The winner is...

Morgan! E-mail me your address and you'll be getting it in the mail soon. I wish I had enough to give everyone something.

If you're dying to know what you all could've won, it's this and this.

100th post

In honor of my 100th post, I've decided to share the good, bad, and quirky things about me (aka the one in charge of the Pew Family Blog!). For the 200th, I'll do the same for Doug. If I get to 200...okay, maybe for the 150th.

Also, since you all share your input on this blog (which I LOVE hearing), it's time to give out a prize! Make a comment and you'll be a candidate for some good stuff. You have until Friday, March 14th to enter.

1. I got glasses in 3rd grade. My eyes are -8.5. BAD. I'm so nearsighted that I can only see clearly if something's a foot in front of me.
2. I love thinking. Really thinking. I used to sit on our trampoline at night and stare at the stars and wonder and dream about life, the world, God.
3. I'm not a very good driver...but I've never been in a major accident. However, I have no sense of direction and get lost easily.
4. I was born a towhead. Now my hair's dishwater blonde. Yuck.
5. I try to be a positive thinker, but I'm naturally more negative.
6. I want to become a better photographer.
7. I love music. I feel like I can express through music what I can't express through words.
8. I've played violin since I was 3. I love to play, but have always had a tough time liking to practice.

9. I got my bachelor's degree in Dec. 2006, majoring in Violin Pedagogy. So I definitely learned how to practice better and more efficiently!

Baroque Ensemble 2006
Good friends from college! I miss those days.

10. I wish I could play the piano. I can play 5 hymns...does that count?
11. I love to sing, but not solos, just in groups.
12. I love nature. It brings me such peace.
13. I love to lift weights, work out, and read about fitness and health.
14. I love food. Especially smelling and tasting it. Mmm.
15. I love to cook and read cookbooks, and plan menus.
16. I love to bake desserts and eat them. Especially cookies and pastries. I guess that goes with #14.
17.I don't feel like I'm a very good cook--except for desserts and breads.
18. I was anorexic in junior high school. I don't recommend it.
19. I think #18 is what made me so obsessive about food and my appearance.
20. I am a perfectionist.
21. I have a temper, unfortunately.
22. I have a tough time with my weaknesses.
23. If I don't keep myself spiritually in line, I get physically sick. Needless to say, I'm often repenting.
24. I have always known the LDS church is true.
25. I love being a member of the LDS church.
26. I love to read. As a kid, I would sit on my daybed and read myself into other worlds. I have to be reading something during breakfast. It's usually the back of the cereal box or my scriptures.
27. I don't like to clean, but I love a clean house.
28. I like to organize.
29. I am afraid of spiders. Okay, VERY afraid. I've only killed 2 spiders that I can remember, because I was babysitting and had to act cool and confident. Doug kills the spiders now!
30. I want to learn how to decorate better.
31. I want to learn how to dress more stylish and better coordinate colors.
32. I sewed a lot in high school. I made quilts, pj pants, wall hangings...but I haven't done much since we got married. I want to take that up again.
33. I love to write. And edit. I've edited this post at least a dozen times!
34. I have a tough time making myself start something hard. Once I start, it's so much easier.
35. When I smile for pictures, I tend to turn my head a little to the left.
36. I want to be a writer when I grow up.
37. I want to be in a professional orchestra when I grow up.
38. I hope I never grow up!
39. I love being a mom.
40. I want to be more creative with my kids, and to help them discover their interests and talents.
41. I went to school at BYU-Idaho. I also applied to BYU Provo and got in, but didn't like the violin teachers there and got a good scholarship at BYU-I.
42. I met my future husband my first semester at BYU-I, Fall 2002.
43. We got engaged right after that. (Dec. 2002)
44. We got married May 16, 2003--a month after I had thumb surgery on both hands--in the Mt. Timpanogos temple in American Fork, UT.

45. Our wedding day was the most exquisite day of my life.
46. Until Aubrey entered the world. But her birth was NOT a very beautiful day. I had 2 seizures before she was born and then had a C-section, so I woke up and had a baby. (Eclampsia was the cause of it all, and she was breech)

Aubrey, September 2005

47. Then Zach was born. His birthday was beautiful. I had a VBAC and no medication. I felt such a connection to God and feel it an honor to be able to raise two children.

Zachary, August 2007

48. I hope I can be as good of a mother as my mom was for me.

49. I love trying new things. I've always wanted to go skydiving, scuba diving. Crazy fun.
50. I love to travel. But hate packing.
51. When we're older, my husband and I want to go on a mission for the LDS church.
52. I love to be with others.
53. I love to have people over.
54. I get stressed about having a clean house and having it just right when people come over.
55. I worry about what others think. Too much.
56. I love animals. Especially cats. They seem to understand what I can't say when I'm feeling down, and FYI: petting animals is shown to lower blood pressure!
57. I love to shop when I have money.
58. I hardly shop anymore because it's such a hassle taking the kids.
59. I miss shopping.
60. I like my sandwiches cut in half.
61. I love hot, long showers. I prefer them over baths.
62. I love to spell words. I won runner up 2 times in elementary school spelling bees. Yet I can't pronounce words for the life of me.
63. I am sensitive. This can be good or bad, depending on the situation. Usually it makes me cry.
64. I can be shy. It takes me a while to warm up to others.
65. I can be crazy. I love to laugh.
66. When I focus about the important things in life instead of the trivial, I am truly happy.
67. My favorite food is pizza. I know it's everyone's favorite, but it's my ULTIMATE favorite. I miss Craigo's Pizza in Rexburg. That is the BEST pizza I've ever had.
68. I love watching my children grow up.
69. I don't want my children to grow up.
70. I love to sleep.
71. I love to go to the temple.
72. I love rock climbing.
73. I've always wanted to go to beauty school.
74. I want to pursue a graduate degree when my kids are older.
75. I can be anti-social sometimes. Usually when I'm frustrated with myself.
76. I have a phobia about saying stupid things on the phone.
77. I grew up in an LDS ward that was only 2 blocks. (Good old Utah)
78. I loved living in Utah.
79. I enjoyed living in Idaho. (minus the winters)
80. Sometimes I dream of the day when I can sleep in and have no obligations.
81. I've never been to Hawaii. I want to go before I die.
82. I want to run a marathon before I die.
83. I hate hearing my children cry.
84. I hate feeling helpless.
85. I love performing on the violin with Doug accompanying me on piano.
86. I love makeup. Especially Mary Kay.
87. I enjoy horseback riding and bike rides. And just being outside in general.
88. I love putting on lotion after showering and before bed.
89. I love getting dressed up and going out.
90. I love to eat out. People cooking food for me, waiting on me, doing the dishes for me...it makes me feel like a queen!
91. I have bad coordination.
92. I can wiggle my ears.
93. I have blonde eyelashes. I want to try dying them black sometime.
94. I can't really do a handstand.
95. I'm bad at all sports, but I like to play them.
96. I wrote in my journal every day for 5+ years as a kid. I still write, but not nearly as much now.
97. I got a 3.92 GPA in high school, and a 3.5 GPA in college.
98. I've debated on becoming a lacto-ovo-vegetarian lots of times. I hate cutting and dealing with raw meat, but I don't mind the finished product. I like meat that doesn't look like meat, and I like chicken when it's mixed with other stuff so I don't taste it as much. But I enjoy meat, just am not a fanatic about it, so I don't think I'll ever truly be a vegan. However, I do not like cooking whole turkeys, so Doug will be the one doing Thanksgiving turkeys for a long while!
99. I am a procrastinator, especially when I don't want to do something that I have to do.
100. When I die, I want to die quickly (no cancer or illness that drags on for years.) Don't worry, I'm not thinking of dying soon, but when I saw the number 100 I thought of living to age 100--and I can't imagine being that old. Knock on wood...

There you have it! Leave a comment by Friday, March 14th to be entered in the drawing. It'll be a good prize, I promise. Thanks for joining me!