I've seen several people make random lists of 100 on their 100th post and I've enjoyed reading them! So, here's one for you!
1. I'm from Oklahoma.
2. I'm 24 years old.
3. I'm a wife and mother.
4. I love that being a wife and mother is my occupation.
5. I married out of my league.
6. I don't always like that Chris is gone for most of the year, but his being gone helps me really appreciate him when he's home.
7. We met at Oklahoma Baptist University.
8. I did not like him one bit when we first met, I avoided him like the plague.
9. I like to cook.
10. Cake is my favorite food.
11. Any kind.
12. I'm obsessive compulsive and it's usually repulsive to those around.
13. I like to travel.
14. We just got home from an almost three week vacation and I'm already planning our next get-away.
15. I prefer to travel in a car, not on a plane.
16. For the first three years Chris was in the military he didn't take more than a few days off work so that we would get to a point where he has to take 30 days off a year. We've just hit that point!
17. I'm not an early bird. Karis is.
18. I love being a soccer and ballet mom and wonder what sports Silas will enjoy and if Karis will stay with these or pick new sports later on.
19. I like our church.
20. I love to see the look on Karis' face when she sees the church out of the car window.
21. I wonder how I survived before I had kids.
22. I want a big family.
23. Chris does not.
24. We took a few scenic routes on our cruise while in port because neither of us could read a map!
25. I have eaten escargot and liked it.
26. My favorite movie is My Fair Lady.
27. Some days I wish we had never gotten a dog.
28. When she runs out of the house or escapes from the fence, I always go look for her and when it takes a while to find her get very sad that she might be gone.
29. I have colored my hair every few months since I was 16.
30. I have permed my hair a few times, although it's been a few years since I've had it permed.
31. Since the kids have been born, I rarely get haircuts. It's been about 5 months since my last trim.
32. My mom taught be to be a bargain shopper.
33. I still am a bargain shopper.
34. I rarely buy anything that's not on sale. I try really hard to wait until it is.
35. Most of the time it's on sale within a week or so and by then I've decided I didn't really need what it was since I've survived a week or lifetime without it.
36. I don't collect anything.
37. When hanging our laundry and I run out of hangers, I go through my closet and start picking out clothes to donate.
38. It took about two years, but I've decorated the inside of my house so that I really enjoy being home.
39. The backyard is still a bare rock lawn.
40. We had two trees planted in the backyard that were shorter than Silas but Belle (the aforementioned dog) ripped them in half and dug them up.
41. Although I can be spontaneous, I really like to be on a schedule.
42. I love to play games.
43. Almost any game.
44. I regularly play go fish, I spy, and candy land.
45. There was a sale at Toys r Us this week and we got to bring home new games!
46. I like to read.
47. In grade school the teacher complained to my mom that I read too much.
48. I still read, but most of the time I read children's books aloud to the kids and rarely make time to read grown-up books.
49. When I am embarrassed or put on the spot, my face always turns red.
50. Karis talks often about getting married and having babies.
51. She says I can pick out her husband. :)
52. In college, my major was communications.
53. When I wear heels I'm taller than Chris.
54. My dad was glad when Chris married into the family because it meant he's not the shortest person on the Clark side of the family.
55. My dad is 6 feet tall.
56. Chris and I are both the oldest of our respective family's children.
57. I was saved when I was seven years old.
58. Pantano Christian Church is the first church I've been a member of that's not Southern Baptist.
59. Chris brings back a camel for each child when he returns from a deployment.
60. Although I don't watch much TV I do have about one show a night that I like to watch.
61. Once you have a DVR or Tivo, you can never go back.
62. One of my favorite shows is Battlestar Galactica.
63. When I was a child, my parents put an M&M on the end of my spoon to get me to eat my green beans.
64. Chris and I worked at Falls Creek together for a year and never met.
65. I like to do things for people and do them better than expected and get nothing back in return.
66. When Chris started college, his major was pastoral ministry.
67. Karis' birthday falls six months and one day after my birthday.
68. Silas' birthday falls six months and one day after Chris' birthday.
69. Any time I need a new recipe I go to allrecipes.com - they have so many recipes and every one we've tried is fantastic!
70. I can only eat skittles in multiples of the same color. Mixing the colors just doesn't taste right!
71. I have never broken a bone.
72. I make lists for everything - what I need to do that day, what I need at the grocery store, ect.
73. It's quite common that my lists get some kind of drawing on them before I use them.
74. I was born on a Friday the 13th.
75. We are now the owners of a Nintendo Wii and it's the first game system I've approved of in a while (translation - I really like it!).
76. The plan is to get really good at it before Chris comes home! hehehe
77. I wish I were far better at organizing.
78. In High School my favorite subject was math.
79. The house next door to us caught on fire while we were on vacation.
80. It's a miracle our house didn't catch fire as well since the houses are so close together.
81. Only by the grace of God!
82. I haven't posted in more than a month because I've been working on this and it's harder than I thought it would be!
83. Silas' birthday is today!
84. Karis starts kindergarten in the fall and I only pray I can teach her as much (or more) than she teaches me.
85. I love oldies music.
86. And to listen to Rush.
87. Coloring with my kids is one of my favorite parts of the day.
88. Karis surprises me often by using large words correctly that she has only heard me say a few times.
89. We read Bible stories every night before bed and she's learned quite a few memory verses in that time as well.
90. She can recite the Lord's Prayer and Psalm 23 along with many random verses.
91. During deployments it's very hard to live so far away from my family.
92. My favorite color is purple.
93. A trait in our family is that the oldest daughter has green eyes, so Karis, my mom, and I all have green eyes.
94. My favorite animal at the zoo is the gorillas.
95. Italian is my favorite type of food- I could eat it every day!
96. My fingers are stained black from decorating Silas' car cake.
97. The cake was supposed to be red.
98. An entire bottle of food coloring turns an entire bowl of icing hot pink.
99. Chris came up with the names of both our kids.
100. I don't mind that he did.
18 July 2007
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