Ashlee had her 4th birthday! I cannot believe she is 4 now! She had a "princess" birthday. She wanted a crown and rings and everything, all pink stuff. She got a lot of outside type stuff. For some reason my children do not like to play in our backyard. We have a nice big, flat back yard they can play in and they would rather play inside!? WHAT!? Now if we go to the park or something like that, that is a different story haha. Anyway...So now my 4year old looks like a 4year old instead of 3, SO many people thought she was 4 or 5 when she was only 3! She is a big girl! Tall and lean, she's got abs on her! She's been wearing size 5's for awhile now and she has big feet, wearing an 11! I think she might pass up Lillian! Hopefully she will be in pre-school next year. I called and left a message for someone to call me back about getting and application to get her in...no one called me back.
We have been going to the river and the beach quite a bit since school ended. Mostly the river, the kids love it there. We go to Loeb State park, its awesome! I think the kids like it so much cause we usually have a picnic after and there are a ton of squirrels! They aren't shy at all, we've had them come right up onto the table and take food right off our plate! They will eat out of your hand and everything. Last time we went I bought some special squirrel food and we threw that out too them before we started eating and they were so occupied with that, that they didn't crawl up and take our food. We flew Ashlee's kite that she got for her birthday...we are going to have to do that more, we need more practice lol! We do have a special kite field just for flying kites, I guess we should go there!
I have started couponing. I head about this show called "Extreme Couponing" and after watching it I realized how much money I could save by using them. Before I just always over looked them! Now, I'm not into like the people on the show are...I DO have a coupon binder full of coupons, but I have yet to use many of them. I have already used a lot of coupons on diapers and wipes and formula and have saved quite a bit there! In fact I have a decent stockpile of wipes and am getting one of diapers. I recently was able to purchase the refillable packages (3 of them) of Huggies wipes (210 count) for only $3.99 each and I recently scored just over 150 diapers for about $22.00. Pretty good considering 1 single box of diapers (about 84count depending on the size of diaper you buy) is $19-$22, depending on the brand.
James may have a GREAT opportunity at work. We don't want to say much about it yet till we know for sure but it will be a really good thing! We probably won't know till middle of July-August. I'm keeping my fingers crossed and praying about it. Hopefully it will all work out for the better! Any prayers that this will go in the right direction are appreciated! I'll make sure to let you all know when we find out!
Dom will be working 40 hours a week now, just for summer time. Now she will know what it feels like to work a full time job...what is she going to do with all that money! LOL! Her first purchase will be a new laptop. Her's took a dump and it would cost $150 to fix it and the computer Dr told her the laptop isn't worth that much, plus it only has the memory of a 6gig flash drive and she needs more than that. She opened up her own checking account with me as the co-owner. She has her own check book and debit card now! Next she will open a savings so some of her money will go in there. She also applied for a 2nd job at Fred Meyer, she has yet to hear from them. She will be busy next school year with her work and being on the leadership team as well as the PBS team! She is still considering the military but is now re-thinking her art career and thinks maybe she still wants to do the medical field. She is having a hard time deciding.
