Why "Laughter With Annie"?

I love my mom with all my heart! I could do an entire post about what an amazing woman she is. But one of my favorite things about her is that I got her laugh. Now this isn't just an ordinary giggle. I'm talking about the loud, contagious, one-of-a-kind laughs. People I'm close to or people I have never talked to will comment about my laugh. My friends will tell me they'll walk into a party and hear my laugh and say, "Oh! Annie's here!" Or my friends will be looking for me at school or church and say they just stay quiet for a minute and know that my laugh will be carried throughout the building...then they'll know exactly where to find me. My laugh is my trademark. My senior quote in the yearbook even had to do with my laugh, and so many people came up to me and told me how accurate it was and how it made them happy.

Excuse the blurry picture...I am NOT a photographer whatsoever:)

I wanted people to remember my laugh...because honestly I LOVE IT! People know that I'm happy. They also know that even if their joke is dumb, I'll still laugh because that is just what I do. One of my favorite compliments is when people tell me they love my laugh...and I usually laugh when they tell me that:) I've had teachers tell me that I was disrupting their class down the hall because my laugh was too loud, that they always know which class I had that hour due to my excessive laughing, and that when everyone is being social, they can always hear my happy laugh:) My life wouldn't be my life without my laugh. So that is why when I was deciding a name for the blog, Laughter With Annie seemed perfect:)

Why a blog?

I love life:) I'm one of those people that thrives in "living in the moment." Ever since I was little, people would tell me to write my crazy adventures in my journal. Well, through the years I have gone back and forth from being a faithful journal writer, to maybe every couple months I'd try to remember as much as I could and give up. Either way, I have a whole shelf of these lovely worn out journals full of stories, feelings, jokes, trials, testimonies, and lists and lists of things I'm grateful for.

 I hold these lovelies so dear to my heart! I want my kiddos and others to be able to look at my memories and life and actually be able to read it...I'm one of those people that has never taken the time to make their handwriting super legible or "cute". Plus, I win the prizes for worst spelling and never understanding grammar...so good luck:) Now although my journal writing will not stop...there is nothing like gushing out your feelings in a personal, cute book...I wanted to keep track of this crazy life of mine in another form. I want to look back with my future generations and remember my life not only by what I've written, but by the none artistic pictures I take with my phone...remember I'm an "in the moment" type of person. I also love the fact that this is a safe and secure place to keep it all. Welp! That is my reason for starting this blog, and we will see if I ever learn to figure it out...I also win a prize for having technology struggles:)