Blog Challenge: Most proud moment

This one it too easy. I suppose it's a given but I don't remember a more momentous moment in my life than when I gave birth to Michaela. I am excited to repeat the experience with Lucy in September. I never felt more loved or important or closer to my Heavenly Father than when Miki was placed on my chest and she opened her little eyes and looked at me for the first time. I had the overwhelming feeling that I knew her and have always known her. What a special blessing to be a mamma!

Moments after she was born. Can there be any greater feeling?

Mommy and Miki

I mean just look at this little miracle!

And here she is now! I love this face. 

Blog Challenge: First Celebrity Crush

Hmmmmm... honestly probably Johnathon Taylor Thomas. But I'm pretty sure that's cause everyone else was going crazy about him and it didn't occur to me not to follow the fad. The first one I would say that I thought about on my own was AJ from the Backstreet Boys. Hehehe.

I liked him cause he was the "bad boy."

I mean, he is cute.

Blog Challenge: Piercings and tattoos

This one isn't too exciting. I have both of my ears pierced. Just one hole. I love dangly earrings and hoops. I didn't get my ears pierced till I was like 21 cause I was in California on a vacation with my sisters and brother and sister in law and I wanted to do something spontaneous. So we got my ears pierced.

I had my left cartilage pierced in high school. Adam and I got it done at the same time. It got infected pretty badly even though I cleaned it and I took it out.

I sometimes go through a phase where I want a tattoo. Matt thinks this is hilarious. I know if I ever got one it would be a beautiful red rose and it would be in a place I could cover up. However, I don't think I would ever get one.

Blog Challenge: Old Photo of me

Ok, lets see what I can come up with.

So this is only a few years old but, since I get to choose the picture I am choosing one where I was really skinny and tan and cute and with my favorite person. So, here Matt and I are on the plane getting ready to head to Hawaii the day after we got married. Aren't we cute? :)

Blog challenge: 10 Favorite Foods

So, Matt, Miki and I are one vacation right now in Colorado and so I have not kept up to date on the blog challenge the past weekend. However, I find myself awake early while Matt and Miki are taking up the entire bed so it is time to play catch up.

My top ten favorite foods in no particular order are:

1. Bagel Breakfast sandwiches
2. Mac Lasagna Casserole
3. Manicotti
4. Chips and Queso
5. Peanut Butter Cup Perfection Ice Cream from Cold Stone
6. Chick Fil-a Chicken Nuggets
7. Burrito's/Taco's
8. Lasagna
9. Strawberries
10. Grapes

2 things you should have learned about me in this post: I love Italian and Mexican food.

Day 6: 3 Personality Traits that I am proud of

Hmmmmm, so I agree with my sister, Jen that is is hard to talk about yourself. It's never been one of my favorite things. But when I think about traits I have that I am proud of the 3 things that come to mind are; Love, Friendship and Acceptance.

Let me explain a little bit. I have always been a very loving person. I guess you could call this trait compassionate. I am very affected by the feelings of others. I cry when other people cry. I genuinely wish I could take away sorrows and troubles from people. If I see a person that needs love, I want to give it.

I am a very loyal friend. I am friendly with everyone. But I only have a small circle of people that I consider really close personal friends. These are people that I would do anything for and help in any way that I can. They are friends that I will defend through thick and thin. I am blessed to have some wonderful people in my life.

Lastly, it has always been fairly easy for me to accept people no matter what their circumstances. I don't see any reason not to give someone love and friendship and support just because they are different than I am or they think differently than I do. I feel like the world would be a better place if we all just tried to understand one another and accepted that we are different and always will be. Sometimes you can't change people but you can always love them.

I hope these traits do really describe me. No one is perfect and I definitely make mistakes in all of these areas.

Day 5: Guilty Pleasure

When Jen told me what today's challenge is I said: "You mean besides watching 'Keeping up with the Kardashians?" Hahaha. But seriously, my guilty pleasures would probably include: Coke, Peanut Butter Cup Perfection Ice Cream from Cold Stone and The Bachelor/Bachelorette. Matt reminded me of the last one. The reason this show has any appeal to me at all is that it is so completely ridiculous. It's fun to watch the crazies and laugh at them. They know that's what people are doing so I don't feel sorry for them. After all, they applied to be on the show, didn't they? In every season there are some people that I actually like. They seem 'normal' and I always root for those ones. This season I love Emily. She is so sweet and genuine and I think she is the most real of any of the Bachelorette's. She tells it like it is and is sweet at the same time. I think she genuinely is looking to find someone and is taking this pretty seriously. I hope she picks either Arie or Sean. Anyway, that's it folks. My guilty pleasures.