My sister tagged me for this quiz... It turns out I have read 31 of those books. Jane Eyre is my all-time favorite book and I usually read it once a year.
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
How do your reading habits stack up?

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen- X
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien -
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte -X
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling -X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee -
6 The Bible-most of it-X
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte -X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell -
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott –X
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy-X
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare –
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier-
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien -
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk -
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger -
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger -
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot -
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell -
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - X
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens -
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy-
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams-
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh -
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky-
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck-
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll -
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame-X
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy-
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens -
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen-
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen -
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis -X
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini -
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden -
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne -
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell -
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown -
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving -
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins -
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - X
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy -
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood -
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding -
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan -
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel -
52 Dune - Frank Herbert -
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen -
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth -
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens -X
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley-
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon -
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck -
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov -
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt -
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold -
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas -
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac -
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy -
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding –
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie -
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville -
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens -X
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker -
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett -
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson -
75 Ulysses - James Joyce -
76 The Inferno - Dante -
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome -
78 Germinal - Emile Zola -
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray –
80 Possession - AS Byatt -
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens -
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell -
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker-
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro -
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert -
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry -
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White -X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven-
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle-
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton -
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad -
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery -
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks -
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams -
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole-
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute -
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas -
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare -X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factoy - Roald Dahl -
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo –

I tag: Whoever wants to be!

Better late than never...

I'm officially going back to school...only about 10 years after I first started. I went into BYU this morning and I'm all set to start school again this coming fall. I am so excited! I know it will be a lot of work with the kids, but I really think I can do it. Anyway, wish me luck!

Doodle Bloom

One of my cousins is amazingly talented! Well, actually they all are.(: But, this particular cousin does some amazing photgraphy and announcement designs. Because I am in her family, I get lucky enough to see many of them for different family events. I have loved them all! And, Amber, if you are reading this, I would love to get you to take some pictures of my kids next month when the weather gets better. Anyway, if you are in need of some cute pics or some great announcements, check out her website:http://doodlebloom.blogspot.com/

Makenna's Room

I have been wanting to dress up Makenna's room for a while now and just never quite knew what to do. That was until we went to visit our friends, the Gribbles, last week. Danielle is an interior designer and as you can imagine, her house in amazing! I completley fell in-love with her kid's rooms. Thankfully she was nice enough to let me shamelessly copy the wainscoating in her daugther's room. So, for the last few days Andrew and I have been working on Makenna's room and we are finally done! I love the way it looks! A big thanks to Danielle for letting us use her design and a big thanks to Andrew for being willing to help me out and do so much!

New things

We have discovered some new things about the kids in the last week and a half...

Parker can make goofy faces when I try to get a cute shot of him...yep...exciting

Makenna rediscovered her love of the swing at a friends house. She slept in her swing for about the first 6 months of her life. It was like they never parted.(:

Apparently Wendy's fries are good dipped in a frosty.


Oh, and Parker can now work our VCR. Hmmmm.... And, a funny Parker story. Two Saturday's ago we were driving to the zoo the meet up with one of my best friends and her daughter because she was in town for a few days. Andrew missed the exit because he was on his phone and I was a little annoyed with that. Luckily we had our GPS and it was giving us directions on how to get there. Parker picked up that I was frustrated at Andrew and so he was a little on edge too. I know, bad mommy. So you know how the GPS tells you about 3 times as your getting to a turn what you have to do before you have to do it. Well, it started telling Andrew to turn right and Parker started freaking out that Andrew wasn't. The first comment was a pretty calm, "daddy, turn right." Then after a few more seconds he got frantic, "DADDY, TURN RIGHT!" Then, he yelled desparatley, "Daddy, just do what the lady says!" The voice on our GPS is a woman.(:

7 Years...

Andrew and I celebrated our 7 year anniversary yesterday. I am so glad that we found each other. Having Andrew for my husband has gotten me through the bad times and made the good times infinitely better. We aren't perfect, our life isn't perfect, but I really think that we are perfect for each other. I am one of the lucky ones.

Mommy confessions

Confession #1 If you've ever wondered why my kids are always wearing pajamas in my blog pictures, it's because they wear their them until at least 2pm, that includes me. I only bother with clothes if we actually have to go somewhere.

Confession #2 Parker can put his under the sea puzzle together faster than I can. Really.

Confession #3 There is a fruit snack that was so ground into our carpet by the time I found it that I just left it there in the hopes that it will disappear into the carpet all together one day.

Confession #4 My diaper bag is GROSS right now. Full of half eaten gold fish and fruit snacks that have globbed together and lots of "used to wash faces" wet wipes that were thrown into my bag because I had no where to throw them away at the time.

Confession #5 Makenna totally found a hidden sippy cup (I think she has a stash somewhere in the house) and drank some very, very old apple juice out of it before I could snatch it away from her.

Ahh, I feel so much better now that I have those off my chest.(: