Jan 20th

It snowed today- almost all day!!! We had so much fun. Poor jeebs- he had to sit inside most of the day and work.

1. After living in Utah through a few winters, my sister learned to hate driving in snow. It really isn't fun when the city doesn't shut down for snow. It makes snow much more exciting when things shut down:)

2. Yang was big into ER. We watched it for several seasons. They just need to stop now. It's getting so ridiculous.

3. My sister was an extremely loyal friend. Her friends usually took advantage of her selflessness. She stayed up almost all night listening to one of her friends whine and cry and call back and forth to her fiance the night before their wedding. I don't know what all the drama was about, but my sister listened to it all and then woke up early the next morning to tend to all the wedding details she was helping out with.

4. My sister was on the yearbook staff in high school. I actually have more than 1 picture in the yearbook she helped put together :)

5. My sister was an excellent speller. She won several spelling bees in elementary and even high school. We had the same english teacher my 11th grade year- she asked me if I had gotten the same "gift of spelling" that my sister had. HA!!

Jeebs is trying to make me fatter

I think Jeebs is tring to make me gain more weight than I am already. He got me a Nintendo DS for Christmas- which has been taken over by Tates and Cagey. He then got us a recliner for our anniversary. Then, as a belated Christmas present we got ourselves a new TV which Jeebs mounted over the fireplace. Granted the new TV is going to be a buyer's incentive for the house, but we still get to enjoy it while we're here- which will probably still be a while. Today he just got our dish upgraded to HD so we're nowing watching tv in HD. I'm watching Superstarts of Dance in HD and I have to say - me likey. Except for the freaky black chick in the white ballet tutu costume doing some freakshow rendition of Swan Lake- gag. Is this what we have to look forward to in ballet while Obama is president :) j/k

AND...I'm back

So- now that I know my old bag of a mom is not going to correct my grammar anymore- I can continue on with my sister list. (Yes, I call my mom bag) BTW the mistakes I make are usually me half paying attention when I type my entries so PPPPPPPPPSHHHHHHHHHHHHKkkkkkkkk! It's funny that ma thinks Yang got her need to correct people from DADDY!!! :)

1. My sister loved portabello di ravioli from Olive Garden. The one time Jeebs and I went to Houston with my mom and sister for her doctor appointments we ate at Olive Garden. Yang could not keep anything down. She ordered her ravioli and ate one whole ravioli- she was so proud of herself. That night in the hotel she kept saying how good her stomach felt and it was the first meal in a long time that she kept down. ARRRGH I hate thinking about those moments.

2. Yang always took time to talk to me when I called her. On Yang's last birthday I called her cell to sing Happy Birthday in one of my stupid weird voices. Somehow I dialed the wrong number- I thought the girl that answered sounded a little...not like my sister, but I had dialed her number a million times and didn't think I could get it wrong. I busted into my ridiculous rendition of Happy Birthday and only got out- "Happy Birthday to YOU- Happy Birthday to YOU" and the lady quickly said "You've got the wrong number," and hung up on me. My birthday spirit was totally deflated- until I redialed the right number, half-heartedly sang my song and then told Yang what I had done. She burst into laughter and we laughed nonstop for a while over that one.

3. My sister had a way of calling people on their BS without making people too upset with her.

4. My sister would never say BS. (well she might use the initials in hushed tones)

5. Yang wanted to live- She always lived life to the fullest. It seems like somehow she knew she had to make the most of her time on Earth. I'm sure she had regrets, but she never backed down from things she wanted to do just because it might be embarrassing or uncomfortable.

January 16th

I am not even 26 weeks today and I feel very hugely pregnant. This baby has no where else to go but out now- so this will be an interesting looking full grown pregnant belly- it already feels HUGE.
On to my list

1. My sister was really good at manipulating me into doing things when I was little. Hence, the whopper story- which I think I've already told. Pretty much I was sneaking whoppers- my sister put me up to it- and I got my hand stuck in the carton. I couldn't get it out if I wanted to have whoppers- and my mom was calling me to bring her a spoon- annoyed that I wasn't coming with it very fast. yada yada yada- I ran down the hall with it attached to my hand and quickly dumped the the whole carton with my sister.

2. Yang never backed down. She would tell me that she knew I would eventually back down so she knew she just had to be patient :) I should've been more persistent :)

3. My sister was very resourceful. I am told by my older bro that when we were little Yang had the bright idea to tie one end of a rope around me- throw it over a tall branch in a tree and then tie the other end of the rope around Glen. Sort of a human pulley system I guess. Glen was supposed to start running as fast as he could and I would be hoisted quickly and safely into the tree. He started to run- I started to scream, my mom came out and Glen will have to finish it. I must have blacked out or something because I don't remember this story at all.

4. After my sister's first few semesters at BYU- walking everywhere- she became the fastest dang walker. Her calf muscles bulged out of her legs and you couldn't keep up for nothing.

5. My sister used to give everybody these one-armed hugs. We aren't a huggie, kissie family, but Yang would give everybody her famous one- armed hugs. She used to try to kiss Glen- it drove him crazy hehehehehe

January 15th

I've enjoyed doing this list, but it's getting harder to define my sister in words. It's also making this month go by really slow- like when you sing 99 bottles of beer on a road trip for the mile markers.

1. Yang used to come home and say "Jackie" in this funny high pitched voice so Jackie knew she was glad to see her. Jackie was our little poodle.

2. Yang loved to read. She was big into "The Work and The Glory" books. She was into a lot of LDS drama whatever classification they are. She was always reading.

3. My sister loved to camp- she was the opposite of me. I was dubbed the "chief camp complainer" and my sister just loved it all. It was annoying :)

4. My sister and I had this tradition to watch the movie "Summer Magic" every summer. Our brother's got sick of that one quick.

5. We also had this tradition to play these little Christmas song duets every Christmas. We would rock back and forth on the piano bench to the songs we'd play- like idiots.

January 14th

1. My sister was a huge fan of Good Eats and Alton Brown. She thought he was hilarious. I have to say- even Jeebs enjoys Good Eats.

2. Yang was called as the Young Women's president when she was 25 (I think 25). She had a group of mostly spanish speaking girls that loved her.

3. My sister had a way of making sure everything was done by the book. She was always able to do it in a kind way. The bishop at the time was always appreciative of her "by the book" reminders.

4. My sister loved shoes. I was never a shoe person until recently- my sister had a very large box of shoes that I had to move 3 times when we were homeless in Provo- that's another story.

5. Yang hated anything to ruin her "wa". I don't really know how to spell that word, but she would say to me, "Nessa, you're ruining my wa". hehehehehe- I'm pretty good at ruining wa's.

January 13th

1. The last movie my sister saw was "Ella Enchanted"- at my apartment in Provo. BLAGH. that movie is not one of the greats.

2. Yang LOVED Harry Potter. She was the first of all of us to get into Harry Potter. She read the books and the first movie came out while she was on her mission. I remember sitting and watching it while my mom taped it for Yang off of pay per view.

3. For some reason my sister loved "Holes". She read the book and then saw the movie. She kept saying to me "you need to see Holes- yada yada" I just didn't think it seemed like a good movie. I finally watched it after she passed away. It is a pretty good story and a cute movie. I'm sure the book is way better.

4. My sister loved Shakespeare. She saw Much Ado About Nothing at the Varsity theater at BYU. The Varsity theater showed movies that they had edited. So, all the bad scenes were taken out. Well, when I moved to Provo my sister said we had to rent Much Ado About Nothing because it was soooo good. Much to our shock and surprise there were naked bums running all around at the beginning!! YUCK!! I can still hear my sister doing her little short screams as she scrambled for the remote to stop the movie- hehehehe- gross. No more naked bums!!!!!! I don't want to see yo' crack!!

5. My sister was a scifi chick. She loved scifi- in fact all of my sibs love scifi. I can't stand scifi!!! The only shows I can stand watching on there are Ghost Hunters and Scare Tactics.