.....These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things

One of my favorite songs of the Christmas season is the one that Julie Andrews sings.....Favorite things. Well , yesterday was my 30th birthday and I have not been looking fore ward to it. I hate saying that I am now out of my 20's. So I decided to list some of my favorite things or memories from the last 30 years so that I can remind myself that I am grateful to be alive and loved. ( these are in no particular order)

--My husband, Anthony
--Sydney
--Haylie
--Tuione
--Rollerblading
--Being a Dental Assistant
--Driving to Nova Scotia, singing John Denver songs all the way.
--Playing softball
--Going swimming every Monday night for FHE with my dad
--Ice skating at Midnapor lake
--Snorkeling in the Bahamas
--Playing pranks on the boys in my ward in college
--Going to the temple with my family
--Falling of a cliff on a 4-wheeler....and surviving
--High school ( choir,sports, friends!)
--Hand stitching a quilt
--Sledding as a child and now with my kids
--Going to Hawaii with my sister
--My brother taking care of me when I re tore the tendons in my ankle
--Having my mother with me at YW camp
--Scrap booking with friends
--Giving my mittens to a homeless man ( giving service period!)
--Being Primary President
--Playing Rook with my family
--Taking my little sister on a jet ski cuz I was the only one she trusted
--Seeing my children happy on Christmas day
--Watching my husband play football
--Shopping with Sonya ( as much as it drives her crazy to shop with me)
--Surviving a Pulmonary Embolism
--All of the friend I have met through these 30 years!

These are 30 of my most favorite things, and I know that I will have many more to come.