one word: yuck.

And this my friends.....is why Jared refuses to eat beef. I'm thinking maybe I'll give it up myself. Have you read/heard about yucky pink slime that goes into a lot of ground beef?

.....SICK!

I still love a good filet mignon though.

I likey

I just had to have this skip hop diaper bag! Can't wait to fill it full of cute girly goodness.

Fun kids craft

These pics are out of order, but what else is new?

This fun project kept my kids' attention for almost 2 hours.

That, my friends is a LONG time for us!

So don't throw away your toilet paper and paper towel rolls.

Collect them, get some tape and have FUN with your kids!

Marble races have always been a hit with my kids.

You can make your own and get them thinking about angles, speed, engineering, part assembly, team work- you name it. You can see their little brains working hard to put this together.

It does not have to look pretty, the tape just might be all over but it's no big deal- they LOVE it!

Of course my sweet Jax, without pants on....again.

That is a delicious cadburry egg in his hand. I might have bribed him into doing all sorts of chores for me. The reward? Cadburry egg down the marble run.

Perfect.

Look how excited he was to catch them :)

Try it. Have fun ;)

And so it begins....

I mentioned to Jared the other day that he'd better prepare himself for this fact: Girls are more expensive than boys (as far as clothing goes).

It's just true.

Let me give myself a little pat on the back for a second (it is my blog afterall)

I'm pretty good at finding deals on kids clothes.

Gotta love slickdeals.net, babycheapskate.com, garage sales, consignment shops, etc.

Boys are easy peasy- throw them in cargo's and t's and they're good to go ;)

I've been able to score shorts for as little as $2 and pants for $3.

Not bad eh?

All this girly accessorizing is a little different for me...and fun!

So I'm trying to be frugal as always but it's not as easy with girl stuff.

So I tried my hand at making bows myself (which is sorta funny if you know how NOT crafty I am)

and I've been able to find some cute deals online for little baby girl.

Made this with some old ribbon. Cute yes?.... well thanks :) I might have burned my finger to a crisp with hot glue in the process but whatever...

Dollar store flower and hobby lobby band. Again....the hot glue gun won again....blasted thing.

Oh my Children's Place how I love you. Slickdeals.net helped me score these tights for 50 cents, the skirt for $6 and the cute cardi for $7. Yeah...I may have bought that same cardi in like 4 sizes...but hey does a pink cardi ever go out of style? I think not.

This was Jax's choice at Old Navy. For $4 it was a steal and of course I had to nab it. I just love hearing him say "Awww that's so cute...we have to get that for baby Jovi..."

Oh...did I just spoil the name surprise? Oops..oh well :)

Denim Gap dress. Guess when I bought this?

1998.

Yep....When I was a senior in high school.

It was a baby clothes collection phase.

I scored this for $4

So cute even all these years later.

allergy

I had a scary experience last night.

I was up at my parents church- my dad was recently released as bishop of his ward and the members threw him an appreciation get together with a picture slide show, a beautifully crafted quilt and of course- lots of goodies lining a huge table.

I went up myself because Jared was working in St. George.

I took the boys in and it was a smaller room with lots of chairs and I put them down with their ipad and snacks (from home of course, they're picky ya know) and I mingled with a few people I knew growing up in my neighborhood.

Tyce found the treat table right away and grabbed an oreo so I let him down it, he then wanted a cupcake so I thought "no biggie"

Well I spotted him one more time grabbing a cookie as I was chatting with an old friend. He brought it back to his chair and ate it. Literally 30 seconds later Jax was crying for some reason- I think he lost me in the crowd for a split second and was overwhelmed and dysregulating fast. I went over and noticed tyce was grabbing his throat and saying he was sick and his face was red and his eyes puffy.

I knew exactly what had happened. That cookie must have had walnuts in it and I didn't even realize it until then.

He was starting to cry and the allergic reaction was literally getting worse right before my eyes. I grabbed him and told my mom I needed her help and I was going to rush him to the ER because it looked like has having a hard time breathing with his hands to his throat like that.

Well, we got into Jared's truck (he had driven my Tucson down to St. G) and that's where Tyce projectile vomited- and I mean I've never seen so much puke in a small child before. It got all over my mom who was able to manage to contain some of it in one of my jackets we had in the truck.

After his quick yet violent puke he looked stable. His breathing was stable and he had a residual cough and puffy eyes and was jsut the saddest little thing on the planet but I felt he was going to be okay with some Benadryl and a good clean up.

So we drove straight to the pharmacy to pick up Benadryl and I gave him some and he seemed to be doing much better.

I took him to my mom's for a nice warm tub and fresh clothes and he looked absolultey exhausted- we all were.

He fell asleep on the drive home and I was comforted ho hear his slightly congested nose breathing in and out- I needed to hear his breathing or else I would have been worried about him falling asleep at that time.

Anyways I prayed so hard last night- thanking my Heavenly Father for this amazing little boy. I don't know what I'd do without him.

So, Tyce is allergic to walnuts, and we are going to assume he's also allergic to pecans and pistachio's as well. (peanuts are fine).

Phew......what a scare.