Keyana's 6th Birthday

PJ turned 6 this year! For her birthday, since she had school, we took her out to breakfast before school, and stopped to buy some donuts for her to take to class. After school, we went out to eat at the Olive Garden. Yum! The next day, we had a party with family, and BBQ'd burgers and hot dogs. It was just windy enough for some fabulous kite flying too! PJ was so excited to get a big girl scooter (2 wheels instead of 3) and has ridden it to school every day since!

Easter '10

We had a fairly nice Easter this year. Because of our weird schedules and lack of transportation for me, we had the Coffeys over to our house for the annual egg hunt and dinner. It was really fun, warm, and tasty! Poor Tattoo took so long to find his chocolate bunny that it melted! This was the weekend before Easter, and before it was snowing.
Easter Sunday, I was pretty excited to stay in my jammies and have a nice, relaxing Sunday on the couch. Tattoo, however, had alternate plans for me. The kids woke up that morning, and found their Easter baskets and hidden eggs. They immediately dug into their candy before breakfast (of course, what kid doesn't?!) Anyway, after breakfast, we snuggled together on the couch to start one of the kids' new movies before conference. After a little bit, Tattoo left me to snuggle with Nathan. We thought that was a bit weird, until Tattoo barfed all over Nathan! For the rest of the day, at about half hour intervals, Tattoo was throwing up. *Sigh* not fun! The barfing slowed down in the late afternoon, so we made our way over to the Morgan's for another Easter dinner and egg hunt. Fun week!

Special Children...

I know that I frequently mention how "special" my children are, but today was an occurrence really worth mentioning. We were in line at Best Buy. I knew that all the children were right around me when I leaned down to sign the card-swipey-thingy. When I looked up, I looked around, and noticed Kaiden behind the counter, massaging the arm of the nice young lady ringing us up. Hmmm....not sure what to make of that! I know I've certainly laughed a lot today, but we still can't get him to tell us why he was even doing it! Luckily, she was very nice about the whole situation and has probably been laughing as much as us this evening. Funny, funny kid! Where do they come up with these ideas?!

Kaiden's Birthday

It's really becoming a tradition for us to take out the birthday child for a special outing, rather than a big present. This year, Nathan was able to get the day off work and come with Kaiden and me to the Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point. We'd never been there, and with Kaiden's obsession with dinosaurs, we kept promising to take him. We saw HUGE dinosaurs and an even BIGGER sharky! He even got to dig for bones!
Then, it was back home to squeeze the family party in that night. Everyone came, and it sure was crowded, but we had a lot of fun too.
Happy 4th birthday Kaiden!

Another blog...

I've been meaning to do this for awhile now, but never seemed to get around to it until today. I really wanted my own blog, to write about the things in my life that don't seem to fit into our family blog. Projects, saving money, my weight loss adventures, and the occasional review of a new product I've tried. I've included the link to it here for easy navigation.

Student of the month!

Yes, it's true, PJ is the student of the month in her class for January! Ok...there were actually 2, one boy and one girl, but still it's pretty cool! We went over for the presentation and got some fun pictures. She got a certificate, a pencil, and a coupon for a free meal at Applebee's. Yum! Congratulations PJ!

Tattoo: Test Subject...Part 2

Yes, Tattoo is part of another study. However, this one doesn't affect him physically. This story starts about a year ago, when a friend introduced me to Savvyshopperdeals.com. Ever since, I've been hooked! I love to save money, and have since found several other websites that save me money and even make me money. One that I found the link to on one of my regular sites, was for Publisher Clearing House surveys. I originally signed up because I got a free sample out of the deal. Now, I get regular e-mails from them offering some sort of reward for completing a survey. I usually just erase the e-mail right away, as the reward is not worth the 20+ minutes it can take to complete a survey. Well, I noticed that one kept coming back. 3 times I deleted it, and yet another one would come in. I was getting a little frustrated, so I opened it to see what was so important. It told me it was only about a 3 minute survey, so I finally caved and started working on it. Anyway, it turned out that the survey was looking for people that have children in a certain diaper size, because they wanted to have those children try a new diaper. At the end of the survey, they told me that we qualified, and that I would receive a package of diapers to try out, and then fill out another survey after we've used them. I was figuring maybe 2 or 3 diapers. Then, I forgot that I'd even signed up after a week passed and nothing came. Today, however, to my delight, I found on my front porch, a BIG package of diapers, that we're supposed to use for a week! Wahooo!! So, starting tomorrow we're going to try out these new diapers. Hopefully they aren't awful! I'll post an update as soon as we know how they work.