Our baby girl is finally here! Miriam Elisabeth was born at home on June 2nd at 12:51 am. She weighed 7 lbs 14 oz and 19 inches long. All of us have instantly fallen in love with this beautiful baby girl. I feel so blessed to have 3 little girls, they are so much more [...]

Posted by Melissa
Dated: 4th June 2010
Filled Under: My Children
Comments: 3 Comments

This is my mothers day picture, it was taken a week late but at least I got one! I look huge but that’s ok   The discomforts of pregnancy and craziness of toddlers and preschoolers is a small price to pay to be a mother of precious little girls. JJ and I happily give up [...]

Posted by Melissa
Dated: 19th May 2010
Filled Under: Finances, My Children, Parenting, pregnancy
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JJ and I bought new shoes this past weekend. JJ’s dress shoes that he wears for school and church we’re in really bad shape. He only had them for one year so he decided that he was not going to buy shoes at Payless again. We went to Shoe Carnival where they had a buy [...]

Posted by Melissa
Dated: 3rd May 2010
Filled Under: My Life
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Last week JJ was in California for 5 days at a Science conference. He needed a watch to get to all his meetings on time but the only affordable watches he could find we’re childrens watches so he bought a Nemo watch and kept in his pocket. When he came back home he gave the [...]

Posted by Melissa
Dated: 3rd May 2010
Filled Under: My Husband, My Life
Comments: 1 Comment

Rebekah, my 2 and half year old is now drawing people. Her people consist of a circle with two dots for eyes. Sometimes ovals for ears and a dot for a nose is drawn. For the past 3 days she has been drawing our family on her doodle pad several times a day. I am [...]

Posted by Melissa
Dated: 30th April 2010
Filled Under: Family
Comments: 4 Comments

After what felt like winter for the last couple of weeks we finally have some spring weather! We took advantage of it by taking a walk to a park and playing at the playground. I want to try and take the kids to the park everyday that its not raining until it gets to hot [...]

Posted by Melissa
Dated: 7th April 2010
Filled Under: Family
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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 [...]

Posted by Melissa
Dated: 6th April 2010
Filled Under: Family, Free Stuff, Holidays
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My girls are becoming such mini adults. They want to do everything JJ and I do! They now request that I put their lunch in food storage containers, they put those containers into their little backpacks, wave good bye as they stand at the imaginary bus stop to go to work. When I ask them [...]

Posted by Melissa
Dated: 18th March 2010
Filled Under: Family, pregnancy
Comments: 4 Comments