Rachel Turns 2!

A couple of weeks ago, Rachel had her birthday and turned 2 yrs old. It's hard to believe that 2 years have already gone by, but time goes fast and she's growing with it! I definately see signs of the terrible twos, but she is such a joy in our family. She's usually pretty happy, loves her brothers, and is especially fond of her Daddy! We are so glad she is a part of our family!

This is before church as she got to celebrate her birthday wearing a new dress!


We had cake, ice cream and gifts at Grandma and Grandpa's house. At first, Rachel was more interested in the dog Gary, than opening her presents!

Taking a minute to pose with Gary! This is classic because she hardly poses for a picture!

Not too happy about posing for a picture on her new wagon...but she does love the new wagon!


Blowing out the candle! We actually used a hand me down cake from a friend's baptism party the day before and just put a candle in a piece of cake. The cake was still delicious....and Rachel didn't know the difference!

Skirts for Haiti

Recently my sister was visiting and had brought with her some skirts that she had collected from a friend, to donate to the Humanitarian Center to be sent to Haiti. She took them out to show us and had the boys try them on to see how they would fit on kids. They thought it was the funniest thing to be wearing a skirt, but they sure got a kick out of prancing around the house and showing them off.

Quilts of Love!

I have been such a blog slacker lately. I really don't think anyone really cares or has great interest in reading anyways, but for me it is a great way to record what's going on with us and a neat place to keep my pictures in cyber space! Anyways, being the slacker that I am, I never blogged about the neatest gift I got for Christmas. I know it was 3 months ago, but I thought I should record it now or never!

Anyways, a little background on these presents is that my dad had quite a collection of hawaiian print shirts and was often seen wearing these shirts. I have very fond memories of him in these shirts. Well, after he passed away, my mom wasn't really quite sure what to do with them since they did have quite of bit of sentiment, even though they were just shirts. Anyways, she was about to get rid of them when she asked my sister if she would be interested in using them to make quilts. From there, my sister took on this great project in making 9 quilts in all which literally took her about 18 months. She was really excited for Christmas and made sure we were all there to receive our presents.


Each quilt is very unique and she even made a name for each of them (which I'd have to ask her for since I could never remember. ) It was fun seeing them all and remember my dad as he wore each of those shirts. I know my sister put so much time, effort, and love into each quilt and I am grateful to have something of my dad's made into a beautiful quilt.


I have pictures of all the quilts except for my sister's since she hadn't wrapped it up for herself and I think wasn't finished!

This is the back of my mom's quilt. The neat thing about this is that the handprint is actually my dad's, traced from a cement block of the sidewalk at our house with all our handprints! There is a handprint made out of each of the shirts.