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A Teary Mommy Moment

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Tomorrow morning I will go to the cafeteria for an assembly at Jayden’s school. He doesn’t know it yet, but they will be calling him up for Student of the Month. I’m so proud of him. He’s come such a long way since the beginning of the school year, and I’m starting to become overwhelmed with emotions.

Jayden only has 1 more full week of school. His Kindergarten graduation is on June 10th and I’m almost feeling how I felt on his first day of school. It’s such an emotional thing to see your baby slowly become their own individual. I can’t get over how far he’s come this past year and I can’t believe how quick it went. All the advice I’ve ever gotten from people who’s kids were already grown and out of the house was, Treasure EVERY moment…. it goes by faster than you’ll ever think. They weren’t kidding.

I’ve been trying to grasp onto every memory that I can of Jayden as a baby and as a younger boy. I wish that I had been a blogger back then ~ I feel guilty that I wasn’t. I feel guilty that his first 6 years weren’t blogged. I feel guilty that sometimes I can’t remember him as a baby. I feel bad that I wasn’t always the best mom, but I can say I’ve tried my hardest. I grew with Jayden. I learned with Jayden. I sometimes feel bad about that, but that’s what’s made us into who we are. I guess I didn’t do too bad of a job, because his manners shock people everyday. They even shock me. If you’re in his way he kindly says, “Excuse me, pardon me.” His little soul is so special and I’ve known this forever.

I can’t even express my gratitude to Heavenly Father for blessing me with such an amazing little boy. He touches the hearts of everyone ~ I love that he’s not a rough boy, but a loving boy. I love that he sings. I love his patience. I love his smile. I love his giggle. I love more than anything how he loves his sister. I love that he is who is he is and I hope that he always stays true to himself.

I love him. I hope that I can be everything that he needs me to be. This is a picture of him kissing me goodbye on his first day of school and a picture of him walking to his class with his daddy. A day that seems just like yesterday.

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Batman Twirler

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I love Christmas. I have so many wonderful memories from Christmas time as a child and I just came across this photo of Mitch (my brother), Jessica (my sister) & me. You have to admit, the socks are just the coolest things you’ve ever seen.. I know that my kids will have lots to laugh about when they get ahold of pictures of me as a little girl.

I wanted to talk about a couple of memories that I have around Christmas time. Memories that always have stuck with me. My sister and I used to love to twirl around in our dresses and I so wish I had a picture of this, but so did my brother. My brother and sister are only 12 months apart, so he would get dressed up in one of her dresses and twirl with us. As he was twirling you could see little batman underwear under the dress.

Every year for our Christmas tree we’d go behind our house, which was desert, and look for our Christmas tree to cut down. We’d always have to go really late at night when it was really dark, and I never caught on to the truth of the whole charade until my mom told me not too many years ago. My mom and her brother would actually go up in the mountains and find our tree, cut it down and bring it down and prop it up against the little non-Christmas trees behind our house. Somehow, they had us fooled to think that we were actually going in the back, hunting for our perfect, tree. Last week I talked of the trick my mom pulled on me, and she always tried to make things fun and memorable, and I’m lucky to have had a mom like that.

So, I know it’s not Christmas time, but finding this picture brought back so many memories. So, here’s Fro’ Me to You ~ if you wanna join in on this fun carnival of reaching into the depths of your childhood head over to We are THAT Family and join in!! Even if you don’t, she has a great blog so take a look around!!

Deals! Deals! Deals!!!

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I find many joys in shopping online. I have found better deals shopping online than I usually do going store to store and searching through coupons. I really would love to be a coupon clipper, but I don’t have it in me to actually sit down and get to clipping. Then to actually have to go through all the coupons and compare stores and all of that…. I hope some day I can get to that point. If anyone has any suggestions PLEASE shoot them my way.

I did come across an online shoppers dream site today, and I couldn’t keep it all to myself. This website offers discount deals and coupon codes for some of your favorite stores!!

One thing that I found pretty cool is that they have shopping specials for skiing and snowboarding from Komperdell, Lowe Alpine, Mountain Hardwear, Marmot, Black Diamond Equipment, Columbia Sportswear and Rossignol. I know a lot of people who are into skiing and snowboarding and that stuff isn’t cheap!

With Graduations & Father’s Day coming up, Things Remembered is always a great store to buy presents for these occasions. Lucky for us, they offer some great coupon codes for them. Speaking of dads, every dad LOVES Home Depot. If you’re in the market for buying your dad something he loves then you definitely should be checking this out.

Just for everyday shopping, I’m in love with Overstock.com, and I’d be shocked if there was anyone out there who wasn’t. Lucky for us they offer codes for them as well!!

Enjoy!!

Ella Walked!!

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My baby girl is 9 months & 2 weeks old and she took her first 2 steps today. She was so determined and it was so EXCITING!!!!!!!! I’m going to try my hardest to get this on video. OMGosh 🙁 she’s growing up so fast!

Wretched little fire ants!

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Ever since we’ve moved to Oregon there’s one thing I have definitely not liked. Fire ants! Those wretched little things make outings not so enjoyable. We love to go on picnics and these pesky little buggers can ruin the whole experience.

I came across a website that can give you some great advice on how to kill fire ants. If you’ve ever been stung by a fire ant there’s treatment advice on this site as well. I love the tactic on their site on pouring boiling water into their colony to get rid of them…. how mean is that! I’ve heard it works though.

9 Month Check Up

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Last week Ella had her 9 month check up. The doctors were so happy that they hadn’t seen her since her 6 month check up, because that means that her heart medicine is doing what it’s supposed to be doing! It makes us happy too!!

She was 20lbs 6 oz & I left the paper there that they wrote her length on. So, I don’t have that tidbit of info. She’s healthy and growing normally!! Of course she sat there throughout the doctor’s appointment and wouldn’t show them one thing she was doing. Why do they do that?

Ella said Jayden today. It was clear as day and shocking! Right after she said Jayden she said BuhBye… we were taking him to school. She’s so smart. Sometimes I think she’s too smart for her own good. That scares me. As I watch her grow and grow I get more frightened and excited for what lies ahead.