My sister Sara-Jayne who has done extensive research on our family history told me about the Ghost Of Bell Inn story. I think I should make this our family’s Halloween ghost story!!! Bell Inn is a hotel in Essex, England. It is a story about Catherine (Kitty) Carnham who married a bad tempered Reverend who [...]

Posted by Melissa
Dated: 30th October 2008
Filled Under: Family, Holidays, Strange News
Comments: 4 Comments

Back when JJ and I were engaged he said that a dream of his was to take his children to a college football game. He admits that at that time he was thinking of a Tennessee game, however on Saturday he took Sariah to a BYU football game (my cousin gave him a ticket). Saturday morning he [...]

Posted by Melissa
Dated: 28th October 2008
Filled Under: Family, Sports
Comments: 3 Comments

If you have a blog on a wordpress platform you may want to try out this plugin that I recently installed on my blog. It is called the WordPress Thread Comment Plugin I love it because it makes it easier to follow conversations with in the comments and I feel that it will help my blog [...]

Posted by Melissa
Dated: 27th October 2008
Filled Under: Blogging, Free Stuff
Comments: 4 Comments

This week’s redbox code: 93NCA5 Last week’s pick: Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull I am not eligible to review this movie as I fell asleep half an hour into the movie. However JJ says that I never missed much. He really enjoyed all the previous Indiana Jones movies but said that this one was really boring. Have you [...]

Posted by Melissa
Dated: 27th October 2008
Filled Under: Free Stuff, Reviews
Comments: 1 Comment

Angie was so sweet to give me this award.    Rules of this award: – Put the logo on your blog. – Add a link to the person who awarded you. – Nominate 10 other blogs. – Add links to those blogs on yours, and leave a message for your nominees on their blogs. For this [...]

Posted by Melissa
Dated: 24th October 2008
Filled Under: Blogging
Comments: 7 Comments

I am feeling very stressed out right now. If you have been following my blog for awhile you know that we have been trying to buy a home but we couldn’t get the loan approval until my husband recieved his first graduate school stipend so we are currently doing a lease to own until Novemember [...]

Posted by Melissa
Dated: 23rd October 2008
Filled Under: My Life
Comments: 11 Comments

Bekah is now 15 months and Sariah is 31 months (they both have the same ‘month day’). They are both such polite girls, I get at least 5 thankyous each during dinner time. Sariah also says “your welcome” now. Rebekah Of course the big news with Bekah is that she recently went potty on her [...]

Posted by Melissa
Dated: 22nd October 2008
Filled Under: My Children
Comments: 2 Comments

We are always looking for ways to cut our utility costs. When we were first married we used some of our Walmart and Target gift cards to buy fluorescent light bulbs and our electric bill for the next month was reduced by quite a bit. Fluorescent bulbs have come a long way over the last [...]

Posted by Melissa
Dated: 21st October 2008
Filled Under: Saving Money
Comments: 4 Comments