Family Easter Egg Hunt

Yesterday morning while grocery shopping I spent $4 on Easter clearance chocolates which was a great deal because I am going to be submitting those  UPC codes for a free movie ticket! I later on sent JJ to the grocery store with coupons for pineapples that were on sale for half price and a redbox [...]

Easter Weekend

Saturday morning I woke up Sariah and Bekah to go on an Easter Egg hunt at a local grocery store. Waking them up was so cute, they were sleeping in the same bed (they sleep together most nights now). I decided to open the door and pull their blinds up to have them wake up [...]

Filled Under: Holidays, Parenting

Valentines Weekend

So even though this was a week ago I thought I would blog about it anyways. Our valentines weekend started out on Friday evening when JJ gave me a beautiful necklace that is pictured on the left. He gave it to me on Friday night because his request is that I wear it on all [...]

Vacation Coming To A Close

Our Vacation is coming to a close as we leave to go back home tomorrow. It feels like we have been at my parents house for a long time, yet not long enough. We had a fairly smooth drive coming up and hopefully it will be the same going back to Utah, however it was [...]

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Homemade Christmas

We received a wonderful christmas gift from my inlaws in the mail that we were told to open when we got it. We waited until JJ got home and he and our daughters opened it. I really wish I had recorded it because Rebekah’s excitement was priceless.  My mother in law made us a Christmas [...]

Happy Birthday JJ!

Today it is my husband’s birthday. I told Sariah and Bekah yesterday that tomorrow it is Daddy’s birthday and I asked what we should do for him. Sariah said “sing happy birthday” and Bekah said “make a cookie cake”. This morning Sariah said happy birthday to Daddy without me even mentioning that it was his [...]

Filled Under: Holidays, My Husband

Our Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful thanksgiving weekend and JJ actually took Thursday and Friday off. I think this was the first holiday that he took off since starting grad school so that was nice. I made cranberry sauce and pumpkin cheesecake on thanksgiving morning before JJ’s brother and sister in law over and their dog. Sariah [...]

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Trick-Or-Treat!

JJ and our daughters are off trick-or-treating right now and I’m at hope baking our Soup In A Pumpkin and wondering if any trick-or-treaters will come to our neighborhood. I am hoping to get rid of my bowl of candy so I don’t look like I need Solo Slim. I am feeling kind of sick [...]

Filled Under: Holidays