Official Pic

The hospital photo folks never showed, so we dressed him up and took one anyway. A little red eye, but at least they were open.

Lincoln Albert

Fresh from l'hopital:

8# 15 oz. 21.75" 10:35AM

Baby Names

We have been discussing baby names. Abi has been set on the name Lincoln. I had a friend tell me that she lived near a town and they called it stinkin Lincoln. Abi heard me tell this story to someone else. Now when you ask her what she wants to name her baby brother she says Stinkin Lincoln. I don't know that we are headed in the right direction.

Kinky Hair

Little princess wanted her day in the sun. She is excited about her kinky hair, and knowing that she will have it when I take her braid out is the only way she will let me take it out. She is always very upset after bath when it has been washed out.

Toothless

She decided she didn't want her tooth in anymore, so came and asked Rob to pull it out. Two yanks later and she is toothless. She was so excited, and is hoping for $550 from the tooth fairy.

Free Budget software

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Usborne Books and More

I am so excited to tell everyone that Usborne books now has a new name with the same great product and more. They recently bought a small publishing company called Miller Kane. They are best known for a book called Everyone Poops. We used this book to potty train all of our kids. Anyways I have many of the books now and love them. They are such cute books and the kids love them too. So now not only can you purchase the wonderful Usborne books from me, you can also choose from over 100 more new titles. You can look on my website at www.readonemore.com. If you want to see all the new titles click on the new titles link. If you haven't heard of Usborne books they are the best educationally fun books around. One of the best things is that you can get them for free too. I became a consultant a year ago and have enjoyed sharing them with many families. I also earned a trip to Rome! If you would like to know more about these great books let me know.

I'm not having twins

I went to the doctor today. I was reassured that I am not having twins nor do I look like it. I am measuring normal, and I only gained 4 pounds. I also got to have my glucose test, what fun, and shot in the back side that I flinched so bad the nurse was worried about me. Oh well, the good news is I'm not huge!

Parker likes coupons now too.

So this morning the kids found the cereal in the pantry, and Parker asked if it was all for us. I said yes and he said wow we will have cereal for a long time. Then I told him I got 8 boxes for a dollar and he was amazed and had to tell Londyn that I got all that for a dollar because I had lots of coupons. Then I told him about the table being full last night and he was further amazed, especially because one of the items was Chex mix and I never buy that stuff. I didn't tell him about the 15 boxes of fruit snacks. Maybe he will start collecting coupons, or I can get him to cut them all out.

Coupons!!!!!

Well I have a bunch of friends that have been telling me about their coupon experiences. They told me about a great site that posts lots of good deals. So I looked through it this evening printed out my coupons, because I haven't had time to store any up yet, and went to the store. I was a little worried about everything working correctly so I decided to try 2 of my 5 transactions and if those worked I would get the rest. Well after those worked and I ran my groceries to the car I went back for more. It was great when I came home and carried a few bags in with me, then told Rob to help me with the rest. He was a bit surprised with everything I had. Then he asked me for the grand total. It was less than $20. Here is a picture of everything that I got. It was quite fun and I even ran into someone I knew that was also there with lots of coupons. Fun new hobby and I got lots for my food storage. Krazy coupon lady is having a give away for lots of coupons, I hope I win so that I can have my own coupon binder. Check it out.



I got 8 boxes of cereal, 15 boxes of fruit snacks/roll ups, 14 cans of soup, 10 cake mixes, 5 cookie mixes, 3 tubs of frosting, 4 bags of chex mix, 5 biscut tubes, and 4 pasta boxes.

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Seriously!?!?!?!?

OK so I haven't posted in a while. But after tonight I thought I needed to share this with everyone. So we went to the temple tonight and I was waiting for Rob to go get the car. A lady who was leaving stopped and started talking to me. She said oh you don't look like you will be around for the temple to open. I didn't understand what she meant so I asked her. She replies well the temple opening is in two weeks, your due before then aren't you. I nicely told her no I still have 2 1/2 months to go. She then says oh well you must be having twins then. I said no I was not. She then goes on and says oh you sweet thing you must be feeling very pregnant right now. Then she leaves. Seriously!?! Am I really that huge? Like I can control how big I get. Why would someone go on talking after they have already insulted me? Some guy had almost the exact conversation with me when I was pregnant with Abi. Then another time at the temple while I was waiting to get dressed some lady came up to me and asked if I was 4 or 5 months along. I said no I wasn't pregnant. She says oh you must be postpartum then. I said year a year postpartum. What is it about me that says hey come tell me I look fat? I have decided I can no longer go out in public. And now I am going to go wallow in a carton of Rocky Road ice cream.

Sad Day

Last thursday was a sad day at our house for Parker and Londyn. I arrived home from work and Parker was tearfully telling the next-door-neighbors that he couldn't play with them because our rabbit Sparky had just died. He was bawling. I inquired as to why he was over at the neighbors and if there was something we could do to help Sparky. Was he really dead or just near death? Well, we went back to the cage and sure enough Sparky was gone... cold and stiff. Parker was distraught. Sharee and I had repeately warned Londyn and Parker to make sure he had enough to eat and drink, but I think Sparky starved to death. It was a sad thing.

Parker and Londyn wanted to bury him in the yard. Our yard is tiny and the only spot not covered by grass is the garden and we didn't think it would be good to rototill him up in the spring, so Sharee suggested Parker get a shoebox and prep a coffin for the little guy and have the garbage man take him and bury him in the dump. Parker proceeded to write a special note to the garbage man asking him to carry Sparky in the front so he wouldn't get squished in the back. His note said "Special Rabbit" please carry in the front of the truck. "Very Memorable." (keep in mind this is the poor animal the starved to death).
Well, the garbage man wouldn't take it because of the note. So it sat in the garage for a week and ended up going in the back of the truck anyay.

The sad thing was the poor rabbit died and the kids felt bad. You should have been here for it though.

Parker's car: The pinewood herbie:
4th place 2008 Pack 87.

I love pink!

Well after INTENSE pressure from my sister, who has just become a blogger, I have decided to take back our blog. I had a bit of fun with it today, when I should have been getting other stuff done. Oh well it is cute now. Rob may not like it all that much, but he is used to me getting my way. I think I may be better with posting to it now that I have moved things around and can navigate through the site better. Hope you all like it. More posts to come.

I have lost most of your phone numbers

In my rush to get home last week, I neglected to securely zip a pocket of my backpack. This is the result. While this phone wasn't the latest and greatest item, it did have iTunes and some fun features including fairly loud speakers. I'm trying to rebuild my phone book, so call me if you have my number and I'll add you back in... good excuse to see what's going on.

More snow

The last post was pretty lame with barely enough snow to amount to anything. It melted off and we got about 8 inches one Sunday morning. We shoveled the driveway snow into one pile in the front yard and more video below... As it turns out, we forgot about the superbowl and had fun without it. The neighbors came over and tried it out. Since our area is mostly flat, it was fun for a week or so to sled.

SnowJumps... back yard fun

So I have this video we made of sledding in our flat back yard with less than an inch of snow. I hope to have it posted soon. It is too big and taking too long to download... I don't know what format and what tool is best to reduce the file size and still maintain some measure of quality... anyone?

I figured I'd just cut 90% and put something up rather than be accused of all talk and no action.

Here it is:

4x

So today was a landmark day. Parker finished the "Mad Minute" 4x multiplication sheet (50 problems in 2.5 minutes with better than 70% correct. We raced a few times and he really didn't want to do it, but did it anyway. I'm pretty proud of him for it. He did one sheet and I did two. I finished and he didn't the first try. The second try, he did one and I did three. He almost finished it the second time. The third time I did 4 sheets and only made it through half of the last one. He finished while I was half way through the third sheet (30 seconds left). The fourth time was a gut check: Parker vs. the clock and he finished it with 100% and 1 second remaining. He's the man. He's here with me as I type this. Good luck with your math everyone. Parker is "Getting it" now.

Day After Christmas

Londyn really wanted to type, so here is her typing:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZI

We are well.

Christmas Eve

It rained a bit this morning and then it turned to snow rather quickly... a nice heavy wet snow perfect for snow men. We made 3 of them. Here is one: