I came across this great blog series thanks to Pinterest and I wanted to share it with all of you. The blogger is sharing how she and her family live on less then 28k a year. She shares her budgeting tips and her reasons why. There is some great stuff in here. If you ever thought no way could you live on less i would say go read the series! We live on about the same budget and its doable it takes intentionality, God, and a little bit of elbow grease but its doable!
Anyway check it out! HERE!
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I’m taking the Joy Challenge which i mentioned. I didn’t keep up as well as i would have liked last month but it did help me get some more blessings counted, i’m up to almost 600 as of sunday! YAY me. I did however record some of these blessings in photo form thanks to the 1000 gifts app on my iphone and wanted to share them with you….
Woven, Stitched, Nailed….
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Well Harvey had his first date, well actually he and I had our first mommy/son date. We went out for ice cream and we had a lot of fun! We went to coldstone and he picked his favorite a pink ice cream with sprinkles. We chatted about the day we had (disneyland earlier in the day) and we were sure to bring daddy back ice cream of his own. It was a short little date but we both enjoyed it and i’m excited to start a new tradition with my little man!
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“We are growing up” Harvey told me tonight. Almost made my husband and I cry. Yes you are bud yes you are! 2012 is almost a 1/4 of the way through and these kids are getting so big and the time is just flying by us!
Oliver is getting so big, so much faster then his brothers! He turned 5 months this week and he is already grown out of clothes that took his brothers almost all their first year to grow out of. He is pretty much ins 6-9 clothes already! He is just over 15lbs! He cut two teeth last week and is trying desperate to sit!
Levi just continues to say so much! I’m just loving watching him come into his own! and Harvey well Harvey is Harvey, always being smart, telling me things like “Mommy i’m only one person, with only one hand” or “Mommy don’t yell at me” he knows how to twist my mom around his finger “Mamie look at the shoes, i need shoes”. Man that kid cracks me up! He did however hit two big milestones for the month, 1, he learned to dress himself and 2 he learned to draw somethng you can actually tell what it is (meaning its not a scribble!)
Here are some photos from our february!
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The last sunday in february our church celebrated what we called new life sunday it was full of baby dedications (13 to be exact) and baptisms (including 2 sweet boys in our preschool/elementary classes). It was a really blessed day and we were excited to dedicate all three of our boys. (for those that follow me, they have also all been baptized, this is a whole other story and has to do with our different christian backgrounds but that’s a story for another day, all i can say is we believe God recognizes both, that the bottom line is he calls us to bring the children to him [Matthew 19:14], whatever that looks like!)
As part of the baby dedication we assigned a life verse for each of our boys. For those who keep our boys in prayer but couldn’t be with us to celebrate their day these are their verses… Harvey Psalm 37:23-24, Levi Psalm 20:4-5, and Oliver Psalm 16:7-8.
Thank you lord for these precious gifts, i pray that you will also keep them in your protection! God Bless!
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My great-grandma celebrated her 100th birthday on the 29th of february. This is a special year its not only her 1 in every 4 year chance to actually have her birthday it was also her 100th. I think that is pretty cool! We celebrated by having a party for her, it was really special she got to see all 5 of her great-great grand children, and she got to hold my babies. She even got to joke around and play with my oldest. He’s at the age to make memories and i hope he remembers it. I know i will never forget seeing them play “MINE” over baby oliver. At the end of the night he even chilled on the couch with my great-great uncle on the couch where Harvey told him all about his iphone. 
My great-grandma claims she’s gonna live to see her next actual birthday (as in the one that comes in 2016) i sure hope she does!
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Do you like Tom’s shoes? or 31 Bits? I do, i love socially concious companies out there to do good things for people who may not otherwise have an opportunity. Well I want to share a company that i love right now, a clothing company, called Collaborative world. Yes i know the owners but i’m not sharing about them because they asked me to, they don’t even know i’m doing this, i’m just sharing becuase i think they are awesome and i want you to go check them out, plus right now they are having a sale on their last line before the new line comes out.
First fill your cart with a minimun of $50 worth of clothes then put in the code 5050 and get 50% off so that $50 will be come $25 or if its $100 it would become $50, $75 would come $37.50, see where this is going?
So what is CW? They are a coprofit, they sell clothes and then 50% of their profits go to help non profits! Pretty easy, pretty cool!
Go check them out!
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