Five Things, Eight Things, Too Many Things

So I had a couple of friends (Cari and Heather) tag me. I would like everyone to notice that I am the death of any tag (meaning I tend to not tag anyone else). If you want to do it though, consider yourself one of 13 people I was supposed to tag.

5 things you want to do before you die
1. Take Bryce to Italy
2. Learn Spanish
3. Get in really good shape
4. Read a lot of church books
5. More volunteer work

5 things that make you absolutely happy
1. Spending time with family
2. Pictures
3. Cooking
4. Real Bryce time
5. Good friends

5 places you want to visit
1. Italy (I know I’ve been there, but I’d love to have unlimited funds and a few months to see everything)
2. Switzerland
3. Egypt
4. China
5. Chile

5 favorite places you have visited
1. Italy
2. Hawaii
3. Mexico
4. U.S. Virgin Islands
5. New York

5 people you admire
1. My dad
2. My mom
3. Grammy
4. My mission president and his wife
5. Prophets and Apostles

5 things of sentimental value or things you cannot live without.
1. Bryce
2. My leg pillow and stuffed bear that acts as a second pillow to keep my back straight while I sleep
3. Mission journal and pictures
4. Technology that allows me to keep in contact with everyone
5. Family

5 things on this weeks to do list
1. Christmas presents planning
2. Work on the nursery
3. Sleep
4. Catch up on emails
5. Blog about Colorado

5 of your favorite smells
1. Freshly laundered sheets
2. Roses and lilies
3. Old Spice Deodorant
4. Any good candles
5. Rain

5 favorite foods
1. Pizza (especially while I’m pregnant)
2. Ice cream
3. Strawberries
4. Cinnamon rolls
5. Queso (well, chips and dip in general really)

8 TV Shows I enjoy watching:
1. House
2. Biggest Loser
3. The Office
4. 24
5. Project Runway
6. Top Chef
7. Law and Order
8. What Not to Wear

8 Things that happened yesterday:
1. Woke up
2. Ate breakfast with my family in Colorado Springs
3. My niece, Grace, stopped and put her hand over her mouth mid aisle at seeing my parents, me, April, Bryan, and Sarah all at church when she arrived (despite the fact we’d just seen her 15 minutes earlier at the house)
4. Timed reaching DIA perfectly (got through security, stopped at the bathroom, filled my water bottle, and got to the gate just as they were calling my seating group.
5. Got delayed (not bad) in Chicago because of snow (I’m going to miss snow this winter)
6. Bryce picked me up at the airport
7. Came home to clean clothes
8. Went to bed at midnight (yes, I know that’s late for a pregnant person, but I did sleep til 7)

8 Things I am looking forward to:
1. Bedtime
2. Thanksgiving
3. Pig roast for Thanksgiving
4. Putting the nursery together
5. Our baby boy
6. Christmas
7. Seeing Joy (my sister gets home from her mission in a few months)
8. Having Bryce time during Thanksgiving and Christmas (he has tests just before those breaks so he won’t have to study during them. Yeah!

8 Things on my wish list:
1. laser vision correction
2. Go to Italy tomorrow
3. Better sleep
4. More energy
5. More time (and desire/energy) to exercise
6. Get paid every week without working
7. Have all of my friends move to the same city/area permanently and we’re there too
8. A few more maternity clothes (I have enough to get by, but it’s like the mission where you just start to get sick of the same small wardrobe and look forward to having other things to wear again someday.

8 Things Bryce did yesterday:
1. Went to church
2. Took a nap
3. Studied
4. Watched a football game
5. Picked Cathi up from the airport
6. Made himself dinner
7. Laundry
8. Listened to a talk by Stephen E. Robinson