30 Day Blog - Day 21

A Picture that Makes you Laugh

Benjamin makes me laugh

He makes me smile

He makes me happy

He makes me remember his mommy when she was that age

and it makes me so glad that I can be a mom.

30 Day Blog - Day 20

A Letter to Your Parents

Dear Mom and Dad,

I'm so sorry you are having so many health challenges. I hope the Doctors can figure out what the problem is so that you (dad) can get completely healthy. You are both doing such a good job at handling your challenges with humor and patience. Isn't it amazing how many lessons there can be in learning patience?!!

I just want you to know how much I appreciate your love and support. You are the best example. Thanks for being such great and wonderful parents and grandparents. It was so sweet of you to get ours kids together for dinners and games while we were over-seas. They had so much fun with you and enjoyed the opportunity to get together as a family. I'm so glad that we have been able to continue to do it since we got back.

Thanks for sharing your testimony of the gospel and for living your lives in keeping with the standards of the church.

Love always.

30 Day Blog - Day 19

My Celebrity Crush

I fell in love with Antonio Banderas in Evita and again in the Mask of Zorro. He is so talented and I love his accent!

30 Day Blog - Day 18

Another Picture of Yourself

I just came across this picture while looking for a picture that I wanted to use.

What a treasure.

In this picture-Grandmother Merrill, Great-Grandmother Smith,

mom, me and my sisters.

I have fond memories of going to Tooele to visit great-grandma.

I always loved her name - Edith Elsie Iona Day Smith.

It just rolls off the tongue.

Grandma Merrill is my roll model.

I'm not sure I will ever measure up, but I hope to be like her when I grow up.

This is also a good picture of my mom. Guessing from the ages of us girls,

I think this was taken about the time she was diagnosed of MS.

30 Day Blog - Day 17

Something You Crave

(I've now gone 16 days without caffeine per my goal for this month. Augh!!)

30 Day Blog - Day 16

A Picture of Something that Makes you Happy

30 Day Blog - Day 15

Nicknames You Have and Why You Have Them

I don't have any that are used a lot. My sisters and Dad call me Annie and that is pretty self explanatory but it was also my Dad's grandmothers name so he likes it for that reason.

Nettie Andretti - is another one I picked up while living in California. The race car driver, Mario Andretti, was very popular then and there was a point in time about then that I almost had my drivers licence suspended. I think you can figure out the correlation.

Nettie or Nettiepie is mostly used by close friends.