Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Jeremy's Birthday Week

Jeremy claims he has a birthday week instead of just a birthday. This year it has really gotten drawn out thanks to Easter (his mom refused to make pizza, his birthday dinner choice, and insisted on an Easter ham) and Spring Break last week. His birthday week(s) is drawing to a close when we will finally get that birthday pizza on Sunday. So here is a birthday post tribute to Jeremy Jack White:
36 Things about Jeremy:
1. He is the world's best dad (the kids counted the votes and say he won by a landslide).

2. He makes great pinewood derby cars. He made one in the shape of a tooth and added a motor to it for an Elder's Quorum derby. Look for an upcoming post for the next creation.
3. Volunteers at the Food and Care Coalition, doing free dentistry, every month.
4. He is a great coach. He has coached at least one of his boys teams every year.


5. He recently got into running. He runs in the 5k blood run each year and also recently started participating in a triathlon for the Share A Smile Foundation.
6. He is a gamer. He enjoys playing the Wii and other card games or board games.
7. Prides himself in having a nice yard and spends many hours in the yard each year.
8. He has served in two bishoprics serving a total of seven (almost consecutive) years.
9. He had a mullet in high school. His mullet was curly.
10. He enjoys singing and was in the high school choir.
11. He totaled his parents new car while in high school--but it wasn't his fault.
12. Was a very mischievous child. Once he climbed on the counter and dropped glasses one at time on the floor. That's just where the stories begin.
13. He got kicked out of nursery as a child for biting all the other kids.
14. Served a mission on the Canary Islands (just off the coast of Africa)....
15. ...where he learned to speak Spanish. Speaking Spanish has come in handy in his profession and while traveling.
16. He buried many grasshoppers in his childhood sandbox (dead or alive).


17. Loves Scuba diving.
18. He is a great boss and treats his staff very well. They are lucky to have him.
19. He tells amazing bedtime stories. The kids always are asking him for a bedtime story. Just don't ask him for any repeats--he makes them up as he goes along and then they are gone with the wind.
20. He enjoys golfing and always takes an annual golf trip to St. George every year with his dad and brothers.
21. He claims that I married a plumber, painter, handyman, welder.....He is very handy.
22. He likes Sushi.
23. While in dental school, he went down to Jamaica and pulled teeth for a week.
24. He loves BYU.


25. He massacred his Ute loving brother's house with BYU decorations on rivalry week for three years (above) before getting caught.
26. Makes great chili.
27. He was a BMX biker in his teenage years....
28. ...he even built his own bike ramp.
29. He won a bridge building contest in high school--and he built his bridge the night before the contest.
30. He was one of the founders of the infamous NAP2 (pronouced NAP squared) club at Orem High School. (Nerds of AP Physics)
31. He likes to go snow skiing, but unfortunately only gets to go about once a year at Christmas time.
32. Started going grey at a VERY young age. He was salt and pepper grey by the time he returned home from his mission.
33. He is a BIG tease.
34. He indures chick flicks for his wife.
35. Loves "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy (the least chick flick of all time).
36. Is the best husband anyone could ever want and his wife is one lucky lady!


Happy 36th birthday Jeremy! We love you!

3 comments:

  1. My husband has the same idea about his birthday too. But he would like a birthday month! Must be a guy thing. Love the post! Happy birthday Jeremy!

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  2. Happy birthday! I wonder if the biting thing was his way of testing his interest in teeth at a young age. And I didn't realize he was getting into running. Good for him!

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  3. I learned so many things about Jeremy--I hope his birthday was great!

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