100 Things that make me Smile

The past few months I've noticed that I've been pretty cranky pretty often. So today I decided (having been inspired by Cecily) that I'd come up with 100 things that made me smile. I'm not promising that it will make me less cranky, but it made me happy today.

1. The Magic 8 Ball that Matt gave me for Christmas several years ago
2. The leaves changing in Autumn
3. My Primary kids singing
4. This face
   
   
5. The smell of my Grandma’s house
6. Sushi
7. My mother singing
8. Friends that I’m reconnecting with
9. Piano lessons
10. Museums
11. The first view of Deer Lake coming around the corner at Haney’s
12. Shanny memories
13. Blogging
14. Fried Oysters at Christmas
15. The feeling of relief when the Nutcracker is over
16. Sweeney Todd
17. Sarah’s Pumpkin Soup (and Brioche…hint, hint)
18. This face
    
    
19. My dad’s jokes (don’t tell him that though)
20. The Whale Story
21. When tulips bloom
22. Conference weekend
23. The Eiffel Tower at night
24. Popsicles
25. Hugs from kids
26. This face



27. Catching the perfect moment with my camera
28. Learning
29. When Emily laughs so hard she snorts
30. When Lara says something so randomly funny that I pee my pants I’m laughing so hard
31. Swiss Chocolate
32. Giving presents
33. Getting presents
34. Having a birthday month instead of just one day
35. When Dustin laughs at my jokes … because he’s the only one that ever does
36. Licking the beater when my Mom made a cake
37. Singing show tunes
38. This face




39. Bombing Mary
40. Chair day
41. Carrot ball
42. Mute day
43. The gas coupon when you use your Fresh Value card at Smith’s
44. When Hattie laughs
45. “These wonderful things are the… these wonderful things are the… these wonderful things are the…”
46. When Taylor cuddles
47. When Geoffrey tells me that he loves me to Pluto and back 3, 245,654 times
48. The Bellagio Fountain
49. Books on CD
50. This face
51. 
    
52. Making up words to the X-files theme song
53. Telling Erin stories
54. Seeing Butch play “Pretty Pretty Princess” with his girls
55. When Ellie runs out to greet me at my car
56. engrish.com
57. Calling Johnny Mexican, Indian (feather not dot), or Chinese
58. Two words: U – 2
59. Talking to Lisa for 3 hours at a time
60. This face
61. 
62. The Three Billy Goats Gruff as told by my parents
63. Camp fires
64. The sound of Crickets
65. Singing with my sisters
66. Thinking of things that make me smile
67. The sound of Thunder Storms
68. When Sammy says “I’m five” when you ask him how he is doing
69. When Emett called me Beelissa
70. Thinking about my Grandparents
71. Sold out shows
72. This face




73. Ice Cream
74. Picking up pictures at Costco (which I will be doing as soon as I’m done with this)
75. Hanging out with my family
76. When Baylee pulls faces at my camera
77. That my family cannot have a family portrait taken with out at least one shot of us picking our noses
78. This face


79. 
80. When Gracie says “cheeeese” as soon as she sees my camera (and I’m not even holding it)
81. Lemonade
82. The smell of freshly sharpened pencils
83. Falling asleep to the sound of rain hitting my window
84. Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
85. When my family and friends succeed and I can brag about them
86. Flip-flops
87. Knitting
88. Good books
89. Warm soup
90. Finding a picture for the 365 project before noon
91. Breakfast on Christmas morning
92. This face



93. New friends
94. Musicals
95. The sound of the Ocean
96. Seeing Chloe’s picture plastered all over my Marketing Campaign
97. Max’s Smile
98. This face



99. Quiet Sunday afternoons
100. The fact that I finally have a brother-in-law
101. Have I mentioned U2 yet? Well, they deserve a second mention, they make me smile a lot
102. My Dad’s hugs
103. These faces