I got tagged from TeachingDad so here goes:

When you were a kid, what did you want to do when you grew up?

A - Taxadermist (I even experimented on some frogs - not a pretty sight...)

What do you want to do when your kids grow up?

- Photographer and Artist

- Missionary (short term Medical)

List 3 favorite childhood foods

- Fried okra

- Onion rings

- Fried mushrooms

Now they are

- Fried okra

- Onion rings

- Fried mushrooms

 Name your top 3 music favorites as a teen

- Alabama

- George Strait

- Chicago

Top 3 now

- Newsboys

- Allison Kraus

- Keith Urban

3 interesting things about you then

- won an art contest, along with 50 others, and had my drawing displayed in the Texas capitol rotunda

- valedictorian (of class of 40 or so)

- I once snuck out of my house to spend the night at the homecoming bonfire, and then snuck back in before dawn, and then went to school (my mom can attest to my rebellious streak for a few years there)

3 interesting things about you now

- I bungee jumped out of a hot air ballon with friends in Colorado in my early 20's

- I taught myself to knit last fall

- I'm very messy (ok, that hasn't changed)

List 3 favorite books as a child/teen

- Encyclopedia Brown books

- Little Britches

- Gone with the Wind

List 3 favorite books now

- ONLY 3 ??? - the Bible

- Little Britches

- Mountain Man (Jeremiah Johnson)

(favorite books will return as a blog in itself)

3 favorite childhood places

- Stinky and Poppie's ranch

- the swimming pool at the ranch

- Colorado vacations 

Now where do you most enjoy going?

- the ranch

- Colorado

- camping/hiking anywhere in God's beautiful natural creation

What were your favorite 3 movies?

- Gone with the Wind

- Fiddler on the Roof

- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Now 3 favorite movies

(already wrote a blog on this one)

-  Pride and Prejudice

- Dumb and Dumber

- Princess Bride

Favorite TV shows back then

- Little House on the Prairie

- Magnum PI

- Gilligan's Island

Now

- Lost

- Monk

- Jeff Corwin Experience

How many kids did you think you would have?

- 3 or 4

How many do you have

- 3

3 things you thought you would do when you grew up?  Did you do them?

- Get married and have kids - yes

- Travel the world - not yet

- Get a college degree - yes

List 3 things you NEVER thought you would do... that you did

- Work on Saturday and eat pork

- Live in Alaska

- Become a nurse

List 3 friends you are going to tag

- Juliestew

- Trustingdaily

- Jennfromtenn

And I am adding a category too - Your dream car as a teen and first car

- Jeep CJ-7 - dream

- Mercury Capri - reality

Your dream car now and what you drive

- Jeep Wrangler (still dreaming)

- Dodge Neon (which is getting very cramped)