25 or So Random things about Barry and Jodie

Jodie's 25 Random Things

1. I love eating cookies, especially ones with chocolate chips
2. I am a bargain shopper; I love finding good deals and have a hard time passing them up.
3. I love reality TV, especially Survivor.
4. I lived in the Caribbean for 16 month with my husband and two oldest children.
5. Last summer we traveled (driving most of the way) and went swimming in the Pacific Ocean as well as the Atlantic Ocean.
6. It took me 7 years to get my bachelors degree and I only took one semester off.
7. I have been married nine years and during all nine of those years, at least one of us have been a student, although this is the last time I can say that because Barry just graduated !
8. I love taking pictures.
9. I love putting those pictures in photo books using Kodak, Shutterfly, and My Publisher.
10. This year I played on a volleyball team at the YMCA.
11. I volunteer in my son Tanner’s 1st grade class twice a month.
12. I plan activities for girls between the ages 8-11 twice a month at church.
13. I love playing games!
14. I was on the swim team when I was young.
15. I played basketball in high school.
16. I always cut my kids sandwiches diagonally both ways so they have four triangles that they can make into butterflies.
17. My favorite stores are Target and Goodwill.
18. I talk to one of my sisters or my mom almost every day.
19. I hate when people leave water running.
20. I rarely watch movies or go to the movies. I think that in my nine years of marriage I can count on one hand the times we have gone out to a movie together.
21. I frequently sell things on ebay.
22. I hated spending money in college (my single years), but now don’t have a problem with that.
23. I wish to live close to one of my sisters someday.
24. I like to stay busy, but some days I really stress myself out by having too much scheduled (I get them from my mom).
25. I love Mexican food.

Barry’s 25 or So Random Things

1. My favorite food is pizza.
2. I play basketball twice a week
3. I once shattered a glass basketball backboard, slamming it.
4. I bake homemade bread
5. If I didn’t go to medical school, I would have loved being a chef.
6. I’m 1/32 or 1/64 (not quite sure) Native American.
7. I like to sell things on ebay.
8. I like reading real estate books.
9. I don’t like watching a movie more than once, except for Dumb and Dumber.
10. I like playing with my kids.
11. I love fly fishing with my brothers.
12. I like spending time with my wife, playing tennis or going out to eat.
13. I love swimming at the beach and can stay in the water for hours.
14. I go to church every Sunday, except when I’m sick or soon when I’ll be on call.
15. My favorite sport to watch is football.
16. I’ve always wanted to grow my hair out, but never have.
17. My mom tried to sign me up for clogging lessons when I was a teenager, but I refused to go.
18. I got kicked out of piano lessons because of lack of progress when I was young.
19. I had to do ten hours of custodial work service because I got caught peeing on the school bus in High school.
20. I also had to wash a bunch of buses for throwing sticky marshmallows at my fellow choir members while on the bus.
21. At the age of ten, I dug a pool in my back yard, filled it with water and charged all the neighbor kids to swim in it. I was the life guard.
22. I had a tadpole business; all the tadpoles I sold would die after a week so everyone would come back and buy more.
23. In high school I had a 90 mph fast ball, and was contacted by a scout from the Houston Astros.
24. I served a 2 year mission in Hong Kong.
25. I am the nursery leader at church.
26. If my wife let me, I would drink a gallon of milk a day.
27. I like to paper trade stocks.