101 Things You May or May Not Know About Me

1. I was born in Honolulu, Hawaii
2. My family and I lived on Oahu until I was 6 months old.
3. I have two brothers
4. I have no sisters.
5. I have 9 cousins by blood and tons more by marriage.
6. Only my paternal grandparents are alive.
7. I have 5 Uncles.
8. I have 6 Aunts.
9. I won an MUN poster contest in second grade for Children's Rights.
10. I am blonde.
11. I like to blog.
12. I don't have many friends, but the ones I do are more than anyone could ask for.
13. I've never had a 'White Christmas'.
14. I love texting.
15. I hate talking on the phone unless its for something personal/important.
16. I love to bake Snickerdoodles.
17. I'm a reality show junkie. Big Brother is my favorite. And I would consider going on it.
18. I love the Edge.
19. I have been an All STARS leader since 1997.
20. I work at KinderCare with some of the best people EVER.
21. I am only five feet tall.
22. I get along better with guys than girls.
23. My Journey Kids are the best thing to happen to me.
24. I can speak a little French.
25. I speak an even smaller amount of Spanish.
26. I want to go on The Amazing Race.
27. I have hazel eyes.
28. Gilmore Girls is amazing.
29. I still watch the Disney Channel on occasion.
30. I love the rain.
31. I hated thunderstorms when I was younger.
32. I have been in a boat, in the middle of a lake during a thunderstorm. Hence being scared for years.
33. I broke my left leg when I was 4 giving my dad a hug.
34. Three years later I got stitches in the same leg.
35. I was in the newspaper in third grade.
36. I remember useless information.
37. I like to remember useless information to look smart.
38. I enjoy reading blogs of people I don't know to see different writing styles.
39. I love Yogurtland.
40. I instant message too much.
41. I LOVE football season.
42. I spent the Millennium New Years on the streets of Pasadena for the Rose Parade.
43. Most strangers think I am still in my teens.
44. I love the Wizard of Oz.
45. It's my goal to collect anything I see that is from that movie/story.
46. I love finding music to fit my mood.
47. I love finding quotes that fit my mood too.
48. My hair color is natural.
49. Never have I dyed my hair.
50. I made a mistake and got a perm freshman year of high school.
51. POPS Senior year was one of the best moments of high school.
52. I've had one boyfriend.
52. Rollercoasters scare me to look at, but I cant help but ride them anyways.
53. I always have to have my toes painted.
54. I hate leaving the house with wet hair.
55. I sing at random times.
56. I dance at random times too.
57. I love taking pictures.
58. I don't like to be in pictures.
59. I have every season of Saved By The Bell on DVD.
60. Most Halloweens I have been Dorothy.
61. I went on Finding Nemo at Disneyland opening night.
62. I have seen Wicked twice.
63. I have seen Les Miserables.
64. I have seen Broadway's Beauty and the Beast twice.
65. From the above show, I saw the original cast.
66. I love change.
67. I love consistency.
68. People that flake bug me.
69. My cousins and I used to cut paper and sell snow flakes in the back yard.
70. I live in my grandparents old house.
71. Watching kids get a concept brings me so much joy.
72. People tease me for my height.
73. San Francisco Senior year of High School changed my life.
74. I will never forget the homeless woman named Beverly I met there.
75. I don't like sea food.
76. I hate wearing make up.
77. I like to dress up for no reason.
78. I had a pet fish named Pee Wee herman.
79. I had a dog named Mini Mouse.
80. I bedroom is downstairs, everyone else is upstairs.
81. I hate being alone.
82. I do enjoy going to movies by myself.
83. I won Year of a Million Dreams at Disneyland TWICE in ONE day.
84. I think that letting go is hard.
85. I find forgiveness is easy.
86. I believe a life with regrets is a life wasted.
87. I do everything to the extreme.
88. I love hard.
89. I fight hard.
90. I fall hard.
91. I'm stubborn.
92. I only have one true love in my life, his name is Jesus.
93. I pray and wait for my future husband.
94. The Road to Hana made me sick.
95. I love dark red for decorations.
96. My favorite colors are pink, white, green, and yellow.
97. Christmas is my favorite time of year.
98. I love giving advice.
99. Chicken sometimes makes me sick.
100. I have music ADD.
101. My life is amazing.

(un)Accurate Weather

My computer has lied again. It first lied to me here. Today as you can see from the picture it tells me that its 69 and Sunny outside. I beg to differ. I thought for some time that I had heard thunder rolling in the distance, but I figured it was just planes. It didn't seem like there were enough clouds in the sky to be thunder. I was so wrong. The noise I thought was thunder just kept coming and getting louder. So I went up the the balcony from my parents room and saw that the ground was wet and thats when the rain started. I ran down stairs and covered all the patio furniture The before it would get too wet. I love the rain, so I'm excited that this time my computer was lying to me.

Oh, and there was lightening too.

SWEET!

Ok, I know this is my 100th post, and its a lame one. So I promise a super great 101 post.

99

This is my 99th post.
For those of you who are smart, that means the next one is 100.
I need something fun to do with the number 100.
Leave me ideas.

Facebook Funnies

thanks you 

Thank you facebook for that wonderful compare laughing fit that lasted a good five minutes.

please oh please!

I simply love this song.

For My Love
Bethany Dillon
Walk towards me
I want to hear
The heavens singing over you
When you breathe
And look at me
I want to be captured by you

Gaze into my eyes
And let me know you’d fight
Thousands, for my love
Slip your hand in mine
Ask me to dance with you tonight
Just ask me for my love

I want to hide
What’s deep in my eyes
I’m scared to be known by you
But when I turn my head
And see you there
I want to be pursued

Gaze into my eyes
And let me know you’d fight
Thousands, for my love
Slip your hand in mine
Ask me to dance with you tonight
Just ask me for my love

A dream I won’t wake from
A story that will never end
The ground your feet walk on
Let me be there, let me be there

Gaze into my eyes
Let me know you’d fight
Thousands, for my love
Slip your hand in mine
Ask me to dance with you tonight
Just ask me for my love

Gaze into my eyes
Let me know you’d fight
Thousands, for my love
Slip your hand in mine
Ask me to dance with you tonight
Ask me for my love

Tomorrow, Tomorrow, I Love Ya Tomorrow You're Only a Day Away

Tomorrow night will be amazing.

Edge leaders.
Chilis.

'Nuff said.

Needs a Title

It's been almost two years since I sat with Michelle in her room and at the beach and wrote down these words. We even have guitar chords that go with it, but sadly I do not have those I only have the words. I liked the words then and I like them still so I thought I would share them with you.

When people ask me
Why I belive
In a God
I can not see
When people ask me
How I can tell
Its so clear to me
What I believe

How can you
Feel the wind in your hair
Rain on your skin
Waves at your feet
And not belive?

Why is is so hard
For some to see
How Jesus' love
Surrounds me
The giver of life
Looks down from above
And makes it so easy to believe

How can you
Feel the wind in your hair
Rain on your skin
Waves at your feet
And not belive?

How can you
Look into the night
The star in the sky
The moon when it shines
And not belive?

My Friend Is Better Than Your Friend

Free music is only fair when shared!

Thanks for sharing your free tunes with me. They always go in a special folder on my desktop called music to keep.

FYI,
This blog is officially YOURS.

HAHA!

Just The Words I Needed To Read

Do not make someone your priority when he has made you his option.

I've decided that I can no longer try to be your friend.
I wish that I could bring myself to care and want you as my friend but I just cant do it anymore. It hurts too much to want to be your friend.

I know, I'm lame

Why you may ask?
Well I will tell you.

I just went to Target and bought nail polish...
in Scarlet and Gold.

Yea, its MV football season.
Sue me.

My Hero

People like to ask from time to time who someone's hero is.
My hero is a little girl named Emma Grace.

For the family that reads this, you will know why.

But for those of you who don't, I really hope you will visit her blog and read all about her.

The most recent news of her getting her trach out makes me so excited when I think about it and almost makes me cry.

God is so amazing and this little girl is such a fighter.

P.S.
Mark and Alisa, if its possible when I finally find a husband I want to reserve Emma for my flower girl.
;)

Dear Natalie Tacketts,

HowManyOfMe.com

There are 9 people with my name in the U.S.A.

I know that there are at least 9 of us in the world. Counting me that is. So if any of the other 8 of you see this please comment me. I would like to meet you.

Your Name Sharing Friend,
Natalie Tackett

As Promised

I took my friend Sharon along with me to Hawaii. I told her that if she could fit in my suitcase she could come. And as you can see, she TOTALLY fit. ;)

A hui hou!

For those of you keeping tabs, I am home from Hawaii. And just to let you know, I did in fact finish Twilight by Thursday, which meant that day I had to find a book store to buy New Moon so I would have something to help me relax on vacation and give me something to read on the way home. I only have about 100 pages left before I have to start Eclipse. But that is all besides the point. Here is a brief update of my trip as a whole.

Tuesday:
A blog about that day can be found here!

Wednesday:
We went to shop in Lahaina. We spent way too much time looking for a camera shop for my dad. He was given a sweet 4G card for his camera that takes photos twice as fast as a normal 4G card. Anyways, my dad's camera is too old to read a card that moves that fast. That was pretty much all that we did. Besides the normal laying around the pool/beach.

Thursday:
The Road to Hana.
Now I dont know if we went at the wrong time of year, or if its something that you need a tour guide for. We seemed to have missed a lot. We did drive and see a few waterfalls, blowhole and black sand beach. Nothing else too exciting. If you have driven the 600+ switch backs, and 50+ one way bridges tell me what you thought. I really want to know. I did get to the point where I was too hot so I dove into a cave thing with water and of course a waterfall. So since the drive to Hana is so long that was all we did on Thursday.

Friday:
GAME DAY!
We didnt really do anything Friday. Just stayed in the hotel and preped for the long night that was coming. I had it all planned to, exactly what I was going to wear. I had to show my Diablo pride with my red and gold colored tanks that I would layer. But, my mom was able to score me a Mission Viejo vs. Baldwin Bears shirt. So I wore that instead. I know that what I wore isnt important, but I just had to say.

As far as games go, this one was, I dont know. It was exciting to be in Maui watching the game, but the game was a 'Mission' game. The score by half time was 41-0 in favor of Mission. The second half of the game EVERYONE got to play. A major plus because how would it have felt to fly 2100 miles to watch Ryan play and not have him actually play?

Our hosts for the evening were very nice and threw a BBQ dinner thing for the boys and families. We stayed just long enough to welcome both teams in with thunderous clapping before we left and grabbed a quic bite somewhere else.

Saturday:
5am came way too early. My Dad, Mom, Ryan and I got up and headed out to a nearby harbor to board a boat to go snorkling in Molokini and Turtle Town. The boat fed us breakfast and a BBQ lunch. We saw tons of fish while we were on our trip. We saw a Frogfish, and the lady that was out in the water with us said that she had never seen one on a snorkling trip before and just when she had scuba dived. So being the ever so nice lady she was she dove down and took pictures for those who wanted them. I was one of them, lame probably but yea, pictures are what help hold our memories. We didnt see too many Sea Turtles while in Turtle Town. We saw more on the way home and took too many pictures there too. I did see way more turtles outside the hotel near Black Rock.

I went to Lids to get a hat after I saw the cool one that my mom got. I will have to post a picture of it, words wouldnt do it justice.

After a long day snorkling and being on a boat I seriously felt like I was on a boat the rest of the day. My body kept rocking forward and backwards like I did on the boat and in the water. While we were at dinner it was a laugh fest. Stupid things like my straw bobbing out of my glass and landing on the floor made us laugh. We all only ate one piece of pizza and bread. It would have been too daring to attepmt a second piece.

While we were there a little girl got hurt. We arent sure what happened, but we things that she pulled her highchair down on herself and cut her mouth. But the thud that we all heard was pretty scary.

Sunday:
Your normal day to go home. We packed and tripled checked that we had everything we came with and everything that we bought for people. Once we were sure that we had it all we decided it was time to leave. The hotel gave us all a Kukui but leis and wished us safe travels. We stopped off at a few shops to get some gifts before boarding the plane. I am so thankful that I had my book because the guy that was sitting a row behind me on the aisle like I was had 6 Scotches. Yea, most of the flight consisted of me rereading sentences that I had already read or missed an important detail that I would have to go back and search for to figure out what I read. He mumbled, and screamed strange things. Once the flight landed the old man, the one with all the Scotch, started asking me all sorts of questions. Where I lived, which I simply told him South Orange County. He then went on to talk about Mission Viejo and Mark Sanchez and his amazing game with USC. It was all I could do to not tell him that I have actually watched Mark play at Mission.

Anyways, we got home a little earlier than we expected and stayed up talking to Susan and Samantha before finally getting to sleep in our own beds that we missed so much.

So, now you should be all up to date with what has been happening.

Pictures to follow!