Sunday, May 9, 2010

Little grandma: 101 Reasons YOU ROCK!!!

1. Your voice is amazing.
2. You borned 8 beautiful kids:)
3. You are bilingual
4. You taught me the gospel
5. You found Dad:) (or the other way around)
6. You can put sponge curlers in hair.
7. You taught 8 crazies how to drive and still have hair.
8. You can sew.
9. You got a degree, raised kids, and went back to school to be "higher" than Dad and he is perfectly ok with you being the smarter.
10. You love Dad, show it and make sure us kids know it.
11. You let me paint crazy designs on your toenails.
12. You are the best ref-yeller-atter I have ever met.
13. You have sat through 21498345952035064089845 soccer games and still don't know off sides but it makes reason 13 just that more interesting.
14. You give good advice whether I want it or not.
15. You are my biggest cheerleader (along with Dad)
16. You love all kids
17. You "could" make the best homemade cinnamon rolls in the world!!!!!
18. You are random
19. You are the best texter in the world.
20. You let Jewls get in your face and also curl your hair.
21. You like to buy stuff for your grandbabies.
22. You are still true to BYU.
23. Almond Joys and diet coke can get you to call someone in.
24. You still get excited when I come home
25. You know how to use crazy pony tail holders. I still cant figure them out.
26. You enjoy wrapping christmas presents and they always look so pretty.
27. You love to fold laundry prefectly:)
28. I look like you!
29. You let me call you Little Grandma
30. You have a B personality that makes you calm.
31. You wear sweater dresses with leggings that look like jeans with fake pockets.
32. You make the cutest fruit baskets.
33. You can eat straight butter.
34. You can admit to being technologically challenged.
35. You didn't know what a fart was til you met Dad.
36. You never made us where seatbelts and we are all still alive.
37. You didn't take us to the doctor and now I realize why. You would have spent everyday at the doctor if you did!
38. You drop the kids off at the pool fast.
39. You still have the touch to put babies to sleep
40. You love to take pics of everything ( and sometimes drop your phone on Connor's face:)
41. You took care of Dad when he hurt both of his ankles and one was easier than the other.
42. You chase(d) us around Wyoming and sat and waited while we had fun!
43. You made so many sacrifices so we could do things we wanted.
44. You never complain.
45. You like to lay by the pool and tan :)
46. You had a Michael Jackson nose. Maybe that can make you famous now.
47. You have put 200000 on the Burb. That thing is gonna miss you.
48. You love your Gilbert family.
49. You can grill girl.
50. You make me realize the positive in negative situations.
51. You don't force anything but let us exercise free agency.
52. You played softball last summer and hit the ball farther than any other girl.
53. You don't pee your pants while running
54. You comment on everyone's blog:)
55. You say anything on your mind.
56. You got Morgan up for seminary so she could graduation.
57. We got to pick what we wanted for our birthday dinners
58. You got pulled over twice while driving or picking us up from seminary.
59. You stand infront of the fake fireplace until your burn your bottom.
60. You let me pat your flat bum and pick you up!
61. You dry your hair over the heater.
62. You can eat a whole dozen of Krispy Kremes.
63. You let half of Goddard High School call you Mama Skinner.
64. Adam Frey thought you had hot calves.
65. You do have hott calves.
66. You were so smart for not letting us swim on baseball game days. I was soooo tired when I did.
67. You have traditions that I will keep and pass on to my children if I have them.
68. You threatened with the wooden spoon but cried if you ever used it.
69. You cried the day you ran over a baby bunny. You said you cried cuz you knew how much the mom would miss her baby.
70. You make rice crispy treats with half of the amount of rice crispies but double the amount of butter and marshmallows.
71. You love to doodle on paper. I think this is how you developed your pretty handwriting.
72. You taught "Their name is safe in our house" to me.
73. I learned to take aspirin like a champ from you. 2x4=8.
74. You hold each of your babies like a baby still.
75. You can dress in teeny bopper clothes and they are super cute on you.

76. You care about your friends and are a great friend.
77. You collect baskets:) It is good to have a collection of something.
78. You know the needs of each of your children and all of them are your favorites for different reasons.
79. You let little kids color your gray hairs with markers:)
80. You tell Dad he has a cute bum
81. You laugh at our jokes even if they are on you
82. You love to take care of your grandbabies and visit them.
83. You love to read FOR FUN!!!! I wish I got this from you.
84. You don't need a lot to be satified. A shoulder rub or foot rub does just fine.
85. You think your feet don't stink cuz "you showered this morning" and it is now 10 at night.
86. You love your parents
87. You have a ton of white dishes because you can!
88. You flutter your eye when something crazy is said.
89. You are a great daughter in law.
90. And a great daughter
91. You love to get books for your kids.
92. You taught me to be careful of what I eat.
93. You love to go on walks with me.
94. You wanna be able to run at 57:)
95. You don't like the smell of your skin after the tanning bed.
96. You like to be by yourself every once in a while cuz you are always with someone.
97. You don't pout like me.
98. You are a fair sport when you play cards.
99. You have crazy hair sometimes and can play it off like it is no big deal!
100. YOU ARE THE BEST MOM IN THE WORLD!!!!

5 comments:

Lil Gma said...

THANKYOU!!!!!!! Made me cry, all the memories and such.

Josie said...

I am special and typed 101 and did 100! Haha! Thats funny!

Brigham said...

that was awesome josie.
reason 102 is she is the best mother-in-law ever

Unknown said...

Thanks BRIG. It is the greatest compliment ever.

Unknown said...

WHO THE @#$%^&*()_ IS JESSICA????????