So, yesterday I started reading through some of the polls that have been posted on our family’s myfamily site over the years. I was laughing quite a lot. And I noticed several trends. Such as, we have a LOT of polls about who’s going to be pregnant next, what the gender will be of those currently pregnant, what the names should be of those currently pregnant, and the like.
(I like that in the following poll, my mom is one of the options. ha ha!)
(I was pregnant. With Orrin- remember how I said some people were getting a bit suspicious.)
(Note another trend in the polls by Megan and Amy—they often threaten/bully you into giving correct answers.)
As our myfamily site began about 10 years ago, many in-laws have been added to the mix, and so of course people have to put up polls about the object of their twitterpatedness.
Wyatt about his now-wife:
(for the record, I didn’t know Lindsay at the time, and if I had I totally would have picked the third answer!)
Kami about her now-husband:
Tim posted some interesting polls. Of course, he had to post about his obsession with people picking their nose and eating it. Thankfully, he left it anonymous.
This is classic Ethan (I like how he can’t even spell his own name in the title):
This one is interesting, it was posted before there were any redheaded grankids —we’re currently at six. Only Andrea and I have contributed to the red-head population so far.
Apparently I like to ask questions about hygiene:
Okay, now some more random polls that I thought were interesting.
(Jennae was a friend who was invited to our family website. She clearly does not know Dad the way we do.)
CLASSIC Kami question (Kami do you still know the answer to this?):
(for the record, there were not really 4 people who got married at 17- Lindsay and Ethan were not married when they posted their answers)
(Lindsay was … 21 (I think) when she got married. Just so you know. )
CLASSIC Wyatt (when he was little he was CONSTANTLY asking us questions like this):
I think it’s funny I wrote this question about hugs before I moved to Switzerland where hugs –and kissing on the cheeks three times—is the norm for anytime you greet people.
I like this one by Lindsay many years ago. The title is so funny because what she really means is “Meine gute!” –an expression in German that Brett often said.
And finally:
6 comments:
This is hilarious--thanks for sharing. We used some of the names in Megan's Baby's name poll as our "don't ask us what we're naming our kid 'cause we're not going to tell you for real" names. I'm still a little partial to Dagmar Ute H., whose initials would cause her to bear the brunt of many Homer Simpson references until her marriage.
HA HA. That was fun. Kind of looks like the polls are family does on the same web site.
Ummmmm..actually DEAN'S family does on HIS family web site. Just had to clarify that. HA ha.
Oh my goodness... :-) I stumbled across your blog, and I have to say this post made me miss your WHOLE family!!!
ha ha! Those are really cute! My family also has a myfamily.com website for many years now. We've done a lot of funny polls like that. We've recently made the switch to the newer version of myfamily.com as it's much cheaper and gives you tons of site space. We like it a lot better, but so sad because there is no longer a poll section! So sad, that was my favorite.
Hey Kayli, thanks for all your comments on my blog. Just to answer your question about how long we will be living in England: We really have no idea. When we decided to make the move we decided we would do a minimum of 5 years and then go from there. We have now been here for 3.5 years. I honestly don't know if we will stay, or go back home once we hit our 5 year goal. I have some days where I'm totally homesick and think I for sure want to go back home, but most days I'm quite happy about living abroad and think we will probably stay here longer. What about you and your family? How long are you in Switzerland? Are you enjoying it? I've never been yet. It looks beautiful from all your photos and I would love to see it before we go back home.
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