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Dec

Vegas!

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Categories: James and Julie
Tags: las vegas

We didn’t win any money. 😦 But, we got to go with great friends, sleep in, and had a great view from our hotel!

view from our room at noon

View from our room at night. (Bellagio fountains in the background)

Matt, Halim, Jeff, Jen, Adrianne, Jen, Teresa, Angela, (my seat), James, Ryan, and Chris eating at the Bellagio buffet

Some of the Bellagio Christmas decorations going up. So gorgeous!!!

Everything was made out of flowers!!!

The girls going to ‘O’ at the Bellagio (Adrianne and Teresa missing from pic)

This picture cracks me up! Ryan, Halim, and James. They wanted to take their

picture in front (or rather BEHIND) this statue. What ‘gentlemen’!

From December 2009

Nov

today

By Julie P. 4 Comments

Categories: Asher and Julie
Tags: online offers

Not much to blog about these days…BUT today I got my $500 Home Depot gift card in the mail which was pretty exciting! I spent $45 to get this card that I applied for in mid-September. Now I just have to figure out what to spend it on!?! 😉 Again, if you are interested in how I get these, click here!

Oh, and I just finished my Christmas cards. I won’t mail them until the second week of December, but I’ll give you a preview…

You’re interested, right? 😉 I love getting Christmas cards by the way!! Please send yours to us! We keep them all year in a basket on our table and each night that we have family dinners, we pick one out and pray for that family. You want to be prayed for right?!? 😉

Oh, and at this time next week, I’ll be in Las Vegas at the Bellagio!!!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I’ll be at the A&M v. t.u game (which will be Rilyn’s first Aggie game!) Pretty exciting-now if they will just pull off a victory for her first game! Gig’Em!

Nov

happy meal and memories

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Categories: Julie
Tags: strawberry shortcake

Rilyn went with daddy to McDonald’s this past weekend and brought home this as her happy meal toy.

Strawberry Shortcake notebook and stamper

Boy, did this toy bring back some memories!!!

This is me at age 6 in my favorite bedroom ever! 1985

Nov

thankful

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Categories: Julie
Tags: online offers

Last night for our family night we ‘made’ a thankfulness box and read Bible verses about being thankful. So simple! (We really just decorated a box with stickers.) We decided that we will make this a new family tradition during the month of November. Each night this month that we have family dinners, (we try to eat all together at the table at least 3-4 times a week), we will go around and have everybody say something they are thankful for. We will write it on a post it note and then put it in the thankfulness box. On Thanksgiving we will open the box up and praise God for all the many things we have to be thankful for! Last night, Ella said she was thankful for Grandma. So sweet. Rilyn said she was thankful for her Build A Bear. hmmm.

Paquette family thankfulness box

Last night I said I was thankful for our health. But today, I am thankful for the $500 check that came in from another one of my online offers!!!! ($500 Home Depot card should be coming soon…)

Asher trying to grab my check!

I did this offer in late September and it cost me $55! If you are interested in doing online offers-they obviously really work!-you can check it out here. Or here. Or here. Or you can message me and I can host another ‘get trained’ class. (I already taught 2 other ladies last week!)

Nov

countdown vegas!

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Categories: James and Julie
Tags: las vegas

We love Vegas! The lights, the energy, the food, the entertainment, and yes, the gambling! It feels like another world when you enter ‘the strip’ and sometimes it is nice to just take a break from your daily routine. Together, James and I have been to Vegas twice, and in a few weeks, we are going again with some old (and newer) friends! (We all happen to be Aggies though!) In honor of me getting excited about our KID FREE trip, I am posting some past trips…

Spring Break 2002…(We went with some of our college friends, Halim and Jen were some of them!)

When you’re broke, you stay at the Excalibur!

Halim, Carson, James and Noel getting their ‘model’ on at the Paris hotel

We saw Blue Man Group at the Luxor! Great show!

On top of the Stratosphere

Halim, Jen, me, James, Noel, and Carson

May 2006

We went back to Vegas for our 5 year wedding anniversary!

We had a little more money, so we moved on up to the Monte Carlo hotel! 😉

Slot machines are not my favorite, but this is

the only place I could sneak a picture in the casino!

We saw Mystere’ Cirque Du Soleil and Hairspray

Both great shows!

James tells me that we are staying at the Bellagio and we are seeing “O” – I am super excited!!! Friends, fun, food, FREEDOM-here I come!!!!! (AND I’m not even going to stress out that the day we fly in from Vegas, it is my sister’s rehearsal dinner for her wedding and my girls are flower girls, Asher is the ring bearer, I’m a bridesmaid, and James a groomsman!) Nope, not me, I never stress! 😉

Nov

ahoy!

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Categories: Ella, James, Julie and Rilyn
Tags: capital cruises

We had a BUSY Halloween!! To start off, we took a boat cruise down Town Lake (Lady Bird Lake) in Austin. The cruise was a ‘thank you’ to all the Kidstuff volunteers at our church. We got to bring our families (Asher stayed behind to nap at a friends), and it was just a relaxing afternoon! (Well, besides the pirates that visited us…)

the skyline

daddy and ella

there was definitely some dancing!

we saw pirates next to us in the waters! they launched water balloons at us!

Ella was freaked out by the pirates and hid

for the next 30 minutes

rilyn dancing

Not quite the Titanic but you get the picture

Oct

backstage!

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Categories: James and Julie
Tags: so you think you can dance season 5

Last night, James and I went to So You Think You Can Dance Season 5 show in Austin with our good friends Jen and Jeff. It was AMAZING! I was surprised how funny it was too! Melissa Sandvig’s husband, Erik, hooked us up with backstage passes too! Enjoy the pictures!

Jen and I before the show

Top 12 Season 5

Caitlin and Jason performing Bollywood

James, Ade, me, and Brandon (I couldn’t believe I was as tall as Ade!)

Jen, Evan, and me

me, Melissa, and James

Season 5 winner-Jeanine!

This was a surprise-we recognized ‘Jason Street’ from Friday Night Lights

backstage. He was there with his girlfriend meeting everyone like us!

Oct

I did it for the t-shirt

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Categories: Julie

I’ve heard that line a time or two in college from James as he was explaining why he signed up for another credit card! I am PROUDLY saying that line today, though all in jest, because I definitely did NOT “do it for the t-shirt”, but rather for the $500 Visa gift card that came with the Michael Jackson t-shirt (which is coming to a white elephant party near you…)

Michael proudly displaying my gift card

So….why did I receive a $500 gift card in the mail today??? I’m so glad you asked!

The quick version is:

I have a friend from Houston, named Misty, who introduced me to doing online offers. She was receiving all these gift cards and checks and I was starting to get intrigued.

Misty pointed me to Carrie from Money Saving Methods.

I read all the instructions and signed up for my 8 ‘online offers’ in late August. I spent $20 total to get my $500 gift card. I should be receiving a $500 Home Depot card (I spent $45) and a $500 check (I spent $55) in the coming weeks! (I will post when I get them!) I am about to start a $500 gift card to American Airlines this week too!

If you are interested, e-mail me or comment and I’ll be happy to help you get started! Also, for all you Austin folks, I will be sending an e-mail to those interested for a ‘get trained’ class at my house! 😉

**It’s been a good week for free stuff for me. I got a $10 Amazon gift card with my Swagbucks. Swagbucks is like Google, just search what you normally search, and earn ‘swag bucks’ sometimes. I have earned $20 of Amazon gift cards since March just by searching on the internet. I make Swagbucks my home page so I always remember to use it!

And then I got a $20 gift card to Build-A-Bear (my choice) from my Pampers gifts to grow points! Woo-hoo!

Oct

costumes of old

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Categories: James and Julie

Thought I would share some of my favorite costumes when I was growing up!

The angel with the foil wings and halo!

The ballerina I never was…I wore this costume for 2

Halloweens I loved it so much!

My favorite one! My dad drew the card and I colored it

James as count Dracula!

Sep

family portraits

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Categories: Asher, Ella, James, Julie and Rilyn
Tags: family portraits

When I think of family portraits at this stage in my life, I cringe. I mean, try to get a 16 month toddler BOY to cooperate! Ugh! So, sometimes, you get pictures like this: