Eight, Eight, Eight is Great

I was tagged, for real this time. So here's some things you may or may not know about me:

8 Things I’m Passionate About
1) Being a mom
2) My husband
3) The Gospel
4) Preserving Memories (scrapbooking, journals, baby books, memory books, etc)
5) Keeping in touch with people
6) Selling my house
7) House hunting
8) Socializing!

8 Songs I Can Listen to Over and Over Again and Never Get Sick of
1) ANYTHING Samantha sings
2) Anything my mom or sister Erin sings
3) Shake it by Metro Station (terrible song-don't judge me)
4) Yellow by Coldplay
5) Come Thou Font of Every Blessing
6) The Way I Am by Ingrid Michaelsen
7) Hallelujah by Rufus Wainwright
8) O Holy Night (I'm serious, I listen to it in July, I love it)

The Past 8 Books I’ve Read
1) The Book of Mormon
2) Guess How Much I Love You
3) Now One Foot, Now the Other
4) White Lies
5) On the Street Where You Live
6) Conspiracy.com
7) Princess Academy
8) Paper Bag Princess

8 Things I Say Often
1) What do you say? (I'm looking for please)
2) I love you
3) Are you kidding me?!?
4) What's your choice?
5) Hi Mom, it's Emily
6) Are you my baby girl?
7) It could be a baby sister OR a baby brother
8) Everybody calm down, just calm down.

8 Things That Attract Me to a Friend
1) Crazy
2) Likes to come over and invite me over
3) Doesn't take me seriously
4) Listens to my problems and doesn't offer too many solutions
5) Inspires me to be better
6) Likes my kids
7) Loves to talk
8) Loyal

8 Random Things About Me
1) I am incredibly, paralyzingly, irrationally afraid of bees and wasps
2) I took the LSAT and scored quite well (161: 85th %tile)
3) I've never had anyone break up with me.
4) Every mothers day in my career as a mother I've either had a baby within the last 6 weeks (wonderful but hard) or moved across the country within the last week (basically just hard)
5) I hate to fly
6) Even though I get plenty nervous, I actually love to give talks in church
7) I worked for Heritage Halls (BYU residence halls) in 5 different capacities in the 5 years I lived in Provo
8) By the time I have my baby (Sept.) I will have had 3 different babies in three different states.

8 Things I want to Do Before I Die
1) Be a Grandmother
2) Celebrate my 50th wedding anniversary with Tom
3) Serve a mission
4) Get a Master's Degree
5) Finish this Tagg
6) Successfully nurse another child
7) Get really old
8) Go on a fabulous cruise with my husband, children, in-laws, and grandchildren-that we pay for because we are way wealthy

8 Things I’ve Learned This Past Year
1) You just never know, do you?
2) You can have two exceptionally wonderful kids that are still so different it blows your mind
3) I have one-but I'm not telling you
4) Chinese food for dinner and popcorn later just don't mix when you're pregnant
5) I really only have control over myself. Doing things to make people like me won't always work, but I should do what's right regardless and I'll be at peace.
6) Waiting is always the hardest part
7) Kids misbehave more around in-laws.
8) I'm really, really, really blessed

8 People I'm Tagging

Between my friends with this already on their blog and the friends I tagged for my last blog...it ends with me.