5 Things

5 Favorite Movies

1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Sleepless in Seattle
3. Newsies
4. So I Married an Axe Murderer
5. Young Victoria

5 Songs that always make me cry

1. I Am by Nicole Nordeman
2. In my Daughter's Eyes by Martina McBride
3. Temporary Home by Carrie Underwood
4. Why by Nicole Nordeman
5. Why by Rascal Flatts (not a typo- both songs are called "Why"

5 Things that get me fired up

1. Being (and feeling) judged
2. Being misunderstood
3. Games where the Steelers are losing
4. Cold weather
5. When my favorite contestants get kicked off of American Idol

5 Reasons why I love having daughters (and children in general)

1. Mike and I make super beautiful girls
2. Matilda Jane :-)
3. They have softened Mike, and it's amazing to watch him with the girls
4. They make life 20 million times better
5. Their giggles, smiles, cuddles, and all around awesomeness.

5 favorite TV shows (Present)

1. Grey's Anatomy
2. Glee
3. American Idol
4. Raising Hope
5. Castle
(Honorable Mentions: The Mentalist, The Office, Psych, Chuck)

5 Favorite TV shows (Past)

1. Lost
2. 24
3. Alias
4. Will and Grace
5. Monk

5 Favorite Books

1. A Walk to Remember
2. A Prayer for Owen Meany
3. Keeping Faith
4. Love You Mean It
5. The Notebook
(I constitute "favorite" by the fact that I have read these books multiple times)

5 Names we considered before deciding on Makaela

1. Cecelia
2. Hope
3. Celeste
4. Hailey
5. Reese

5 Boy names we considered for both pregnancies

1. Isaac Stephen (Isaac means laughter, and that is what Mike did when I told him I was pregnant with makaela, and Stephen is my dad's name)
2. Aaron Michael (After Mike's best friend, not Amy's brother) :-)
3. Elijah-nicknamed Eli (couldn't figure out a middle name that sounded good)
4. Liam
5. Noah (but now we have a Norah in the fam, so it would have been weird)

5 Favorite movie quotes

1. "You should've gone to China, you know, 'cause I hear they give away babies like free iPods. You know, they pretty much just put them in those t-shirt guns and shoot them out at sporting events. - Juno
2. "If you're a bird, I'm a bird"- The Notebook
3. "So long Sucktown!"- Just Friends
4. "Did I hear a nine-r in there? Are you calling from walky talky?"- Tommy Boy
5. "You better pay for that pee-stick when you're done with it. Don't think it's yours just because you marked it with your urine!"- Juno
(and pretty much every other line in Juno- should probably put that one my favorite movie list)

Top 5 Favorite Memories

1. My wedding day
2. The birth of my children
3. The first time I saw harmony after Makaela was born
4. The birth of Norah
5. When Mike proposed to me