Tuesday, August 5, 2008

my 100th post!

In honor of my 100th post, I thought I would do the traditional 100 random facts about us. Do not feel obligated to read all of them, but you may learn something new if you do.

1. Bart and I have been married for 5 years
2. We met at BYU
3. Bart has a bachelor degree in communications
4. He also has a master's degree in physician assistant studies
5. I have a bachelor degree in business management
6. Kade and Ky were born in December, 2005
7. Kade loves the color orange
8. The first color both of the boys learned was purple. I don't know why because it's not like we had a lot of purple around, and it's not an easy word to say.
9. Ky loves trucks, cars, tractors, etc.
10. Kade loves sports
11. Bart and I love to watch The Office together
12. My favorite movie is Pirates of the Caribbean
13. Bart's favorite movie is Field of Dreams
14. Kade and Ky's favorite movie is Cars
15. They also love The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, and Toy Story 2
16. I love chocolate everything!
17. Bart likes chocolate and peanut butter candy, ice cream, etc.
18. Bart likes to buy me shoes, and he has great taste
19. I love numbers, and often dream in numbers
20. Bart sometimes has dreams in Spanish
21. Bart is fluent in Spanish
21. Bart is certified to translate Spanish at the clinic where he works
22. He speaks Spanish because he served his mission in Panama
23. We all love the beach and the ocean
24. I love Disneyland and Disney World
25. We won the stay in Cinderella's castle last March
26. We were in the parade at Disney World
27. Ky and Kade's favorite ride at Disney World is the Buzz Lightyear ride
28. Bart's favorite sport is baseball
29. Our first date was to a baseball game (to see the former Provo Angels)
30. Our first kiss was in a baseball field
31. Bart proposed in that same baseball field
32. We were married in the Mt. Timpanogos Temple
33. Bart is exactly one year, one month, one week and one day older than me
34. I love the Twilight books
35. I tried really hard not to get sucked into the whole Twilight thing, but needless to say it didn't work, and I'm so glad it didn't
36. I worked as Finance Manager for a candle company, For Every Body, before the boys were born
37. I want to be a wedding planner when I grow up
38. I love shoes
39. Bart was born in Des Moines, Iowa
40. I was born in Salt Lake City, Utah
41. Kade and Ky were born in American Fork, Utah
42. We have kissed in 17 different states
43. Kade and Ky have lived in 4 houses and 3 different states since they were born 2 1/2 years ago.
44. Bart and I have lived in 6 different apartments in the 5 years we have been married
45. Bart played baseball, football and basketball in high school
46. I was a cheerleader in high school
47. I love the color green in so many different shades
48. I have a serious sweet tooth and eat way too much candy, ice cream, cookies, etc.
49. I like to make cookies, cakes and other yummy treats
50. I have started to really enjoy trying new recipes lately and we have had some delicious meals as a result
51. I have 3 brothers, one older and two younger
52. Bart has 1 younger brother and 1 younger sister
53. Kade and Ky could say their ABCs when they were 18 months old
54. Kade and Ky's first words were both "dada"
55. Kade's first word besides "mama" and "dada" was "ball" (very appropriate)
56. Ky loves to sing
57. Kade and Ky have been on an airplane trip 5 times
58. I didn't go on an airplane until I was 18
59. Bart and I saw Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart at Disney World
60. Bart loves hats
61. Kade and Ky like hats too
62. I do not like to wear hats
63. I learned how to sew when I was four years old
64. Bart is an eagle scout
65. Bart is a Gators, Badgers, Packers, and Braves fan
66. Even though he graduated from BYU, he is not a Cougar fan
67. I am a cougar fan
68. Bart would watch sports a lot more if he wasn't such a great husband and father
69. Bart is an amazing golfer
70. Bart tried to teach me to play golf, and he was a very patient teacher
71. The only time I played a round of golf, I beat Bart on one hole
72. Kade is an amazing golfer too
73. Kade swings left and throws right
74. Ky usually swings left, but we're not sure if he's just copying Kade
75. We have pizza and french fries every Friday for "Fun Family Friday"
76. When we were first married, we watched Letterman almost every night as a rule so we would have to stop studying and spend some time together
77. We drove from St. George though Arizona to Nevada just so we could kiss in 2 new states
78. We forgot to kiss while we were in Nevada, so we turned around and went back
79. We love to eat at Giordano's
80. We love Pudding on the Rice
81. One or both of us is always sick on Valentine's Day
82. Kade and Ky love, love, love fruit
83. Kade will not, under any circumstances, eat noodles
84. Ky loves noodles
85. Kade loves peanut butter sandwiches
86. Ky does not like peanut butter sandwiches
87. We eat a lot of popcorn
88. Bart loves frozen things like, Otter Pops, slushies, smoothies
89. Ky always remembers to say "Thank You"
90. I don't like to wear long sleeves
91. I love the 4th of July-parades, fireworks, BBQs, warm weather, matching red, white, and blue clothes
92. When we met, Bart drove a 1977 Mercury Marquis with emerald green plush interior
93. Kade likes to talk with his hands
94. Ky always wants to know where Kade is
95. We painted Ky's toenail blue for the first month of his life, so we could tell the boys apart. We had to remove a sock several times to check who was who
96. Kade was born breached--he's liked to hang upside-down ever since
97. We feel lucky to have such great friends and family
98. We feel lucky to have have each other and Kade and Ky. We couldn't ask for a more perfect family
99. We are excited to move into our new house and start the next chapter in our lives together
100. We are happy to have this blog as a way to stay in touch with those who are so far away. Thanks for reading!

3 comments:

Meg said...

78 was by far my favorite factoid!

Jessica said...

Wow. It's amazing that even after knowing you for 13 some=odd years, I learned some great new facts about you from this.

Kathy said...

I'm impressed. That's a lot of facts to come up with. And, yes, I did read all 100.