I am pretty sure my mom had me take retakes after this picture and she told me not to smile with my mouth open. So here I am in all my glory at 7 year old.1. I was born in Provo, Utah.
2. I am the third of six children, oldest daughter.
3. I think I have loved boys since about birth.....boyfriends date all the way back to kindergarten.
4. I remember having a specific dream about kissing my boyfriend Shane Wilson in the fourth grade.
5. Most of my friends parents growing up wouldn't let them play with me because I was to boy crazy.
6. My mom will tell anyone who asks "of all of your four daughters who was the most boy crazy?" ...hands down she will tell you it was me. Brooke sometimes like to challenge me on that.
7. I love to read, especially romances....
8. My mom signed me up for an all girls book club in 4th grade and they sent you new books each month (called Just For Girls) and I looked forward to gobbling them up the minute they arrived in the mail.
9. If I was a character in a Jane Austen Novel I would be Emma Woodhouse, but I would rather have been Elizabeth Bennet or Anne Elliot. I like Emma, but I think the other characters have so much more depth.
10. I didn't really love Jane Austen until out of High school.
11. My high school obsession was with Emily Dickinson...I really thought I was the foremost authority on her.
12. When I turned 16 and got my license, I insisted that I drove everyone everywhere...Now I hate to drive and would love to be a passenger always. In fact, when I get together with my mom or Kennan now I make them drive my car and kids.
13. I have only kissed 6 boys in my whole life(not including my little boys).
14. I wish I had kissed 100 and not had such serious boyfriends, oh the life of a self proclaimed romantic.
15. I hung out with Bob because I thought he might have cute roommates, because he was not my type.
16. As it turns out 2 of his three roommates were less than 5'3 inches tall.....really not my type.
17. I kissed Bob first.
18. I was a classical ballet dancer until I was 15 years old and then I quit any kind of dancing for a year. I still have night mares about Jackie College the dance mistress. She was very bad on a young girls self esteem.
19. I started Modern Dance at 16 and then stuck with it until I got married.
20. I had 2 dance scholarships. One at Utah State and the other and UVSC.
21. I did not graduate from college.....wished I had.
22. I was a groupie for the band "Above the Garage".
23. My brother was the lead guitarist, and the Garage was my parents garage.
24. I always ended up dating my brothers friends...not always the best idea.
25. My brother Brad has been one of my dearest friends for as long as I can remember. He was never mean to me and always told me how pretty I was....who's brother is like that?
26. I was prom royalty...hehee, funny to me even then.
27. I love to read so much that I was the girl in the halls at high school who would read while walking to classes and I assume everyone just got out of my way.
28. My hair was always long and straight. I cut it my senior year really short(you know the haircut, Gwyneth Paltrow's hair in Sliding Doors).
29. I don't remember much of my junior or senior year because I had a boyfriend named Brian whom I LOVED and wanted to spend all my time with him.... I even was with him when he left on his mission, actually I dated him when he got home.
30. Bob was the right choice for me and I have never looked back.
31. I have never been in one group of friends...I have always liked my diversity in people.
32. If you are really quirky and witty I will want to be your best friend.
33. Music defined if you were cool or not in Jr. high .... In Jr. High it started with Air Supply, Chicago, Peter Paul and Mary, and then it progressed to Morrissey, The Smiths, the Housemartins, Beautiful South and Tori Amos...my oldest brother Bryce's influence.
34. Bryces influenced me way to much at a young age. I hated him, he was mean, and he never had the time of day for me, but I wanted his approval badly and I soaked up anything he told me like it was gospel.
35. My sister Kennan and I never really got along until she got married to Trevan, now I can't live with out her....She may be THE most fun person I have ever met.
36. I am terribly afraid of the dark.
37. I have been to Europe twice and both times were for over a month.
38. I was an exchange student in Germany. I went because two of my closest friends were going..Holly and Steph. I met Brian my High School boyfriend there. I won't lie I kind made Holly do drive-bys before we left, I just thought he was so cute. I was hoping.
39.The house I grew up in had a basketball court in it.
40. My dad traveled all over the world while I was young and he was gone a lot. He always brought home very cool things for us. Many I wore to High School.
41. I have never tasted alcohol.
42. I was never wild.
43. Swearing is my rebellious side....funny thing is that when I am mad or upset I don't actually swear. I just like to swear in my storytelling or silly side.
44. I have a crazy memory for stupid things and people.
45. I have a really hard time keeping any secrets. So if it's really important tell someone else.
46. I didn't learn to ride a bike until I was 6 years old.
47. My brothers could get me to cry when I was really young until I was ten by telling me that my baby boys were going to be bald when they grew up, because my dad was.
48. They also made up a song for me that went like this, "Robyn's made like a fresh cow pie, born and bred like you and I, just a laying in the road making more fresh cow pies, Robyn's made like a fresh cow pie" Nice huh?
49. Bob and I got married on my parents 25th wedding anniversary.
50. Bob loves to surprise me on random occasions with fun gifts that only I would love, ie: a hedge trimmer, a Marcia Lynn Mcclure book that hasn't been released yet, and other great treasures.
51. He also kept a journal of our courtship, I love to read it like it's a novel.
52. I am crazy about holidays and Bob is great about getting excited about things with me.
53. I nearly died when I was twelve. I had a disease called Osteomylitis, and I had to stay in the hospital for a week and then carry an IV around for a month. Hard way to start the 7th grade.
54. I made Steph shave her legs because she was to tan, I was hoping it would shave some of it off. Jealousy
55. I had a big time crush on my own cousin Ryan.
56. My first job was at Hot Papa's and I was 15 years old. My uncle owned it and I also got Steph, Amber, and Ally jobs there.
57. Amber Watkins and I went dancing at the Palace and I actually walked up to a guy and told him that I had been admiring him all night!!!! what????? I am embarrassed even putting it into words.
58. I use to spy on Bryce making out with his girlfriends all the time. Then I would write in my journal how evil he was.
59. I thought that I was Anne of Green Gables. I also didn't realize that she was silly not profound. Oh well, I still love her and named my son after her love, Gilbert Blythe.
60. Bob and I honeymooned in Hawaii, we also had a car accident while driving the island, I am pretty sure we just finished paying it off like two years ago.
61. My Uncle owned the dance club The Vortex. I use to go all the time in college and would get all my friends in for free.
62. My uncle is flaming Gay. I didn't realize it until I was 11 and my neighbor Neil told me he was because " what normal man would have a naked mannequin in his car? hmmmm
63. My friend Miristi and I hand made (with hammers and nails) a candy stand, we made a killing that summer.
64. My best friend Ally and I were always friends but we fought a lot, we kind of just ran in the same crowd. We always found common ground on books and some how we always found each other on rainy days.....literally.
65. It wasn't until college and we became roommates that I found how much I liked her and I had lost some of my romantic freakishness that she really became a best.
66. I would sneak in from being at Bob's at like 4am and she would be asleep, but she would always roll over and say "hey" and then chat me up until I fell asleep.
67. I lost my third baby at 16 weeks of pregnancy.
68. I have never felt so sad, and been so depressed.
69. I had Gwyn a year and half later and I have never felt so much joy.
70. Bob and I have lived in Orem, Pleasant Grove, Fresno CA, and Santa Clara.
71. Bob and I grew up in Fresno.
72. I love to keep in contact with friends from all stages of my life.
73. I love my friends.
74. I worked at a pre-school for Handicapped children when Bob and I were first married. I quit becasue I found out I was pregnant with Tucker and a little girl carried the CMV virus and I hadn't had it, it would have caused some major problems in pregnancy. Lauryn Hill's Zion was my theme song.
75. Bob was more natural with a baby than I was at first.
76. I still love music but I don't think it defines you. I will always love Sarah Mclachan, Indigo Girls, Edie Birkell, and Tori Amos.
77. I also like newer music, for instance I have an obsession with Brandi Calisle.
78. I hate reality TV.
79. I love Sunday night TV
80. Bob chose the names for three of our children Abraham was mine. I don't say that in anger, I loved the names he liked.
81. Bob and I have VERY similar taste....we rarely have arguments on things like that, usually they are over time and me going crazy and needing breaks....having babies so close together is hard.
82. I am not so great at dieting.
83. My sister Brooke would be my first choice of help if my mom couldn't help me in a pickle.
84. I look better with longer hair.
85. My mom is the world's best mom ever!
86. She is the boss of the world, just ask her.
87. I am sometimes accused of being really really bossy.
88. I enjoy my in-laws as much as my own family.
89. I am also known for speaking my mind and not having much of a filter, believe it or not I am working on it.
90. My friend Andrea has gotten me addicted to Ironing everything, (not socks though, or underwear.)
91. Most of my courtship with Bob was done while taking drives.
92. I consider my children the most beautiful children ever born.
93. I do know that they can do wrong.
94. I love to talk on the phone.
95. I love to cook.
96. I hate when people talk about diets and how awesome they are with exercising. I mean why?
97. I love to wax peoples eyebrows.
98. I watch A&E Pride and Prejudice at least every six months.
99. I love to do little girls hair and have been practicing since I was 7 years old, no lie I use to dream up hairdo's for my mom to try our on me.
100. If I could be like anyone it would be my mom, she cleans fast, works fast, types fast, and listen and loves long.
101. My name before I was married was really and truly Robyn Williams, my parents swear he was a nobody when I was born.
13 comments:
I know each and every thing listed here about you! And I love them all!!! But not nearly as much as I love YOU!!!
XO Mom
Robyn, I absolutely loved this post. You are really a unique wonderful person and still so pretty and smart. I love you and your family so much. I also now need to rent the anne of green gables movies again.
This post was fantastic! Having lived with you for a year I think I know you, but there is so much depth when it comes to you!! I never new you with long hair, I thought you looked beautiful with the short hair as well!
Weren't you born in the Mork and Mindy heyday? :0)
Love everything you listed...you are a true romantic...if I didn't know you so well, you might just seem like a character in a book, LOL
You didn't list that you are a very good and loyal friend. did you? I will add that for you.
I love it! So, a couple of things. 1st, the palace, this is how I remember it. We are there with Nikki and you have been checking out this guy, you say, "I'm going to go tell him how beautiful he is". So you walk over and say "I just have to tell you I think you are beautiful". Of course you are the one who said it so you would know. That's just what I remember. I think Nikki and I were hiding.:) Second, I feel the same way about my mom. She cleans fast too, I am trying to learn from her and do the same but I just get so tired or sidetracked. One more thing, you left out a lot. Like your beautiful, a fabulous mom, a great friend, old night time summer drives with the windows down and the music blaring to, was it lisa lobe over and over. :) I could go on and on but Jonah is screaming for me in his bed and I better go check it out. Thanks for sharing, I loved it!
oh, and I need you to wax my eyebrows. I've never had it done and need it bad!
The fact that you know who "The Beautiful South" is means we can be freinds.
i too know all of those things about you and many more that i love. although we may have not gotten along so well growing up, you have always been my beautiful older sister that i have looked up to. i secretly wanted to be like you and not like you at the same time. i consider you one of my 4 best friends (brooke, paige, and mom) and will forever love you for who you are, bossy bister and all!
plus i am obsessed with your kids.
Robyn,
I read over the list twice and you are not telling the whole truth! You forgot to include the fact that you had to 'dab' out your collar bones when you would get wet, becuase you were one skinny little dancer!
XO,
your favorite Brother-in-Law
pretty much we all adore you.. I've always looked up to you, and your opinion matters so much to me. I always feel complimented when you say we are alike, or that you would want me to help you in a fix next to mom.
I L O V E you sister!
LOved it. And fun to read items #101-112 in all your family/friends comments.
So I have to comment and oh so many comments come to mind. Even though there are a lot they are not all the thoughts that come to mind... just many of my tops. This just goes to show that I have either no life or no time management skills.
5. Yes you always were boy crazy. Just know my parents were never concerned about me hanging out with you- just with Holly Hanson she wore bit earings and was boy crazy.
9. I also would want to be Elizabeth Bennet. Who wouldn't.
32./33. How are we good friends again?
42. Or so you say. I know better! I mean those novels we used to read- if that is not wild what is?
44./45. YES YOU DO!
56. Loved that job. Thanks for the hook up- also that is where Steph met her future husband. So they owe you a firstborn or something- right?
57. I also recall you thinking you were Guinevere. Mr. Isom's class?
64. Rainy days still remind me of you from time to time.
65. Just because you wore a cloak and you and Brian had your own personal love garden doesn't mean that you possessed romantic freakishness-- I mean who didn't do that in high school?
And glad that I could make your best list... you are on mine as well.
66. This doesn't mention how Bob would then come wake us up in the wee hours of the morning on his way to somewhere- so yes you two did not like to let me sleep.
72./73. Glad you do.
85. Yes, your Mom is great!!!
As are you! Loved the list and the smile it brought to my face!
wow, so much fun to read! isn't it cathartic in a way to actually pick those things out of your life that you feel like sharing with other people? its personal yet liberating all at the same time. and co-incidentally, i am anne of green gables obsessed as well. i have read every book LM Montgumery has ever written. she's so romantic and detail oriented. who wouldn't want to be called diana of the shining waters?
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