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2011 Family Vacation
We were excited to be able to take a mini vacation with most of Jeremy’s family a few weekends ago. We spent the day at the zoo in Omaha and then stayed at a hotel and had lots of fun playing in the...
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School Room
One of my favorite parts of our new house is the school room. We painted it a bright orange and Bernadette, Clare and I put hand prints on the walls using the paint from the other rooms. Because we...
View ArticleMaking Money by Saving Money
Recently, my husband and I went through our finances and made a new budget. We did our best to think of everything and budget accordingly, setting up transactions to automatically transfer money into...
View ArticleGrocery Save
Phase one of my Making Money by Saving Money project is a look at our grocery budget and how we can cut $20 from it.This is probably the easiest one for me because we were generous in our food budget...
View ArticleEntertainment Save
Phase two of my Making Money by Saving Money project is to save $40 of our Entertainment budget for the month. We take $100 a month out of our account in cash to spend on movies, eating out, going to...
View ArticlePersonal Needs SAVE
In my Making Money by Saving Money project, I made the goal of saving $20 a month from our Personal Needs fund. We have currently budgeted $100 a month to cover any non-food related purchases. This...
View Article7 Accounts Later…
When we did our budget we tried to account for everything. When we were done though, we had a list of expenses (gifts, school, car maintenance, etc.) each with a monthly allowance listed next to it....
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Gifts SAVE
To date, we have 9 nephews, 2 nieces and 2 more due in November. That makes for a lot of birthday and Christmas gifts. We love showering our nieces and nephews with gifts we’ve put a lot of thought...
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My Day in Pictures
Oh, Felicity. You know you’re not even one yet, right? I can’t imagine how your Guardian Angel must feel after a day like today.
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Wildlife
We almost daily spot wild turkeys out our windows. This particular one got as close as 6 feet from our porch and walked right past our cats. The girls and I watched him take a dust bath in our front...
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Random Pics
July 16th marked 6 years since Jeremy proposed to me. The girls and I decided to make it special. I cooked a special meal – complete with candles on the table – and we made a treasure hunt for him to...
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Let the School Year Begin!
My awesome husband hung up our white board for me and built an awesome book holder thing to hang under it out of the leftover laminate flooring.We started school the first of August. I started early...
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I was perusing old blogs looking for how much the girls each weighed when they turned 1 when I came upon this video. I absolutely HAD to repost because we watched it about 10 times cracking up over...
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2011 Hay Days Weekend
One of the joys of having family living in a small town is that we get to enjoy all the fun small town celebrations like Hay Days Weekend. The first weekend in August, we headed to A-town for Hay...
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County Fair 2011
We picked up our free tickets for the Lancaster County Fair, and made some family memories.Family Ferris Wheel Ride!Petting zoo!A random person saw us in the ticket line and gave us their left over...
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Beautiful Bows for Beautiful Girls
I’ve been working on more than a few projects. One of which is these cute hair bows. There are a few other different kinds, but I didn’t get good pictures of them. I thought about trying to sell...
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Pickles, Pickles everywhere!
My mother-in-law gave me a bunch of cucumbers from her garden to make into pickles. After washing them, my sister came over and helped with the cutting and canning. We ended up with 24 quart jars of...
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Note worthy Pics
GIANT praying mantis on our window. Biggest I’ve ever seen.Here’s a pic of it compared to Jeremy’s hand.One day I put Felicity in her high chair for lunch before bringing in the groceries. I had...
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Fine Country Livin’
Because we do not yet have grass in our back yard or a poured patio outside our walkout basement door or stairs coming off our deck, this is what Jeremy came up with. I’ve always wanted a clothesline....
View ArticleBack blogging...
I have been away from this blog since September! Wowza! I have some catching up to do. Please bear with me!
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