The Best of 2007

Well, I'm off to LA for the weekend. Donnie has to work for New Years Eve, and I wasn't about to sit around the house and mope. So, I get to visit my best friend Katie in LA. Should be an excellent way to finish a great year! Donnie and I came up with our 27 Bests of the Year 2007!

27 greats of the year 2007 (not really in any particular order)

27. Getting my kickboxing certification and teaching what I already do anyways.
26. Finishing my horrible ’06-’07 class and getting a really nice ’07-’08 one!
25. Taking several random day trips to keep us on our toes.
24. Having none of the typical wedding stress!
23. Hanging out for a couple days with Katie in LA.
22. Going to Tahoe not just once, but twice, with the Caldwells.
21. My aunt throwing an amazing shower for me.
20. Not working during summer vacation.
19. Donnie got to go to Cabela’s this year.
18. I got to go to Palm Desert with the girls.
17. Donnie got to go to the mountains with the boys.
16. Going to Blair’s graduation from Northgate.
15. Going to Chico for Brynn’s graduation.
14. Finding our favorite new restaurant in town for our date-nights (Zinsvalley, no corkage fee!)
13. Seeing The Jersey Boys with my family.
12. Having several visitors to the house to entertain throughout the year!
11. Many fabulous wine tastings.
10. Not turning 30 this year.
9. Another year at Tahoe with the family.
8. Jazmin turned 3 whole years old!
7. Janet giving us the best and most beautiful wedding ever.
6. Hosting our first Thanksgiving.
5. Spending a week in Jamaica.
4. Our friends and family coming to our special day.
3. Our first whole year in our first house.
2. Marrying my buddy.
1. All of us being alive, healthy, and blessed to be born into this world!

Hope everyone has a fabulous New Years!

I think this picture really sums up our year!

Our First Blog

Well, Donnie came home last night and was very excited about the blog, and he wants it to be our family blog! Very cute. So, I changed around some information and made it our blog. I think I will still be the primary narrator for it. It would just be way too weird for me to talk in third person, that would be very annoying. I'm trying to think of 100 things you never knew about Donnie, but I'm not sure if I could come up with 100!

My first blog!

So, I've decided to officially become a blogger. Living in Napa is so wonderful and fabulous for me, but I am far away from many of my family and friends! So, I figure this will be an easy and somewhat fun way for me to keep in contact. And, it's much easier than having my own website. I'm going to give it a try and see how it is. Right now I'm on winter break too, so it may be easy to get it started. So, to start off right, here are 100 things you may have never known (or wanted to know) about me!:

1. Sometimes I care too much about what others think.
2. I am a very fast (although not always accurate) typist.
3. I love looking up recipes, but hate shopping at the store for so many ingredients.
4. I don’t really like staying up late.
5. I’m online way too much.
6. I love working out, especially during the winter and walking outside into the cold afterwards.
7. I don’t really watch many popular TV shows, although I feel like I’m always watching TV.
8. I always do the dishes and laundry in our house.
9. I hate vacuuming and cleaning bathrooms with a passion, but love how it looks once I’ve done it.
10. We really want twin boys and a girl, but know that it probably won’t happen.
11. Silver earrings hurt my ears, but I wear them anyways.
12. I love really long shirts.
13. I dislike it when people buy me things for our house. I’m extremely picky and return most of it. It's horrible, I know.
14. I love being on the beach with my family.
15. I love the smell of rubber and new shoes.
16. I wish all of my friends lived in the same town.
17. I love taking pictures and looking at them online, but hate lots of pictures around a house.
18. I think I would like to take up scrap-booking, but hardly ever finish a project.
19. I love blue, purple, red, and dislike pink.
20. I love cheesy girly movies and comedies.
21. I think Donnie and I could move to the mountains and love it.
22. I love how I grew up and wouldn’t change it for anything.
23. I love math.
24. I went to every kind of camp as a kid and loved them all.
25. I wish Donnie and I had met earlier.
26. I can’t do one thing at a time. I usually do 3 or 4 things at once.
27. I love to pluck my eyebrows.
28. I would much rather be burning hot than freezing cold.
29. I think 70% of people should have their driving licenses taken away.
30. I hate being wrong.
31. I love buying plants, but it takes me a long time to plant them.
32. I wish there was a Coffee Bean in Napa.
33. I have no problem doing things by myself.
34. I wish I had a walk-in closet and would keep it super-organized.
35. I love how sometimes I know more about sports than Donnie, and I am so thankful he isn’t obsessed with them.
36. I love black and white clothes.
37. I like to sleep in cars.
38. I talk to Janet about 4 times a day.
39. If I don’t make a list, I’ll forget something.
40. I don’t really like washing and drying my hair.
41. I’m always on the lookout for the perfect lip-gloss.
42. I love naps, but rarely take them anymore.
43. I like to get stuff done in the morning.
44. I’m extremely indecisive.
45. I’d much rather do something than get something.
46. I either eat really healthy all day or really horrible all day.
47. I hate it when people mess up “good” and “well”.
48. I can’t standby and watch someone put together something.
49. I get stuck on certain clothes at a time and forget about the rest.
50. Jazmin and I are best friends when Donnie’s away and enemies when he’s home.
51. We follow the DeBarr’s tradition of Thursday night Survivor and Panda Express.
52. I don’t like writing thank-you cards but feel better when I do.
53. I steal Donnie’s socks and shirts at least once a day.
54. We go to Tahoe with the family once every summer, the best vacation ever.
55. I’ve seen every Friends episode ever taped at least 15 times.
56. I hate talking politics, because obviously I’m right!
57. I will only eat KFC once a year, if that.
58. I love trashy celebrity magazines, even though it only takes about 20 minutes to read through them.
59. I love beef, but barely ever order it at a restaurant.
60. I am an excellent colorer.
61. My favorite book is The Great Gatsby, even though my high school boyfriend obnoxiously gave away the ending to me.
62. I’m very competitive. All the time. When Donnie and I wrestle, it infuriates me that I can’t win.
63. I hate the word ginormous.
64. Sometimes commercials will make me laugh out loud or cry.
65. My favorite animals are raccoons and lobsters (I don’t know why, I really like lobsters)
66. I’m horrible at refilling the fridge with soda.
67. I think having the heater on is worth it.
68. Donnie always falls asleep before me.
69. I hate getting up early during the week, but then I can’t sleep in on the weekends.
70. I think many things are ridiculously over-priced.
71. It sometimes takes me a long time to warm up to people.
72. I still stare at my ring at least 3 times a day.
73. I love kid’s meals.
74. I think I’m generally a good person.
75. I can’t buy ice cream because I will eat the whole thing in a couple of days.
76. I can’t stay at home all day ever.
77. I am an excellent parallel parker.
78. I have no idea how to file taxes.
79. I can actually do charcoal drawings very well, but I don’t do them.
80. I get really obsessed with any one subject or thing for a while, and think about it all the time.
81. I like things that are plain. Plain colors, plain ice cream, plain clothes.
82. I sometimes get hooked on bad reality shows on MTV (The Hills & Shot at Love)
83. I didn’t go on a plane until I was 17.
84. I actually like feeling hungry.
85. I think my worst physical feature is my toes.
86. I hate it when people chew gum on TV.
87. I love to take stickers off of things.
88. I like things neat, but I hate to clean.
89. I’ve owned 8 types of pets throughout my life.
90. Even if I know I shouldn’t answer the door, I do anyways.
91. I love kids, but worry sometimes about how their parents raise them.
92. Donnie and I eat cheese & crackers for dinner a couple nights a week.
93. I don’t like mismatched things, cups, towels, etc.
94. I think I have good morals.
95. I don’t like when things or people are loud.
96. I notice when things are misspelled.
97. I love to daydream.
98. I think I have the best family and friends.
99. I think I’ve had an amazing life.
And 100! I can’t believe I thought of 100 things about myself!