Tagged. 11 Random Facts.

My friend Jessica tagged me in one of the 11 random facts posts.

I like reading when other people answer posts like this so I thought I'd respond!

THE RULES ARE AS FOLLOWS:

- Post these rules
- Post a photo and eleven random things about yourself
- Answer the questions provided by the one who tagged you
- Create eleven new questions for the people you tag
- Contact those you choose and let them know they've been tagged

I hardly ever take pictures of myself so here is a picture of me when I was 3 with my bear "pinky".

Randoms:

1. I really like jazz music. I used to listen to smooth jazz 105.9 as a kid and my first CD in 3rd grade was Duke Ellington's Greatest Hits. Secretly I would love to learn how to scat...

2. I love the 4th of July. It's in the middle of summer and I love having a BBQ then going to watch fireworks. It's a low-key holiday, but always so fun!

3. My parents are the classiest people I know - because they are without trying to be. They are both very well-educated and love learning. My Dad frequently plays Bossa Nova after dinner and they do things like make homemade biscotti on New Year's. 

4. I do really well and keep cool in extreme emergency situations. And I feel like I would survive a lot of fictional apocalyptic situations because of it.

5. I don't like it when people talk about money.

6. I did nerdy things like sing in choir, swim, and run cross country all 4 years of high school. 

7. Cooking is therapeutic for me (unless I'm trying to make dinner when Scott is being needy). Chopping up vegetables and seeing a meal come together really relieves stress.

8. Nate and I were friends for over a year before we started dating. And we secretly liked each other the whole time. 

9. I taught little kid's swim lessons and mommy-and-me baby swim classes at the community center during high school.

10. I am a huge Daddy's girl. I talk to my Dad on the phone several times a week sometimes for over an hour. 

11. I love going out to breakfast. Probably more than going out to dinner.

Questions:

1. What's your first memory? My brother pushing me around in a laundry basket in our old house.

2. What has the happiest moment in your life been thus far? Well besides my wedding day, going to our first appointment after I found out I was pregnant and seeing Scott 9-weeks along on the ultrasound. I cried my eyes out. We thought it would be really hard to get pregnant because I have a fertility problem and were so happy/grateful. 

3. If you could be a character in a book you have read, who would you be? Julia Child in My Life in France. She loved her husband and got to learn everything about cooking in none other than Paris, France! 

4. What makes you the most happy? Being with Nate and Scott on Sunday afternoon after church, just hanging out with nothing to do. 

5. When do you feel the most beautiful? On my wedding day. I don't know if I would fit into my dress now! And I was really tan. I am a sunscreen fanatic and will probably never be that tan again. 

6. Who has made the biggest impact on your life? My parents. Such a typical answer but they both have equally so. 

7. What is your favorite quote? I have several... but here are a few:

Self discipline is doing what you want to do when you don't feel like doing it. 

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Never suppress a generous thought. 

8.  What is your favorite movie? A close tie between Ferris Buhler's Day Off and Ever After.  

9. What is your most recent embarrassing moment? Throwing up when I was 8 months pregnant under the Christmas tree at my in-laws house on Christmas morning.  

10. If you could live in anywhere in the world, where would it be? Hmm... the million dollar question! Nate and I talk about this all the time and have no idea. In a dream world I would love to live in New York City for awhile. 

11. Would you rather eat breakfast or dinner for the rest of your life? Breakfast! 

Now I'm going to cheat and not tag anyone else. Although, I do have a feeling similar to that of when you would get a chain letter in Elementary School saying the letter would make it in the Genius Book of World Record's unless YOU didn't continue it.