Today Is All About Me!

Today officially marks the start of my 27 years here on earth. I feel like that number is not my age. Time has gone by in a blink and I think that I still feel youthful. Actually, I guess I am getting kind of old and crusty :) In thinking about what I have accomplished in the nearly 3 decades that I have been alive I decided to do that 25 Random Facts tag that I have gotten about a million times on Facebook and leave a little tid bit for my pos (terity). Here goes....

1. I was born and lived in Colorado until 4th grade.

2. Moved to Wisconsin where I lived until I graduated from high school.

3. Home-schooled (except for 4th when I moved to WI) until 7th grade.

4. Was on Homecoming court my sophomore year.

5. Was on Prom court my junior year.

6. "Competed" in a couple of figure skating competitions - Badger State Winter Games (I sucked)

7. Took Tai Kwon Do for the first couple of years during high school. Was a green belt when I left (what a nerd).

8. Oh yeah, "dated" one of my instructors (he was a senior). Broke up with him...that's why I quit....awkward!

9. I am the oldest of 12 children.

10. I have never watched what I eat, but I LOVE to excersize. Always have, it just feels so good!

11. Was a Recreation Education major at BYU-Idaho. Because of that I have....

12. Snow-shoed and cross country skied through the Tetons.

13. Snowboarded hills, mountains, sand dunes and behind cars (don't ask)

14. Back-packed through the Palisades for 3 days (no shower, eek)

15. Went to go pee and was about 15 feet away from a mountain lion (God was watching over me there)

16. Snow-mobiled through Yellowstone National Park.

17. I always wanted to be a forest ranger.

18. I got my Bachelor's degree in business.

19. When I was two I fell off of a church stage and broke my collar bone. My parents didn't know for 2 weeks.

20. I had a near death experience at the age of 20. I was jumping off the roof of a friend's house in AZ. I had to clear a sidewalk, over a iron-rod picket fence, and across another sidewalk into the pool. Apparently, I thought I was super woman and ran down the roof to dive (yes, folks dive) into the pool. At the very ledge of the roof I realized that I would never clear it. However, I had too much momentum from running and couldn't stop myself and fell poolside onto the concrete. The second worst pain I have ever felt in my life (aside from having a baby). I couldn't walk for weeks, my ankles and feet were so swollen. I think back about the possibility of continuing that dive and landing on the concrete head first. I'm a genius.

21. Notorious for doing back flips off of rock cliffs into quarries (it's a wonder I am still alive).

22. Kayaked in Puget Sound, white water rafted Snake River (pushed in, thought I would die of hypothermia!)

23. Had the Tiajuana Federalis steal my money.

24. Married my BFF and absolute-no question about it soul mate.

25. Hiked Mt. Saint Helen's.