100 Things About Me Challenge

1.I love eating homemade chocolate chip cookies and drinking milk even though I’m allergic to milk
2.I love watching thunderstorms
3.I love feeling warm rain on my face
4.My kids are my greatest joys
5.I got engaged after 15 days of dating
6.I went to Appalachian State as a sophomore at the age of 17, partly because I was told I couldn’t by a school advisor
7.I get upset at the drop of a hat
8.I love family
9.My three year old beat me in poker last night (twice!)
10.I love to swim
11.I collect these turtles made by Quarry Quritters because I love their big smiles
12.When I’m depressed about having no money it makes me want to go out and buy something
13.I have always wanted to be a mother
14.I'm ticklish
15.The gospel of Jesus Christ is the single most important thing in my life
16.The prophet Joseph Smith is my hero
17.When I get down I think about the two men mentioned in # 15 & 16 and I find courage.
18.I try to act tough, but I’m really super sensitive
19.I’m scared to death that I’m not a good enough mother
20.As a kid I played the violin and the piano and now I can’t play either and I regret it
21.I love scuba-diving and can’t wait to go with my husband
22.I always feel like I’m being treated like a kid
23.I can’t stand rudeness
24.I like when a man has good southern manners
25.Popcorn and M&M’s are my down fall
26.I absolutely love taking pictures
27.Being an amazing writer has always been a dream of mine
28.Scrapbooking is my number one hobby
29.I don’t feel like I’m very good at scrapbook, but I like to do it anyway
30.My father-in-law calls me Dew (my middle name) and I love it
31.Every time my husband leaves I play in my mind the scenario of him dying and what all would follow.
32.I already have my husband’s funeral planned at least in my mind (see #31)
33.I love to make plans
34.I grew up on a 362 acre farm and always thought I would live on one
35.I miss horse-back riding
36.I don’t like feeling uncomfortable
37.I turn red in the face very easily, sometimes over nothing
38.I like to feel validated
39.I wear my husband’s deodorant to bed when he is away. That way when I roll over I can smell him and feel like he is there
40.I hurt when other people hurt
41.I’ve never dyed my hair, ever
42.I used to hate that I have red hair, but now I love it
43.I’m going to school online to finish my degree
44.I want to home-school my kids but worry that I won’t be disciplined enough to pull it off
45.I’m horrible at grammar and fractions
46.I love history, especially church history
47.In college I drove 8 hours to see Bill Cosby perform stand up live
48.I love to sing, but don’t like my voice
49.I forget peoples names the second they tell me their name and I feel bad about it
50.I tend to get into things before I’ve thought them through, often to my regret
51.I’m extremely protective of my family
52.I love a clean house, but I don’t like to clean
53.I almost drowned twice when I was young
54.I love the mountains and the dizzy feeling I get when I hike to the top of one and get that overwhelming view
55.I love reading good books
56.I still feel like I need my parents approval
57.It’s hard for me not to eat chocolate everyday (even if it’s just a small handful of semi-sweet chocolate chips)
58.I’m a little claustrophobic due to the fact that my siblings shut me in a cooler to play hide and seek and left me
59.I don’t like being forced to do things
60.I have only one friend that has carried over from different stages of my life(I’ve known her since I was 6ish)
61.I’ve known my father, mother and brothers-in laws longer than I have my husband(he was one a mission when I first met his family)
62.I’m a foot and two inches shorter than my husband
63.I’m a darn good shot with a gun
64.I like getting my way, but sometimes I carry it so far that I don’t want what I wanted anymore once I get it
65.I’m stubborn
66.I want to travel the world
67.When I was a kid I use to dream about having all sorts of exotic animals as pets and I still do
68.I didn’t know how to cook hotdogs when I got married (didn’t eat them as a kid)
69.I think I’m funny even when no one else does
70.I’m a night person
71.I love to dance
72.I eat ice cream even though it makes me sick
73.I’m the grand-daughter of the Kripy Kreme doughnut machine inventor
74.The first time I was on a plane was for my honeymoon, even though my grandfather had planes and a runway strip on our farm (he died before I was born)
75.I don’t like to be alone
76.I spend too much time on the computer
77.I’ve moved 12 times in 4 different states including across the country and back and then half way across the country again in 4.5 years and I'm getting ready to move again
78.I’m the youngest of three kids
79.I was the first to get married and have kids
80.My first job was at a rock-climbing gym
81.I’ve never owned foundation and I don’t even know how to use it
82.My kids have way too many toys, but I love it
83.I’ve never voted and now that Romney is out of the race I don’t see a reason to vote this year (a political science professor in college actually talked me out of voting)
84.I have a hard time with eye contact, it makes me feel uncomfortable and I never know where to look
85.I had a c-section with Kieralee and I wish I hadn’t
86.I was born at home with my Dad as the deliverer, on purpose
87.I worry if strangers are too friendly with my kids they are weirdos and are going to try and kidnap them
88.I’m learning to accept things as they are
89.I enjoy a good hot bath
90.When I’m mad I don’t talk
91.I have to sit in the front of the car because I get car sick (well not on highways, but add curves and yikes!)
92.I wish I had a better relationship with my siblings
93.I’m a total Daddy’s girl
94.I can be very sarcastic (I’m a lot better now) and often I think people don’t get me because of it
95.I love to sleep in but I love how much I get done when I wake up early
96.I think waterfalls are some of the prettiest things on this earth
97.I wish I spoke a second language and I’m pretty proud that my husband does
98.I could spend every second of my life with my husband
99.I would rather be poor with my family than rich and lonely
100. I can touch my tongue to my nose with out using my hands

This was a fun challenge, thanks Jeanette!