100 Things you want to know about me...or not, but you're about to find out anyway!

Well, I made it. My 100th post! I wasn't as quick as Alana, Janelle, and Celeste, but then again I've never been accused of going to fast! Here we go...

100 things about Me !

1. My name is Shelley.

2. Right now I have a 3 year old sitting on my lap.

3. She is wearing a princess t-shirt, princess panties, and orange knee socks. Gotta love that!

4. When I was 3, I lived in Dallas for 3 months, other than that, I've been born and raised in Missouri.

5. I love Missouri.

6. My mom had me when she was 18.

7. I loved that she was a young mom, and I love that she is a young grammie!

8. I am an only child.

9. I learned how to swim when I was 5.

10. My mom and I lived with my Grandma for 3 years when I was young. That was fun!

11. We moved into our own house when I was 9. That was fun too.

12. My mom married my new dad when I was 11.

13. He's been an awesome dad.

14. I was on a swim team in junior high.

15. I love to swim.

16. I really want a nice pool.

17. I also really want to paint my living room. (not sure where that came from. but it's true!)

18. I started this post 4 days ago.

19. I love cats.

20. My mind doesn't always work "quite right."

21. When I was 12, we took a family vacation to California with my mom, my
new dad, and my dad's parents. I rode between my new grandparents in the backseat the whole way. It was a good trip.

22. When I was 13, I met the girl who was my best friend all through high school, her name was Sarah.

23. We had a falling out just after high school, and I haven't seen her since. That still saddens me.

24. I played the clarinet in high school and college.
I went to band camp.

25. I took piano lessons for 9 years...and yet I still don't play that well. (I didn't practice enough!)

26. I also love to sing.

27. I sang a lot in church. I even went to church choir camp.

28. I started going to church with my mom when I was 5.

29. It's a great church, and my mom and dad still go there.

30. It's where I was married.

31. I asked Jesus to save me when I was 9, at church camp.

32. I was baptized when I was 11.

33. I got to go on several youth trips around the country with my church youth group in high school. They were awesome, faith building experiences.

34. I went on 2, week long canoe trips in high school.

35. I am an expert canoer.

36. I love rivers.

37. Jason and I have been talking about buying some land on a river...and maybe someday building a cabin.

38. I love that Jason and I still dream together. (although right now he's sleeping and I'm blogging!)

39. Jason and I met when we were both 18, during our first month of college.

40. My 3rd cousin was his best friend.

41. I hadn't ever even met my 3rd cousin until college.

42. We finally met because we were in band together.

43. Our great-grandma told us to find each other.

44. I guess it was fate!

45. Anyway, so he introduced me to some of his friends...one of which was Jason, and after a couple of weeks, he asked me out.

46. I was really excited!

47. It was my first date in college.

48. He was over an hour early!

49. I was mad, because I was hot and sweaty from band practice, and he wasn't supposed to see me like that!

50. I made him wait for an hour while I got ready.

51. I think he thought it was worth it.

52. We had a great first date! (no details!)

53. We (almost) immediately fell in love.

54. We dated for 3 years, and were engaged for one.

55. I cannot believe we've been "together" for 12 years!

56. We had a beautiful Christmas wedding.

57. We were married for 1 1/2 years before we got pregnant with Ellie.

58. She "happened" a little earlier than we planned. We were supposed to start trying the next month!

59. When Ellie was 2 1/2, we had Annie.

60. Annie "happened" a little earlier than we planned also.

61. When Annie was 2, we had Austin.

62. He wasn't planned at all.

63. I'm not a very good planner.

64. You can get pregnant if you don't take your pills for 4 days.

65. Jason has had two vasectomies. Both after Austin's birth.

66. The first one didn't "take."

67. We don't really know if the second one did or not, he hasn't been back. It's been months.

68. If we have baby #4, we'll know it didn't.

69. I love babies.

70. I loved being pregnant, until the last 2 months.

71. When I was 6 months pregnant with Annie, Jason was diagnosed with a
kidney disease.

72. That really rocked my world.

73. Sometime in the next 5 - 15 years, he'll need a kidney transplant.

74. I'm praying for the 15.

75. Most of the time I trust God that Jason will be OK.

76. But sometimes, usually in the middle of the night, I let myself get scared.

77. I thank God for His faithfulness though, for He always calms my fears.

78. One of my favorite Bible verses is 2nd Timothy 1:7; For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of self-control.

79. Another one is Philippians 4:6; Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

80. That's some good stuff.

81. That is why I am not a worrier.

82. In other news...My baby turns one year old on Friday.

83. He is so stinkin' cute I can hardly stand it!

84. Seriously, some people just think they're babies are cute...Mine really is!

85. I'm loving having a boy.

86. Of course, the girls are awesome too.

87. It really bugs me that people assume that we kept having kids until we got a boy.

88. Anyway, we're having a birthday party on Sunday.

89. I haven't planned anything yet...not even the cake.

90. I really am not a planner!

91. I'm also not truly an organizer.

92. My house is organized out of pure necessity.

93. I do love to decorate.

94. I love anything from Pottery Barn.

95. I don't garden.

96. I do love to blog.

97. Sometimes I blog too much...sometimes not enough.

98. I am trying to put my priorities in the right order...clean home, clean laundry, clean dishes, clean kids, clean mommy... then blog!

99. Unfortunately by the time everything is clean, I am often too tired!

100. But that's OK. The blog understands, it waits for me patiently, knowing I will return with funny stories about my crazy life! Thank you blog, for allowing me the opportunity to type out all these memories of this season of my life. Without you, I doubt I'd remember much!