1. My sister loved to fish. My dad would take us fishing all together and it was just mayhem trying to fish with 4 or more people in the boat all casting at the same time. We loved it just because we were together and there were always good snacks. My sister really loved to fish though- she could sit and be patient and then she would practically turn over the boat when she would set her hook and start reeling in.
2. Whenever she sang in the car she would hold her hand like she was holding a microphone and then stick up her thumb for the tip of the microphone. Actually this was when she sang anywhere- the car, the grocery store, the living room...she would always sing into her thumb. hehehehe
3. She had this same funky dance thing she would do in the car when she was driving- and if you were in the car with yang...she was driving!!! She would scrunch up her shoulders and bend her arms at the elbows and then kind of shake around- hard to explain in words, but she always did it- it was fun to make fun of.
4. She always had to drive!! Whenever she was the passenger she was miserable. She never felt safe with anybody else driving except for my dad.
5. My sister made the best blanket houses. We would make blanket houses on Sunday afternoons outside in a tree. They were awesome. We'd turn them into drive-thrus, grocery stores- anything we could think of.
Oh and I've been corrected- To correct one of my recent Yang lists- she got a full-tuition scholarship to BYU not a half. Yeah she was pretty good.
I love to think about how my sister was before she got sick. Thinking about the last 10 months of her life makes me really depressed. She passed away right before Taylor's second birthday and so Taylor learned really early whenever she sees me crying she knows I miss Aunt Yang Yang. She always has to ask though, "You just miss Aunt Yang Yang?" Every once in a while Taylor will say- I wish Aunt Yang Yang were here. I don't know how much she remembers of her, but she took right to her. They met for the first time when Taylor was 9 months. They were immediately best buds.
I just have to say - everybody should thank their lucky stars for their sisters. We were best friends and loved being together...I can't believe I have to wait so long to see her again.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Monday, January 5, 2009
Jan 5th
1. My sister loved peanut butter, banana and marshmallow sandwiches. Blagh.
2. My sister loved every kind of craft or art form there is. She took a basket weaving class at BYU and we teased her mercilessly. She made the coolest, nicest baskets. She also took a pottery class- those pieces aren't as nice as the baskets :) sorry gert :)
3. My sister was good at everything she did. She usually taught herself anything she wanted to learn how to do. She taught herself to crochet and then taught me. I have an afghan I still haven't finished because I don't have my sister to show me the stitch-- show me how to start and how to finish :)
4. My sister loved cheese on her whoppers. I always gave her a hard time about asking for cheese on her whoppers. We used to walk to the Burger King down from campus in the mid-mornings when she worked at BYU. They served burgers all day and we would go have an early lunch and sit and drink and drink and drink Dr. Pepper. MMMMmmmm dr. pepper.
5. She said about 5 curse words in her life. They were all directed at my older brother. Those two were always at it. They were so competitive with each other- I guess that comes from being only 18 months apart and both are annoyingly brilliant :)
2. My sister loved every kind of craft or art form there is. She took a basket weaving class at BYU and we teased her mercilessly. She made the coolest, nicest baskets. She also took a pottery class- those pieces aren't as nice as the baskets :) sorry gert :)
3. My sister was good at everything she did. She usually taught herself anything she wanted to learn how to do. She taught herself to crochet and then taught me. I have an afghan I still haven't finished because I don't have my sister to show me the stitch-- show me how to start and how to finish :)
4. My sister loved cheese on her whoppers. I always gave her a hard time about asking for cheese on her whoppers. We used to walk to the Burger King down from campus in the mid-mornings when she worked at BYU. They served burgers all day and we would go have an early lunch and sit and drink and drink and drink Dr. Pepper. MMMMmmmm dr. pepper.
5. She said about 5 curse words in her life. They were all directed at my older brother. Those two were always at it. They were so competitive with each other- I guess that comes from being only 18 months apart and both are annoyingly brilliant :)
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Funny Realization
My little brother and I had a funny realization this last summer. I always knew something didn't seem right about the way I stood. Well, I figured it out- my freaking arms are turned wrong. When I stand with my arms by my side- my forearms face out in front of me. Normally- your arms would fall gracefully at your sides with forearms, wrists, and the tops of your hands facing to the opposite sides of the room. Well, not mine and oh- not my little brothers'. We look like freaking gorillas. On males it doesn't look as strange- I keep telling him. He played football and has the gorilla physique (not fat, Page, just built) to go with the freakishly turned arms- Me no matter how much weight I lose or how much I work out I'll always have gorilla turned arms. Thanks daddy- I know it has to be one of your genes. Check yourself out and let me know just how freaky we are in my poll- thanks
ps Glen do you have this?
ps Glen do you have this?
January 4th, Sister list
1. My sister had gorgeous light green eyes. They were almost yellow. She got tons of compliments on them. My dad has brown eyes and my mom has green and she just knew all her children would have brown eyes. Nope, we all have green. I think Yang got the most compliments on her's though.
2. She served a spanish speaking mission in Louisville, Kentucky when she was 26. She loved the people and they loved her. She would get calls from several of her friends from her mission on her cell phone daily. She would start talking a mile a minute in spanish- she said she used to think about spanish so much it would make her head hurt, but she was determined to speak the language and speak it well.
3. My sister was extremely intelligent. She got a half tuition scholarship for her first semester. She really wanted the Benson Scholarship- but she was 1 point shy on her ACT's to qualify. I can remember her crying after getting her ACT results. She started out as pre-med- she wanted to be an OBGYN. After she decided that boy watching was much more fun (as most of us do) she tried several different majors, but ended up in Marriage, Family, Human Development.
4. I never really realized how boy crazy my sister was until I read some of her journal after she passed away. There was a different boy on every page :) There was a boy in high school who was one of the cutest, smartest, sweetest guys ever. My sister and he were very much alike and he really liked her. She liked him too, but I never knew how much until years later. She told me she really had liked him, but he wasn't LDS. She told me she had cried buckets of tears over that one.
5. She only kissed one boy her whole life. I know she really regreted it too because he turned out to be a SUPER dipsmack!!!
2. She served a spanish speaking mission in Louisville, Kentucky when she was 26. She loved the people and they loved her. She would get calls from several of her friends from her mission on her cell phone daily. She would start talking a mile a minute in spanish- she said she used to think about spanish so much it would make her head hurt, but she was determined to speak the language and speak it well.
3. My sister was extremely intelligent. She got a half tuition scholarship for her first semester. She really wanted the Benson Scholarship- but she was 1 point shy on her ACT's to qualify. I can remember her crying after getting her ACT results. She started out as pre-med- she wanted to be an OBGYN. After she decided that boy watching was much more fun (as most of us do) she tried several different majors, but ended up in Marriage, Family, Human Development.
4. I never really realized how boy crazy my sister was until I read some of her journal after she passed away. There was a different boy on every page :) There was a boy in high school who was one of the cutest, smartest, sweetest guys ever. My sister and he were very much alike and he really liked her. She liked him too, but I never knew how much until years later. She told me she really had liked him, but he wasn't LDS. She told me she had cried buckets of tears over that one.
5. She only kissed one boy her whole life. I know she really regreted it too because he turned out to be a SUPER dipsmack!!!
Saturday, January 3, 2009
January 3rd
Happy Birthday Page! Seriously if anybody in Utah wants to go to a wonderful massage therapist call him- I'd give the number but I don't know how many creepos are out there. If you're embarrassed because you think you're gross or stinky- it doesn't bother him- he's worked on tons of disgusting people :) and he really doesn't care. Some people have the gift of not minding smells and disgustingness. I didn't receive that gift :)
Okay as for my sister list-
1. My sister wanted to be a wife and mother more than anything in the whole world. She was not blessed with that in this life. It always makes me really annoyed when people take their husband and children for granted. My sister wanted that life so much- and even when I jokingly make derogatory comments about my husband when she was so sick and had already been told her disease would kill her- she never jumped down my throat because at least I had a husband and she didn't. I would just immediately feel guilty for saying anything about small annoyances- because she sat alone in her room in her bed slowly deteriorating.
2. She had the most unique laugh. She was voted as the girl with the best laugh in her high school year book. We used to tease her and call her the hyena. Her aol name was Hyena23. It was great when she laughed.
3. Her favorite hymn was "I Believe in Christ". I still can't sing that hymn all the way through... I always think of my sister when we sing "I believe in Christ, so come what may."
4. She was an excellent cook. She loved to cook and she loved to cook for other people. After her mission we were introduced to a whole new world of Mexican recipes. They are easy, cheap tasty and we still make them now.
5. Whenever she would sit somewhere she would have to be doing something with her hands or feet. If she didn't have anything in her hands she would make an imaginary figure 8 with her finger or her foot in the air.
Okay as for my sister list-
1. My sister wanted to be a wife and mother more than anything in the whole world. She was not blessed with that in this life. It always makes me really annoyed when people take their husband and children for granted. My sister wanted that life so much- and even when I jokingly make derogatory comments about my husband when she was so sick and had already been told her disease would kill her- she never jumped down my throat because at least I had a husband and she didn't. I would just immediately feel guilty for saying anything about small annoyances- because she sat alone in her room in her bed slowly deteriorating.
2. She had the most unique laugh. She was voted as the girl with the best laugh in her high school year book. We used to tease her and call her the hyena. Her aol name was Hyena23. It was great when she laughed.
3. Her favorite hymn was "I Believe in Christ". I still can't sing that hymn all the way through... I always think of my sister when we sing "I believe in Christ, so come what may."
4. She was an excellent cook. She loved to cook and she loved to cook for other people. After her mission we were introduced to a whole new world of Mexican recipes. They are easy, cheap tasty and we still make them now.
5. Whenever she would sit somewhere she would have to be doing something with her hands or feet. If she didn't have anything in her hands she would make an imaginary figure 8 with her finger or her foot in the air.
Friday, January 2, 2009
January 2nd-
As a side note to my brother's comment on yesterday's post- he sounds like he's violent and likes to hurt people. He's really one of the most laid back people I know except when his blood sugar is low but you can fix that with a good meal or a jolly rancher :)
Okay as for Yang
1. My sister really personified the scripture Matthew 5:48. "Be ye therefore perfect..." She really worked for perfection - which could be annoying sometimes :) But, she really did try to do everything right. Whatever she fell short of I know Christ will take care of because she was truly trying to follow Him all her life.
2. She loved to shop. I love to shop and my mom hates it. Yang and I could always go and have so much fun just shopping and hanging out together.
3. She really took every precaution to stay alive. I know she had to be taken the way she was because the Lord really needed her on the other side and she wasn't going to give in any other way. A girl from her mission was killed biking in Big Cottonwood canyon a couple of months after my sister passed away. That would never have been my sister.
4. My sister was not a complainer. She always looked for the good in any situation and if there was no good she just wouldn't say much. She never complained about being sick and miserable.
5. My sister was the epitome of positivity. When we lived together while going to BYU she would get up and be in a good mood and try to make me laugh and I would just get more negative and more negative until I drug her down to my bad mood and then I was pleased with myself. Yeah, that was the kind of stellar sister I was.
This is also my grandma's birthday month and my little brother's as well. My grandmother was a wonderful person that lived the gospel her whole life as well. My little brother is still around so I don't want to sing his praises too much :) j/k Page. He's a good little brother. He tries to make people think he's all mean and tough, but he's not. He used to go to my chiro appointments with me to sit with my children while I got adjusted. He was a lot of help when we lived in Utah. Happy Birthday tomorrow Page!!!
Okay as for Yang
1. My sister really personified the scripture Matthew 5:48. "Be ye therefore perfect..." She really worked for perfection - which could be annoying sometimes :) But, she really did try to do everything right. Whatever she fell short of I know Christ will take care of because she was truly trying to follow Him all her life.
2. She loved to shop. I love to shop and my mom hates it. Yang and I could always go and have so much fun just shopping and hanging out together.
3. She really took every precaution to stay alive. I know she had to be taken the way she was because the Lord really needed her on the other side and she wasn't going to give in any other way. A girl from her mission was killed biking in Big Cottonwood canyon a couple of months after my sister passed away. That would never have been my sister.
4. My sister was not a complainer. She always looked for the good in any situation and if there was no good she just wouldn't say much. She never complained about being sick and miserable.
5. My sister was the epitome of positivity. When we lived together while going to BYU she would get up and be in a good mood and try to make me laugh and I would just get more negative and more negative until I drug her down to my bad mood and then I was pleased with myself. Yeah, that was the kind of stellar sister I was.
This is also my grandma's birthday month and my little brother's as well. My grandmother was a wonderful person that lived the gospel her whole life as well. My little brother is still around so I don't want to sing his praises too much :) j/k Page. He's a good little brother. He tries to make people think he's all mean and tough, but he's not. He used to go to my chiro appointments with me to sit with my children while I got adjusted. He was a lot of help when we lived in Utah. Happy Birthday tomorrow Page!!!
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Happy Birthday month to Alexandria
January is my sister's birthday month... and I miss her terribly. People also need to know what a wonderful and amazing person she was and still is doing whatever she is doing now. So, for her birthday month, I thought I would post 5 things about her everyday. My brothers and parental units can help as well.
January 1st, 2008
1. My sister had really cute feet. She used to get onto me all the time about how I didn't keep my toenails cut. Her's were always trimmed and usually painted. She says they were messed up from going on pointe too young when she was in ballet, but I really never knew what the heck she was talking about. She got compliments from random people about her feet.
2. She would never be so selfish and self-centered to celebrate a whole birthday month- like me.
3. She was a people person. She was always kind to everyone and loved people. She made others feel good about themselves. She had a way of making everyone feel comfortable around her.
4. She was an awesome pianist and musician. She took piano for ?? years (ma can fill in the blank). I think it was around 6 and she could pretty much play anything. I used to sit down to play something and bang through it for a while and then Yang would finally get tired of my banging and ask "do you want me to play that for you, Nessa?" My mom is going to want to tell about the time she was going to accompany one of her friends for a band competition and she got the piece just a short time before she was to play it. It was a really difficult piece and my mom who also plays discouraged her and said it was a bit ambitious. Ma can tell the rest.
5. She was fiercely protective of her brothers and sister. One time on the bus someone started a fight with my brother (Glen can clear up the details) and the bus driver said she was sending them both to the office. My sister said "well, if Glen's going to the office, so am I!!" Everybody on the bus made the sarcastic "ooooOOOooo" - and yang yells back "SHUTUP!" I was really glad to get off the bus that day.
January 1st, 2008
1. My sister had really cute feet. She used to get onto me all the time about how I didn't keep my toenails cut. Her's were always trimmed and usually painted. She says they were messed up from going on pointe too young when she was in ballet, but I really never knew what the heck she was talking about. She got compliments from random people about her feet.
2. She would never be so selfish and self-centered to celebrate a whole birthday month- like me.
3. She was a people person. She was always kind to everyone and loved people. She made others feel good about themselves. She had a way of making everyone feel comfortable around her.
4. She was an awesome pianist and musician. She took piano for ?? years (ma can fill in the blank). I think it was around 6 and she could pretty much play anything. I used to sit down to play something and bang through it for a while and then Yang would finally get tired of my banging and ask "do you want me to play that for you, Nessa?" My mom is going to want to tell about the time she was going to accompany one of her friends for a band competition and she got the piece just a short time before she was to play it. It was a really difficult piece and my mom who also plays discouraged her and said it was a bit ambitious. Ma can tell the rest.
5. She was fiercely protective of her brothers and sister. One time on the bus someone started a fight with my brother (Glen can clear up the details) and the bus driver said she was sending them both to the office. My sister said "well, if Glen's going to the office, so am I!!" Everybody on the bus made the sarcastic "ooooOOOooo" - and yang yells back "SHUTUP!" I was really glad to get off the bus that day.
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