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I'm back from my long blogging hiatus to announce that Steven entered a drawing in a Purdue art contest back in April and was notified today that he was chosen as one of the 9 finalists out of 20,000 entries! We are so proud of him and his accompslishment. If you want, you can head over to his blog where he's posted the picture he drew and the letter he received from Purdue, and leave him a

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Steven has shown an interest in drawing before and I think I may have posted a picture or two in the past. We got him a sketch book, art pencils and an art book for Christmas to get him started. Thanks to Dixie, we have found a website that has video tutorials. This is one of the drawings he did using their tutorial. I think he did a fantastic job! ~Lilies~

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I'm finally coming out of my blogging hiatus, I think. Life has been busy but nothing worth blogging about it seems. That is until a recent argument between Ashlee and Steven I thought was worth sharing. "Picture it" (LOVE the Golden Girls!) -Steven and Ashlee are in the car and we're on our way to school. They are fighting about something. I can't remember what it was but most likely

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This past Saturday I was having a lazy morning in bed. The kids were plopped all around me and out of the blue Kelcee said, "Mom, did you know that there's no trouble in your bubble when your floatin' along"? I cracked up and asked her to repeat it. Evidently she learned this off of Mickey Mouse but for her to bring it up like that was hilarious. Needless to say, the rest of the day it was

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~ Nicholas 2008 ~

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Tonight I took Steven and Ashlee shopping for gifts to take to school. Steven's class is having a book exchange and Ashlee's class is donating gifts to "Toys for Tots". We bought some Hannah Montana things (what girl wouldn't like that?) which consisted of a doll, a sticker book, a pencil case with stickers and pencil, and a note pad. On the way home the kids were discussing how many Christmas

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Create your own FACEinHOLE

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Create your own FACEinHOLE

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Create your own FACEinHOLE

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Well, last Thursday I celebrated my 33rd birthday. I'm really gettin' old! The kids were more excited about that day than I was. They set to work the day before feverishly making me cards and I have to say I am not lacking for birthday cards in anyway.Since it was a "normal" weekday with the evening filled with homework, baths, and the regular routine, I just fixed my favorite (chicken cordon

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Alright, since I really have nothing else to post right now I'm joining, Sara, Angie and Denise in the Christmas review.*/1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Both - but wrapping paper for the kids. I, unlike Denise, do not like wrapping gifts!*/2. Real tree or Artificial? Artificial.*/3. When do you put up the tree? Usually the week after Thanksgiving.*/4. When do you take the tree down? Usually

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1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good. 2. When in doubt, just take the next small step. 3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. 4. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.5. Pay off your credit cards every month.6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it

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Last Saturday on our way home from visiting my dad, mom and Grandma, we stopped in Danville, IN to visit the pumpkin patch. Ashlee had been begging all month so she was a happy camper even if she was a little cold. Taking a hayride back to the field. We could just buy a pumpkin already picked or pick one ourselves. The kids opted for the hayride out to the pumpkin patch. Snuggled up with daddy.

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Yesterday morning after taking quite a long bath, Kelcee examined her shriveled up hands and said, "If you stay in the bathtub for a long, long time you'll get old and wrinkled and won't be able to see good; you'll look around like this", then squinted her eyes in demonstration.Rodney went hunting with a friend today and before going to bed a bit early last night he told the kids to be good today

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Along with my conscientious effort at saving money on groceries and other items, I've also changed my Christmas shopping strategy. In previous years, Rodney and I would go shopping together and buy everything for the kids in 1 night. Now that they are older, their things are a bit more expensive I've decided to watch sale ads and buy things when they are on sale. So far I've scored the best

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3rd grade 1st grade

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This cat comes for a visit and a siesta EVERY afternoon. And at the SAME time, which is around 12:30 p.m.!! S/he stays a couple of hours and then leaves. The other day I was out putting up my fall stuff and when I turned around s/he was in the yard meowing and letting me know I was in the way. As soon as I moved, s/he made a beeline for my bush. S/he seems pretty friendly and we think s/he

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Wow! The month of September just flew right by and I only got 3 posts in for the entire month! We've been busy. Every night there is math, spelling, vocabulary words and reading homework with the kids. I'm beginning to wonder if we should just homeschool! HA! Steven has a lot more homework now that he's in 3rd grade and I've assured him it only gets worse from here on out. Aren't I nice? He has

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I thought I'd share a little more of my savings in case you aren't yet convinced. I went to Payless grocery today (Kroger for people south of us) and put my coupons and their sale to good use. I was not disappointed! If I had paid full price for the things I got, I would have paid 60.18; instead I walked away paying 27.21- a savings of 32.97. Let me break some of the really good deals down for

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How many of you have tried to use coupons in the past but never could figure out a good method? Or when your bill is $120 and you do have a .50 cent coupon it doesn't seem that beneficial does it? I joined "The Grocery Game" back the first part of July. I can definitely say I love it and it makes grocery shopping less of a chore. I always hated spending a bunch of money on food that would only

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