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1. Where did you grow up? Athena, Oregon and Richland, Washington.
2. What song puts you in a happy mood? Anything from the Across the Universe soundtrack.
3. What movie can you watch a million times and never get sick of it?
Phantom of the Opera, the Wizard of Oz and The Princess Bride.
4. How many children do you have or want to have? Ideally 4, even more ideally 2 boys and 2 girls... but we all know how that goes. DH says no more than 3.
5. What is your favorite childhood memory? Going out to lunch and shopping with my aunt for my birthday. Spending $20 was the coolest thing ever.
6. What is your favorite color? Pink.
7. What is your favorite food? Thai drunken noodles.
8. What do you do in your spare time? Sleep, watch movies, search for motivation to clean my house and work on sewing projects.
9. What do you do for a living? I'm an auditor at a hotel.
10. What is your dream job? Catering Sales/Convention Services Manager at a convention hotel.
1. Where did you grow up? Mostly Everett, my mom and dad moved into their house (same one they're in today) in Everett when I was 6.
2. What song puts you in a happy mood? Almost all Rascal Flatts music makes me happy, but my favorite 4 by them are: These Days. Close. Then I Did. Cool Thing.
3. What movie can you watch a million times and never get sick of it? The Notebook. Cyote Ugly. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Center Stage. Grandma's Boy. .actually, if I like the movie I'd watch it a million times and never get sick of it.
4. How many children do you have or want to have? 1 in the oven, would like 1 more if I can talk TJ into it in a few years.
5. What is your favorite childhood memory? Spending the summer at "the lake" with my cousins and sister.
6. What is your favorite color? Pink
7. What is your favorite food? Anything pasta. Or bread and butter, mmmm.
8. What do you do in your spare time? Sleep.
9. What do you do for a living? I manage a credit union branch.
10. What is your dream job. I've always wanted to write a book, I used to write stories all the time when I was little. Besides that being a mom ranks up there.
M/C 9/21/09 | M/C 12/24/09 | BFP 1/23/10
Madeline Rey DOB 9/30/10
TTC # 2 Jan 2013
BFP 3/12/13 | EDD 11/18/13
It's a GIRL! Lydia Marie!
1. Where did you grow up? My dad was in the Army til I was about 8 so we moved around a ton when I was little. After he retired we moved near Tacoma.
2. What song puts you in a happy mood? Anything 80s/90s old school!
3. What movie can you watch a million times and never get sick of it? Aliens, it's my favorite movie. I'm weird.
4. How many children do you have or want to have? Have 1. Would like probably 2.
5. What is your favorite childhood memory? Waking up on Christmas morning and seeing that Santa had taken a bite out of the cookies we left out, and wrote "Thanks" on the note we left. The "Thanks" was in my dad's handwriting of course, but I appreciated the effort.
6. What is your favorite color? I don't really have just one. To wear though I like black, brown, jewel tones, deep red.
7. What is your favorite food? Thai or Korean.
8. What do you do in your spare time? I don't have much! But I love planning parties/events, anything craft, cooking/baking.
9. What do you do for a living? I work part time as a medical receptionst.
10. What is your dream job. I'd love to be a party planner, or have an Etsy type shop making party decoration packages. Or maybe baking cutesy desserts. Anything creative would be awesome.
1. Where did you grow up? Spokane, WA
2. What song puts you in a happy mood? "Home" by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes
3. What movie can you watch a million times and never get sick of it? So I Married An Axe Murderer
4. How many children do you have or want to have? working on the 1st, but I'd like 2 or 3
5. What is your favorite childhood memory? my mom letting me sneak out of bed to help her bake while my brothers slept
6. What is your favorite color? green or blue
7. What is your favorite food? either ice cream or Mexican food or sushi
8. What do you do in your spare time? read, bake, obsess about baby products, go for walks, water aerobics,
9. What do you do for a living? I'm a teacher!
10. What is your dream job? research scientist/environmental educator at a marine science lab (I don't know if that exists)
1. Where did you grow up? Melbourne, Australia
2. What song puts you in a happy mood? "Celebration" by Kool & the gang!
3. What movie can you watch a million times and never get sick of it? The Wedding Singer
4. How many children do you have or want to have? Have 1 but would probably like 2
5. What is your favorite childhood memory? Family getaways with all the extended family
6. What is your favorite color? Pink
7. What is your favorite food? Seafood
8. What do you do in your spare time? Shop, play on here & FB, go for walks, catch up with friends
9. What do you do for a living? I'm a SAHM
10. What is your dream job? LOVE being a SAHM but I think a photographer or a wedding planner would be a great job also
1. Where did you grow up? I spent the first 12.5 years of my life in Southern California, but I feel like I grew up in Issaquah. I have a lot of great childhood memories from both periods of my life.
2. What song puts you in a happy mood? Steal My Kisses, Ben Harper.
3. What movie can you watch a million times and never get sick of it? Super Troopers.
4. How many children do you have or want to have? I have one, I want to have 3 or 4.
5. What is your favorite childhood memory? When my grandparents picked my brother and I up from school and took us to Disneyland as a surprise.
6. What is your favorite color? Red
7. What is your favorite food? Pizza or Ice cream. It's a tie.
8. What do you do in your spare time? I am a scrapbooker, a painter, a printmaker, I draw, I illustrate.
9. What do you do for a living? Right now I am a freelance graphic designer. I am also a teacher, but a burned out one. I may or may not go back to it one day (maybe when my kids are in grade school, or I might just volunteer in the classroom).
10. What is your dream job. Children's book author/illustrator.
The only Easter Bunny I can get behind.
Maxwell Joseph 4/09 Lucy Violet 10/12
1. Where did you grow up? Bothell, WA
2. What song puts you in a happy mood? Walking on Sunshine, Love Shack
3. What movie can you watch a million times and never get sick of it? Clueless
4. How many children do you have or want to have? Have: 2 and a half. Want: Not sure.
5. What is your favorite childhood memory? I had a great childhood, so I don't know which to pick, a lot of them center around camping with my grandparents.
6. What is your favorite color? Green
7. What is your favorite food? Chocolate
8. What do you do in your spare time? anything crafty. I especially like learning new crafts.
9. What do you do for a living? Before I had Ella I was a competitive rhythmic gymnastics coach/ recreational artistic gymnastics coach for 15 years.
10. What is your dream job. Christmas Tree Farm/Wedding Venue
1. Where did you grow up? Whidbey Island
2. What song puts you in a happy mood? Beer in Mexico by Kenny Chesney
3. What movie can you watch a million times and never get sick of it? Breakfast at Tiffany's
4. How many children do you have or want to have? Have: 0, Want: 2
5. What is your favorite childhood memory? Big family holidays, especially Christmases. My mom has 5 sisters and all my aunts, uncles, and cousins would come stay at my grandparents house for a few days. I loved it so much.
6. What is your favorite color? To wear, black & grey. To look at, purple.
7. What is your favorite food? Frosting
8. What do you do in your spare time? Look at the interwebs, run, read
9. What do you do for a living? Full time student, also teach classes at UW and do behavioral & educational consulting for little kiddos with autism
10. What is your dream job. Fundraising event planner
2. What song puts you in a happy mood? so many! How sweet it is (james taylor), This will be...an everlasting love... , the chinese chicken song by BNL, mahna mahna (can you tell whats been playing on my phone lately... thanks twinks)
3. What movie can you watch a million times and never get sick of it? Pretty woman! My best friends weddnig, father of the bride...
4. How many children do you have or want to have? have 2; always wanted 4, but closing in on 36yo in T-minus 2 weeks... on the fence for #3, but leaning to just the fabu-twinks
5. What is your favorite childhood memory? spending the month of august at our beach house in Maine... with grandparents and extended family...
6. What is your favorite color? pink
7. What is your favorite food? I LOVE maine lobsters and drawn butter,.,, BUT ONLY served at the beach or a lobster pound with steamers, corn and casual... none of this eat a lobster in a restaurant with a bib for me.... my everyday fav, pizza. a good east coast bagel and cream cheese w lox (bagels here suck)
8. What do you do in your spare time? whats that?
9. What do you do for a living? the fancy version version: I am a Board Certified Behavior Analyst with too many dumb letters and degrees after my name. The easy version: former intensive special needs teacher, turned behavioral/special ed consultant for kiddos with autism and other significant special needs....
10. What is your dream job. pretty much have it... tho I always wanted to be a doctor, and specifically neonatal (preemie/nicu)
1. Where did you grow up? Imperial Valley, CA
2. What song puts you in a happy mood? Hey, Soul Sister/Train. I think it's the ukulele
OR anything jack johnson
3. What movie can you watch a million times and never get sick of it? Lots of dumb ones: Napoleon Dynamite, Zoolander, Valley Girl...
4. How many children do you have or want to have? zero now, not sure if any
5. What is your favorite childhood memory? flying solo to grandma's every summer. my first flight, i was 7. i was so stoked cuz i was gonna fly above the clouds and see jesus...you know cuz heaven was in the clouds. a nun sat next to me...totally random. i was sorely disappointed when there was NOTHING on the clouds
i've been a little pissed ever since 
6. What is your favorite color? used to be pink, oddly enough i think i'm growning out of it. i have a new love for green...totally weird. all my clothes are still black...haha.
7. What is your favorite food? coconut anything: water, milk, ice cream, sorbet, cupcakes, cake...
8. What do you do in your spare time? play outside as much as i can or cruise the infomation super highway
9. What do you do for a living? investments
10. What is your dream job. professional snorkeler...i'm working on it!
1. Where did you grow up? Shoreline, WA
2. What song puts you in a happy mood? For Once In My Life
3. What movie can you watch a million times and never get sick of it? The Sound of Music
4. How many children do you have or want to have? Have 2 (1 still in the oven), want 4.
5. What is your favorite childhood memory? Summers at Church camp and family camping trips
6. What is your favorite color? Pink
7. What is your favorite food? Salmon
8. What do you do in your spare time? Take Pictures and Blog
9. What do you do for a living? SAHM
10. What is your dream job. I'm doing it
But being a music teacher is what I hope to do when my kids are school age.
1. Where did you grow up? I was a military brat, places I remember: West Virginia, Kansas, Texas, and Germany.
2. What song puts you in a happy mood? "Suddenly I See" K.T. Tunstall
3. What movie can you watch a million times and never get sick of it? Parenthood
4. How many children do you have or want to have? Would love three if I can afford it.
5. What is your favorite childhood memory? Camping in the Texas desert with my family.
6. What is your favorite color? Baby blue
7. What is your favorite food? Mission style burritos
8. What do you do in your spare time? Run, watch movies, try to keep up with my subscription to the Economist.
9. What do you do for a living? Management analyst for the State
10. What is your dream job? Program director for a nonprofit or a US diplomat
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1. Where did you grow up?Connecticut
2. What song puts you in a happy mood?Unwritten by Natasha Bedington
3. What movie can you watch a million times and never get sick of it?Runaway Bride.
4. How many children do you have or want to have?Pregnant with #1. Would love 4 but we'll see how this one goes.
5. What is your favorite childhood memory?Being swung in the air while walking in between my parents.
6. What is your favorite color?blue
7. What is your favorite food?sushi (not for now)
8. What do you do in your spare time?knit, read
9. What do you do for a living?attorney
10. What is your dream job. Anything I could work from home or make my own schedule for.
1. Where did you grow up? Here. In the lovely city of SeaTac. I'm sure you can feel the sarcasm there.
2. What song puts you in a happy mood? It always changes, but for some reason I'm loving that song Home that is always on the radio these days. I can't help but sing along.
3. What movie can you watch a million times and never get sick of it? Pride and Prejudice, the A&E version.
4. How many children do you have or want to have? Two...my world is now complete with my little girls.
5. What is your favorite childhood memory? Trips to Alabama to visit our grandparents. Wagon rides down the hill by our house. Playing with the neighborhood girls everything from barbies to cabbage patch kids to my little ponies.
6. What is your favorite color? Blues
7. What is your favorite food? Pizza, but I can't seem to eat it anymore thanks to horrible, horrible heart burn.
8. What do you do in your spare time? Knitting.
9. What do you do for a living? Project manager at a non-profit biomedical research organization.
10. What is your dream job. No job at all...and shamelessly rich.
Jen - Mom to Jillian (10/2008) and Hayden (4/2010)
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Good one!!
1. Where did you grow up?
Newcastle, Wa
2. What song puts you in a happy mood?
Jack Johnson/Better Together
3. What movie can you watch a million times and never get sick of it?
I can't. I've seen Amelie 3 or 4 times, and that's my limit.
4. How many children do you have or want to have?
Two
5. What is your favorite childhood memory?
One favorite is "camping" in the yard with my extended family for a reunion.
6. What is your favorite color?
Green
7. What is your favorite food?
Massuman curry or any veg. Indian food
8. What do you do in your spare time?
I don't have any spare time right now, but when i do... hike, take pictures, read, play with paper.
9. What do you do for a living?
Environmental ed and work with kids with special needs
10. What is your dream job?
Co-direct an organization that integrates environmental ed and therapy for kids with emotional and behavioral disabilities in urban schools
1. Where did you grow up? Lakewood, Washington.
2. What song puts you in a happy mood? "A New Day Has Come" by Celine Dion.
3. What movie can you watch a million times and never get sick of it? "Miss Congeniality."
4. How many children do you have or want to have? Have one, want one more.
5. What is your favorite childhood memory? Family vacations to Colorado, California, Hawaii ...
6. What is your favorite color? Pink.
7. What is your favorite food? Pad thai, shai paneer, anything with alfredo sauce ...
8. What do you do in your spare time? Ha, spare time? If I have any, read, shop, travel.
9. What do you do for a living? Retired journalist/mom.
10. What is your dream job. Famous author.
I love putting on terrible outfits and then singing, "If you want my body and you think I'm sexy, come on baby, let me knooooooooow!" and then my H just laughs at me...
1. Where did you grow up? Redmond, WA
2. What song puts you in a happy mood? I'm with CG, You make my dreams come true, Hall and Oates. Greatest song ever. Anyone seen 500 Days of Summer? I love how he bursts into group dance to that song.
3. What movie can you watch a million times and never get sick of it? Thomas Crown Affair.
4. How many children do you have or want to have? Want to have two.
5. What is your favorite childhood memory? Going to our lake cabin with my family every summer.
6. What is your favorite color? Green.
7. What is your favorite food? I love Thai food.
8. What do you do in your spare time? I run, play with our dogs, devise ways to fix up our home, decorate, read, drink copious amounts of alcohol, watch such fine television shows as Wipeout, Bachelorette, Dancing with the Stars, just generally be awesome.
9. What do you do for a living? I handle logistics and Customs clearance of freight for large importers. I make sure there is crap on the shelves for you to buy.
10. What is your dream job. To be independently wealthy. I would donate to a lot of charities that take care of animals and children. But to be perfectly honest, I don't know that I would be doing that much real, actual work.
1. Where did you grow up? Anaheim, CA
2. What song puts you in a happy mood? Anything by NKOTB. Could I be anymore lame?
3. What movie can you watch a million times and never get sick of it? Pretty Woman, Dirty Dancing, Grease2, My Best Friend's wedding
4. How many children do you have or want to have? I have 1 boy and I hope to have one more baby.
5. What is your favorite childhood memory? Swimming at the public pool every summer. I had a crush on one of the lifeguards.
6. What is your favorite color? Red
7. What is your favorite food? I love all types of asian food.
8. What do you do in your spare time? Surf the internet, hang out with friends, read, watch movies with the hubs.
9. What do you do for a living? Right now i'm a SAHM, in my former life I was a shoe buyer.
10. What is your dream job. I love being a SAHM. This has been a dream! My other dream job is to be a kindergarten teacher.
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