100 things about me...

I was tagged by Laura Beth Moore to write 100 things about myself, so I thought I would try and take the challenge.... :) Happy Reading!!

1. I was born in Greenville South Carolina on Sep. 20, 1978
2. I have 3 brothers, Ryan (28) Blake (27) Scott (25)
3. I moved to Scottsboro when I was 5 years old.
4. My parents divorced when I was 12 years old.
5. My dad moved to Douglas (between Guntersville and Albertville)
6. We stayed living in the same house.
7. My dad remarried to a woman who already had a daughter, Kayla (19)
8. They had a son, Sean(14) when I was 15 years old.
9. I had two best friends growing up, Jamie and Jodie
10. I still stay in contact with them today!
11. I had a great youth group at Calvary, we had lots of fun growing up!
12. I starting baby sitting when I was 12 years old.
13. Several of them are married now and some with children.
14. I feel old
15. When I was a senior in high school, I decided to go to Judson College
16. A good friend of mine at the time, Vanessa decided to go with me
17. I had no idea how my life would be changed by going to Judson
18. Vanessa became my bosom friend and we are still very close today
19. Vanessa and I still talk everyday or every other day!
20. I had a great college experience, but was probably more of a social butterfly than studious!
21. We had tide slides and climb roofs
22. We even had a fish funeral!
23. My favorite sport while at Judson was field hockey, who knew that I loved it!
24. I had appendicitis when I was in the 5th grade (sorry it's out of order!)
25. My first boyfriend was in the 10th grade
26. Okay, back to college...I made some of my best friends while in college
27. This weekend we had a reunion weekend at Judson, it was lots of fun!
28. I caught up with people that I haven't seen in such a long time....
29. While in college, I changed my major my senior year from education to religion
30. Therefore, I had to stay an extra semester and finished in 4 1/2 years!
31. My sophomore year, I went overseas 3 times on mission trips
32. I went to Costa Rica, Wales and Nicaragua
33. It was because of this that God gave me a heart for the nations
34. I loved Wales so much, one of the most beautiful countries ever!
35. I learned not to be such a picky eater that summer in Wales
36. I taught children how to play basketball (don't laugh!)
37. And, I dressed up like a clown everyday (I hate clowns!)
38. The summer before my last semester at Judson, I lived in Massachusetts and worked at a church
39. I lived in the cranberry capitol of the world: Carver MA
40. My senior year, I went to China for the first time.
41. My luggage was lost and I wore the same clothes for 10 days!
42. I lost 10 pounds while I was there because of the food
43. I ate fried catapillars, baby bird, turtle soup. scorpions, among other things....
44. I knew after that trip that I was supposed to go back to China for 2 years
45. I graduated from college in June 2001 and applied to go overseas at that point
46. I moved to China and lived in a city that I had never been to before and didn't even speak Chinese at all!
47. I was a middle school teacher
48. My first class was a group of 7th graders
49 45 boys and 5 girls in the class!
50. No one spoke English and I didn't speak Chinese!
51. I lived in this city for 2 1/2 years
52. I learned to eat many new things, including snails, yummy!!!
53. My friend, Kasey and I moved to a new city to live for 2 more years
54. This time, we studied Chinese
55. We took 20 hours of classes a week
56. I learned to read, write, speak, listen and even took a composition class!
55. I could write many stories in Chinese, even the story of the prodigal son!
56. I broke a bone in my foot while living in China.
57. I wore a cast on my foot for 8 weeks
58. I had no pain meds!
59. After 8 weeks, the cast came off
60. The hospital staff had a hard time taking it off and even used a hammer to get it off!
61. It wasn't healed, so I ended up having to walk with a cane for a while.
62. It was hard...after 2 years, it finally healed!
63. I went out to the village to visit a student and had 8 treasure soup
64. 8 treasure soup is all the inside "treasures' of a chicken: large and small intestines, kidney, liver, congealed blood etc...
65. While overseas, I visited the country of Cambodia twice
66. I LOVE Hong Kong, one of my favorite places in the world!!!
67. I also got to visit Thailand 5 times
68. I have ridden an elephant twice
69. I have been to the desert in China
70. I rode a camel
71. I have climbed the Great Wall twice
72. I traveled to India for a month
73. I have seen the Taj Majhal
74. I LOVE Indian food
75. I have ridden a train in India, a very scary thing! :)
76. I have worn traditional Indian dress
77. I have traveled to Hawaii
78. I think it was just as beautiful as the pictures that I have seen.
79. I have hiked one of the largest gorges in China (I think maybe the world, I can't remember!)
80. I have used a squatty potty more times than I can count!
81. I had a cat while living in China
82. I came home in March 2006
83. I got engaged on April 23, 2006
84. I prayed that God would give me a love story that would glorify Him!
85. He did
86. I married Clark Forman on September 9, 2006
87. My husband works for Young Life where we work with students
88. We live in his hometown which was much bigger than mine
89. I had to "relearn" to drive a car again after not driving for 4 1/2 years!
90. There was a lot of traffic
91. We have been married for a year and a half
92. We found out after being married a year that we were pregnant!
93. I was nervous and excited all in one!
94. We found out in January that we are having a little girl!
95. Her name is Sadie Katherine Forman
96. Hopefully she will be here before June 3rd or somewhere very close!
97. It has been amazing to feel her move in my tummy!!
98. When Sadie is 6 months old, Clark and I are headed back to China
99. We are very excited and nervous to pack everything up and take a baby with us
100. Last but not least: I am amazed at how God has blessed our family and can't wait to see what the next part of our journey holds!!!

I am going to tag: Aubrey Freeman, Mandy McMichael, Abby Tucker, Marie Miller

I hope you all have had fun reading, if you have made it to the end!! :)