Pay It Forward

It's always fun getting little packages in the mail, and I love making crafty things, so I thought it would be fun to be involved in this little game. I signed up on my friend Brittney's pay it forward so I'm officially in :)

PAY IT FORWARD: I will send a handmade gift to the first three (3) people who leave a comment on my blog requesting to join this PIF exchange. You may not receive it tomorrow or next week, but you will receive it within 365 days! The only thing you have to do in return is pay it forward by making the same promise on your blog. (so, you must have a blog to participate.) I can't wait to see who I will be giving to. To join, just cut and paste this on your blog and comment away. So get posting.

Memories

After posting the bath picture of the girls the other day my mom sent me this picture of me, my brother Cameron , and sister Melissa. How cute! I think Aliza kind of looks like me.

Our Genealogy Pie

If you look at all 32 of our children's great-great-great grandparents according to where they are born, then they are 59% American, 38% European, and 3% Canadian, aye. This was kind of fun.




An interesting thing is, that those same 32 great-great-great grandparents have very different death places. Many immigrated to American. In fact, look how different the percentages are if you look at where they died and not where they are born.



So the question is, what nationality are we anyway? Every generation it changes. For example, one generation you can be 50% German and the next generation if all the kids are born out of Germany, we could be 0% German, looking only at the new generation. It changes according to what angle you look at it. Much more research will be done, but it's fun to look at.

life

 
When I was growing up I remember my dad washing our hair and making "crowns" on our head. Since Rachel can sit up in the bath now I thought I'd do the same. Madeline just loves Making "crowns" on her and her sisters heads :)
 



This pictures just to tease my mom... I love cats, what can I say :)
 


The girls decided it would be fun to get in the dog house. I'm thinking maybe we should make them a play house.
 

Rachel's 7 months

 

I took Rachel to the doctor the other day and she weighs 13 lbs 11 1/2 oz now! That means shes just below the 5th percentile for weight, but at least it's better than the first! Rachel has basically started crawling. She is getting around everywhere! I just can't believe she is getting big enough to do all these things. Shes such a little sweetheart. We all love her so much.

Random LDS Mission Call

I just formed a site that you can get called on a Mormon mission. Just push a button.

Go Here I Hope They Call Me On a Mission

Great Present!

For Valentines Day Jared got me a new set of scriptures with my name printed on them! So after being married almost four years I got new scriptures with my new name :) I am so excited! It was a perfect present. We also had a fun time going out. We got a babysitter and headed off to Sizzler. We got there and the line was really long and we were too impatient to wait so we decided to go bowling. We got to the bowling alley and it was league only night. Bummer. Then we decided we'd try to go see a movie. We were successful and saw August Rush. It was a really good movie. It's been a while since I've seen an inspiring movie, so that was great. We decided we'd just go to Sizzler after the movie but when we got there it had just closed. Bummer again. That's okay though because we just ended up going tonight with the kids. Kids under 3 eat free, and boy is that the way to go! All you can eat peaches = my girls are in heaven :) I am thankful for my sweet little family. Even though life is crazy lots of the time it is so worth it! Oh, and my sister gave the girls some bows and that makes them look even more adorable :) (Thanks Melissa! There are pictures on the next blog (