Okay, so Amy, Val, and McKenna did this and I enjoyed it so much I felt like attempting my own. We’ll see if I can come up with 100 useless facts about me!

1. I love being a mother to my 3 kids – Cole 2, Hallie 6 wks, Brighton 6 wks!
2. I am so lucky to be married to Taylor.
3. I carry Hemophilia (commonly called “bleeders), so I could have genetically passed it to my kids.
4. We did IVF with PGD (diagnose embryo’s before implantation) to get pregnant to keep from passing it to my kids.
5. I’m amazed daily at how blessed I am to have 3 healthy children.
6. If you would have told me 4 years ago when I was dating Taylor that we’d be married and have 3 kids in less than 4 years… I would have thought you were crazy – but I would have been secretly excited!
7. I’ve always wanted twins.
8. I love my 2 sisters & best friends, and always wanted my daughter to have a sister.
9. My newest hobby is child watching… it’s truly amazing how fast they change and learn new things.
10. I’ve been married and divorced before.
11. I met Taylor online.
12. I am so grateful that I got a second chance for eternal happiness with Taylor.
13. I’m amazed at Taylor’s many talents.
14. I love that Taylor loves and accepts me with all my faults & peculiarities.
15. I love that Taylor will take on big projects with me!
16. I love my mom – I talk to her nearly every day.
17. I hope my kids have the same love and respect for me that I do for my mother.
18. I am grateful for my in-laws – I couldn’t go anywhere (including the doctor’s office) without them.
19. I love my 4 (almost 5) sister in laws!
20. I love living close (but not too close) to family.
21. I am amazed at the human body
22. I don’t love nursing, but like that my body creates the nutrition my twins need.
23. I am so excited that my kids are so close in age.
24. I love that my kids have cousins so close in age & that live close.
25. I have 2 brothers and 2 sisters, 1 half brother, 4 step brothers, and 4 step sisters.
26. My dad died when I was 12 (complications from Hemophilia)
27. My mom remarried when I was 14 (to a guy with 8 kids… and then they had one together for a total of 14 kids)
28. I have always lived in Utah (Brigham City, Taylorsville, Pleasant View, Bountiful, West Jordan, and now Lehi)
29. I loved building our house.
30. I really like living in Lehi.
31. I am a nurse.
32. I have a Master’s Degree in Informatics
33. I am good at what I do for a living.
34. I love working part time – best of both worlds!
35. I used to be a make up artist.
36. I wanted to be a cosmetologist when I grew up.
37. I’ve traveled to France, Fiji, Carribean, California, Washington DC, Arizona, Vegas, & Idaho.
38. I’ve been in 12 temples (Salt Lake, Bountiful, Ogden, Logan, Timpanogos, Provo, Jordan River, Las Vegas, LA, Fiji, Mesa, Monticello)
39. Taylor and I were sealed in the Mount Timpanogos Temple.
40. I love movies.
41. I love to read.
42. I have never had glasses or braces, but always wanted them growing up.
43. I am a math nerd at heart.
44. My favorite TV show is So You Think You Can Dance
45. I love to make lists.
46. My favorite book right now is The Host by Stephanie Meyer
47. I still want to go skydiving someday.
48. I love massages.
49. I love to decorate… I just wish I had unlimited funds to do so.
50. I love to Travel
51. I like to take pictures.
52. I like to scrapbook.
53. I collect ethnic noisemakers and wooden carvings.
54. I’d rather e-mail and IM than talk on the phone
55. I like doing laundry
56. I don’t mind doing dishes
57. I hate to take out the garbage.
58. I am excited to start a garden this year.
59. I love the internet.
60. I love shopping.
61. I love coupons.
62. I love the smell of baby lotion.
63. I record and watch Good Things Utah lately.
64. I love a clean house, I just don’t want to be the one to clean it.
65. I love shoes.
66. I am super frugal & love to find good deals.
67. I have expensive taste… (conflicts with the above item).
68. I want to be as thin as I was when I married Taylor and have a pair of super comfy, sexy jeans.
69. I love to be free of clothes when I’m home.
70. I want to learn to make good bread.
71. I have been in 2 pageants.
72. I won 2nd runner up in the Miss North Ogden Pageant
73. I love having short hair… so I’m not sure why I’m growing my hair out.
74. I was in Drill Team in High School.
75. Our drill team was nationally renowned.
76. I was on the Folk Dance Team at Weber State University.
77. I danced from the age of 2.5
78. I love volleyball.
79. I played co-ed soccer with Taylor (and a lot of his family) last year
80. I love chocolate
81. I was on TV for taking the first fly fishing class in high school
82. I went on a womens in sports tour tying flies with my drill team/fly fishing instructor (in high school)
83. I graduated High School with a 4.0 GPA
84. I passed my AP Literature and Calculus tests (and never took an English or Math class in college)
85. I got accepted into nursing school right after high school… so I was only 20 years old when I received my RN license.
86. I got Bells Palsy when I was pregnant with Cole and it really took a toll on my self image.
87. I’d love to be a yoga instructor someday.
88. I had my belly button pierced and now have a funky scar after being pregnant with twins.
89. I love games & puzzles
90. I like to win.
91. I love perfume and cologne.
92. I always wear a watch.
93. I love gum.
94. These are really lame.
95. This was harder than I thought…. but we’re nearing the end.
96. I love budgeting.
97. I love 4-wheeling.
98. I hope my friends and family know how much I love and appreciate them, even if I don’t tell them.
99. I’m sick of changing diapers… and there is no end in sight.
100. I am happy with my life.

Coley fell asleep in his highchair today! He woke up at 6 this morning and has been going non-stop ever since! The amazing part was that I was able to capture a couple pictures, clean him up, and move him to his bed without him waking up. Okay, maybe I do have brief wonder woman moments!

Also, I finally added pictures in the photo gallery! Go check out the cute ones of the twins!

Cole:
– Talking up a storm. He slurs sentences into one word – said with a Chinese Accent (not sure where he gets that).
– Some of my favorite words are: Wynon (lion), klynon (climbing), cwynon (crying), toye (toy), snack (said very nasally), whatyadowing (What are you doing?), ineedatoye (I need a toy), sawsaw (sorry), help, sawing (swing), me (come with me), i-jumping (I’m jumping), i-fall (I fell).
– He does pushups on Taylor’s perfect push up handles and grunts everytime he bends his arms.
– He pulls all the pillows off the couch and dives on them, hides under them, and lays in them.
– He plays the Wii with Taylor – yelling “swing” everytime he moves, and cheering after each swing.
– He is moving non-stop – either running, jumping, skipping, or diving to the floor and then rolls around!
– Sings his AA’s (ABC’s)… most the letters are still A, but he is filling in more and more letters later in the alphabet. He is also recognizing letters in books, TV, and on billboard/signs – calling them A’s. He even gets on the scale and when we ask how much he weighs.. his answer is ‘A’.
- He is at the top of the charts for his height (37 in) and 95% for his weight (33 lbs).

Hallie:
- Getting more responsive… she’ll make eye contact and sometimes even smiles.
- Growing like a weed – she is now 10 lbs.
- Burps like a man
- Watches TV
- On her tummy, she pushes up and looks around

Brighton:
- Her reflux is getting better
- Growing like a weed – she is now 9 lbs.
- Holds her head up so strongly
- Watches everything when she is awake
- Her hair is growing in blonde

Okay, I’ve gone on my first outing without my 3 children. Granted, it was just to Walmart to buy diapers… but hey, I was out of the house ALONE! I’m so grateful to Taylor for allowing me an hour of freedom from my children… I can love them even more now! I watched Good Things Utah today, and listened to their guest author of ScreamFree Parenting talking about how important it is for mom’s to nuture themselves and have “retreats” (planned outings away from their kids on a regular basis) for the sanity and overall health of the family. While I don’t think Walmart counts as a “retreat”, I totally agree with his advice and rationale. I may just have to read his book now!