Marie turned 3 years old...6 months ago...

so its taken me 6 months to post about marie's birthday parties...oh well...such is the life of a wife and momma

party #1 with Gramma and Grampa
(and the rest of the gang)

we took the whole family to see the circus - which was oh so fun!  the kids loved it!  the pictures didn't really turn out - i guess strobe lighting isn't good for picture taking ;D

trapeze artists

tiger tamers (eben's favorite part)

our picnic at olympic park :)

party #2 with Mimi and Grandaddy

an almost too exciting birthday candle blowing...

her most favorite thing of all these days

party #3 on march 31 

(her actual birthday)

eben doing his version of baking a cake ;D

pots and pans! yay!!

 

  

 it's a baby potty! yay!!!

big girl panties!! (do you sense a theme? HA)             the Rapunzel movie (and toy lizard)!

coupon coupon i got a coupon

so i've jumped on the coupon bandwagon and am really starting to "get" it!  it's been a few months now since i've started and i'm just now at the point where i am saving a good bit of money with it. : D

i am SO excited about my trip this morning!!  i went to publix (their sale is a GREAT one this week) and spent a WHOPPING $1.83!!!  which really saved me since it's the end of the month and i'm always low on cash at the end of the month.

i bought
19 boxes of pasta
18 cans of veggies
2 bags of frozen veggies
2 bags of rice
1 bag of sugar
1 box of meds

i bought mostly what was on sale (saving $28.90 off of the retail price)
i used  coupons which totaled $34.80 (mostly printed from the internet, a few from the sunday paper)

i saved $63.70!  i am really starting to just love couponing!!!

my all time favorite website is SouthernSavers.com and she does ALL the work for me - coupon matchups, sale ads, deal alerts...everything.

you ALL should give couponing a try!!! it will take a few months to really get the hang of it and be able to buy only the sale items...but it is definitely worth it. :)

YAY for saving my pennies and watching them add up.

friday funnies

a too funny conversation right before bedtime. :)

me (thinking i smelled something unpleasant): marie...did you dirty your diaper?

marie: no.  i fine.

me (still smelling something unpleasant): marie, do you need a diaper change?

marie: no.  mamma shange my biaper.

me: gramma changed your diaper?

marie:  yeah.  mamma shange my biaper.

me: marie - you haven't seen gramma since yesterday.

marie.  **pause**  oh.

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as eben got off the school bus he put his play spy phone up to his ear and said:

"sorry mom.  can't talk.  i'm on the phone with my ghost enemy."

then he went into the house without another word to me!

silly boy.  ghost enemy.  sheesh.

too funny to wait til friday

at a wedding reception this past weekend, emily jane and a friend (boy)were walking around holding hands.  they wandered into the sanctuary where one of the women from the church went up to them and said that they could get married next.  to this emily jane looked at her friend then replied:

well, i'm not QUITE ready.


HAHA  good thing!!  she's only 4!!!

friday funnies

tonight before bedtime i told the kids that whoever made the mess needed to go clean it up really quickly.

emily jane: i made it.  it's a really big mess.  i don't think i can clean it up by myself.

eben: yes you can.  i have faith in you.

HAHA!

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marie's latest thing...

marie: mommy mommy mommy!!  guess what?  mommy mommy mommy! guess what?

me: what?

then she just smiles and says it again.  and again.  and again. i guess she likes me looking at her and saying what?  either that or she has done something completely mischevious and loves not telling me what it is. ;D

1 day and 2 challenges

god's growing me in mighty ways today.

challenge #1
i love my cbs group!  today was the first day and i thoroughly enjoyed it!  i have been missing and longing in a spiritual way and was completely satisfied today.  wednesdays just might be my new favorite day. :)
challenge: i am a wife.  am i BEING a holy wife? i am a mother. am i BEING a holy mother? i am a sister.  am i BEING a holy sister?  i am a daughter.  am i BEING a holy daughter? i am a friend. am i BEING a holy friend.  what an awesome challenge.  rhett - sermon material right there!!

challenge #2
emily jane stole for the first time today.  she was really admiring something in rhett's office and i saw her put it in her pocket.  i held my hand out and she handed it right over (which shows she knew she couldn't take it).  i said taking something that is not yours is called stealing.  god says do not steal.  if you'd like to look at it for a minute you may ask daddy.  she asked, he said yes. i forget all bout it.  later in the car in the backseat i over hear her say to marie "sshh.  don't tell mommy." i turn around and what does she have in her hand?  the thing she was told not to take!!! UTURN in the middle of the road - marched right back into daddy's office - with her still holding what she had stolen.  big talk...big trouble...big tears.  *sigh*  i was shown the sinfulness of my children yet again today.  we had another talk on the way home for the 2nd time about how we aren't to steal because god says not to.  if we want something we have to earn it and pay for it.  if we take something that isn't ours then when they need it they don't have it and they have to use their money to go buy another one.  i told her if she was a big helper around the house she could save up her allowance money and go buy her very own.  which perked her up.  and which is why it is now time to get off my blog because she is standing right here staring at me waiting for me to give her some chores to do. :D yay for mommy's big helper.
challenge: train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he will not depart from You.

friday funnies

we went to wendys at the airport and they forgot to make the kids' burgers plain.  this was their reply.



marie: bluk!

emily jane: i guess they did it their way instead of our way.

eben: yeah.  i guess they forgot and didn't try to remember.


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our neice lost her tooth over christmas.  mimi told her she might put some money under her pillow for her tooth.  she said "you'd give me money for my tooth?!"  and mimi told her to check her nightstand in the morning.  then she said "you can leave a one or a twenty.  whichever you want."

HAHAHA

wordless wednesday

came downstairs from wrapping presents and found a sock taped to my tv.  i laughed out loud.

friday funnies

me: eben, is your chocolate milk good?

eben:  BETTER THAN MY WHOLE LIFE!!!

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emily jane's monologue while riding in the car and passing by a golf course...

there a field!  

it's like the field by grandma's house!  

that's a nice hockey field. 

it doesn't have horses though.

grandma's hockey field has horses.

horses would make that hockey field better.

oh look!

it has a nice gate.

that is a lot nicer than grandma's gate.

but i like horses better than gates.

marie, did you see that hockey field?

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eben: mommy, more chocolate milk please!

marie: mommy, beben wan' teet tee!

eben: no marie, not sweet tea.  chocolate milk.

marie: oh! beben wan' chok tee?

eben: (giggling) no, not chocolate tea. chocolate milk!

marie: oh! chok muk! ok!  mommy, beben wan' chok muk!

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and just for laughs.....i found this website that has made rhett and i bust out laughing.  we've had a little too much fun with it.  but this is definitely the funniest ecard they have.  cracks me up!

wordless wednesday