Top 5....

*Top 5 pet peeves:
rude drivers, interrupting me when I’m speaking, chewing with your mouth open, mothers who buy their kids toys and candy to make them be quiet in the store, and whenever one of my kids pulls the bookmark out of my books.

*Last 5 jobs I've had:
Police Records Specialist, Airline Reservation Agent, Hotel Reservation Agent, Restaurant assistant manager… and that may be it, besides one really short three month stay at Taco Bell; it was all I could handle.

*5 places I've lived:
Only two places my whole life; Mesa, Arizona, Flagstaff Arizona, and then back to Mesa again. I’m a sunshine baby, snow is not for me.

*5 things you may not know about me:
I spend hours playing Settlers of Catan online, I play the piano and violin and sing, I have four thousand freckles (give or take a few), I color my hair, and I am addicted to shoes.

*5 things I love to eat:
chocolate, ramen salad, seven layer bean dip, chips and salsa from Rosa’s, rice-a-roni.

*5 minutes ago I was...
Telling the puppy to stop biting the baby.

*5 hours ago I was...
Playing Super Mario Brothers on the original Nintendo (from 1985!) with my kids.

*5 days ago I was...
Cleaning my house before the Home Teachers arrived.

*5 months ago I was...
Lamenting my 32^nd birthday, and the fact that my husband didn’t think it was a big enough deal to warrant a gift.

*5 years ago I was...
The mother of two kids and still in my twenties.

*5 items out of place in my house:
can I list 5 items that ARE in place in my house? I like it all out where I can see it, that way I know what I have. (I am actually the biggest neat freak who likes to organize things to death, but I have three kids who strongly oppose my ideas).

*5 books I've read and enjoyed over the last year:
I re-read all my Patricia Cornwell books, Finding personal meaning in the Temple, Harry Potter book 7 (again), Black Beauty (reading out loud to the kids), and The Peacegiver.

*5 smells I love:
cinnamon rolls, grape children’s shampoo, baking bread, Macaroni Grill (just walk through the door and tell me you don’t get hungry), and my husband’s “just out of the shower” smell. It’s not just one thing, it’s the combination.

*5 flowers I think are beautiful:
Tulips, lilies, daisies, roses, and daffodils

* 5 embarrassing moments:
kissing the boy I had a crush on (now my husband) on the cheek at a truth-or-dare party, falling down in the parking lot of my high school and scraping my cheek on the asphalt, tripping in church because I wanted to wear REALLY high heels, laughing so hard I peed a little while I was on a date… ok, that last one’s worth at least two.

* 5 places I'd love to visit:
England, Alaska, Hawaii, Spain, and France.

*5 good memories:
Getting engaged at sunset at Fountain Hills and having my husband catch the whole thing on film, the birth of our three children, eating popsicles in the back yard in the summertime and trying to finish before a single drop melts onto my hand, the first time I tasted a Pazookie from Oregano’s (which is a dessert for just one person, by the way, not two), the first time my husband kissed me when we were sitting in the grass of my front yard after a date, at 2 o’clock in the morning.