A Decade Ago...Only the brave should read on!

10 years ago...
1998 - Wow. A year of change. I was a Freshman in High School, and really awkward. I was on the swimteam, and went to state and placed in the top three - I even beat out a BYU swimmer. I did modern dance at BYU and woke up at 5:30 to practice the piano for an hour each day...This was the year that my dad broke to us that we were moving. The deal on a Ranch in Three Creek fell through - someone bought it hours before my dad signed on it. It was almost a blessing, becasue we would have been attending school in a one room school house - no joke. It broke his heart. As a family we were tight, but what we didin't realize was that we were going to get a lot closer and have to rely on each other a lot more in the comming years. As it ended, the following summer we moved to the Bancroft/Chesterfield area - where my class size was like 19 - and it was one of the bigger classes. (For those interested, 10 years ago Ryan was attending Ricks college, dating weird finiky girls...I had no idea what I was up against! (just kidding)) The picture below is the youngest one I have of me - taken 2002 right after I chopped my long, curly hair.

5 things on my to do list today:
1. Clean up (shower, wash my hair, dress in actual clothes, not exercise/sweat/pjs)
2. Laundry
3. Prepare Singing Time - maybe
4. Play with the boys
5. Kiss my Hubby good-bye at 8:30am....and...make sure the house is picked up for him when he returns after work and class at 10:30. This is always the hardest one. Don't know why. (The picking up part...)

If I were suddenly a billionaire:
1. Can you pay tithing on winnings like that? If so, I would.
2. Buy us a house.
3. Buy a Steinway to put in the house, and one for my parents, too.
4. Pay off any debts - not that there's that much, but I guess anyone close to me would get a nice check to do the same. : )
5. Pay for my children's college education.

3 bad habits:
1. I bite my fingernails. Always have, always will.
2. I stay on the computer way too long, way too much.
3. I let my dishes pile up while I 'wander' wondering what I can do...ridiculous, I know, but the truth hurts!

5 places I have lived:
1. Born and 'raised' in Springville, Utah untill I was 15 years old.
2. Moved to Bancroft, Idaho (for a year) then moved to Chesterfield on the ranch (we had to wait until our house was built).
3. Smithfield, Utah, working before I went to college.
4. Rexburg, Idaho while I attended BYU-I.
5. Idaho Falls, Idaho, because it was an easy move to do my student teaching, and Ryan's job was in I.F.

5 jobs I have had:
1. Unloading the dishwasher
2. Helping with my little brothers and sisters.
wait - you meant SERIOUS, real jobs?
3. Helping out on the ranch.
4. Working at Valley Wide Co-op pumping gas and loading feed.
5. Porter's Craft and Frame - Floral, Fabrics, Crafts, Framing and Scrapbooking. My favorite was the frame department...There was just something about designing, assembling and working with art that way. I loved it!
I would have listed teaching at Hillcrest H.S., but I didn't get paid for my student teaching...shucks!
6. Wife, mother, and Homemaker. The biggest and best'est' job I've ever had, because the long hours and long days are compensated with love (usually). :)

5 things people don't know about me:
1. I am 8 years and 10 months younger than my sweetheart, and hubby, Ryan. No, there is nothing wrong with him, and no I'm not psychotic.
2. My mom put me in piano lessons when I was three years old - I learned to play by ear and faked my teachers thinking I could read the music until I was about 11 or so. I love to play by ear, and still have to work at sight reading - however it's getting better.
3. To bring in a few extra bucks to help in my poor spending habits department, I teach piano lessons. I have 10 students, and some days I wish I didn't have any! I love music, but I wish my students would practice. Practice!!! - so I didn't feel like I had to 'endure' lessons every day.
4. In high school I was salutatorian (second in my class) but almost didn't graduate period...long story...some other time. Basically I quit doing my English 101 class through ISU (along with some other class members) and the teacher contacted our superintendant the day of graduation and that put a halt on things...I've never written a 6 page paper so fast in my life. One Hour. I don't even remember what it was on, but it was obviously what the professor wanted, because she gave me a C-. Enought to graduate, and my lowest grade ever. Otherwise, I would have graduated with a 4.0.
5. My two front teeth are porcelin. Yup. When I was nine, my cousin and I were fighting over a croquet mallet and he let go - Looser! and it hit my front tooth and broke it off. We rushed to our dad's cousin's dental office (at like 9:00 at night) and he glued my tooth back. It did great for a few years, but sometimes broken things need to be fixed! When I was 18, the tooth died, and instead of getting one tooth, my dentist suggested I get both as caps, that way they would match. I was game for my teeth matching, so he drilled them down and I looked like Sloth on Goonies - until the caps were put on. Freekish, but sweet. Now I have two teeth that match. What a girl always wants, right?

I tag anyone who wants to do this.