Which is way more than you probably ever wanted to know – but I had never done one of these and thought it would be fun. I thought it would be really hard. It was hard, but not as hard as I thought it would be – I actually could have written more, but 100 is a nice round number and I don’t want to bore you all to tears. 🙂
1. My nickname all through my childhood was “J” – which my initials spelled too (JAE) – It is still my main nickname in my family, most of my nephews and neices call me “Aunt J”
2. When I married my husband my inittials changed to JAW – at the time Paul was preparing for dental school and we thought it was very funny.
3. I am the youngest of 5 children.
4. When people asked my parents how many children they had they would say, “2 girls, 2 boys, and Julia.”
5. It always made me feel imporant because I was the only one they named.
6. I have 5 children – three girls (Elizabeth, Dorothy, Emily) and two boys (Jacob, James) – in that order.
7. My oldest son, Jacob, was born with a heart defect – TGA (Transposition of the Great Arteries)
8. I am a stay at home mom.
9. I am a piano teacher.
10. I have played the piano since I was about 4 or 5 years old.
11. I play the French Horn too (and organ and trombone)
12. I belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
13. I served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Chile – I was in the Chile Antofagasta mission.
14. I met my husband in the French horn section in band at Ricks College.
15. I married him one month before I turned 23.
16. I was born on July 19 – I was early – which was a huge surprise to my mom.
17. My fifth child was early too – kind of a fun coincidence. 🙂
18. 4 of my 5 children were water births – one of those was born at home.
19. I like to write stories and poetry – especially for children.
20. I cut off part of my big toe on my left foot with the lawn mower when I was a senior in highschool.
21. Yes, I was wearing shoes.
22. Because it still hurt to walk normally, I attended my highschool graduation with a cane.
23. I have never broken a bone.
24. I must have hard bones because I am a major tomboy and have fallen numerous times from trees – or maybe just jumped.
25. I grew up on a small hobby farm in Pennsylvania.
26. I used to jump out of our hayloft window into the well limed manuar pile.
27. I had short hair as a kid and was commonly mistaken as a boy.
28. I love thunderstorms.
29. I love lightening bugs.
30. My mom made us a teepee when we were kids. We used lightening bugs in jars as lamps when we slept in it.
31. When we slept in it my sisters would tell me scary stories so I would get scared and go back inside.
32. Maybe that is why I was such a pesky little sister – it was retaliation. 🙂
33. I used to play rafter tag with my siblings on the rafters of our corn crib.
34. I love frogs, snakes, and lizards.
35. My favorite animal as a kid was the raccoon.
36. I don’t really have a favorite color – they are all pretty, but if forced to choose I will choose green or purple.
37. I can sew.
38. I love to read.
39. I like to scrapbook.
40. I got rammed by one of our sheep once – it was funny, but knocked the wind out of me.
41. My brother, Paul, hit me in the head with a baseball bat once – he had a habbit of throwing the bat after hitting the ball.
42. He also jumped on my jaw once – it was an accident… sort of.
43. My brother kimball was swinging me around the living room when my hand collided with a cactus.
44. I tried not to squirm too much as he pulled out every spine from my hand.
45. Cough syrup makes me nautious.
46. I hate brussel sprouts and ocra.
47. When I was in highschool I was dubbed Goofy.
48. It was mostly because I was a klutz and had a habbit of doing rather stupid things.
49. I got blood poisoning in my leg when I was in highschool.
50. Luckily my mom got it taken care of without having to take me to the hospital.
51. One of the reasons I am a klutz is because I have weak ankles – I could be walking down a sidewalk and it would turn and I would totally biff it.
52. Because of this I learned to have a good sense of humor and to laugh at myself – a lot. 🙂
53. In college I bruised cartilage in my ankle and was on crutches from the end of January to the beginning of March – crutches in Rexburg, Idaho in the middle of winter is NOT fun.
54. I didn’t get my drives liscene until a month after I turned 20 – not because I was scared to drive or anything, that just was the way it worked out.
55. I painted my toe nails for the first time when I was 27 years old. (maybe that shows just how much of a tomboy I am)
56. I’ve been to Japan.
57. I love to hike.
58. I went on my first 10 mile hike when I was 7 (almost 8 ) years old.
59. I went on my first backpacking trip with the young women in our stake when I was 15 or 16.
60. The Stake President went with us (along with numerous other leaders) and I nailed him where it counts with a snowball.
61. I liked to turn food green when I was in highschool. Once for a picnic I made green eggsalad sandwhiches, green snickerdoodles, and green lemonade.
62. I still dye food fun colors sometimes – the kids really like it.
63. I climbed Mt. Fuji in the middle of the night so I could see the sunrise – it was amazing.
64. My favorite flower is the Black eyed Susan – though I love all flowers.
65. I have been to all but 2 or 3 of the connected United States (still haven’t made it to Alaska or Hawii).
66. My favorite nickname my Mom gave me was Juliana Hosen-pheffer Jingle-heimer Schmidt.
67. Paul and I were married in the Portland Oregon Temple.
68. All but out oldest children were born in Oregon.
69. Our oldest was born in Utah.
70. When we got married we exchanged rings in the atrium – beside the lobby of the temple.
71. I couldn’t get the ring on his finger so he had to do it himself.
72. I still get nervous in the dark – I think I can blame the movie “Gremlins” for this because it terrified me as a kid.
73. I am horribly scared of spiders.
74. I bite my nails – it annoys me and I would like to stop.
75. Paul and my “song” is “Jupiter” by Gustav Holst – we played it together the term we met in college, before I left on my mission.
76. People thought it was really weird that we had a classical song, so we chose a secondary song “You’re My Inspiration” by Chicago.
77. I love to dance – by myself, with my kids, with my husband – and especially in the kitchen.
78. I love to make of corny lyrics to songs I know that go along with whatever I am doing at the moment.
79. I love to tease and be teased – nicely of course.
80. I am usually a positive person – hey, every one has their moments 🙂
81. I used to read with a flashlight under my covers when I was supposed to be sleeping.
82. Somehow my Dad always knew and would stomp on the floor (his room was above mine) telling me to turn it off and go to sleep.
83. My favorite icecream is Bryer’s Mint Chocolate chip.
84. It is my favorite because it was my Dad’s – he would get it out after we went to bed and I would often go up because I “couldn’t sleep” and he would let me sit on his lap and feed me a spoon or two before sending me back to bed.
85. My mom taught me to play the piano, and do most everything else I do – she taught me to believe in myself.
86. I really dislike doing dishes.
87. I dislike doing laundry even more.
88. I like to goof off with my kids.
89. I like to dance in the sprinklers or under a hose with them.
90. I have always loved the water and swimming.
91. We burned our trash in a burn pile when I was a kid.
92. My brothers and I loved throwing old aerosal cans in it and then running for cover as they exploded.
93. I love the ocean – especially swimming in it.
94. Someday I want to go to Europe.
95. Negatism bothers me.
96. I look forward to ‘dating’ my husband every week.
97. We do fun corny stuff together.
98. One of our favorite things to do is people watch – we make up entire conversations for them. It gets pretty hilarious.
99. I am usually willing to do stupid things for a quarter – such as lay in the middle of the road, or do jumping jacks in a parking garage entrance – I earned a lot of quarters from my Mom.
100. I love my life.
Fun and Flawed 