So, here it is...25 random things about me (I probably could have spent ALL of last night coming up with random facts about me, because in fact I AM VERY random and often do remember odd and trivial things at odd and trivial times.
For example:
Everything with you is better, we've got it good, as long as we're together! Anything we do, whatever...Everything is better with you! (Kara, that 8th grade nugget is for you!)
8th grade- Spring, 1989
Friends Musical (I'm in the green shirt and blue pants)
For example:
Everything with you is better, we've got it good, as long as we're together! Anything we do, whatever...Everything is better with you! (Kara, that 8th grade nugget is for you!)
8th grade- Spring, 1989Friends Musical (I'm in the green shirt and blue pants)
1. My towels are folded longways, in half, and in half again and then they are color-coordinated in my linen closets. If they are not appropriately matched, I practically have to use a paper bag to get myself through! My dishes and clothes are also arranged in a color coordinated way.
2. I hate folding whites because I always have really dry hands and they get caught on my dry skin!
3. I love, love, love homeschooling!
4. I really do enjoy watching the Backyardigans with my boys!
5. If it were sanely possible, I would have a dozen kiddos or more.
6. I almost died last February 6th after giving birth to Zane.
Our first day back home7. Almost all of the dinners I make are thanks to wonderful friends and family and their delightfully easy and quick recipes.
8. I have lived in Utah, Indiana, Minnesota, Michigan and Wyoming.
9. If my life had a soundtrack, these would be on it...
Who's gonna ride your wild horses... U2
I need wide open spaces, room to make some big mistakes...Dixie Chicks
It's a great day to be alive, sun's still shining when I close my eyes... not sure who sings it!
It's good to be alive...Steven Curtis Chapman
She's gone Country...Alan Jackson
10. I love Country music!
11. My favorite job ever (aside from being a mother) was being camp counselor at Bear River Bible Camp. I learned so much from that one summer (plus a couple of weeks in 1993) and useful things still come into my mind on a regular basis such as... never being able to use a kitchen prong without calling it a "butt poker", realizing the tremendous value of a life jacket in river run-off season, and knowing the excitement and scary delight of night walks amongst beaver chips and moose breath!
1993Traci and Erika leading a bit of song and dance!
1995Washing our hair at Bear River Bible Camp!
12. My worst job ever was working as a drafter in an architect firm. I was completely un-qualified and therefore in a constant state of guilty stress at wasting their time. I don't know why they kept me on... oh, yes I do...because God had allowed me to have that job for learning all kinds of stuff and for the health insurance that we ended up needing during that long winter in 1999/2000.
13. I love teaching. But, I absolutely detest substitute teaching. It holds none of the charm in my book, only hassles and putting out fires! In the elementary grades, you have the "that's not how our teacher does it", in the middle school/ jr. high, you have the outright defiance, the "I dare you to tell me what to do.", in the high school, you have the calm indifferance... the "I am completely glazed over while you are speaking this pointless gibber to me; how many more minutes is it until the bell rings out my freedom." Teaching, though, is exciting. What a neat thing to explain something in a way that finally opens up understanding and possibilities to a student. I am so thankful that I have gotten to enjoy many of those precious moments with my own children...like seeing them learn to read and write their letters and understand the concepts of carrying and borrowing, etc. What fun. (I also love teaching piano and coaching volleyball and soccer).
14. I became a Christian while on a missions trip in Mexico, on July 25, 1991. I was going into my junior year of high school...wow, I'm getting old!
15. I broke several piano strings while practicing songs in the Carruth Music Hall in college.
1996A little Keith Green with Ellen ...that's one of the pianos!
16. I won the girls arm wrestling championship in high school!
17. My goal this year is to bake until our freezer is full and can until our shelves are bursting!
18. I love theater, musicals and dancing. They make this little joyful bubble inside of me that can hardly stay inside! Someday I'd like to get involved again.
19. I love taking pictures, but I cannot figure out how to get them onto the computer in the right file. I have been told and shown many, many times, but I have a mental block!
20. Habbakuk 3:17-19 is my life verse and prayer:"Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior. The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the heights."
21. I love blogging...come and visit my blog at windypicnics@blogspot.com!
22. I was a candy striper in the ER at Cottonwood Hospital, SLC, throughout high school and saw some really incredible things that I will never forget...hands being stitched up, legs with bite chunks out of them, overdose pumping, urinalysis and catheders, heart attack victims and even a tiny, tiny, tiny miscarried baby. The doctors and nurses were so kind and really doted on me (I did bring them snacks, though!). I thought for sure that I was going to go into emergency medicine... until I started fainting...which kind of put a damper on things!
23. Some of my favorite games are UNO, Blokus, Pit, Aggravation (the card game), Taboo and Catch Phrase.
24. I love banana milkshakes.
25. I could be considered, umm...wordy.
