Happy Anniversary!

9 years and 4 kids later, I am more in love with my husband than I ever thought I could be. I am so grateful to be married to such a wonderful man. He has made almost all my dreams come true (just waiting on my trip to Hawaii!) :)

Here's to many more wonderful years together!

Owen - 6 months

On the 11th of March, Owen turned 6 months old! I really can't believe he's already that old. It has gone by so fast. At his appointment, he weighed in at 15.4 lbs. and he is 25 1/2 inches tall. He is in the 15th percentile for both.

He is learning so many new things. He is eating cereal, veggies, and fruit. He LOVES to eat. He gets so excited when it's time to eat that his hands shake and he kicks his feet. It's so cute. Owen adores his big brother and sisters. They make him smile and laugh all the time. He makes them smile and laugh too. He is also sitting up on his own. He likes to empty out his toy basket and play with his ball train and ball toy. He likes to look at and play with himself in the mirror. When he is sitting, he grabs onto things and lifts his bum off the floor. He is going to be pulling himself to stand very soon. He also loves his binky. He can put it in his mouth all by himself, even at night when he wakes up. He sleeps through the night which we love.

Owen is such a wonderful baby and such a blessing in our lives. I can't imagine my life without him.

Show and Teach

Instead of Show and Tell, the kids had a Show and Teach. They got to each pick something to teach the class.

Aspen taught the class how to bow and curtsy like princes and princesses.

Brooke taught them how to make cookies using the Easy Bake Oven.

Connor taught them how to fight like a Jedi using Light Sabers. Darth Vader (aka Dave) made a surprise visit and the kids defeated him!

Way to go kids! You did a great job.

Disneyland!

We had such a great time at Disneyland with the Hupps! The only bad thing was that our whole family came down with a cold. We ended up staying an extra day because we felt too yucky to go to Disneyland one day. We already can't wait to go back! (How about September Dave?) Now that the kids are bigger they got to ride more rides. They loved Star Tours, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Space Mountain, and Soarin Over California. Brooke rode and loved Splash Mountain too. We also got to ride Haunted Mansion and Small World for the first time. They were closed the last time we went. We also treated ourselves to eating at the Blue Bayou. It was really cool and the food was delicious. $100 later...... it better be good! Dave got the Monte Cristo. We also got to see the Aladdin Musical spectacular. It was really good and so funny! Here are some pictures from our wonderful Vacation!

Huntington Beach and Rainforest Cafe






Disneyland and California Adventure

100's Day!

The triplets celebrated their 100th day of school last Friday. They had to make a shirt with 100 things on it. It took me 3 days to get them done. The kids helped though and I think they turned out pretty cute. I especially liked Connor's shirt. Totally my genius idea. I drew roads on his shirt, glued on about 9 toy cars, then glued on 91 sticker cars, and wrote "Speed Limit 100" on the front. They were very excited to wear them.

All my hard work went out the window when I walked in on Connor and Aspen ripping off their cars and hearts not 30 minutes after school was over! Oh well. At least I got pictures first!

Beinstein

Owen watched his first Baby Einstein video. (Well some of it.) He was so adorable sitting in his Bumbo watching tv. How bad of a mom am I that Owen is watching tv already? The girls liked watching it too.

Proof That Coupons Work

This is what I bought at Smith's a couple of weeks ago. There is so much! My original total for all of this goodness was about $220. After my Fresh Values Savings it dropped to $130. After my coupons I paid.........$66.27!!! How awesome is that? Most of this stuff I paid less than $1 for!

I made a return trip to Smith's the following week and picked up 5 tubes of Colgate toothpaste, 5 packages of I Can't Believe It's Not Butter sticks, 2 packages Goldfish crackers, 1 package Tyson chicken tenders, and 2 cartons Dreyer's ice cream. The original total on this was $45, after Fresh Values it was 28, and after coupons it came to.......$11.28!

This is such a great way to save money! I've never been so excited to grocery shop!