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TurboTax Giveaway

March 18, 2009 by Jennifer 14 Comments

Winter is almost done…how about your taxes? With the first day of spring coming this Friday, there are only a few more days of winter left, and you know what that means. April 15th is right around the corner.

TurboTax wants to help you get the biggest refund possible. You know how the economy is right now and everyone can use a big refund to get them through this time. TurboTax will help you maximize your refund with their software that includes all the possible deductions one can take.

It is easy and simple process that helps walk you through each step.

TurboTax is offering you the chance to win TurboTax for FREE! We have two web cards with a prepaid access code (includes one free federal + state preparation +e-files) for TurboTax Deluxe Online (Approx an $65 each).

To Enter: Just leave a comment below on what you and your family are going to do in these last days of winter.

For Extra Entries:

1) Tweet this contest and leave a comment letting me know.
2) Subscribe to our feed and leave another comment letting me know.

I will leave this contest open until March 22nd 11:59pm EST so we can hurry and get your web cards mailed out to you.

Buh Bye Winter

March 17, 2009 by Jennifer 4 Comments

The snow has melted, the windows are open, the sun coming through the windows shining in on our faces. I’m so happy. As I was driving M to school this morning, we got to see such a beautiful sun rise. It was neat getting to talk to M about this.

With the sun finally returning here in the good ole high country, it has me thinking about Spring Break. I don’t believe we will go out of state this year, but we are planning a StayCation. We are fortunate to live in a resort area, with so many opportunities that we are going to take advantage of. Also, we will go on multiple picnics, do bbq’s with family and friends, explore the hiking trails and even get in a canoe or two.

We love to be outdoors and appreciate our surroundings. I want to make it a fun week for the girls and a week they will think that we actually did go on vacation. So I have been busy planning and trying to make sure we do the right budgeting and find the right bargains.

With all the planning I have started doing for Spring Break, I have made a decision for Summer Break as well… to have every Friday as Field Trip Friday. Each Friday, we will do a special trip such as a museum, gem mining, a new park, etc and the following Monday we will do a scrapbook page of our trip. By the end of the summer the girls will have a scrapbook for Summer 09 that they can cherish for years.

What are you and your little ones doing for Spring Break? Share your ideas below and let’s kiss Winter good bye for 09!

No Worries Jen Is Here

March 16, 2009 by Jennifer 5 Comments

Thank you all so much for the emails, DM’s on twitter, comments on Facebook, phone calls and cards. It all meant so much to get through the last week. I knew when I surrounded myself with friends and God that the week would be much more manageable.

I am happy to report my dad is going to be OK. We found out today his Biopsy results. He does have an infection in his body that triggered all this to happen in the first place. It is called H. pylori infection. It is fixable, yes it might take a bit to get it under control but the main thing it is fixable! God is soooo good as evidence in all your prayers too.

It was a huge eye opener, that daddy could be taken away from me just like that. To see a 68 year old man who you love with all your heart crying in tears, yelling and grabbing both sides of the hospital bed…. it just broke my heart and the tears just poured. That is when we got the prayer chain started and as you can see from this report, Prayer Works!

During the week, I had two reunions with friends. One set of friends was from my Middle School Days which I haven’t seen these girls since about 14 years ago. We had a great time over lunch and just trying to take my mind off of things.

Then we had been planning for a few weeks a 10 year highschool reunion with a group of girls that we reconnected with by email and facebook. We laughed till we had tears in our eyes that night, but it was so much fun and we are going to make it a much needed girls night out monthly. We shared highschool memories that left me saying let’s not go there a couple of times haha ;). Fun times!

I declare this week no hospital stays or visits. Woot woot… ready to dive into the week and get back into blogging, facebook and good ole twitterville :).

Prayers Needed For My Dad

March 11, 2009 by Jennifer 10 Comments

Here is a note I sent out last night, thought I would send to you all as well.

First of all thank you all for your thoughts and prayers. Please keep them coming.

We really still do not know what is going on. I just got home and told my mom to call me if anything changes and if I don’t hear from her I will be there first thing in the morning when I drop Madisyn off to school.

We do know the gallon of liquid dad took for prep for his colonoscopy didn’t produce any bowel movements. Yesterday he was fine after he got home but then this morning started sharp pains and it just got worse this evening. He still cannot have a bowel movement. His stomach is twice the size is suppose to be and very very tight. The nurse said it is the tightest she has seen on a patient in a really long time. They immediately admitted him after his x-ray came back. It showed a bowel blockage and a very enlarged and inflamed small intestine.

They have him hooked up to a pump and are pumping his stomach right now. Tomorrow they will talk about surgery. Something is going on and we need to get to the bottom of it. My dad has had stomach problems about all his life :(. He is scared too right now. When the doctor was talking to us, he just kept looking at me and trying to fight back the tears. When the doctor left, we all started crying. It is a very scary situation. He is in alot of pain and dad never complains. I can count on one hand the times I have seen my dad cry and I just lost it in there today.

Please pray they can get to the bottom of this and he can come through this all ok. I am a huge daddy’s little girl and it tears me to pieces seeing him like this. He’s always the strong one so much.

Thanks again for all your prayers. I will update soon. Going back to hospital as soon as I get Madisyn.

Ice Skating At Its Best

March 7, 2009 by Jennifer 5 Comments

We had the most awesome night last night with my BFF and her family ice skating. What a sight we were. The whole night we were pretty much like this:

We were constantly laughing. You see it has been about 11 years since we both had been. We went together with my church youth group at the time and how neat it was that we went back together 11 years later. This time we got to share in the experience with our children. Let’s just say the children way outdid us. There were falls into the puddles (that would be muah and her daughter M), there was plowing into the sides of the ice skating rink, there were times we wouldn’t let go of the rails, there were times we skated around with the Kid’s bar haha… it was just some plain ole genuine fun. I only fell about 4 times, that’s not too bad is it? ;). Poor L was so sad when I would fall and she kept telling me to take the skates off. She was grinning ear to ear when I took the skates. M is the one that surprised me. We had got her the kid’s bar to help her around the ice skating rink.. half way through the session she ditched the bar and went cold turkey on the rink without holding onto anything. She was literally making laps around Cindy and I. TOO FUNNNNY! We kept telling her how proud we were of her!

Here is our night in picts… Enjoy 🙂

Ready to begin our adventure:

Still holding on to the railing:

Jen is getting brave and going out to the middle:

We ditched the coats since we were getting so warm skating:

See my fancy foot work here ;):

Here we go… we are having a blast:

So so so proud of M:

Jen getting along sooo good:

Then kaboom right flat onto my tale..

L so excited that mommy was finally done with the ice skating rink:

What a night, but I am ready to do it again. I figured I would wake up so sore this morning, but not a bit. This will definitely be a tradition of ours :).

Jennifer

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