100 things you probably didn't know about me...

My sister and my cousin posted 100 things about themselves on their blog. They did it so their posterity would know a little bit more about them. I decided to join the bandwagon. This was fun. It took me a couple of days. I would sit and just add 10-15 a day. So here it is:

1. I love to pluck my eyebrows. I can be so tired at night and still spend 15 minutes plucking my eyebrows. It relieves a little stress.

2. I love teaching my kids about something new. It is fun to watch their face as they comprehend it and it's exciting to know that I help their thought process.

3. I love feeling the Spirit bear witness to me about gospel truths.

4. I hate crumbs. I hate cleaning them up and I cringe at almost every meal with my children.

5. I love the smell of rain.

6. I want to be a country music singer in my next life.

7. I wish I would have played sports when I was younger.

8. I love fresh flowers.

9. I have a hard time turning my brain off. I dream in fabric swatches and scrapbook paper.

10. I hate doing laundry. It will sit in baskets for days.

11. I love to organize.

12. I love to shop on the internet. With three kids it is so much easier.

13. I have enjoyed moving away from home. I miss our family, but I have grown so much. It has been a great learning experience for me.

14. My favorite 'LOST' character is Sawyer. He is so handsome.

15. I read books about vampires.

16. My favorite pastime is body boarding.

17. I really miss the simple Caribbean life.

18. My favorite childhood memory is our fourth of July campouts at KOA!!

19. I wish I had a middle name.

20. You can never have too much produce in your house. I have panic attacks when we start to get low on fresh fruit and vegetables.

21. I recently started to enjoy vegetables.

22. I obsess about weight. It is always on my mind.

23. I love COOKIES!!

24. I love lazy days when Jonathan doesn't have to go to work.

25. I love falling asleep with my children. I get so relaxed.

26. I enjoy nursing my babies. It is one of my favorite parts about motherhood. It is never a burden to me.

27. I hate the mornings that my hair needs to be washed. I love "second day" hair.

28. I wish I was more fearless and tried more exciting things.

29. I love photography and I wish I had a great camera... and was naturally good at taking pictures.

30. I have the gift of gab. I love to talk to people, and get to know them. I feel comfort when I share something in common with someone.

31. Validation is a huge thing for me. I want my feelings to be validated even if whatever I'm upset about is silly.

32. My kids laughter is the best remedy for a bad day.

33. I love making breakfast for my kids.

34. My car is never clean, but my house always is.

35. I feel better about spending money at a consignment shop, thrift store, or a bargain store. I also tend to buy things if they are on sale. I probably spend more money this way just because I think I am getting a good deal, rather then just not buying it at all.

36. I love to go to lunch with Jonathan and the kids on a Saturday afternoon.

37. I go to my Weight Watchers meeting every month to be accountable to someone.

38. I used to do fingernails for a living, but I never paint my own.

39. It was hard for me to start driving a mini-van, but now I love it.

40. I could watch Sweet Home Alabama, Footloose, Girls Just Want to Have fun, and How to Lose a Guy In Ten Days over and over again.

41. I love to exercise.

42. My favorite store is Hobby Lobby.

43. I enjoy having friends over for dinner.

44. I love to bake. I enjoy baking anything and everything. I am getting good at bread.

45. House Hunters on HGTV is one of my favorite shows.

46. I also love the show 'Reba'. Van and Babby J (Barbara Jean) are hilarious. If you haven't seen this, you should tune in. It is good for your soul.

47. I am a control freak when it comes to movies and television that my children want to watch.

48. I don't want my kids to have sleepovers.

49. I won't let my kids have shoes that light up or have characters on the side. I know... I am a MEAN mom.

50. I enjoy buying clothes a season a head for my kids. Then when I pull them out the next season, I just grin when I see how cheap I got them.

51. I get car sick.

52. I want to be a Certified Nurse Midwife. I plan to go back to school when the kids are older.

53. I don't miss my long hair. I like having it short again, and don't know if I will grow it back out EVER.

54. I am very assertive. I rarely wait for Jonathan to help me with something. I usually just do things on my own timetable.

55. I love my memory foam pillow.

56. I enjoy reading about church history. I think that Joseph Smith is such a wonderful and interesting man. I want to know more about him and his life.

57. I don't enjoy being pregnant, but I love the labor and birth part. It is so empowering.

58. I can't leave the house with out making my bed.

59. I enjoy a good weekend with my close friend Krysta. We are special spirit sisters who completely understand one another.

60. I enjoy watching Jonathan play sports. It gives me that "butterflies in the tummy" feeling that I got when we were dating.

61. I am grateful for prescription drugs and vaccinations that help make it possible for people to be whole. I know that this is just one of the great gifts given from God through the hands of man.
62. I am grateful for the medication 'Zofran' that made it possible for me to keep food down during my last pregnancy.

63. I love flip flops.

64. I use a self-tanner, and always use sunscreen. I am afraid of the effects of the sun. I wish I had been a little more cautious in my younger years.

65. I love the smell of astringent, and I will wash my face with it a couple of times a day just to smell it.

66. I hate when my feet are cold.

67. I never use overhead light. I always have lamps on.

68. I want to go on a mission with Jonathan someday. I think it would be fun to go to Nauvoo.

69. I don't really love animals. I am not cruel to them in any way, but I don't really ever care to have any pets.

70. The first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is open the blinds. I love natural light.

71. I check my email 5-10 times a day.

72. I forget to check the answering machine.

73. I love to bath in the winter, and also when I don't feel well.

74. I wish I would have taken more dance classes, and tried to dance with a company.

75. I am a very scheduled mother, and I think that is why my babies sleep through the night at such a young age.

76. I worry that I am going to mess up my kids somehow and do something wrong.

77. I don't like to run. It just hurts all around.

78. I love to lift wieghts, and enjoy every part of my muscles aching the day after.

79. One of my favorite hobbies is taking things off the wall and finding a new spot for them.

80. I don't like the way my kids smell when they have been playing outside.

81. I enjoy a nice, cold, Caffeine Free Diet Dr. Pepper everyday. (sometimes 2)

82. I love to cook with garlic, it makes everything taste better.

83. I love wrestling and tickling my kids. We do it at least three times a day. I even love to tickle and be crazy with Isaac. This is how I show my love.

84. I love when Jonathan calls me in the middle of the day, just to say Hi.

85. I love the smell of Coffee, but have never tasted it.

86. I don't miss high school at all, but I long to have some of those college days back.

87. A place for everything, and everything in it's place. This describes me well.

88. I love to make things for my house, and I am pretty good at using up things that I have to make something look new again.

89. I love antiques and old used up furniture. The more beat-up the better.

90. I love a good pork salad from Cafe Rio. It will last me three meals, and sometimes I will eat the leftovers for breakfast.

91. I wish I could fiddle, and would even like to play the electric fiddle.

92. Soft cookies! (need I say more?)

93. I want to take lots of family vacations.

94. I would love to have my own store someday. It would be full of items that creative people came up with out of their own house. A sort of "creative boutique."

95. I didn't like teaching preschool to Jex and his friends. It was too stressful for me.

96. I don't miss cutting hair.

97. I love wearing contacts.

98. I hope my children think I am a wonderful mother, and that they will love me despite my faults.

99. I hope Jonathan and I can always have a strong marriage.

100. I can't believe that I had that much to say about myself!! What kind of self-absorbed person am I?

I encourage everyone to try this. It really helps you think about the person that you are. It made me think about things that I do everyday, and never realize. It was really FUN!!