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23
Nov
09

today

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!

17
Nov
09

happy meal and memories

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
10
Nov
09

thankful

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!)

05
Nov
09

countdown 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! 😉

02
Nov
09

halloween 2009

a brother and his Disney princesses
Look at this lion on the PROWL!!!!
Before trick or treating each year, we have a neighborhood party with all our friends and eat chili!  The most notable thing about this photo is how Rilyn is holding newborn Ivey Peck (4 weeks), and Cole Richardson is lovingly looking on as if they are married and staring at their own child!  Yikes!  Oh, and I guess the Suh kids don’t like group shots!  😉
trick or treat!
Malachi Suh getting the best of Asher!  I foresee a rematch in the near future…
01
Nov
09

ahoy!

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
31
Oct
09

happy halloween!

From October 2009
30
Oct
09

leo and gemini

I was hoping I could get the 3 kids to dress up as ‘a theme’ this year for Halloween, but with Asher’s costume a hand-me-down (can’t pass those up!), and the girls wanting to be the same Disney princess, the only theme I could come up with is ‘zodiac signs’?!? 🙂

Our little leo
Ariel 1
and Ariel 2-‘our gemini’
28
Oct
09

backstage!

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!

24
Oct
09

18 months

My baby boy is 18 months today! He is no doubt NOT a baby boy anymore, but a crazy toddler who is teaching mommy a thing or two about raising boys! He is repeating almost everything now, and loves to play with his big sisters who will gladly push him around! I am starting to think seriously about getting a leash on him because it is getting increasingly harder to hold him or keep him contained in a grocery cart/high chair! He wants to run or walk down the stairs-both of which he is not proficient at yet!  We love our busta’ and are continually amazed at the joy,(and sometimes frustration!) he brings us each day!  🙂

new hobby:  tearing up the toilet paper rolls
he loves his sisters!  (he calls both of them ‘Ella’)