Audra suggested that I put up a poll to see if you guys think we’re having a boy or a girl.  To help you decide, I copied some “old wives tales,” and marked out the information that is incorrect:

Does Lori have . . .

• Shiny and full bodied hair or thinner and stringer boy
  
• Leg hair growing faster or at the same rate as before   girl
• Nails growing faster or at the same rate boy
  
• Severe or no morning sickness   girl
• Craving for sweet or sour.  [I didn't and haven't craved anything, so we'll throw this one out.]
• Tush growing in size or remains unchanged.  [But maybe Jonathan would tell you differently?]  boy
• Feet colder now or always this way boy
  
• Baby heart rate below 139 or above 140  girl
• Craving or no craving for orange juice  boy
• Baby rests high or low   boy
• Tummy shaped like beach ball or watermelon  girl
• More kicks to the left or right  boy
• More kicks high or low  girl
• Dad is or is not gaining weight in sympathy  girl
• See or do not see the pregnancy on Lori’s face.  [But maybe I'm wrong.]  boy
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My friend Jess posted this survey on her facebook and tagged me to fill it out, so here it is . . .

1. What time did you get up this morning?
9:00- don’t hate me because my daughter sleeps in until then

2. How do you like your steak?
Medium-Medium Well

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema?
Oh gosh.  Um “License to Wed”- over TWO years ago.  We hate going to the theater.

4. What is your favorite TV show?
“Psych” or “Everybody Loves Raymond”

5. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?
Salvador, Brasil if it had the perfect temperature and less people

6. What did you have for breakfast?
breakfast drink

7. What is your favorite cuisine?
Mexican

8. What foods do you dislike?
Veggies

9. Favorite Place to Eat?
Texas Roadhouse

10. Favorite dressing?
Catalina

11.What kind of vehicle do you drive
a Bravada SUV

12. What are your favorite clothes?
sorry Stacy and Clinton, I know you hate this word, but comfortable clothes

13. Where would you visit if you had the chance?
Australia

14. Cup 1/2 empty or 1/2 full?
half empty

15. Where would you want to retire?
a nice private island

16. Favorite time of day?
5:30ish when Jonathan comes home from work

17. Where were you born?
New Mexico

18. What is your favorite sport to watch?
Soccer

22. Bird watcher?
No way; they scare me.

23. Are you a morning person or a night person?
Night person

24. Do you have any pets?
one dog

25. Any new and exciting news you’d like to share?
Abigail can now say, “I love you” and “Thank you”

26. What did you want to be when you were little?
A veterinarian

27. What is your best childhood memory?
Going to swim in the lake on Wednesdays during the summer w/ church families

28. Are you a cat or dog person?
definitely dog

29. Are you married?
yes

30. Always wear your seat belt?
yes

31. Been in a car accident?
only one- the girl totaled our Jeep

32. Any pet peeves?
Where do I begin!  My biggest one is people littering.

33. Favorite Pizza Topping?
Hamburger

34. Favorite Flower?
Gerber Daisy

35. Favorite ice cream?
Cookie Dough

36. Favorite fast food restaurant?
hmm.  Chick fil A or Taco Bell

37. How many times did you fail your driver’s test?
None

38. From whom did you get your last email
a girl who found my blog who asked questions about getting her child to sleep at night

39. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card?
Don’t have a credit card.  But I’ll pretend: Walmart- yes, I know, I’m boring and practical.

40. Do anything spontaneous lately?
uhh?

41. Like your job?
at times it’s hard, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything

42. Broccoli?
yuck- hate the smell

43. What was your favorite vacation?
Atlanta to see the Braves

44. Last person you went out to dinner with?
Husband, Abigail, and Daddy

45. What are you listening to right now?
silence!  the daughter is napping.

46. What is your favorite color?
pink

47. How many tattoos do you have?
none

49. What time is it?
2:41 Pm

50. Coffee Drinker?
nope

3 Thoughts I had while watching this video:

1. How in the world can a dog walk like that and for so long?
2. How in the world can a dog pee while walking like that?
3. How in the world can a dog pee for that long?

Crazy.

** Today is the last day to enter the YoBaby Giveaway!  I’ll announce the winner tomorrow.  Good luck! **

Huggies has started up a program like Pampers Gifts to Grow.  When you buy Huggies, you can earn points and redeem them for prizes!  Currently, the rewards are for entering sweepstakes and instant win games, but maybe there will be more choices later on.  You get 10 points just for signing up.

And to get more points, you can . . .

1. Watch videos (2 points for each video; right now, there are 3 videos)
2. Use this code: WPBXZ - RDDNS - PPPGB (2 points)
3. Take a poll (worth 1 point)
4. Invite others to join (1 point)
5. Use this code: BBWBH-SDHFQ-CJPGB (1 point)

The site says, “Plus, you’ll be automatically entered into the Daily Diaper Giveaway Sweepstakes for the chance to win a year’s supply of Huggies diapers.”

Three Names I go by:
1. Lori
2. Wifey
3. Momma

Three Jobs I have had in my life:
1. Soccer Referee
2. Bookkeeper
3. Transcript Manager

Three places I have lived:
1. Salvador, BA, Brasil
2. Lubbock, TX
3. Searcy, AR

Three TV Shows that I watch:
1. The Biggest Loser
2. LOST
3. The Office– although, this season is kinda not so great

Three things I enjoy doing:
1. playing games
2. watching the Braves
3. watching my baby laugh

Three places I have been:
1. Germany
2. Colorado- holla Emily and Alissa and Katie and all my other bazillion cousins
3. Florida

Three Colors I like:
1. Blue
2. Pink
3. Purple

Three Websites I visit often:
1. Google!
2. Facebook
3. Craigslist

People that e-mail me regularly
1. Katie
2. Husband
3. Baby Center

Three of my favorite foods
1. Pizza
2. Lasagna
3. Picanha

Things I am looking forward to
1. Going to see my little brother graduate college
2. Our 5 year wedding anniversary . . . which *might* be our first night away from Abigail
3. pictures with Tiffany

Things I am not looking forward to
1. times when Jonathan is away
2. changing Abigail’s poops
3. giving Sabra a bath

Three people I tag to do this survey

1. Kacie

2. Audra

3. Leah

FIRSTS

1. Who was your FIRST prom date? didn’t go to prom

2. Do you still talk to your FIRST love? I talk to my husband every day

4. What was your FIRST job? Soccer Refereeing

5. What was your FIRST car? the first one I paid for myself was a 1998 Bravada SUV

6. Who was the FIRST person to text you today? no one

7. Who is the FIRST person you thought of this morning? Jonathan

8. Who was your FIRST grade teacher? Mrs. Key

9. Where did you go on your FIRST ride on an airplane? Brasil when I was 6 weeks old

10. Who was your FIRST best friend & do you still talk? Lauren; yes

11. Where was your FIRST sleep over? Wow; I don’t remember.  probably with Lauren or Alissa

12. Who was the FIRST person you talked to today? Husband

13. Whose wedding were you in the FIRST time? my brother’s

14. What was the FIRST thing you did this morning? nursed Abigail

15. What was the FIRST concert you ever went to? my parents took me to a Don Williams concert when I was a baby.  But when I was of the remembering age, it was Clint Black when I was 9.

16. FIRST tattoo? Don’t have one.

17. First piercing? my ears were pierced when I was a month or two old

18. First foreign country you’ve been to? Brasil

19. FIRST movie you remember seeing? Upside Down

20. When was your FIRST detention? lol.  I was a Junior in HS; I skipped class– yes, I know, not very Lori-like

21. What was the first state you lived in? New Mexico

22. Who was your FIRST roommate? Kristen Baker

23. If you had one wish? that all my loved ones would be saved

24. What is something you would learn if you had the chance? how to ski

I tag Audra, Emily, Emily, and Kacie to play along.

1. When was your engagement?
December 23, 2003- on my 20th birthday.  Jonathan wrote about a bazillion cards for me, took me to dinner.  In the car, we listened to a CD he made of him singing me love songs he made up.  Later, he brought me home, and I saw candles and rose petals leading up to a big present, which was surrounded by rose petals in the shape of a heart.  I opened the box and there were bridal magazines, more cards, and a small, ring sized box.  I opened that small box, and inside was a chocolate.  Then, he turned around, got on one knee, and asked me to marry him.

2. When is your marriage anniversary?
July 30, 2004

3. How long have you known your spouse?
9 years

4. How long did you date before you got engaged?
officially 17 months (we were together long distance before this)

5. Where did you meet your spouse?
I say at Monterey Church; he says at Sunset’s Powerhouse.  It’s a long going debate.  I guess he’ll find out the truth in heaven.
6. What is your spouse’s full name?
Jonathan Robert Towell

7. Do you have any children?
yes

8. How many?
one gorgeous baby girl

9. If no children yet, do you want or plan for any & how many?
We’d like to have two: a boy and a girl.

10. Do you have any pets?
of course, we got Sabra, our dog, when we graduated college

11. Was it love at first sight?
With the dog, yes.  With Jonathan; I thought he was hilarious– which I loved, so I crushed at first sight.  I was still in HS when we met, so he wasn’t that into me since he had already graduated.

12. What is your favorite activity you do together?
too many to choose from, and I cannot repeat Jonathan’s answer.  But my answer is playing games and laughing.

13. Do you have a favorite vacation spot?
We enjoy going to my parent’s condo in the mountains to get away from cell phones and the computer.

14. How many siblings do you have including in-laws?
I have two brothers who are both married.  And Jonathan has one sister who is married.

15. What church do you attend?
Sunset church of Christ

16. Is this the church you got married in?
No, we got married in the town where we went to college.
17. Was it a big or small wedding?
medium
18. Do you work or stay home?
I work AT home
19. Where was your first date?
Our first real date was at Carino’s.  And then we went bowling; one game, I bowled a 179, thank you very much.  Then, we rented a movie . . .

20. What was your favorite Anniversary present/trip?

Easy!  For our first anniversary, Jonathan surprised me with a trip to Atlanta to see a Braves game!!!!!!  I got Chipper Jones’ autograph.  It was magnificent!
21.How was the “dreaded’ first year of marriage for you?
Ha.  Some people told me things like, “the first year is the worst year of your life.”  Well, I really feel sorry for those couples because we have had almost nothing but fun days.  And we LOVED our first year of marriage.

22. Leave a piece of marriage advice:

Pray together every night.  You can’t pray together when you’re mad . . . which means that you resolve your differences that night, so that your problems don’t carry over into the next day.  We’ve never missed a night.

Place an X by all the things you’ve done during your lifetime:
() Gone on a blind date
(X) Skipped school
() Watched someone die
( ) Been to Canada
(x) Been to Mexico
(x) Been to Florida
() Been to Hawaii
(X) Been on a plane
() Been on a helicopter
(X) Been lost
( ) Gone to Washington, DC
(x) Swam in the ocean
(X) Cried yourself to sleep
(X) Played cops and robbers
() Recently colored with crayons
( ) Sang Karaoke
(X) Paid for a meal with coins only
() Been to the top of the St. Louis Arch
(X) Done something you told yourself you wouldn’t
(x) Made prank phone calls
( ) Been down Bourbon Street in New Orleans
(x) Laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose & elsewhere
(X) Caught a snowflake on your tongue
(x) Danced in the rain
(x ) Written a letter to Santa Claus
(X ) Been kissed under the mistletoe
(x) Watched the sunrise with someone
(X) Blown bubbles
(x) Gone ice-skating
(X) Gone to the movies
( ) Been deep sea fishing
( ) Driven across the United States
(x) Been in a hot air balloon
( ) Been sky diving
() Gone snowmobiling
(X) Lived in more than one country - I wish!
(X) Lay down outside at night and admired the stars while listening to the crickets
(X) Seen a falling star and made a wish
( ) Enjoyed the beauty of Old Faithful Geyser
() Seen the Statue of Liberty
( ) Gone to the top of Seattle Space Needle
( ) Been on a cruise
() Traveled by train
(x) Traveled by motorcycle
(x) Been horse back riding
( ) Ridden on a San Francisco CABLE CAR
(x) Been to Disneyland or Disney World
(X) Truly believe in the power of prayer
(X) Been in a rain forest
() Seen whales in the ocean
( ) Been to Niagara Falls
( ) Ridden on an elephant
( ) Swam with dolphins
( ) Been to the Olympics
( ) Walked on the Great Wall of China
( ) Saw and heard a glacier calf
( ) Been spinnaker flying
() Been water-skiing
() Been snow-skiing
( ) Been to Westminster Abbey
() Been to the Louvre
( ) Swam in the Mediterranean
(X) Been to a Major League Baseball game
() Been to a National Hockey League game

This is about me and the Husband.

♥What are your middle names?
Robert & Bontrager

♥ How long have you been together?
almost 7 years

♥ How long did you know each other before you started dating?
We knew each other for 2 years before our first “real” date.

♥ Who asked who out?
We pretty much had it planned for about a year while Jonathan was in Portugal.

♥ How old are each of you?
Jonathan is 26, and I’m 25.

♥ Who’ s siblings do/ did you see the most?
Probably about even.  We used to see my siblings the most while we were in college because they lived in the same town.

♥ Do you have any children together?
Yeppers, the most beautiful baby ever!

♥ What about pets?
Our almost 3 year old puppy, Sabra.

♥ Which situation is the hardest on you as a couple?
Hmmm, maybe the late nights Jonathan works on his business.

♥ Did you go to the same school?
We went to the same University.

♥ Are you from the same home town?
Nope.

♥ Do you live in the same town now?
Um, of course.

♥ Who is the smartest?
Jonathan.

♥ Who is the most sensitive?
Me.

♥ Where do you eat out most as a couple?
We order from Little Caesar’s a lot.  But as far as going out . . . not so much.  Lately, I guess Rosa’s.

♥ Where is the furthest you two have traveled together as a couple?
Salvador, Bahia, Brasil!

♥ Who has the worst temper?
Um, we’re not so temperamental.  I think Jonathan would say he does, but I don’t think so.

♥ Who does the cooking?
I do about 90%, and Jonathan grills sometimes.

♥ Who is more social?
The husband.

♥ Who is the neat-freak?
Me.

♥ Who is the most stubborn?
Me.

♥ Who hogs the bed?
Jonathan!!!  Always steals my covers, too.

♥ Who wakes up earlier?
Husband.

♥ Where was your first date?
Carino’s and bowling; I bowled a 179!  woot woot.

♥ Who has the bigger family?
I have about a bazillion cousins, so me.

♥ Do you get flowers often?
not lately

♥ How do you spend the holidays?
Traveling.  Sometimes we go to SE Texas, and sometimes we get to make it up to CO.

♥ How long did it take to get serious?
About two seconds.  lol.  Um, Jonathan said “I love you” 2 months after our first date; I said it after 3 months.

♥ Who eats more?
About the same; what do you think Jonathan?

♥ Who sings better?
Maybe a tie?

♥ Who does/ did the laundry?
Me.  I think Jonathan’s done it once since we’ve been married.  But, he does do all the dishes!  Oh, and he does help me fold the clothes.

♥ Who’s better with the computer?
Husband.

♥ Who drives when you are together?
Jonathan.

♥ Who picks where you go to dinner?
Mutual

♥ Who is the first one to admit when they’re wrong?
Jonathan

♥ Who named your pet(s)?
I did, and Jonathan agreed.

♥ Who wears the pants in the relationship?
Me.  I guess it depends.

♥ Who has more tattoos?
Neither of us.

♥ Who eats more sweets?
Definitely me!

♥Who cries more?
Uhhh, me, but I can’t remember the last time I did.

♥ Who has the older car?
Jonathan

Happy Valentines to the best husband in the whole world.  You’re my #1!  I love you because I decided to and I promised you that I would love you unconditionally.  So, I like you because . . .

1. You are my rock on earth.  You give me support and emotional strength.
   
2. You are the funniest person I have ever met.  period.
   
3. You do the dishes every day without me asking you to.  And you get “mad” when I try to do the dishes.
   
4. You treat me with respect.  You value my opinion.  You rarely raise your voice to me.  And you love me as Christ does.
   
5. You are patient with me when I’m having a psycho day.
6. You are a very hard worker.  You are a man of integrity.
   
7. You are not crude, vulgar, or rude to me or others.
8. You don’t worry about things.  I don’t know how you can be so relaxed!
9. You know a lot about stuff.
10. You have always been faithful to me, and I can trust you completely.