family history

since i was pregnant with maddie, i had this sudden desire to start working out some of mine and dougs family history line. after emailing and phoning both sets of our parents and numerous other family members lots of times, i started getting quite a lot and have been uploading it to my info page on the church family search website and it's kind of addictive.

yesterday when we were at church in northam with mum and dad, two speakers from stake spoke of the importance of family history and then challenged us to work out the number of direct line ancestors you would have going back 20 generations... so you begin with yourself, you have 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great-grandparents, 16 great-great-grandparents and so on, so the number doubles each time as you go back. doug and i ripped out the calculator and worked it out... and the answer blew us away...

1,048,576

so it looks like i better get back to work... i have a lot of family to find!!

scoopon

last year a friend of mine introduced me to scoopon - an online deal that's emailed to you each day... cheap hair appointments, half price dinners, golf deals, photobooks, pretty much anything. Most of them are pretty bored and the delete button on my computer gets a real workout, but one caught my eye in this case, canvases for $40 each - printed, finished and delivered to your door. so... i bought these for jen and mat for an extremely belated wedding present.

so easy - all i had to do was go to the printers website, upload the pictures, check they were where i wanted them, clickclickclick and they arrived a few days later.

and... they look amazing!! :)

a labour of love

miss madeline received a pretty fancy gift today... from aunty jen. a cross stitch done and personalised just for her. jen has spent months stitching this for madeline, and all i can say is wow! i certainly don't know if i would have the patience to sit and stitch this masterpiece. thanks jen! we love it! xx

just like daddy

it's totally true that is nothing of me in her whatsoever... yet

and here's some more proof!

too cute!

some more snapshots of miss madeline

just because she's so freaking cute - couldn't help myself!

cousins

miss madeline already has five cousins! five! all from one of my brothers.

grace, emma kate, jared david, laura and ben. they all got a cuddle yesterday and absolutely doted on her. it makes me so happy to see how much they love her already... even though the poor kids had to wait almost 2 and a half hours for her to wake up!! but as everyone knows... you don't wake a sleeping baby! i know they'll be wonderful cousins! x

what time is it...?

i honestly wonder how long it will be before i stop caring what time it is... i constantly feel like i need to be somewhere, like i'm late for work, like i need to be doing something... it's making me a little crazy!!

i am well aware that i am doing the most important job in the world, that looking after baby madeline is my job now - but i am still waiting for it to sink in...