Hello again, sorry for the delay in blogging. We've been experiencing some major computer issues, like getting a new computer and then a couple weeks later the hard drive no longer worked, so I lost everything on that and now we have that taken care of but then I (my dad) had to reinstall alot of things, so hopefully now we will be up and running like new again.

Hope you are all having a great summer. We are having fun so far and we've been busy, which helps!

Well, it looks like I've been tagged 2 or 3 times but I'm only going to give you 5 interesting facts, because there is not that much interesting stuff about me!

1. I'm a little addicted to computer games and I love to play webkinz! My kids bought me a webkinz for Christmas so now I can say I have my own too! Needless to say with my computer down for ahile I was in withdraw but it gave me the opportunity to do a little cleaning around my house. That leads to number 2

2. I hate cleaning. I love to have a clean house, but I'm not the best housekeeper in the world. So. . . if any of you are looking to clean for free, give me a call. I'd rather play with my kids, play on the computer, or read, anything other than cleaning.

3. I love to scrapbook! I would love to have more time for this, however that is pretty near impossible cuz I hate hauling out all of my stuff to work on it for an hour or so every couple days. I need a weekend away, how about you?

4. When I eat ice cream, I love to put in the microwave for about 10 seconds so its nice and soft and then I stir it up so its soupy and then I eat it. I think I do this because I have sensitive teeth and I hate biting into cold ice cream.

5. Because I live with a house full of boys and testosterone, I have had to learn to adapt to new things in life. Like. . . I love to go fishing with them as long as they put the worm on the hook for me and take the fish off! We also have the privilege of owning two chickens which we got from school. And I go canoeing with them cuz Mark made a canoe this past winter, which you will see in the pictures. Yes, I have come out of my comfort zone a little bit, but that's ok cuz I love all my boys and I want to do things with them and be a fun mom!


Some pictures will come later, cuz I'm running out of time right now! So long for now.

Savings Angel

OK, so some of you know that I'm a big Savings Angel freak now and might be a little sick of hearing about it, but it's just so exciting when you get so many items for a decent price. Last week I went to Meijers and paid $127.00 and saved $116.00, I had 35 coupons, and it's so fun to see the price get lower and lower. I got 95 items my grocery cart was overflowing and so are my shelves in the basement. Here are some pictures, that I took of some of my shelves, which may be hard to see, but it is so cool to go shopping in my own basement. If you're interested in checking out what Savings Angel is all about I have a link right from my blog.

Congratulations Liz, Rodney & Big Brother Landon!!

My really good friend Liz had her baby this past Tuesday and I wanted to share her with all of you. Her name is Olivia Marie - Isn't she cute!!!

Update on the Mommy Duck

Hello everyone, yesterday we found some eggs that were thrown out of the nest that have hatched. It looks like there are only three, I'm not sure if they all hatch at different times or what. This is all very new too me. Mommy must be sitting on the new ducks cuz we don't see any yet.

Toothless Grin

Isaac lost his two bottom teeth and he looks so cute,
I just wanted to share it with you!

Look at what Isaac found today!!!

While I was busy cleaning and vacuming the van, Isaac ran to me and said there is a dead momma duck in the back yard. So I went to check this out not sure of what I was going to see, but as I looked a little more, it moved. It was sitting in a nest that she must have built, which looked soft and comfy. She was nesting under the kids' swingset play yard. So now we have to wait paitiently to see the baby ducks! How fun to have our own little science project in our own backyard.

Happy Birthday Levi

Our baby is now 3 years old, where did that time go?? Anyways we celebrated his birthday on Easter Sunday with both families. Levi loves the movie Cars, so Cars was the theme this year and almost everything he got was Cars related - books, a beach towel, and a sweatshirt which he is wearing in one of the pictures. All of the cousins on Mark's side had to get in on one of the pictures too!