A little about me and my family...

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My love of people, photography and the world began as a child. My family moved a lot and taking pictures was my way of remembering friends, capturing special places or moments and holding them close. Becoming a wife and a mother has always been a dream of mine and I count my blessings daily. I started this blog shortly after our daughter, Yaya joined our family through the blessing of adoption. Its purpose was to share pictures and stories about our life with family and friends. Later, it shared our adoption journey to our second daughter, Baby Bird as well. Now that our family is complete I like to think of it as our family’s journal or life book. I'm passionate about life, my family and preserving our history one snapshot at a time. The thing that amazes me most is the abundance of beauty God blesses us with every day and in the simplest ways if only we take the time to slow down and appreciate them.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Want to Get to Know More About Me?

I received this email from Nichole at the Pumpkin Seed. Hope you learn a few new things about me.
Get to Know You
Welcome to the 2008 edition of getting to know your friends. Change the answers so they apply to you. Then, send this to your friends including the person who sent it to you. The theory is that you will learn a lot of little things about your friends that you might not have known.
1. What time did you get up this morning? 7:45 am (Mind you I was also up at 2 A.M., 3:30 AM and 4 AM with Yaya or the dogs.) 2. Diamonds or pearls? Duh, DIAMONDS BABY! 3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Hate to admit it but it was Burn After Reading. Title of the movie should have been, Burn Before Seeing.
4. What is your favorite TV show? Gray's, Ugly Betty, Everyday Italian and the Travel or History Channels 5. What do you usually have for breakfast? Cup of reg. coffee with Vanilla Cinnamon Flavoring 6. Favorite movie? Don't seem to have one I guess. 7. What food do you dislike? Seafood, Fish, Liver, Cooked Cabbage, Cooked Spinach
8. What is your favorite CD at the moment? Last CD I bought was Robbie Williams Greatest Hits so I guess that would be it. 9. What kind of car do you drive? Ford Freestyle
10. Favorite sandwich? Toasted Turkey or BLT 11. What characteristics do you despise? Dishonesty. Is that a characteristic? 12. Favorite item of clothing? t-shirt and shorts
14. Not sure what happened to this question but it's missing. 13. If you could go anywhere? EUROPE NOW PLEASE!!! 15. Where would you retire? no idea but in my dreams it would be Austria near the Lake District. 16. What was your most recent memorable birthday? My 34th Birthday because my one big wish had come true. I finally was a mother and my birthday party was her also her baby shower. 17. What are you going to do when you finish this? spend time with Yaya and Bird. 18. Furthest place you are sending this? Australia? 19. Person you expect to send it back first? Don't know. Hate this question!
20. When is your birthday? 4/22/73 21. Morning person or a night person? Night owl here! 22. What is your shoe size? 8 1/2 23. Pets? 3 dogs= 1 Yorkie, 1 American Eskimo and 1 Chow/mix 24. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share with us? We're talking/praying about adopting again.
25. What did you want to be when you were little? Marine Biologist. I was picked out of the crowd at Sea World when I was 7 and got to play with, hug and feed Shamu the killer whale. Too bad I suck at science and biology. 26. How are you today? Inspired by my morning Women's Bible Study 27. What is your favorite flower? Tulips
28. What is a day on the calendar you are looking forward to? Day my hubby and I go on the cruise he's planning for next year.
29. What are you listening to right now? Microwave warming dinner. IE. Homemade Penne Amatriciana. While living in Italy, I taught myself to make after our favorite restaurant closed down. 30. What was the last thing you ate? Chicken wrap and fries from McDonalds.
31. Do you wish on stars? You betcha! 32. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Purple more specific...Eggplant 33. How is the weather right now? Brisk 34. Last person you spoke to on the phone? Bird's college buddy, Adam. 35. Favorite soft drink? Coke 36. Hair color? Med. Brown with heavy blond highlights 37. What was your favorite toy as a child? I loved to color. 38. Summer or Winter. FALL Y'ALL
39. Chocolate or Vanilla? Vanilla with lots of chocolate sauce
40. Coffee or tea? Both
41. Do you want your friends to email you back? Doesn't count here.
42. When was the last time you cried? Last week
43. What is under your bed? Bird likes to keep his shoes under there. Also, Loni our Yorkie
hangs there.
44. What do you Salt? When cooking and on Avocados
45. was missing.?
46. How many keys on your key ring? 5
47. How many years at your current job? 1 1/2
48. Favorite day of the week? Saturday
49. Do you make friends easily? sometimes
50. Are you gonna vote? HECK YEAH! My voter registration confirmation came today.
51. Do you like finding out all this stuff about your friends? Of course
52. Who would you like to have lunch with, living or dead? God and my girlfriend who committed suicide.
53. If you received one million dollars how would you spend it? Pay off house in Vegas and buy a house in CA or Austria.

10 comments:

Renata said...

Oh what a great post! It's fun finding more out about you. Will be praying along with you guys about your next adoption!!

Karin @ 6ByHisDesign said...

Hey, Sis.
Just checking in tonite -
Hope you are all well!

~k

oº˚ Homeschool Mom˚ºo said...

Loved reading your post -- leaned alot more about you! I will keep yall in my prayers about the adoption!

Much Love
Anissa

Julie said...

why Austria... just curious... and where in Austria? praying with you about your adoption!!!

Mum-me said...

That was very interesting, although I am wondering where the missing questions went? Maybe to your dream house in Austria...

Good luck with the adoption process. Will it be easier/less complicated 2nd time around?

~Trish~ said...

I love posts like this, it's always fun to learn about people!!

Susie said...

What a great getting-to-know-you meme:-) Very cool:-)

Dawn said...

Great answers!!! I enjoyed reading them!

Nichole said...

These are always so fun to read!

I'll be praying about your next adoption.

Shannon said...

I dislike the same foods. And I love me some Coke... 'specially with LOTS of ice. I wanted to be a marine biologist at some point in my youth... but I hated science. I'd love to get to Europe some day. And I'm a night owl, too!

Man, we've got a lot in common! ;)