Preschool is at Pizza Hut!

Well, sadly enough preschool has come to an end.  Two of the kiddos are off to Kindergarten! So as a last field trip together we all went to Pizza Hut and learned how they make their pizzas and got to make our own and eat them in the restaurant! So fun!

The kids on the tour

Kaylynn loved making her own pizza and putting whatever she wanted on it!

Madison even got in on the action! (I was holding her so she could reach, thus the crazy angle!)

Patiently (and I mean patiently!) waiting for their pizzas to cook.

YUM!

We have truly loved our preschool group, it has been a great two years!

How I got through this semester...

I have had a lot of people ask me how I "do" school with two young kiddos.

Here's the answer:

Don't worry, we are making up all that time in front of the TV by being outside a ton, well as much as possible.  This weather is driving us all nuts! Can somone please tell the weather it is JUNE!

Kaylynn's birthday present for Mommy!

This is the sweetest girl in the whole world! When she woke up she told me she had a present for me that she did last night in her bed and that she would tell me at breakfast.  So we are sitting at the table and she tells me, "I was trying to get the crickets to sing to you while you goed to sleep last night. (sigh) But the crickets had a hard time doing it."

That's the sweetest birthday present ever! (and to top it off, so far today she has had her "listening ears" on!) yay!

I have a ton of posts to do, but it's my birthday and I totally plan on relaxing during their naptime today.  I just had to post this conversation before I forgot it!  So cute!

He Did It!!!!

I don't think I can properly express how incredibly proud I am of my extremely hardworking husband.  Seriously, the man is amazing.  His original plan was to come home from his mission, finish college, work for a few years and then settle down and get married and have kids.  Well, we were married before he started his first semester of college,  a year and a half later we had Kaylynn and two and a half years later we had Madison.  Oh and he has supported me in my education as well. The first three years he worked full time and went to school fulltime and for the last two years he has been able to work part time while we lived with my parents. It has been a very long and hard journey but looking back I don't think we would change a thing.  Our hard work is paying off, I say our becuase I feel like the whole family graduated along with him!  Through all of this Chad rarely complained about the lack of sleep or not getting as much work done becuase his girls wanted his attention.  He has done an amazing job juggling all of his responsibilities and the girls and I are so grateful to have Chad in our lives. 

Do I look like a seriously proud wife? And yes, I cried...I'm just so proud of him!

This was Kaylynn before the ceremony started.

Chad, looking for us in the crowd, the girls got a huge kick out of him waving to them!

The ceremony was incredibly inspirational and beautiful.

There's our college graduate! Can you spot him?

Chad's dad was able to come up for his graduation. we really loved having him here and Kaylynn is still asking for Grandpa to come back!

We had a fun party that afternoon with family and friends...I enjoyed it instead of taking pictures of it.  But I caught this one of Kaylynn...the desserts were a hit!

Chad graduated on Saturday, May 15th and on Monday the 17th he started his fulltime job as a tax accountant.  In June we close on our first home. We are all healthy and happy.  The blessings are literally being poured down upon us, life is truly beautiful.

Feeling all Grown Up!

See this beauty?  Well on June 25th, it will be ours!  All 2510 sq ft and four bedrooms of it!

We are so excited to own our own home! This will be a very exciting new adventure! You can expect lots of pictures of it when we get all moved in and decorate the place!

We are definitely feeling the outpour of blessings from our Heavenly Father, Chad graduates in 2 days, he has a fulltime job as a Tax Accountant starting Monday, we found an amazing house.  Life is good, REAL good right now! I am so excited that my next post will be about Chad's graduation! We have been dreaming about this day for years and although it has been hard, especially with having a family, it has been so worth it!

Slightly Addictive (but in a good way!)

So I started couponing about 6 months ago.  I only coupon for non food items because we live with my folks and put money towards the food every month and my mom does most of the grocery shopping (she is a couponing pro, seriously! and yes I do love not having to go grocery shopping very often!)  A couple of weeks ago I got the idea that I wanted to take a picture of everything I have gotten for free (only paid tax on)over the last six months. 

I mean look at all that stuff!

And this is all stuff in my stockpile, not even counting all of the stuff we have already used! I also didn't get the 5 snuggle fabric softeners and Baby Alive baby doll pictured.

If you have any questions about couponing visit the right side of my blog! lol I will get off my soapbox now, but first I just want to say that this post is not meant to boast, couponing has blessed my life so much in the last few months that I wanted to share it and maybe show some skeptics out there that it does work! And, it was hard at first and no I don't feel the need to get every deal there is every week. In fact during this semester I have missed many deals because I didn't have the time.  But if I can spend time every week saving money instead of having to get a job to help out, I would much rather do something that I think is fun.  Warning: it IS slightly addictive!

Thatcher the Guinea Pig

We decided Kaylynn is old enough to help take care of a pet and after a lot of research we decided that a guinea pig would be a good fit for us.  We had so much fun picking the perfect little guy out at the pet store and we came home with the very adorable and fun Thatcher!

If you are wondering how he got his name, Thatcher is or should I say was on Chad's list of potential boy names and I have never been fond of it...so Chad said he would be okay if we named the guinea pig Thatcher and I would be off the hook for having to consider it as a boy name!

If you randomly stopped by our house you would see a huge pile of unfolded laundry Madison sitting in front of Thatcher's cage, she loves to watch him play!

He's such a cutie!

Kaylynn is in charge of feeding him everday and she holds him a few times a day as well.