves on me and on our children, than a husband who feels like he has to work at a job that he hates just to make me happy. Money is not everything. Yeah, it's great, and of course who wouldn't want to live in a nice, big house, with three cars and no debt. But what a waste of a life doing something that you hate doing or something that you're not truly passionate about. Eric is going to be a phenomenal coach. He's a natural born leader, and he loves working with the youth. Coaching is such a rewarding job, and its a job where there are so many chances to move up and excel. So I'm excited for him. It's a job he'll love so much that it won't even be a job, and that's all I want for him, to be happy in what he does, because I know that'll have such a positive impact on our lives and our marriage. :)

So another congrats to my handsome blue-eyed hubby, I couldn't be anymore proud of him and how hard he has worked and how great of an example he is to me. :)
California Baptist University Class of 2015



Also something else is special about May 2nd. Its mine and Eric's...

One Year Anniversary <3

I can't believe that it's already been a year since we walked into the Mesa, Arizona Temple hand in hand and were sealed to one another in front of the people we loved for time and all eternity. One year! We're basically experts on marriage. ;) JUST KIDDING! We're not anywhere close to being experts, but marriage is fun, and I love sharing everyday with him, and everyday I think about how lucky I am to have married such an incredible man. I'm so happy that he found me, and fell in love with me. I'm no angel, I'm sometimes very difficult to live with, but he loves me through it, and I am extremely grateful for that. I think we compliment each other very well. :)

First a vent session and then we'll get down to business...

In junior high and high school we were so naive, weren't we? I mean we had a general idea of what life would be like after high school was all done, but it really never sunk in. The reason I am suddenly pondering this is because of one thing...

Taxes...

When I was reminded that I had to do taxes for the first time this year I was in utter turmoil. I barely know how to cook, now I have to do taxes? And sweet truly blessed Eric has been given full ride scholarships all four years of college so he never really had to work (seriously this guy lucked out in life), so he wasn't really any help. So what did we do? Called our parents of course who were happy to do it. The problem is when it comes to money and me paying someone I want it done NOW. I am extremely impatient when it comes to that, no shame, so I just thought that I would have a go, and do it on my own.

My Decent into Madness

Alright, that's a bit dramatic, but I did have a mini anxiety attack when I got my W-2 form and had no idea what to do with it. I didn't really work in high school, school was my job to my parents, so obviously I had never received this kind of thing. Then Eric also got a form from the school for taxes. Now I have these two "important" pieces of paper and I have no clue what I do with them...

I thank the Lord everyday for the time I was born in, because doing your taxes online is the best. Turbo Tax saved me from my adult woes. Why do they not teach this in school by the way?? Everyone should take a semester course on taxes because life would be a 100x better.


My Dear Husband

So Eric will be getting surgery in the next couple of weeks. The pain for him is tolerable but what he hates most is having to need someone to take care of him. He can't help me carry to much up the stairs to our apartment, he needs help in and out of the shower and he has to sit down, and of course he has to crutch around all day which isn't very fun. Not to mention it seems that every sickness is making its way to him. Of course I'm exaggerating, but this past week Eric has been dealing with strep throat, and a stuffy nose. My poor baby. :( We thank everyone for the love that they show him it really does help! With news of Eric's basketball team, the CBU Lancers are killing it! The Lancers will compete for their first NCAA Division II West Region title on Monday. I'm so excited! I love being an athletes wife. ;) It's amazing how before I met Eric I never watched basketball, and now I'm the most embarrassing fan. Please send prayers and thoughts for Eric as he makes his recovery! Hopefully he'll be up and down the court in no time. :)

So life has been very comfortable. No one has been sick, Eric and I have been well off with money. School is good and work is good. I knew something was coming...the Lord has a way of granting us a trial when life gets too comfy. :)

So, on Thursday, February 26th I was making my way to Fresno, California to attend Eric's basketball game. At the beginning of this year I made it a point that I needed to make it to every game I possibly could because its Eric's senior year. Now Fresno is about a four hour drive and Eric was telling me the day before that I didn't need to feel like I HAD to go. I would be working all day, then driving up, coming home, and getting about three hours of sleep before going right back to work. Not to much fun, and I began to consider just staying home and watching the game online. But then a still small voice started giving me the feeling that I needed to go, that for some unknown reason Eric would need me. And so about 2 pm on Thursday I began the drive up.

It was a minute before the end of the first half that Eric came down on his knee wrong after going up for a rebound. He says that he knew immediately what had happened. He heard the pop of his knee, and the way that he explains the sound of it is to imagine the sound of a carrot being split in half. They took him off the court and the head Sports Med started attending to him. He waved at me from the sideline and I ran over to him. "Babe my knee is gone, it's gone I know it is, I felt it." I tried my best to comfort and calm him down as he was looked over. I can't even imagine the pain he was in, or what was going on through his mind. I started to try to reassure him, explaining that maybe it wasn't as bad as he thought, but he took my hand and said "Ellen, I'm so happy you're here, and I appreciate you trying to see the positive...but I know it's bad." They gave him crutches and a brace and they let him come home with me so that he could ride comfortably home. The next day he got an MRI and we got the call that he had torn his ACL, his medial meniscus, and had a sprain of the LCL. I have never seen Eric as upset as he was when he got that call...basketball is apart of who he is, and just like that his collegiate career was over. He couldn't sleep that night.

The next day, Saturday, was Senior Night. Well there Eric was, dressed in his uniform, crutches and all, supporting his CBU Lancers. I know he wanted to be playing that night, but he made the best of it, he was a CBU coach that night. He was the inspiration that his teammates needed, he was an example of the fact that you never know what is going to happen, you never know when you're ability to play could be taken away. He loves his coaches. He loves his team. Eric would do anything for the boys on that team...they're his brothers. I really hope they know that. I hope they know how much they mean to him. Eric is one of the most dedicated people I have ever met, it's one of the reason I fell in love with him. No matter what he would always be there for his team, whether it was on the court or on the bench.




We have received so much love the past couple of days, from friends and family, and from Eric's teammates and coaches. We have felt the love of our Savior and the attention from our Heavenly Father, It's pretty incredible. People are just incredible, and I am so profoundly proud of Eric. When we got that phone call informing us of the damage I was so worried about Eric and how he would take it, but he has done an amazing job of trying to be positive, distracting himself, and putting a smile on his face. The love around him is really helping as well. I'm trying to see it as this trial came at a time where it would be easier to deal with. I am grateful it happened now, in Eric's senior year and the end of the season rather then anytime earlier! Eric has been able to play all four years of college basketball and was able to serve a two year mission with no injury. That itself is a huge blessing. I know the surgery and the road to recovery will be rough. I'm so grateful that Eric and I are married and together so that I can be there to support him and help him. I know that God has a reason for every trial he bestows on us, and that every obstacle presented is a chance for us to grow and become better. So that is how the Hunts will see it, an opportunity to become better. It's a blessing in disguise. :)

P.S. Eric's Senior night game was broadcast on Fox Sports West and the CBU Lancers CRUSHED it. It was one of the best games I have ever seen them play and it was a blast to watch! Couldn't be anymore proud of these boys. :)