What Will Your Child Be For Halloween?

Last month JJ and I started looking at patterns for Halloween costumes as well as looking at the costumes when we went shopping for ideas on what to dress our children up for Halloween. However, now we don’t need to buy or make costumes because my sister-in-law (thank you!) gave us a blue and pink princess dress for [...]

Filled Under: Holidays, Parenting

Would You Give Birth At Home?

This weekend I joined a Utah Valley Attachment Parenting group I am really excited about this group and I hope I can go to the activities often. I loved wearing my babies in a sling when they were younger, they would often fall right to sleep once they were placed in the sling and it made vacuuming, [...]

Thoughts On Women’s Conference

Saturday evening I went to the General Relief Society Meeting which is a women’s conference for women 18 and older all over the world. Before the conference began we had some ice cream and we also participated in a service project which was putting together humanitarian aid kits to give to people in times of natural [...]

The Approval Mystery Is Solved

After saying we would definitely be approved, the lender we are working with now called back again and said that the approval to get financed for the home we are trying to buy is not working out with the underwriter. We have finally found out why lenders keep saying we will be approved but then [...]

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At Least We Have A Choice

When we first moved to Utah we were pleased with how much lower the cost of food and utilities were compared to Washington State. Buying a home is cheaper in Utah than Washington but the cost of renting is similar. Our license plates expire at the end of this month and we know that it [...]

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Feeling Hopeful

I am feeling confident now that we will be able to buy this home. The people we are working with are saying not to worry that with our excellent credit scores we will be approved. It is possible that we may have to put in a bit more than 3% down. I really like how well our current mortgage [...]

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Rent Deposit Woes

When my husband and I moved out of our first apartment the manager was so impressed with how well we cleaned the apartment that he gave us our entire deposit back. We even ran into the manager at walmart and he told us that he had never seen someone clean the apartment as well as we did. We were [...]

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Redesigning The 80′s And 90′s

Many toys that my brother (Craig), twin sister (Sara-Jayne) and I played with as children have been redesigned for the current generation of children (our youngest sister and my children). Here are a few ”comback” toys: My Little Pony: Sara-Jayne and I would play with our My Little Ponies for hours just using our imaginations and re-enacting scenes from the [...]

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