73 Things ..

1. I think I am really funny, I love making people laugh.

2. I love avocados, peaches, mangoes and hummus, not together ...

3. I knew I would have a child with special needs, God prepared my heart before I was even married.

4. Sometimes I see something on my floor and will just lick my thumb and scrub it off.

5. I think I am a good athlete, there is a rock star bod under all this flab created by having children.

6. I made up my mind a long time ago that I would never marry anyone that had a problem with addiction, as it has ravaged through my family, the cycle stops here, and I knew that when I was young.

7. I love musicals and want to be on the stage at some point in my life ... again.

8. I fully admit I am overwhelmed by my life.

9. I am saddened by people that feel they have to earn Grace.

10. I love interpreting worship at church.

11. I am eclectic.

12. I love sunflowers, tuberose and lilac ... I think lilac is what Heaven will smell like.

13. When I was growing up, I didn't yearn to be a Mommy, I don't remember giving much thought to it at all, and probably would have waited some time after getting married if I didn't get pregnant on our honeymoon.

14. Having a Deaf husband is much more difficult than people realize. I think people see it as a novelty, but my day to day life is impacted greatly by marrying a man that can not hear anything.

15. I love triathlons and am ridiculously excited for the season ahead ... I have turned over a new leaf in my journey to better health and am constantly amazed at what my body can do.

16. I miss my Grandma Betty everyday.

17. I used to lie a lot when I was growing up.

18. I like beer.

19. I am a tomboy. I have no desire to dress up or wear make-up ... I have been a sweats and ponytail girl since I can remember. When I do dress up it makes me feel special, and I suppose if I did it everyday then people wouldn't notice.

20. I have always had really good friends, male and female.

21. I don't care much for pasta.

22. I have always hated having big boobs. I was made fun of by lots of people growing up.

23. I don't consider myself an artist. I enjoy painting, it is a peaceful place for me to be involved in a project. When I had the shop though, I would always be so nervous that someone would not like what they had ordered ... never happened, just dumb insecurities I suppose.

24. I love the Dodgers. I love going to baseball games and would love to travel the United States and go to every major ball park.

25. I want plastic surgery. I would have my boobs lifted, just put back to where they belong and my tummy tucked. My stretch marks are outrageous, and although they are from 2 amazing pregnancies, I would love to get rid of the flap that lays over my C-Section scar.

26. I love shabby-chic furniture, I love to refinish it myself. Going to a flea market and looking for fun things to refinish is exciting.

27. My mother is amazing, she has always been my confidant and biggest cheerleader. I still think there is a lot I don't know about her childhood and I would love to know. Hot tea, english muffins with avocado, salt and pepper and an afternoon with my Ma. I love her more than I can even describe.

28. Nancy has changed my life, for the better. I have shed years and years of shame by seeing her. I covet the time I spend with her.

29. My dog annoys me. She doesn't listen to me, she doesn't want to be around me unless I have food, she is stubborn and the hair she sheds makes me want to lose my mind. I love dogs, just not her.

30. I wish I never stopped using my retainers. My teeth have shifted and I don't like it.

31. I love going to The Screaming Peach, being hairless is awesome.

32. I want more tattoos.

33. I love Facebook and am thrilled at the friendships I have been able to rekindle. God's timing is always perfect.

34. Caloy is an amazing husband and I often think I do not do enough as a wife.

35. I am a Daddy's girl. My Daddy knows everything and no one can ever measure up.

36. Everytime I hear Crystal Lewis' song, "Come As You Are" ... I cry. I relive the exact moment that I stood up at the Harvest Crusade and walked onto the field to be saved, no greater moment in all of my life.

37. I want a Jetta.

38. I love my nose ring. I often forget it is there and I just adore it, just a bit of sass.

39. I loved nursing my children, alone in a rocker, even at 2am, such a blessing.

40. I enjoy playing games, I am competitive.

41. Growing up in Seal Beach was surreal when I think back, it was a perfect little town and I am so thankful to have lived there.

42. I have been through a lot in my short 32 years of life, and I completely believe in the phrase, "What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger."

43. The Shack is one of the greatest books I have read in my life.

44. I love drinking water.

45. The only time I cried at my wedding was when I danced with my brother. Our DJ timed it perfectly and we danced to a song we used to sing as kids. At a point in the not too recent past I thought he would die and I praise God daily now for his sobriety.

46. I love how my children love my parents. I am so thankful that they live so close and will have the relationship with them that I never had with my own.

47. I love to dance and I think the invention of the ipod is the greatest thing ever. I love music and have great memories of music throughout my life.

48. I once threw up in a movie theater, into the popcorn bag and soda cup, I left it there in the aisle under the chair.

49. I love to eat chips and salsa.

50. I spray on Heaven Sent perfume every morning, just to remember my Grandma Betty.

51. My Book Club group is phenomenal, amazing women, fantastic life stories, and getting together to share in life once a month is such a gift.

52. Although I am a Veg, I'm not grossed out by meat, people can eat what they want ... really, it makes me sad, but to each their own. If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be Vegetarian, such suffering.

53. I remember walking on the beach with my Daddy and him singing "Surfer Girl" to me. I know the sacrifice that was made when they moved here, my Dad misses the ocean horribly.

54. I was not raised in a Christian home, but there are so many times I can see the hand of God in my life. He was always there, waiting ...

55. I love working at the YMCA.

56. I cry once a month, a good cry ... it is a release.

57. I don't want to be a slave to the scale, I just want to look in the mirror and appreciate all I see. I want to love myself more.

58. I think I am funny ... I also think I said that already, but it's worth saying again ... what is better than a good sense of humor?

59. You just never know what is happening in the heart of a person, or in someone's home ... my childhood is the perfect example.

60. I detest the word retard.

61. Hummingbirds are miracles.

62. I love my home. I love that my house is yellow and I have a red door.

63. I still get horribly painful acne, zits suck.

64. I am not good at math. I remember my HS guidance counselor telling me if I didn't pass the HS math equivalency test that I wouldn't graduate. I had wanted to be an architect like my Daddy, but when I found out the math that was required I changed my mind.

65. I like to read magazines. VegNews is my favorite.

66. There are only a handful of people that know every detail of my life.

67. Matthew's freckles are beautiful and I hope Grace will get them too. Growing up I didn't like them and I remember people telling me that they would go away when I was an adult ... ummm, nope, still there.

68. Jumping off Aspen Mountain at 10,800Ft was one of the greatest experiences of my life.

69. Hahaaa, 69. I am immature and I think it's funny ... I remember getting the keys to our house and when it was being built, walking through it and thinking, "I am way too immature to own a home."

70. I wish my family didn't smoke. It is the biggest heart ache I have.

71. My trip to Willow Creek church was a soulful renewal, God met me there in a way I can't explain ... I pray I am able to make it an annual tradition for myself.

72. I do enjoy cooking and should do it more.

73. I picked 73 things instead of 100 because I wanted to ...