Sunday, January 22, 2012

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Sunday afternoon I happened to get on Facebook,and saw where our pastor had posted that Jim Bob Duggar would be speaking that night! I got really excited because Zoe,and I love their show 19 Kids and Counting. We were having a study on our role as a Christian,and politics. Jim Bob,and Michelle ( his wife) spoke about how they got involved in politics. Zoe was so excited to meet them. Four of their children came with them too. She made sure to get everyone’s autograph.

 

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Monday night I met with my Life group,and we jumped into the book of James. There is a lot I can learn from this book!

When I got home from bible study Corey had cooked dinner. He made HOMEMADE chicken and dumplings. He kneaded the dough,and everything! I was VERY impressed.

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Tuesday

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All 3 kids did great on their report cards. Zoe is the only one who would let me take a picture.

 

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Wednesday

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Noah drew a portrait of me. Please tell me I really don’t look like that..lol ;)

 

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Thursday

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I decided to get back in the coupon game,and thanks to my friend,Summer I have a lot of coupons.

 

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Friday

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Friday was awards day at Zoe,and Noah’s school. I had/have a lot of mommy guilt about not going:(   I only work 4 hours a day,and that is from 8:30-12:30. I feel bad to take the whole day off to go to awards. But I made them a promise that I would go the next 9 weeks. We are so proud of all of our children!

 

We were getting ready to go out for dinner on Friday night when I came across a picture on Facebook. A friend that lives,and ministers in Uganda had posted it. It literally made me sick at my stomach.

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This orphan child was found in Northern Uganda,and is VERY malnourished. I felt so guilty,and ashamed that we were about to go have dinner while this child has been starving. They sent a team for him,and he is now in a hospital where they are trying to save his life. All I could think is that this could have been our sweet Charlotte  if the neighbors hadn’t have taken  her in.  My heart aches to go back to Uganda, and if God’s allows I will be going back in October.

 

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Saturday

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My first week back in the coupon game,and I spent $45.00 at Publix. I don’t think I did too bad.

 

It’s never too late join in. Just visit Sara at Project 365.

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Sunday, January 15, 2012

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Noah turned 11 on Sunday,and we celebrated with a small party at the grandparents.

 

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Monday

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I was sooo excited to pick this package up! It had my new camera in in!

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Noah had a check up with the orthodontist. 

 

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Tuesday

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My favorite snack of the week! These are so good!

 

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Wednesday

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Kain got a Kindle for Christmas,and this has already happened to it! Thankfully, the people at Amazon were awesome,and sent us a brand new one!

 

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Thursday

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We opened our last Christmas presents on Thursday with my friend,Melissa. We just haven’t had the time to get together,but better late than never. She ended up getting me a wireless printer! I was so excited!

 

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Friday

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Friday we celebrated Rhonda’s birthday with a surprise dinner at  Kanpai.

 

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On Saturday we celebrated sweet Tanner’s 1st birthday!

It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since we were about shocked to death with his arrival! See all along the doctors told my friend she was having a girl. So you can see why we were all surprised when she came out a he..lol.

 

You too can join in on the fun by visiting Sara!

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Sunday, January 8, 2012

Happy Birthday Noah!

Happy 11th Birthday Noah!

    We celebrated Noah’s birthday with a hunting theme. He loves to hunt,and anything that can happen outdoors. We invited a few of his friends home with us after church. We kept it really simple,and served pizza for lunch.

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After everyone got stuffed full of pizza we did the cake! Of course we had to have a deer hunter cake:)

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He was thinking of a wish.

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When it was time to blow the candles out my 2 year old nephew decided he wanted to do it..lol.

So we had to have a re-do:)

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Everyone was ready to head outside to shoot BB guns,and the bow. Of course Corey gave a safety lesson,and showed them how to handle everything. Most of them listened,and no one shot their eye out ;)

 

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I guess Noah shoots better when his mouth is open.

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Some practiced safety a little more than others.

 

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This is how we do birthday parties in the south!

Saturday, January 7, 2012

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I decided to give this a try this year. I started last year,but didn’t do it very long. I am hoping this makes me use my camera more for my family. I seem to always photograph everyone else,and not my own family. It takes a lot to purposely pick up your camera,and take a photo. So I guess we will see what happens:)

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Sunday

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After we got back from Nashville I wanted to get caught up on my blog. I still need to do one post about our trip.

 

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Monday

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Monday none of us got out of our pajamas all day! The kids were out of school,and Corey was off from work so we watched movies all day long.

 

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Tuesday

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Tuesday I tried a new recipe that Ms. Diane gave me, It was hash brown casserole,and it was good!

 

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Wednesday

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Wednesday night all of our activities started back at church.

 

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Thursday

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Zoe had cheer practice to get ready for the competition on Saturday.

 

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Friday

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Even though all the Christmas stuff is finally put away Zoe insists on keeping her tree. She says it’s her nightlight.

 

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Saturday

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Zoe competition in the Queen City Classic in Concord, NC. They came in 2nd place! Way to go Kitty Kats!

 

If you want to join in on the fun please visit Sara over at Project 365.

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Sunday, January 1, 2012

Happy New Year’s!

We celebrated in our hotel room in Nashville! There we not a lot of family friendly options for NYE. So we had our own party. We had Chinese takeout for dinner,and saw two countdowns! We were going to do the countdown with New York,but we missed it by about 2 minutes. So we stayed up to countdown with Nashville.

 

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