For Tiffany (And anyone else who wants to know)

1. Whats your favorite thing about your spouse or significant other?

So much to pick. But my favorite thing is his eyes. Oh how I could get lost in those forever. Next would have to be his witty remarks. I've never been witty my entire life. Then I married T. Now I'm only slightly witty.

2. What is one of your proudest moments?

Making the high school dance team with no previous dance experience. The birth of each of my children so far.

3. Out of the jobs you've held, which one was your favorite? why?

Medical Assisant. Oh the wonderful stories I could tell. I worked in two different type of doctors office's and loved every minute in both. I loved the chaos, helping people, and the people I worked with. If you ever want a good gross story I've got one that involves a cyst the size of football and pus going places. I also have stories of women who wanted a baby so bad and got so sick after they finally got pregnant that they spent the first trimester with a feeding tube in their nose. I also have stories of the elderly and the gentle love they show when you see them. I have seen first hand how drug abuse is destructive not on the the person but that person's family as well. I have seen how lives turn around and change for the better.

4. What's one of your "not so obvious" talents? How did you discover it?

I think cooking. I never cooked while living at home. I was always too busy with other activities. Since I've been home with the kids I find it fun and rewarding.

5. What is your earliest childhood memory?

A piano. A little toy piano that had Care Bears on it. It's not a clear memory but I do remember seeing it (birthday gift) and jumping up and down with excitement while telling the gift giver that I was three and holding up three fingers.

6. All time favorite book? why?

I have to pick just one all time favorite? I think that I have a series that I fall back on a lot that I love to read over and over and over again. The Chronicle of the Warlands by Elizabeth Vaughan. I love the Story of Xylara (Lara) and Keir of the Cat (Warlord). The romance, the adventure, and the way the characters grow. I always pictured my life back then sort of like Xylara's. Helping people and being of noble blood. Falling in love with a strong warrior. (Just don't tell T. Example: When reading Twilight he asked me if I wanted him to bite me with fangs. I laughed so hard and then told him no. If he knew the Warland was my favorite books he might ask me if he needs to smell like an ehat and rub dirt all over his body) (I just don't openly recommend it to people because there are a few times in the series where it gets a tad intimate. It's pretty mild but some people might be offended by it. There is also some reference to homosexuality.)

7. So far in life, what is the biggest lesson you've learned?

It was a spiritual lesson. A lesson that I fall back on again and again. One day I'll share the circumstances that lead to the lesson but for now that lesson is that Jesus Christ is my Savior and that He REALLY does live. He's real. Just like you and me. He understands you more than you can imagine and He LOVES you.

8. How did your spouse propose to you?

Oh this is a story. I knew the proposal was coming only because I inherited my Grandmother's engagement/wedding ring. T lead me to believe that it was going to happen on Temple Square were we had so many late talks about everything. At the time I was working in the Admissions Office of LDS Business College. Matt Tittle (a teacher and adminstrator) asked me to help him carry some boxes with books up stairs to the ballroom for the library. (T worked in the library at this time and the school was in the Enos Wall Mansion on South Temple. Awesome place to go to school.) So Matt grabs two boxes full of books and hands me a box that is pretty light. So to make fun of Matt (because we had a good friendship from work) I shook that box around all the way up to ball room on the third floor of the mansion. I noted that the doors to the balcony where open but I didn't think anything of it. So Matt asked me to follow him out to the balcony with the boxes and I remember thinking," Um. That's an odd place to put some boxes but ok." So we put the boxes on the balcony. The next thing I remember is T coming out onto the balcony and started to open the box that I had just carried up. I was freaking out that T was just opening these boxes. He told me to look into the box that he had opened (the one I was carrying). I peered in and saw a dozed red roses. Completely battered to death from me tossing the box around. As I peered in closer there was a little book made from paper in there. I opened it and started to read. Inside was the song that T had written about/for me along with some silly poems we had written for each other while dating. T leaned in and said, "You don't need to read all of them right now. Just peak at the back page." So I flip to the back page and its says, "Look up." So I do and there is T down on one knee with my Grandmother's ring asking me to marry him. I was one of those girls that cried and then said yes! It was such a wonderful surprise when I thought it was going to be something totally different! It was wonderful!

Now, as I recall after talking to T later he said he was cringing all the way up the stairs behind me (I remember now that he helped carry a box or two).