Some of my Favorites - This is Inteactive!!!!!

As I've mentioned before, I really like to blog. I like to write all about what goes on in Tasty-Names World, but sometimes I feel that it can get a little repetitive and even boring. Sometimes. Even for me. So I was thinking about what kind of post I could do that might be a little different, and this is what I want to do, and I've done something similar in the past, I think: I want to share some of my favorite times. I don't know really who all reads my blog, but I have been thinking of many things from many times that happened with many, many people. As I think about this life of mine, and what else do I write about but my life, I know that where I am and who I am is a credit to many, many people who encourage me, walked with me, kicked me in the hind end when I needed it, laughed with me, loved me, struggled with me, left me in awe of their own lives, and in essence shared this journey with me in good and bad. I hope that ya'll will comment with some of your own favorite times in your own life, or maybe write a blog of your own about them. I love all of you so much!

As I am Abstract-Random, these are in no particular order. I hope you recognize yourselves here . . .

Going to Grandma and Pappa's in the Ozarks.

Matt and Anthony making up stories to keep me occupied.

Mamma reading me Black Beauty and The Boxcar Children when I was about 4 years old, every day at naptime.

Daddy wrapping me up like a burrito on cold winter nights when I was very small, kissing me and telling me I was special and he loved me.

Giving Daddy millions of kisses before bed each night.

Mamma hugging me when I hurt my finger in the swing.

Anthony reading me "Curious Tarimisu" instead of "Curious George."

Matt and I listening to the Christmas records one night when Mamma and Daddy were at a Christmas party.

Not being able to remember not knowing Elizabeth.

Shane and the youth group.

Shane and Dianne and 3-hour collect calls from Florida (from me, not to me).

Church camp.

Cheaper By the Dozen.

Oklahoma!

Journalism class - convention, Pepperidge Farm cookies, birthday cakes each month.

Eating lunch in the library with David, Carrie, Amy, and Chuck.

Eating lunch on the front lawn with Samantha.

Eating lunch in front of the library with Di, Jana, and whoever else.

Up on the roof in a formal with Di and JF - watching for shooting stars, sparking life savers.

Running around the water bed, in formals, with Di and JF - "Will He Ever Come?"

Elizabeth and I, staying up talking way too late.

Elizabeth and I, playing with stuffed animals and pretending like we didn't have arms - when we were way too old to do stuff like that.

Courtney and me - finding each other in high school, finding each other again afterward, eating way too much ice cream, watching silly movies, laughing and comforting one another.

A glorious summer at FSBC Magnet Cove.

Lazy and wonderful Sunday afternoons with Shane and Di.

Chicken Nugget and me at the beach.

In a small apartment in Walnut Ridge, AR, filled with laughing people, bags of candy for door prizes.

In NE Arkansas, being Lucy in the play, making a friends for life in James, Kristi, my professors, Cara, Sara, Andrea, Holly, Rachel, Carrie, Jarvis and Kelly, too too many to name.

Snowy times in Iowa, bundling up to go to the church to teach a precious bunch of youth.

Kurt, Cindy, Tesa, Deb, Karly, Nikki, Michelle, John and Sharon, and too many to name in Winterset.

The great people I worked with at Winterset Middle School.

Scott laughing so hard he fell off his chair when I first met him - being endeared to him.

Getting engaged in front of Central's chapel.

Meeting people that were so dear to Scott's life, that now are dear to my life and I can't imagine life without them - Wade, Caryn, Mark, Kerstin, Mike, Jen, Grandma and Grandpa, Michael and Jackie . . .

Erin and Adam's wedding.

Ice cream picnics with Erin, Nic, Kresten.

At the beach with Nikki A.

Nikki and Garry, the best neighbors.

CARE Group.

My Arkansas brother and sister, Charley and Marianne.

Erin - "Ain't no thang but a chicken WAAAANG!!!"

Marita - singing in my living room.

Loren - at the beach, dinners at my house, watching Eliza.

Lots of people at my house at seminary for Thanksgiving dinner.

John - watching movies, checking on me and Eliza, going to the beach.

Nicole - driving around SF at night, eating ice cream, the best time, so relaxing.

Everyone up on that hill on Seminary Drive.

Drama classes and plays with Nathan, Brandi, Mandi, JD.

The Cast.

My kids being born.

Getting married to Scott.

Driving around Winterset with Diana.

Linda, Neal, Jeri down here in Texas.

My mission trip last summer.

Amy, Lana, and Jose from the mission trip.

Sitting out in my yard here in Texas on a clear blue day, watching my kids play and then closing my eyes and feeling the wonder of the day.

IKEA!!!!!!

Kelly and me, doing nothing in particular, but everything in the world.

Kelly, Nikki and me in Galveston.

Matt, Chicken Nuggets and French Fry and me down in Galveston.

Me and Matt and Anthony, playing football out in the yard at the Bauxite house.

Letters from Anthony.

Phone calls from Courtney, Elizabeth, Nicole, Erin, Diana, Kelly, Scott, Shane and Di, Amanda, Kerstin, Jill, and more and more.

Mandy, Amanda, Elizabeth, me - FPS.

Jill and me, laughing and laughing and don't even know why.

Jill and Courtney and me and everyone else - bar-b-que's at the Cox Street House.

Fun times at Stage in Benton.

My fun crew at Palais Royal down here in Texas.

Meeting the Bishop girls and their family.

Quality time with Kerstin.

Kelly and Wayne and Superstar.

Kelly and "Little Pig."

Arch Rival.

Walks with lots of people, up and around the hills of Marin.

Terry, Billy, Kees, John, Debbie, Melissa, Mike, Matt, etc. at Arch Rival.

Debbie and me, running the Pac Sun, Kees cheering us on.

At the beach house with Kees, Sandy, Andre, and Sister Bernadette and Sister Marion.

Elder McKewen, Elder Gubler, Elder Bristow.

True Love Waits at Winterset.

Jenny, Nikki and me that summer in Winterset.

Provo, Diana and her friends and cousins, 2001.

Tom, Gayle, and their kids, Mill Valley.

At the Pig Farm with the Hutchens family.

Scrapbooking with Elizabeth.

Hugs from too many people to name . . .

And too much more stuff to mention, or it would take up all the gigabytes from all the computer stuff from all around the world . . .

Thank you for making my world wonderful, and I love you all so so much and am sorry I can't name everything. You are loved, you are all very loved, those of you named in this blog and those of you not named.