Pay it forward! round one

A friend had this on her blog and I was the first to comment so now it is my turn to have it on my blog. Sounds easy enough since I have an entire year to make a gift. I hope you guys have fun and keep it going. I also have another friend who posted this so I'll be doing it again if you miss out.

{The Rules}
Be one of the first THREE bloggers to leave a comment on this post, which then entitles you to a handmade item from me - something crafty or yummy, who knows?!
Winners must post this challenge on your blog, meaning that you will Pay It Forward, creating a handmade gift -anything!- for the first THREE bloggers who leave a comment on YOUR post about this giveaway!
The gift that you send to your 3 Friends can be from any price range and you have 365 days to make/ship your item. This means you should be willing to maintain your blog at least until you receive your gift and have shipped your gifts. And, remember: It’s the Spirit and the Thought That Count!
When you receive your gift, please feel free to blog about it, sharing appropriate Linky Love! If you are not one of the Top Three Commenters on this post, you can still play along. Go ahead and start your own Pay It Forward chain, and encourage your blogging friends to do the same! SO, REMEMBER...Pay it forward!
P.S. If you are one of the first three and don't have a blog to post on I have come up with a wonderful idea. Take the next three friends that call you just to chat and Pay It Forward to them! Then challenge them to do the same :)Let's help make this a wonderful world to live in and show our friends how much we care for them :)

Don't forget to e mail me your address.

Wonderful Hubbie

My Wonderful Hubbie got me the cutest Valentine this year. He was so excited when it came that we traded Valentines on Friday, a day early. And I must admit it made my Send Out Cards Brownies pale in comparison. He got me this adorable Cow Bear and some yummie Chocolates. When I saw the bear I had to laugh. It brought back memories of him asking my mom if he could marry me and reminded me just how much he loves me. If you haven't heard it before the story goes like this. About a month after we had started dating we were already talking about getting married and my best friend, Autumn, had warned Gary that when he got around to it it had to be memorable. Someone came up with the idea of paying my mom in cows for me and it was perfect. I was in on all of this and helped to find the necessary cows, which wasn't easy. We gathered up ten cows, stuffed cows, cow cookie jar, cow pictures, cow candy and put it all in basket. Then he waited for the perfect opportunity. It came when my family was having a Jensen Family Party and my Uncle Paul's in Mesquite. Gary came with me to meet everyone and after dinner presented my mom with the basket filled with ten cows and asked if he could marry me. Of course she couldn't say no and we have always had fun telling everyone that I am a ten cow wife. (Mahonna was only an eight cow wife so I beat even her!) Then he had to come up with how to ask me. We had talked about how to save money and I told him that I would love to have my Grandmother's ring with ten diamonds (one for each kid) my mom had the ring and I would be more than happy with just that. We had plans to go to St. George over Valentine's day as it was on a Sat. that year too and were going to stop at mom and dad's on the way through. I thought that Gary would ask my mom about the ring while we were there but he didn't and I was a little annoyed that he chickened out. Before we left my mom insisted that we stop on our way back to Vegas the next day. I didn't get why but I promised her we would. Then we started on to his mom's house in Bloomington. He passed the exit and I asked him what was up. He blew it off and said we were going straight to his sister Shanon's house but he missed that exit too. I was like, whatever, and went back to sleep in the back seat of the car. . . Mike was riding shotgun. Pretty soon we were sitting in front of the St. George Temple and Mike asked what we were doing there. Gary told him to sit tight for awhile that we would be back. I just figured we were going for a walk so he could prep me before meeting his crazy family. We walked for a little bit and then right in front of the Temple he dropped to one knee and pulled out a box with my Grandmother's ring and a beautiful diamond solitair and asked me to marry him. I was amazed and a couple little old ladies walking by were tickled and stayed for the show. Where did you get that ring!?! and Where did you get that ring!?! It seems my brother had delivered my grandmother's ring to Vegas and Gary had picked out a solitair to go with it. Everyone was in on it except me. I am so clueless but of course said YES! and loved the whole thing. See, I really do have a wonderful Hubbie and I love him very much!!!!

Anya's Second Birthday

It is hard to imagine that two years have passed since this beautiful one entered our lives. She is a spitfire, wonderful, sweet, smart, demading, stubborn, humorous, baby girl. She loves singing, dancing, reading, snuggling. My favorite times are early in the morning when she wakes up and calls for me in her sweet little voice and when I go to pick her up she says, "I oldju" and snuggles down into my chest like she did when she was a tiny baby. For the first several months she was always freezing and couldn't sleep unless she was laying on top of me. My mom gave me a hard time the first couple of weeks after Anya was born because all of a sudden I would burst into tears. Even now I tear up just thinking about it. I was just so grateful, still am, that she was here, and healthy and beautiful. I sometimes find myself hurrying through life and taking time away from my girls doing things I think I should do instead of just enjoying them. I constantly repent of that because I am and will always be so grateful to be a mom and to be a mom of my two beautiful girls. And with that I am going to go watch a movie with my babies. I will have to tell you about Danna thinking Anya is crazy later. Remind me. . . it is that good.

Wonderful Weekend

This weekend was a lot of fun. Friday afternoon I left school, right on time, of course and found my wonderful hubbie and two beautiful girls waiting for me in the monster van out back. Gary had picked up the girls from the sitter and decided to suprise me. It was a wonderful suprise. We decided to make an afternoon of it even though Danna was dressed in her jammie top and sweat bottoms. (I know, mortal sin Autumn. I am teaching her to dress in jammies.) We all loaded into my car and went to run errands, shop for food, and go to dinner. Yeah Friday! After that I sent the girls and Gary home in my car and took the monster van to run another errand at Wal-mart. When I got home we had ice cream and watched a new movie. The Astronaut Farmer. I really enjoyed it.
Saturday was my dad's birthday. He was talking out in front of our house so I took the girls out (naked mind you) to wish him a happy birthday. "appy birfday gampa" Who could resist that. We spend the day cleaning, organizing, and crafting with the girls helping all the way. Then we got ready for Tanner's baptism. Danna was so excited for "Tanner's tism" and was excited to see him go underwater and say Congratulations Tanner! She talked all evening about her daddy baptising her when she gets to be eight and getting to wear a white dress again. I hope they change the rules again because now they make them all wear the white jumpsuits and I want to make them white dresses. I have been planning it since Dal was born 18 years ago! Can you hear Gary laughing at me in the background.
Sunday we survived church and yes that is exactly what it was. Both girls had nuclear meltdowns when Gary went up to help bless the sacrament. So, I took them out in the foyer. Gary came out to help after the sacrament was over but by then there were a lot of frustrated mom's and dad's out there. We never did make it back in sacrament meeting. Oh well, we'll try again next week. Sunday afternoon we had dinner at our house and celebrated Grandpa's birthday with chocolate cake with bright blue frosting. Maybe someday the blue will wash off their faces. Next time we are not sending grandma for the cake.