Jen, The Sab.

1. 8:30 church that I thought I would hate, but actually enjoy
2. Well-prepared and delivered talks
3. Jooj giving the scripture for the first time
4. Hair that looks good when it is flat-ironed
5. Flat irons
6. Pot stickers
7. Organic Pomegranate fruit strips from Target
8. Being a full tithe payer
9. Jasper Fforde
10. The public Library
11. Sneetches
12. Sylvester McMonkey McBean
13. Almost-Four Sweetness
14. My Sleep Number Bed
15. After-church naps
16. The sleep of the dead
17. Zoloft
18. MS medication for my MIL
19. Clean Mammograms
20. Exercise
21. fireplaces
22. Spring in El Paso
23. Andrew Bird music
24. Having enough to pay bills
25. New shoes
26. Cookbooks
27. The way it sounds on my keyboard when I type fast
28. Senior primary that knows well enough to listen when I get serious
29. Squirrelly boys in Senior Primary
30. Serious girls in Senior Primary
31. Sunbeams telling me "I sang!"
32. The way the primary songs quiet the crying nursery kids
33. Jooj is mine, fair and square
34. Not being called to be a foster mom
35. Smarts
36. An amazing primary pianist
37. A bishop who loves my daughter
38. The men in the ward who have stepped up and been father-like to Jooj
39. Being on the same wavelenth as my sweet W
40. Slowly emerging clavicles
41. Jooj prays every single time she finds something she lost
42. That she is learning to recognize the Holy Ghost
43. Nesting, even though there is no reason
44. Silly games
45. Cuddling during Sac Mtng
46. W not in a war zone
47. "I can't tell you anything, but I am safe"
48. Small favors
49. Slippers
50. Root Beer
51. Planning
52. A new blender
53. Sabbath traditions
54. Internet
55. A laptop that still holds it together
56. Setting and obtaining goals
57. But having the tools to be okay if goals aren't reached
58. Being able to say the right thing at the right time
59. New opportunities to make friends
60. Unshakable testimonies
61. The still small voice
62. Making a difference to one kid
63. Spontaneous hugs
64. Not being swayed to stay home, even when it is convenient
65. Things I learned about being a member while at BYU:
66. Doing what you are asked
67. Cheerfully
68. Homework is not an excuse for missing church
69. Neither is tiredness (usually)
70. When you attend activities and meetings you are supporting the ward
71. No one likes to be in charge of an activity that no one attends
72. There is a reason behind callings and promptings and whisperings
73. I am part of a plan.
74. For the things I learned about being a member while in Monterey:
75. It is really hard to be in the RS presidency
76. Food Storage is divinely inspired
77. Welfare meetings are not to be coveted
78. There is good in everyone
79. For Army
80. And the rest
81. That I am not dating
82. That I am sealed in the temple to my family
83. That divorce and such doesn't unseal me to my folks
84. For my grandparents
85. For the opportunity to take family names to the temple
86. For cranky old ladies at church who want me to use colloidial silver in everything
87. Two healthy kidneys
88. Tonkatsu sauce
89. An adventurous palate
90. Carina
91. Marni, and the lessons I learned from her life
92. A mother who chose to have babies
93. Being a mother who chooses to have babies (theoretically.)
94. Not for Adam's transgressions
95. Elder Uctdorf
96. Elder Holland
97. Amazing in-laws
98. Blazing Saddles
99. The Great Race
100. Red shoes
101. Fairy Tales

From La Yen.

1. For long-lost friends and family that are back in my life
2. For a kid who is turning out to be a fun person to play with
3. The ability to actually play with my kid
4. The end of another day, making it one day less that I have to be alone
5. Tapirs
6. Burros
7. The ghetto El Paso zoo
8. Costco
9. Free Samples
10. Crock Pots
11. Horchata
12. Receiving mail
13. Sending mail
14. Springtime starts in January in El Paso
15. Fish that keep breeding
16. My dog, Rocky, who is MY dog.
17. A Sleep Number Bed
18. A Sleep Number Bed
19. A Sleep Number Bed
20. Payday
21. A car that works
22. A camera that works
23. The Atonement
24. Repentance
25. Not being the Relief Society President
26. LDS Family Services
27. A Birthmother who loved us enough to give us her child
28. Best Friends
29. Democracy
30. Capitalism
31. Missionaries
32. Private beaches at Dana Point
33. Nieces
34. Sisters
35. Sisters-in-law
36. Sleeping preschoolers
37. The Bible
38. The Book of Mormon
39. The Other Two
40. Personal Revelation
41. Personal Prayer
42. La Ciudad Juarez temple
43. The sweet people who work at La Ciudad Juarez temple
44. Waldo, the love of my life
45. Waldo, my best friend
46. Waldo, my greatest blessing
47. Waldo, my greatest trial
48. The Holy Ghost
49. Hands that work
50. A clean upstairs
51. Strong water pressure in the shower
52. Utah mountains
53. Sand Cats
54. That I am not in High School anymore
55. Laurels that become Women who become great friends
56. New Shoes
57. Having a passport, even if I only use it to go to Mexico, anymore
58. The deployment being 4/5 of the way over
59. Old neighbors that are still friends
60. SuperTarget
61. Reading a book in bed
62. Mindless computer games
63. Quick-wittedness
64. Not living in California
65. The Ensign
66. A Prophet
67. Being a fast typer
68. Knowing that there is a master plan for me
69. Ancestors
70. Having three living grandparents
71. Friends who go on vacation with us
72. Not being easily offended
73. Dalene soap in the shower
74. Being at this stage in my life
75. Being sent to the family I was born with
76. Brothers
77. Brothers-in-law
78. Nephews
79. Toasty blankets on a chilly night
80. The Franklin "Mountains"
81. Ministering Angels
82. Priesthood Blessings
83. Patriarchal Blessings
84. Jacob Hamblin
85. My education
86. Seed catalogs
87. Sunbeams
88. The Army packs and moves us when we go
89. People who stand up for what they believe in
90. Almost-Four years of being a mother
91. Twelve Years of marriage
92. Books that are old friends
93. A healthy body
94. Strong muscles
95. Being brave
96. Alissa's pictures of Jooj
97. Cheerios and Honey
98. Women in the ward who will gladly be surrogate grandmas for Jooj
99. A mother who can fashion beautiful things from nothing (and doesn't feel bad that I can't)
100. Weight finally coming off
101. Mammoth Lakes, California