[OldBlondBabe]

I'm blonde, blue eyes. Hubby has brown hair and eyes. Obviously, he has a gene for blonde (or red) hair and blue eyes (his dad had red hair and blue eyes) becauseall three of our children have blonde hair, 2 have blue eyes, the other brown. (If I remember from H.S. science, blonde is dominant over red) Anyway, seems to me, we had a 50/50 chance of having either, yet we ended up with 3 for 3.

[DBtoo]

That's right. The gene for red hair is the most recessive of all.

[jimtorr]

All of my extended family, mother and fathers family both, have similar hair/eye patterns.

First, nearly all of them have blue eyes. Nearly all babies are born with almost platinum blond hair that darkens over time to very light brown or dark blond by age 20.

Both my mothers and my fathers family ethnicity is your basic North Sea mixture, Celtic, Scandinavian, Saxon, Dutch and Flemish.