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Happy Birthday Jordin

Today is my baby sister's 22nd birthday. Happy Birthday!! It seems like just yesterday you looked like this:

And this...

And this...

Here are 22 things I love about Jordi:

1. She is a wonderful sister and aunt.
2. She is adored by her nieces and nephews...she calls frequently just to talk to them.
3. She is beautiful inside and out.
4. She is funny.
5. She was such cute baby with blonde ringlets and big blue eyes...until one day when I was babysitting and Kirk cut off her ringlets and I got in HUGE TROUBLE...so unfair!
6. She is the only "natural" blonde in our family.
7. Her nicknames are Jo-Jo, J. J., and Snort.
8. When she was little she had a pronounced speech impediment and used to pronounce Kirk as "Kurk" and she used to refer to me, Stacey and Kelley as "The Gulls" (The Girls).
9. When I was in high school and I was going somewhere with my friends Jordi would come running out to their cars and beg for candy and gum.
10. She graduated from high school early.
11. She loves to sing and act.
12. She is a hard worker and usually is working 2 to 3 jobs at a time...because she LIKES to.
13. She has been known to eat a potpie in the most unlikely location... ;)
14. She has never met a stranger. Everyone knows Jordin. Even when she was a little girl my mom would go to the grocery store and people she didn't know would come up and ask her if she was "Jordin's mom".
15. I had to wait to a semester start college at BYU...as a result I got to walk Jordi to kindergarten every day for a few months. The people at her school thought I was her teenage mother.
16. She is a "loud talker" :)
17. She used to write funny stories in school...our family's all-time favorite was one loosely based on Tyler called "Timmy the Diabeties Boy" (original spelling). Our family frequently quotes this story.
18. She told us once that her friend Brittany was from France...when we asked her why she thought this she said it was because Brittany always wore a scarf. Our family still always asks Jordi how her friend "Zee Little French Girl" is doing.
19. She likes to make up dance routines with me...we have quite a few fabulous ones to music from "Grease".
20. She does a PERFECT imitation of our mom!!
21. She is strong and has come through many tough times.
22. She likes to give her family "piggy smooches".

Wow...already to 22 and I feel like I am just getting on a roll here!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JORDI!! I LOVE YOU VERY MUCH!! XOXOXOXOXO