Spotlights

As I mentioned, this blog is mainly a place for me to throw out thanks and kudos to awesome people that have made my life a little easier with the little things they do. Mostly it is people that I don't get to see every day. People that may not know how their interactions and support mean a lot to me.

BUT the people that I know the best and that have affected me in the most profound meaningful ways on a daily basis throughout life deserve some major kudos and love too! BUT since the little things they do for me are too numerous to list, I decided to do something that I think will be fun. We shall see if you do too...

Here's the scoop...I have always gone to church weekly growing up. In my church, the children's program (for ages 3-12) is called Primary. Every congregation I was ever part of during my primary years (and the ones my kids have been part of) all have some version of "spotlights" for the kids. I love them! I LOVE when I am spotlighted and I love hearing others' spotlights! Some of my favorite ones are the ones where the parents are asked to fill out a questionnaire about their kids. Then the Primary leaders read the answers out loud to the Primary kids as hints for the kids to guess who is being spotlighted. I love when the kid gets up there and the parents have like half to all of the stuff "wrong!"  It is so fun to hear what the kids say after hearing what the parents wrote down.

So, here is my plan. I will spotlight someone close to me (most will probably be family but I guarantee many will be friends as I get further into this-should it work out...). I will try to answer (to the best of my ability) the following questions about my whoever I am spotlighting:

1.  Hair and eye color.
2.  Where were you born?  Where did you grow up?
3.  Where did I meet you?
4.  How many brothers and sisters do you have?  Where do you fit in oldest / youngest?
5.  If you have children, how many?
6.  What are some of the different places you have lived?  Your favorite place?  Why?
7.  Were you named after anyone?
8.  Your favorite color?
9.  Your favorite food?
10. Your Favorite Book?
11. Your Favorite Movie?
12. Your Favorite Cereal?
13.  Your Favorite Ice Cream Flavor?
14.  What are some things you enjoy doing?
15.  What color is your car?
16.  Name a movie or book that best describes you or your life.
17.  Tell one story about you.

Then YOU comment and guess who you think I am writing about! First names for guesses is good to go. AND if my spotlight people are willing to play along, maybe at the end of the week, when I announce who my spotlight was, they will correct my answers! :)

A few things--when answering the questions, I will not intentionally answer incorrectly, but I may be vague so as not to totally give away who it is. Also, I may cheat by looking at your Facebook pages to see what you claim to be your fave movie or things like that. AND lastly-I will not divulge personal info like your last name, or the names of your children or anything like that. I will be a bit vague as I said before.

UPDATE (2/4/2013):
You may or may not have seen my Spotlight post last week. I have learned a lot this week. So here are a few notes and changes:

Note 1: If you guessed the spotlight and did not see your comment/guess appear on the post it is because I am not going to moderate and post ANY guesses until the last day (when I reveal who it is) that way you get to make your own guess without being influences by other guesses/comments.

Note 2: As mentioned above, that was too easy. So I am going to update my questions. This is the list of questions as they appeared in Spotlight 1:

1. Hair and eye color.
2. Where were you born? Where did you grow up?
3. Where did I meet you?
4. How many brothers and sisters do you have? Where do you fit in oldest / youngest?
5. If you have children, how many?
6. What are some of the different places you have lived? Your favorite place? Why?
7. Were you named after anyone?
8. Your favorite color?
9. Your favorite food?
10. Your Favorite Book?
11. Your Favorite Movie?
12. Your Favorite Cereal?
13. Your Favorite Ice Cream Flavor?
14. What are some things you enjoy doing?
15. What color is your car?
16. Name a movie or book that best describes you or your life.
17. Tell one story about you.

This is the new set of questions:

1. Where did I meet you?
2. Of all the places you have lived, what is your favorite?
3. What is your favorite place to vacation? (Somewhere you have been)
4. What is your dream vacation spot?
5. Were you named after anyone?
6. Your favorite color?
7. Your favorite food?
8. Your Favorite Book?
9. Your Favorite Movie?
10. Your Favorite Cereal?
11. Your Favorite Ice Cream Flavor?
12. What are some things you enjoy doing?
13. What color is your car?
14. Name a movie or book that best describes you or your life.
15. Tell one funny story about you.

Note 3: Spotlight 1 has only been up a few days, but in the future I will only do one spotlight a week-it will be posted on Mondays (and revealed on the next Monday).

Here are the Spotlight posts so far:

• Spotlight 1: Andrea
• Spotlight 2: Tyson
• Spotlight 3:
• Spotlight 4:

Thanks for playing along!! :)