Tackle It Tuesday: Birthday updates

Well, since it was such a long weekend...I feel like it is Monday today! (Anyone else?) Anyway, today is going to be a much EASIER tackle (and it might not even classify as a T-it-T, but this is my blog..and I'll do it if I want to! ;) , since I have a lot of blogging to update!!

January 15th:
Grandpa Noel's birthday

We love you dad!

We also had our ultrasound today...it was pretty exciting..and a different post for it, since I have to scan the pictures into the computer!

January 17th:

I decided that I was going to do a birthday day for Luke today. I got a babysitter, without his knowledge, and we went to Cleats (restaurant) and then to see Valkyrie. It was a nice night without the kiddos! (BTW, that movie STILL haunts me a bit..don't really know why, other than our family is very closely related to WWII and Germany..and that there are some really EVIL people out there that like having control and power..scary!)

January 18th:
HAPPY 30th BIRTHDAY LUKE!!

We went to church, to a baptism and then had ice cream cake with friends. It was a nice relaxing Sabbath!

Happy Birthday Luke!! We are so thankful that we have such a supportive and loving father/husband/companion and friend! We love you!

I Never Grew Up

There is an AMAZING giveaway on the site: http://inevergrewup.net for a Double bumbleride stroller!! Check it out!

Challenge! Where do you shop?

Ok, so this isn't really a huge challenge, but more of a request! Luke and I are looking for some things for the baby. We got rid of the infant carseat, swing, and other things..dumb? No. The carseat had reached it's prime (we got it from a friend who had bought it off eBay and the travel system stroller that went with it broke a tire), the swing was from a friend (when livi was a baby) and it's motor didn't work...etc, etc.

SO?! We were wondering if any of you know of some good places to buy kids things. New, mostly new, whatever. We were at Babies R Us last night and we found 2 carseat/travel systems that we like and we don't mind paying the $200+ for them, but if there are other places we can look...we LOVE saving money!

We have looked on craigslist (it is HORRIBLE out here..Kiera, you are really lucky with the things from Chicago and Rachel, I don't know HOW you get such great stuff!!), eBay, Target.com, Babies R Us, Burlington/Baby Depot, etc.

So, we would like to look for:

-carseat (we actually prefer Graco) and travel system

-crib mattress (we have one, but spencer is using it in the toddler bed)

-SWING

-Bouncer (although we are probably going to get this from Kristin! :)

-Dresser

If you have any websites you LOVE to frequent that give good prices on New or mostly new things let us know!! Thanks!

Tackle it Tuesday: Franklin Planner writeup

The title come from the blog: 5 Minutes for Mom and I was inspired to actually do it from my friend Alisha. Since cleaning isn't my biggest accomplishment in life, these Tackle it Tuesdays are going to be very interesting!! I'm probably not going to post pictures of what needs to be done, but I'll just give updates..Basically you come up with something that needs to be accomplished, above and beyond normal, to get your life back in order.

Since I am trying to declutter my home, I found a box FULL of pages from an old Franklin Covey planner. Yep, that's right my freshman and sophomore year of college right there on paper. Many dates I had forgotten, but many I had not...now they are all typed up (365 days x 2) in Microsoft Word and I have that many LESS pages and papers to worry about. I already feel a bit lighter.