tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17022645132236065972024-03-13T06:41:47.494-07:00Life with the Dean trioMeganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078107861162767297noreply@blogger.comBlogger255125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1702264513223606597.post-2222801115455428742013-07-15T20:27:00.000-07:002013-07-15T20:27:15.124-07:00Busy day!We had so many visitors today! I don't blame so many for coming since my cousin Abby came over with her boys and beautiful little Charlotte whom we had not had the chance of meeting yet! The first thing both boys wanted to do was hold her.<br />
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Levi holding Charlotte.<br />
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Nathan getting a turn.<br />
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I eventually convinced Paige to hold her.<br />
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Recognize this play mat? The last time Paige was on it she was a lot smaller!<br />
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We had so much fun today playing with our cousins! I hope we get to do it again real soon!Meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078107861162767297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1702264513223606597.post-31611169281814796302013-04-10T19:00:00.002-07:002013-04-10T19:00:57.869-07:00EasterWe had a very busy Easter weekend this year. The kids had a blast. Saturday morning we went to church for the annual Easter egg hunt. It was a beautiful day and they got to look for their eggs outside. They got their faces painted and listened to a story told by Pastor Mitman. Then egg time!<br />
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Here we are being goofy and waiting for the egg hunt to start. I was happy that their shirts from last year still fit!<br />
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The kids go in 3 separate directions making it hard to take their picture while hunting eggs. Here they are checking out their hoard of eggs they found!<br />
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After the egg hunt the Easter bunny himself showed up!<br />
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After the egg hunt we went home to dye Easter eggs. I got a new kit that I thought looked neat and was really easy for the kids to use. I hope I can find it again next year!<br />
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Here they are all ready to dye eggs! We used little rollers to put the dye on the eggs which worked out great. By the way old adult t-shirts work awesome for paint smocks!<br />
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Paige very into her egg dying.<br />
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Levi painting away.<br />
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Nathan. I love the tongue out!<br />
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Our finished eggs. Levi has Iron man, Paige has Barbie, and Nathan has Hulk. :)<br />
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After nap we continued our Easter fun by having Easter dinner at Grammy and Pop-pop's house. When we showed up they had all already hid eggs for the kids! Aunt Kristen and Aunt Stephanie were there with Shawn and Travis.<br />
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Waiting for the go to find eggs!<br />
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And they are off!<br />
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No one seemed to be able to find the one on the top of the playground!<br />
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Look what we found!<br />
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After we got home it was time to set up their baskets for the Easter bunny to come!<br />
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All set up and ready to go! We even put a carrot out for the bunny. Thanks Grammy! (Since Mommy forgot to get one)<br />
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They each put one of their eggs in their basket so the bunny would know whose basket was whose.<br />
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The bunny came! He even nibbled the carrot!<br />
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All dressed and ready for church.<br />
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Paige in her pretty Easter dress that Mommy made for her :)<br />
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Paige in Mommy's Easter coat that Grammy made. I need to find a picture of me and scan it in. I would love to see the 2 pictures side by side to see how they look.<br />
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We had a great Easter. As the kids get older, holidays get more and more fun for us! I hope they believe in all of these things for a very long time!Meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078107861162767297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1702264513223606597.post-74750955121284135762013-04-08T17:52:00.000-07:002013-04-08T17:53:35.148-07:00Close to my heartYou may notice a new little badge off to the right. That is my new business adventure! I joined Close to my heart as a consultant! I love scrapbooking and papercrafting and now I get to share my passion! I am so excited about my new adventure. So if you need anything just click the link and shop away. Any questions feel free to ask. If you would like to host a get together to craft with friends just let me know! :)<br />
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And don't worry I am working on my Easter post. It is taking me a little while since Levi decided to take some of my keys off my keyboard again. Arn't kids fun!?! Meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078107861162767297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1702264513223606597.post-47087794668819983752013-03-08T19:48:00.000-08:002013-03-08T19:48:03.818-08:00Daddy and Paige dayBy now most people should know I like a deal. I also love free things. Which is why we do Home Depot every month. It is a great program for the kids and we get to do something fun! Well I found something fun for Alan to do just with Paige. Chick Fil A offers a Father daughter night every once in a while. I signed them up for one this month. They went this past Monday and had a blast. All it cost was the price of the meal. You need to make reservations ahead of time but it is well worth it! When they first arrived they had their picture taken by Cardinal Camera in Quakertown. They were then taken to their table which had table clothes on it and flowers.<br />
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This was on their table. They had their staff dressed as servers and took their order and served them their meal.<br />
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Paige also got her face painted and whole bunch of goodies. he got a bracelet, some rings, a wand, a cow, and a red carnation. he was in heaven!<br />
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Sweet and Sassy was also there with their pink limo. Paige and Alan got to take a ride around the parking lot in it! Paige also got to play in the play place. he had a great time and Alan loved having the one on one time with her.<br />
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I think we need to do more things like this. I agree with Alan that each of the kids are totally different kids when it is just them and no one else. No competing for attention or doing things to get a rise out of someone else. We need to do more stuff like this!<br />
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Meanwhile as Daddy and Paige were having a blast I was home with the boys. I made their favorite dinner of mac and cheese and let them eat in the living room. They also got chocolate milk!<br />
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Everyone had a good night! I can't wait for the next one so they can go have fun again! :)Meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078107861162767297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1702264513223606597.post-30836470265570342562013-03-08T19:35:00.003-08:002013-03-08T19:35:51.693-08:00SpidermanWe have a super hero in our midst. His favorite thing to do is go "wort wort all over my house".<br />
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It is Levi Spiderman! This was his reward for finally going number 2 on the potty! We have had this costume saved for him for months. He finally did it and I can now say he is potty trained! (well not at night but I will take what I can get) We still have accidents here and there but hey who wants to stop playing to do that potty nonsense anyway!?! We are so proud of our little Spiderman. Paige is also right there with him and earned her Tinkerbell shoes about a month or so ago. She was a lot easier than him in this aspect. Now we just need to work on Nathan!Meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078107861162767297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1702264513223606597.post-24577086826797262892013-03-03T18:11:00.002-08:002013-03-03T18:11:34.420-08:00Tool timeYesterday we did our monthly visit to Home Depot for their free kids workshop. This month the kids got to make race cars! The boys were especially excited for these! We always go right at 9am to try and beat the rush. The moved to a different spot in the store this time. It had a lot more space and better lighting so I liked this new spot and I hope they keep it!<br />
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Opening up our kits. There was no paint involved this time. We got to play with stickers instead! Levi like to wear the safety goggles. :)<br />
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Hammer time!<br />
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So proud of our cars!<br />
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After Home Depot we usually go to Calvary church to play at Mr. B's which is an indoor play place. It was closed yesterday because they were having an outdoor show. o we went to that instead! Luckily a lot of it was inside since it was so cold. We did go outside to play in the bounce house though!<br />
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Taking a boat ride.<br />
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They also got their faces painted for the first time. Levi got an alligator, Paige a butterfly, and Nathan a spider. They sat so nicely to get their faces painted. We had a great day!Meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078107861162767297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1702264513223606597.post-27387306615618195632013-03-01T19:45:00.001-08:002013-03-01T19:45:52.498-08:00My little dancerWe enrolled Paige into her first dance class! A couple weeks ago we became members of the YMCA and decided to enroll Paige in petite feet which is an introductory class for dance. She is fascinated be ballerinas and loves to dance and sing and listen to music. Today was her first class and she loved it! She went right on in the room and didn't even notice I had left. (I watched her dancing through the door though!) She had a blast dancing and doing girly things with all the ballerinas in her class! She was so excited when other girls started coming in. She stood and counted all the ballerinas. When the class was over she came out of it all upset. I though she didn't like it even though she looked like she was having fun. Nope she was sad it was over. She came up to me pouting saying she wanted to dance more! I am so happy she had fun. Can't wait till next week! :)<br />
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This is the only picture I got. I considered be stalker like and taking pictures during but I didn't want to distract her and be "that" Mom. lol. I am lucky I got this one because she just wanted to run around with all the other girls!Meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078107861162767297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1702264513223606597.post-42212322783447684742013-02-14T19:02:00.000-08:002013-02-14T19:02:57.553-08:00Nick KnackMy cousin crochets beautiful hats. She even started her own business. I have always wanted hats like that for the kids. When I saw she made them I decided to see if she could do a little something for me. Well I must say I am extremely pleased and impressed with what she came up with! They turned out awesome and even more the kids absolutely love them.<br />
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How cute are they!?! I had to coax the kids to take them off. Levi kept telling me he was so excited for his new hat. I love how much they love them and they look so cute in them! Thank you so much Jenny! You did a beautiful job.<br />
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since we left college. Today we had a great day. We didn't go over the
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Putting the flowers in water.<br />
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This morning I took the kids to Mr. B's which is an indoor playground in Souderton. The kids had a blast playing and running around. We came home and had a usual lunch and nap. After Daddy got home from work we opened some cards from Grandma and Pepaw. They also sent gifts for the kids which they loved. :) In their cards were some coupons for McDonalds. So we went there for dessert!<br />
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The kids each got a free ice cream cone. Alan and I had a shamrock shake. A good end to our night!<br />
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After the kids were in bed I had my dessert. Happy Valentine's day! :)</3>Meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078107861162767297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1702264513223606597.post-33174085217438553202013-02-14T18:40:00.002-08:002013-02-14T18:40:55.123-08:00Ash WednesdayWant to know where my kids get their crazy from? Well look no further. Alan went to the Ash Wednesday service at church and I asked him to let me take a picture of him for my picture of the day. Here is what I got.<br />
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Yea apples don't fall far from the tree. lolMeganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078107861162767297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1702264513223606597.post-67333068078633787152013-02-11T18:03:00.001-08:002013-02-11T18:03:50.258-08:00Snow!We got snow! Not as much as they were planning for but enough to have some fun in. We went outside Saturday morning and had some fun playing in the snow.<br />
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Here we are putting on our snow stuff! They were extremely excited to out and play. I am pretty sure they atrted asking to go out around 7:30 in the morning. I think we held them off till about 8:45 or so. lol<br />
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Here we are all bundled up and ready to go!<br />
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And away they go! We had them play out front so they could help Daddy shovel the driveway and clean off the cars.<br />
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Helping Daddy can be fun! Especially when he throws snow on us and we run away laughing.Meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078107861162767297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1702264513223606597.post-34337540947721791342013-02-08T19:35:00.002-08:002013-02-08T19:35:37.548-08:00Let imaginations flowImaginations in this household are in full swing. Between all the games we play and all the characters we become a lot of fun is being had all around! Our 2 favorite games right now are hide and seek, and ring around the rosie. They are too funny watching them play hide and seek. One goes up the stairs to count. The other 2 go "hide" Levi usually hides under a blanket on the couch. This usually means he just covers his head while giggling a lot. Nathan heads for the bathroom. He goes in for about a minute and then comes out giggling before the seeker even comes to find him! Paige usually walks around giggling or she hides behind a chair. It is too funny to watch them play!<br />
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Ring around the rosie is also entertaining to watch. They usually try to rush me to the ashes to ashes part so they can all fall down.<br />
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Also notice that we are starting to dress ourselves. Paige picked her outfit out herself today! And Levi put his pants on all by himself. I love that their personalities are starting to shine more and more every day!<br />
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We all fall down!<br />
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Another favorite right now is playing dress up. They all love to dress up! They are also big into super heros too. We like to save the world!<br />
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Pretty Miss Paige.<br />
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In comes the swat team and superman!<br />
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The mess we create when we are dressing up! Notice Superman on the couch "flying"<br />
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We are all flying like Superman!<br />
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Say hello to Dr. Dean and Fancy Nancy.<br />
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I used to "bike" with my Dad on the couch all the time. I have started doing that with the kids and they started doing it with each other. Too cute!<br />
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2/3rds of the Justice League and a pink dinosaur!<br />
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Just doing the dishes.....with a little help.<br />
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Thank goodness the help is cute! Or as she says...."Mommy I a cootie!"Meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078107861162767297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1702264513223606597.post-66297325230500265632013-02-03T17:28:00.001-08:002013-02-03T17:28:25.505-08:00Super Bowl SundayWe had a very low key super bowl Sunday this year. Just us and the kids hanging out at home. We decided to have a Digiorno pizza. I of course had a coupon. Paige and I went to Giant to pick up our pizza. While we were at Giant the boys decided to do some baking.<br />
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While at the store they had football balloons on clearance. Now I like a clearance and the kids love balloons so it was a win win in my book. Something to make our super bowl just a little special. :)<br />
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Go football! Alan was yelling at the tv and the kids were right there yelling with him. It was too funny. If Alan cheered they cheered. They started clapping for anything that happened on the tv. very cute.<br />
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The kids are now in bed and this is how Alan and I are enjoying the commercials......I mean the game....yea the game that's it. ;)Meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078107861162767297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1702264513223606597.post-68870506822597887082013-02-02T20:14:00.000-08:002013-02-02T20:14:13.067-08:00Stop....Hammer timeThat's right it was Home Depot day again. Today we took the kids to Home Depot to build Valentines boxes. Paige was really into hammering this time and was upset when she was finished. Of course we had lots of fun and have some cute boxes to show for it!<br />
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Levi with his protective eye wear. He thought they were fun to play with.<br />
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We did it! We made some cute mail boxes!<br />
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Now we add paint. Notice Daddy cleaning up Paige's hair. She decided pink was her color! Hahaha.<br />
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The finished product. :)<br />
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We decided to hang them by our basement door. Now I have a place to put love notes for them.<br />
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I added some letter stickers for their names. I think they turned out really cute and I can't wait to leave little notes for them!<br />
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We love this program that Home Depot does. I highly suggest going if you have little kids. They do it the first Saturday of every month. Next month is a race car. My boys are going to love that one! I can't wait!Meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078107861162767297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1702264513223606597.post-63335618537082404212013-02-01T17:56:00.003-08:002013-02-01T17:56:32.471-08:00February!?!I can't believe it is February already! Today we spent the day at home. It was laundry day. Fun stuff! For a change of pace today after lunch we cleaned up our toys and I let them watch Barney in Mommy and Daddy's bed. They looked so cute snuggled together.<br />
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Don't let those cute faces fool you. They are little devils they are!<br />
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Today I also dug out some dress up clothes that I had stashed. Paige had a blast dressing up all day long. She was all sorts of different characters. It was pretty neat seeing her little imagination going. Tonight after dinner Levi decided he was going to dress up.<br />
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Doesn't he make a cute Dorothy!?! I need to show the kids The Wizard of Oz. I think they would really like it. Perhaps we will have to watch it with Grammy. It's one of her favorites!Meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078107861162767297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1702264513223606597.post-80301580819519761232013-01-31T18:51:00.005-08:002013-01-31T18:51:48.014-08:00JackOn Tuesday we finally got to meet Jack. Jack is an absolutely adorable little boy who is the son of my sister's best friend Fay. He is not shy at all. He came barging into the house and ready to play claiming toys as his along the way. Gotta love 2 year olds! The kids got along with him great (aside from the who owned which toy thing) It was great to finally meet him and I really hope that we can have another play date soon. Let's not wait 2 more years ok!?!<br />
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They all decided to play dress up. Jack was very insistent on wearing one of Paige's dresses. Let me tell you he worked that dress! <br />
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Isn't he the cutest! I don't think Paige was totally convinced that he should be in her dress though. Hahaha.<br />
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Hooray for play dates with friends! Maybe next time it will be at Kristen's new house! :)Meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078107861162767297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1702264513223606597.post-6560576561220437922013-01-26T19:34:00.001-08:002013-01-26T19:34:39.011-08:00ChiliTonight was our annual chili cook off at church. We missed it last year because we were sick. I was excited to go this year. People cook either chili or BBQ and enter it in the competition. I entered our chili recipe, that I got from my friend Liss, in the cook off 2 years ago and won third place. I had big plans to enter this year. Then I got scheduled to work. So it was all up to Alan. I came home from work today to the house smelling like chili. It smelled good! (and this is coming from someone who doesn't really eat chili)<br />
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I had the task of revamping the winners hats. They were sad looking and kinda falling apart. I wish I had gotten a before picture but I added lights to the chili hat and prettied up the BBQ hat.<br />
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Here are the new and improved hats!<br />
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The chili hats. It has 2 battery packs to power it's lights. Next year I plan on getting all red lights to replace the rainbow colors. :)<br />
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The barbeque hat. Or perhaps we should call it the Barbeque crown now! :)<br />
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My Dad's barbershop quartet form the Bucks Country Gentlemen preformed. I love when my Dad's group sings. If you ever need singers for anything contact them because they are awesome! The even do singing Valentine's! (hint hint Alan :P )<br />
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The kids did some drawing on a blackboard. Kinda funny since a lot of school no longer have these. How long till kids don't know what a chalkboard is?<br />
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Getting ready to announce the winners! I actually judge the barbeque every year. This year there was only 2 entries. There were 4 judges. The barbeques tied.....twice. We had to go to a 5th person to break the tie!<br />
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Clapping for the winner!<br />
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Alan! He was so surprised! He has never made chili before. I guess he can make a mean chili! Way to go Alan! :)<br />
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He looks good in the hat right? Now he has to wear the hat to church tomorrow! Hahaha. Meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078107861162767297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1702264513223606597.post-49792825400640892712013-01-24T20:26:00.002-08:002013-01-24T20:26:52.800-08:00Fun dayToday was a fun day spent at home keeping warm. Miss Melanie and Doug came to visit us today. They came with some awesome news. They are going to have a little girl! I am so excited for them! <br />
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The kids got out their tablets to show Melanie their games.<br />
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We had a nice visit. I really wished we lived closer so we could see them more. I can't wait to meet their little girl. 20 more weeks!<br />
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This evening Paige decided she wanted her nails painted. I of course had no problem with this. Of course we all know what that means. The boys wanted theirs done too. Mommy can only paint so fast so we had to recruit Alan to the painting team. He did a great job!<br />
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See that talent!?! He has a kid in his lap and he is painting anothers toes. Who said men can't multitask!? lol<br />
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Showing off our awesome nails. Paige told me she is just like a ballerina now. Although almost anything makes her a ballerina but hey whatever works!Meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078107861162767297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1702264513223606597.post-85423710033967754092013-01-24T20:19:00.001-08:002013-01-24T20:19:54.394-08:00The Complete set!I have been trying to get the kids Toy Story jammies. I started out with jammies that looked like Buzz Lightyear for Nathan. After a couple months I found Jesse jammies on clearance at Kohls. Well this past Monday I bit the bullet and bought Woody jammies for Levi thus completing the set. They were too funny when we put them on last night. They ran around the house quoting their characters phrases looking all cute in their cute jammies.<br />
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See how cute they look! And they even held hands! Whoa!<br />
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Batman photo bombed! lolMeganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078107861162767297noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1702264513223606597.post-58485884513530910812013-01-21T20:17:00.000-08:002013-01-21T20:17:29.858-08:00Thank you for being my friendHere is a little story about a girl. That girl just happens to be me. Girl meets boy and they fall in love. Eventually they get married and decide to start a family. After we got super pregnant (hehe) we were in the waiting room one day for one of our many visits when I came across a magazine. It was by The Bump. I decided to come home and look up this website. www.thebump.com. Little did I know that I would meet someone who I am incredibly proud to call my friend.<br />
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The bump is a spin off of The knot which I used when we were getting married. Only when I was using the knot I knew nothing about message boards. After playing around on the bump a while I found the message boards. There are a lot of them! They have them for how pregnant you are, for how old your child is, for multiples, trying to conceive, infertility, the list goes on and on. On these boards I met a core group of ladies that I started to do live chats with. In that group I met Liss.<br />
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Liss is my Canadian friend who I have yet to meet in person. We have been talking and texting for almost 3 years now. She has a son who is almost 2 months older than my trio. She is such a strong person who has been through so much these past few years. I admire her because no matter what is thrown at her she just picks herself up and continues on. She likes to do random acts of kindness for strangers just because she wants to brighten someones day. She is funny, witty, and an awesome Mom to her little boy.<br />
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Today it was my day she brightened. I went out on a shopping day with my cousin Beth. I called Alan on my way home just to say hi and see how everyone was doing. That was when I was told there was something waiting for me at home. Guess what I found!?!<br />
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She sent me this lovely flower arrangement! I absolutely love it. I never get flowers so being told there were flowers waiting for me at home totally threw me for a loop. Thank you so much Liss. I love them.<br />
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Some day I will meet Liss in person. Then I will be able to give her a real hug and not just an e-hug. All I need is my passport. Then it is off to Canada I go.....eh. lol.Meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078107861162767297noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1702264513223606597.post-57541310840081796072013-01-20T18:10:00.000-08:002013-01-20T18:10:08.482-08:00Happy Birthday Grammy!Today was Grammy's birthday! We tried to make it super special for her. First the kids made special cards just for Grammy.<br />
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The kids were so excited to give them to Grammy. We took them with us to church and Grammy and Pop-pop arrived right after us. We couldn't get them out of their car seats fast enough so they could give them to her! They were so proud of their cards.<br />
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After their nap we went to Grammy and Pop-pop's house We of course brought Grammy some presents!<br />
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Of course the kids were right there to help! I asked the kids what we should get Grammy for her birthday. Levi said she wanted Tick Tock (from Jake and the Neverland Pirates) Nathan thought she would like Ariel just like Paige. And Paige said we should get her pink. Interesting choices I must say!<br />
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A family photo session! We are going to do an extended family photo session this Spring/Summer. It has been a long time since we had a family photo with my parents, my sisters, and I. We will of course also be adding in Alan and the kids as well as Travis and Shawn. It should be a fun time!<br />
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Happy Birthday Grammy! We hope you had a fantastic day! :)Meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078107861162767297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1702264513223606597.post-16086882449951775602013-01-18T19:06:00.000-08:002013-01-18T19:06:12.572-08:00ShoppingNow I love a good deal. I am the type of person who starts shopping for Christmas....the day after Christmas. I like the clearance rack. One good clearance sale I try to hit every year is Target. The mark the toys they don't keep year round ridiculously low. I love it. Yesterday they marked their clearance toys 70% off. I had to go! We decided tonight to take the kids out to use some of their gift cards and really just get out of the house for a bit. First stop was Toys R Us. The kids got gift cards there for Christmas and I had a couple duplicate things I needed to return. We then let them each pick out a toy to use their gift cards on.<br />
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We started on the "girl" side looking at Barbie's and Princess stuff for Paige. She stopped at everything and tried to load up her arms with whatever she could carry! Hahaha. She finally settled on a Little Mermaid toy. Then we walked around to look at the games for the tablet. We decided to wait till they go on sale! Then off to the Spiderman and Batman aisles. Levi found a remote control batmobile that he had to have. Alan also saw this and I can honestly say I am not sure who is more excited to play with it Levi or Alan. My bets are with Alan though because I don't think Levi quite understands what all it can do yet. Last but not least we traveled to the cars section. Because Nathan doesn't have enough cars. He selected a 20 car matchbox set. I tried to sway him to something different but he had his heart set on it. We also got Doc McStuffins on DVD. All in all not too bad and we still have money left!<br />
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Next up we stopped at the Mall. Mainly because we can't go to Montgomeryville without visiting the Mickey store! I really wanted to get a pair of Woody pj's there for Levi. We have a set of Buzz and a set of Jesse. I need to finish the trio with a set of Woody but they didn't have his size. They did however have Spiderman ones we may have to eventually get. I ended up getting something that is more for me than the kids. I got a stamp set that I can use in their scrapbooks and stuff. I mean I guess I can let them play with it too. lol.<br />
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Last up was Target. We also had gift cards leftover from their birthday to use there. What is interesting is that at Toys R US we were looking at a Tinkerbell innotab game for $25. We found it at Target on clearance for $7! awesome find! We also got a Jake toy for $12 that was originally $40! Whoa! See why I love their sales!?! We got some awesome stuff.<br />
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I am hoping they forgot they saw some of these things so I can put them away for a later date. We shall see tomorrow! We will have fun playing with some of our new things tomorrow. Can't wait!<br />
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On the griddle first was a Batman on the right per Nathan's request. On the left is a spider web for Spiderman. Levi has a thing for Spiderman right now.<br />
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The spider web didn't quite make the flip.<br />
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Paige asked for Ariel. If you look really hard you can see her fin and her hair flowing. Look really hard now! Haha. Both Alan and I worked together to create this masterpiece! <br />
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While Alan was cooking Levi was building. He got these magnet tiles for Christmas and builds things with them every day. He loves to build houses and garages for his cars. "take a picture of my house Mommy!" He is so proud.<br />
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Tonight was our cookie meeting for Girls Scouts. All the girls got their starter packs of cookies for our cookie sale! The sale starts this Thursday the 17th. Look for a Girl Scout after Thursday and buy your cookies!Meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078107861162767297noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1702264513223606597.post-63565265304737673592013-01-14T18:56:00.002-08:002013-01-14T18:56:26.984-08:00Spaghetti nightWe have been doing well with the nightly dinners. We have also had some success getting them to eat more things. Up until now I joked around calling my kids vegetarians because they wouldn't touch meat! Tonight We had spaghetti and meatballs. A staple in Alan's diet and something that most people love. Notice how I said most. Now I will admit it is not my favorite thing but I will eat it on occasion. 2 out of 3 of my children however acted as if we were trying to poison them! Now I always give them something to eat that they like and once they finish it and they want more they have to take a bite of the actual dinner. Paige and Nathan both inhaled their crackers and instantly wanted more. Meanwhile Levi decided he loved meatballs and was just eating those. After Alan showed him how to slurp the noodles which he thought was the greatest thing. He ate seconds!<br />
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Like father like son. This is an Alan face through and through!<br />
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And what the other 2 thought of spaghetti night. I hope they get on the eating wagon soon!Meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078107861162767297noreply@blogger.com0