100 More Factoids About Me

1. I like cookie dough better than cookies.
2. I named all of my children “old fashioned” names.
3. I only like bananas if they are very fresh (no squishy bananas for me!)
4. I don’t like it when the trees are bare in winter.
5. I love sledding.
6. I enjoy sewing.
7. I’m learning to crochet.
8. The only bone I’ve ever broken is my pinkie toe, and I’m not 100% sure it’s broken.
9. My house was built in 1894.
10. I like to turn all the lights on in whatever room I’m in. I love the light.
11. I used to be afraid of our hallway growing up.
12. We used to watch the bears in the dump in Alaska (while we were looking for “treasures”)
13. I don’t do baseball hats.
14. I have a big head.
15. I have small teeth.
16. I love mirrors.
17. I love having my picture taken.
18. I love taking pictures.
19. I have 4 blogs that I work on.
20. I don’t like to use big spoons.
21. If I could, I would have a clock in every room of my house.
22. I invented “Lenny the Leprechaun”, who turns things green on St. Patrick’s day for my kids.
23. I like the water.
24. I’ve swam in the northern Pacific Ocean (the cold part).
25. I hate cleaning.
26. I make my kids do chores.
27. My parents didn’t make me do chores.
28. I can be kind of mean.
29. I enjoy cooking and baking.
30. I installed all of the ceiling fans in my house.
31. I’m handy.
32. I don’t like spiders.
33. I don’t like squishing carpenter ants.
34. I made the curtains in my house.
35. I call my husband on our cell phones from the driveway to have him help me with my groceries.
36. I call my husband on our cell phones from the kitchen when he’s just upstairs to tell him things.
37. I don’t drink enough water.
38. I don’t drink sugar drinks.
39. I’ve moved 10 times since I was married 10 years ago.
40. My friend has the same wedding anniversary as I do, just 1 year later (June 14^th).
41. My grandma, my brother, and my niece all have the same birthday (May 2^nd).
42. I love candles.
43. I sleep on my stomach (yah, try being pregnant and sleeping on your stomach when your pregnant).
44. I currently have 3 callings at church (RS chorister, Activities chair, YW camp director).
45. I started wearing glasses when I was in 2^nd grade.
46. I started wearing contacts when I was in 7^th grade.
47. I got my ears pierced when I was in the 6^th grade.
48. We don’t have a land line.
49. I wish I could be rude to telemarketers, but I don’t have it in me.
50. My grandfather and my uncle were stock car drivers, and volunteer firemen.
51. I’m a civil war reenactor.
52. I have a friend who lives in Kodiak Alaska.
53. I get car sick if I don’t sit in the front, and don’t watch where I’m going.
54. I like to eat grapefruits without sugar.
55. Sometimes I eat them like an orange.
56. I don’t mind snakes.
57. I’m intrigued by fire flies (they didn’t have them in the Pacific Northwest).
58. I like earrings.
59. My major in college was Speech Language Pathology, but I switched it to Sociology.
60. I attend BYU for 2 ½ semesters.
61. I was offered a scholarship to go to Ricks College before it became BYU Idaho.
62. I had my first date when I was 16.
63. I was married when I was 20.
64. I had my first child when I was 21.
65. I had my last child when I was 29.
66. One of my favorite shirts is an Alaska shirt that my mom had when she was my age.
67. I love the smell of gasoline.
68. I love watching movies.
69. I get headaches when I go to a movie theater.
70. I love jumping in puddles.
71. I count my steps when I go up or down stairs.
72. I like peanut butter on both sides of my sandwich when having a PJB.
73. I have unwanted lip hair, which I shave (I’m sure you’re all glad for that!).
74. I enjoy fresh flowers.
75. I was born in 1975.
76. I like country music.
77. I like Rascall Flats (they’re fun to sing along with).
78. I call them Rascall Flatch.
79. I don’t like to be touched when I’m sleeping.
80. I don’t let kids sleep in my bed.
81. I made my kids sleep through the night after 6 months age (no more night feedings).
82. Out of a total 7 classes a year offered in high school, I took 9 (including before school jazz band and seminary)
83. I once found a band-aid in a piece of gum.
84. In high school, I learned to type on a typewriter (they got computers the 2^nd semester).
85. I played the Tenor Sax in Jazz band in High School.
86. Our mascot was the Viking.
87. I love reading.
88. I sometimes hide from my kids.
89. They always find me.
90. I was on the Quiz Bowl team my senior year of high school.
91. I dated a Junior when I was a Senior.
92. I’ve been to coastal states on the West and East coasts.
93. I love thunder storms.
94. I graduated in 1994.
95. I never took a study hall in high school.
96. I have my kids drink applesauce out of the jar with straws.
97. I try not to put too much salt on my food.
98. I like my steak medium rare (more on the rare side).
99. I’ve helped skin a deer.
100. I graduated with 11 more credits than I need in High School.