Happy Father's Day

You may have thought I didn't see,
Or that I hadn't heard,
Life lessons that you taught to me,
But I got every word.


Perhaps you thought I missed it all,
And that we'd grow apart,
But Dad, I picked up everything,
It's written on my heart.


Without you, Dad, I wouldn't be
The person I am today;
You built a strong foundation
No one can take away.


I've grown up with your values,
And I'm very glad I did;
So here's to you, dear father,
From your forever grateful kid.


By Joanna Fuchs

I know I'm a week late, but we have had a busy week.
We are so greatful for our wonderful fathers! They have both given us so much! Happy Father's Day to our Dads!
It's been so wonderful getting to watch Matt grow as a father the past 7 years. It's so amazing how much our kids love and adore him. He is great with them! Thanks for being so wonderful to our little babies! I love you and Happy Fathers day!
We got to spend Fathers Day at the lake with my dad and my siblings which was a pretty good time. I have a few pictures to post!

Updates

Sorry I've slacked off the last month or so, but things got a little crazy as they tend to do at the close of a school year and the start of summer. I'll try to put everything into a nutshell and be brief. We haven't had anything too exciting take place this past month. As I said school is out for summer for Kylie and myself. She's very excited for the break and happy because her best friend moved in right next door! All the kids are enjoying summer and our gorgeous weather. I too am excited to have a little break from the classes and spend some time at home doing pretty much anything I want too! Tyler finished his t-ball season last week and ended on a good note by hitting a home run! He loves baseball and his papa loves to play with him which really encourages his love for it. Tyler will be starting Kindergarten in August and he has been pretty excited up until recently. I think it finally hit him that his freedom of coming and going with his grandparents and daddy is going to come to a halt! Kylie will be in the 2nd grade, and she finished 1st grade as the top reader in her class! Our little Roo, is a handful and I'm pretty sure she will continue to be that way! She is a spoiled rotten little thing and she knows it and takes full advantage! I think she is gonna be lost come school time and not know what to do. Kennedy is growing along at a rapid rate, have you seen her thighs lately? She's def got the chub that all my babies get! It's funny because she was so spindly for so long! Anyway all the kids are happy and healthy and enjoying summer!
Matt and I are enjoying it too, we are trying to get a camping trip planned here one of these weekends, but as it goes things keep coming up that prevent it. The summer has been pretty steady with some business for the toilets so thats been a blessing to us. We planted a garden this year for the first time. It's nothing grand, but it's a start and at least I think we figured out we can successfully grow something! I am going to be taking my state board exam for my CNA license this month and then I'll start back to school in August. Anyway that's about it for the time being in a nutshell as I said. I'll post a few random updated pics a bit later!!

 
 
 
 
Tyler finally gets to play T-ball this year! He has been asking for the last 2 years when he is going to be able to play and he's old enough this go round. He's very excited too! He has his first game tomorrow afternoon so we'll have more pictures to share at that time. They had team pictures on Saturday and afterwards I took a few of him on my own so everyone can see what a handsome little prince we have here! His team is the Pirates if you can't read the uniform. So if you are around come by the park tomorrow at 4 and watch him play!

My Coupon Savings

 


Ok so to some of you and probably a lot of you this might seem pretty mediocre, but it is really exciting for me!I joined coupon sense last month and I have gone shopping two times with my coupons. The first time was exciting and I saved, but I also shopped for other food items and combined in one check out so it was a little harder to see the rewards. This time I just grabbed a few of my coupon items in one transaction at Bashas. I could have got more, but since it was the last day of the sale a lot of things were already sold out. Anyway as you can see in the picture I got 3 boxes of Frosted Flakes, 3 boxes of Barilla Pasta, 4 cans of Dole fruit and 3 bottles of Kraft Ranch dressing. I spent $5.30 with tax for all that and earned 1 gallon of free milk on my next trip in! So I saved $33, but if you count the free gallon of milk I am getting thats about $35.00 and that pays for my monthly membership to coupon sense right there in one little trip! Yes like I said earlier I am excited! P.S. That's an 86% savings right there!!

Homemade Give-a-way

Ok, I can't guarantee that what I make will be something good, but I'll try my best! haha

The first 3 people to respond to this post will get something made entirely by me! Whatever I want! HOWEVER! This offer does have some restrictions and limitations~

1. I make no guarantees that you will like/ enjoy/ want what I make!
2. What I create will be especially for you.
3. It'll be done this year. (That's 2009 folks)
4. You will have no clue what it's going to be.
5. I reserve the right to make something extremely strange, should my heart desire it.

The catch is that you must re post this on your blog and offer the same to the first 3 people who do the same on your blog. So win an AMAZING homemade gift by me! Oh, and be sure you post a picture of your amazing home made awesomeness when you get it from yours truly! Who's in?

Spring Break

The kids and I had last week off for Spring Break so we decided to load up and take a camping trip to the lake. We went with Spencer and Kelli and their kids. We all had a blast and really didn't want to have to come home and face reality! I suppose getting home to a long hot shower and our own beds was pretty nice though. The water was still too cold to swim in although one day the kids did a little splashing around off the shore. We got to take a couple nice boat rides, do some fishing, have a pic nic lunch at a playground, roast marshmallows and just enjoy some quality time relaxing. I think all in all it was a pretty good time...no complaints! Oh I almost forgot the funnest part of the trip for Kelli and I...we got to back up and turn around my expedition...pulling a boat trailer. Now you may not find this funny, but had you been there I guarantee you would have. Neither of us have a clue when it comes to that and we were working with some tight spots and trying to avoid scratching my car with all the sticker bushes. I won't go into detail, but I'll say we had all sorts of crazy ideas on how we were gonna get that baby turned around. In the end...Kelli directed and I drove and we got er' done! I have a ton of pictures, but just grabbed a handful to put into a slide for you to enjoy!!

Kennedy

 

Just got a cute picture of Kennedy this morning after I got her ready for the day. I added a few little things to it with a photo software I was playing around with. Anyway enjoy her cuteness and have a great day!