I fell in love with Angela when I first met her. She is beautiful and intelligent and has incredible taste. But it wasn’t until I realized what a good mom she would be that I asked her to marry me. Angela is sometimes shy, but is also very outspoken and friendly. She is an amazing friend and is always the one that her friends, and even my mom on occasion, come to for advice or just a different perspective.
One of my favorite things about Angela is that she is an amazing mother. She is so wonderful with Ellie and can get her to giggle more than anyone else. She is also a great cook. Some of my favorite dishes she makes are: chicken cacciatore, salmon with buckwheat noodles, homemade nachos (she fries the chips up herself), New Mexican rub pork with homemade sweet potato tomales (from Mesa Grill), roast. She always like to try new recipes but with her own take. She is ambitious and has decided to make and freeze her own organic baby food for our kids.
Angela likes to say that she loved college so much that she stayed for eight years. She got a degree in political science as well as a law degree from the University of Utah. After law school, she went to work for a large law firm. Although she was great at what she did, the long hours and stress ultimately led her to leave the law firm. Now, she volunteers in the non-profit/philanthropy world. She is so much happier and enjoys the fulfillment of giving back to the community. Our kids will be very lucky to have Angela as a stay at home mom.
Fun Facts about Angela
Favorite outdoor activities: running, biking, laying in the sun
Personal Goals: run a marathon and a triathlon before I turn 33, speak and read a foreign language fluently, raise smart, confident, compassionate children, read Les Miserables in French, master Adobe PhotoShop
Favorite foods: Indian, Sushi, Italian, Thai and good Southern BBQ
Favorite movies: Pride and Prejudice (the long version), Life is Beautiful, The Pianist, So I Married an Ax Murderer, The Incredibles, and any of the cheesy highschool movies from the '90s
Favorite books: Crime and Punishment, Atonement, Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse (the vampire series)
Guilty Pleasures: Diet Coke with fresh lime, People and US Weekly, Dark Chocolate Twix
Favorite TV shows: Lost, Heroes, Grey's Anatomy, Las Vegas, Project Runway
Dream Vacations: Safari in Africa with the kids, Bali, caving in the underground/underwater caves in Mexico (shown on Planet Earth)
Favorite bands/artists: Gwen Stefani, Nora Jones, Black-eyed Peas, Cold Play, Bare Naked Ladies, Ben Harper, Amy Winehouse, and most hip-hop, jazz, blues, and anything upbeat
Favorite travels: honeymoon in Russia, Cancun with my girlfriend, Las Vegas with two of my best friends and their husbands, summer interning in D.C. (we hit the entire eastern seaboard)
Favorite quote: "Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'" —Helen Keller