The Stevenson Story

My parents gifted me and Eric a night at a Marriott in Layton for our wedding anniversary this year. We decided to hold onto it and use it as a celebration for Eric getting a job. We also used 2 groupons for the weekend. 1 for iFly/Flowrider/ and a Rock climbing place in Ogden, and the other for Rice- an asian cuisine and sushi bar in Salt Lake. Groupon is this online deal site where they have as they say it one ridiculously huge coupon offered a day. If you decide to get it, you purchase it, and then the next day if enough people signed up for it you can then print it off and take it to that place. Our parents had our kids, and so we had such an amazing, fun and rejuvenating Friday night and Saturday to rest and recover from 0ur crazy past two years. :) We got to the hotel Friday night, and since my previous Friday night dinner plans fell through (Red Lobster with coupons and a gift card- I lost the gift card :( We decided to just get a Cafe Rio Pork salad and a Five Guys burg...

We started the day by finding a naughty little leprechaun had turned our milk green. Then we ate some green eggs and pancakes and hash browns. Jack was talking about his green eggs the whole rest of the day. Then we headed downtown to the children's discovery museum free day. Jack loves to wear my sunglasses every time we get in the car. It's hilarious. (Love the new pink carseat for Avey- thanks Jess!) This is us in our happy St. Patrick's day attire. The only unfortunate part of having a free museum day on this particular day was that every other child was dressed in green as well. Avey's only animal sound she makes is quack quack for a duck, but it actually sounds more like a gutteral growl than a happy duck sound. So when she saw this swan, she kept making her quack sound all over the place, as if to say a duck that is my size! And then climbed on the back of the duck. Scott, Cabub (that's what Jack calls him), and Mandi and Brandon also joined us on t...

I just realized it has been almost 3 weeks since I last posted. Yikes! What is going on? Oh, I remember, I have been recovering from slow internet, and then our normal picture uploading connector thing for the camera to the computer has been broken and it takes like 5 minutes to upload pictures now, a new random cord connector and some new program that I don't understand and I usually need Eric's help with. Which means everytime I have gotten on the computer to do a post in the last two weeks I have failed. Anyway, since it was on my list of things to do this week to update my blog, here I am taking my time finally writing a post. Here's a list of things we have been up to: -Eric getting a job -Eric fixing a lot of things at my mom's house -Eric working through research for his huge paper for his last class -Visiting Eric's brother and his fam in Logan for President's day. Jack immediately went into his girl cousin's dress up closet and chose a dress t...

I don't really know why I am posting this, I just started writing this last month and thought I would share it with all of you. You need to cut back on your food budget? Here are some tips I found living crazy cheaply in Massachusetts. Now I’m not suggesting you all do these things, I’m not even suggesting you read this, these are just things I have found for us and our family and if it helps some of you guys- go for it. Juice. Not necessary at all. Cut back to drinking milk and water and that’s it. The nutrients in just straight up fruit is better, and juice is so expensive. My kids rarely get juice. Or go to koolaid. Doctors say that apple juice is just what koolaid is anyway- sugar and water mixed up- so drink that for pennies if you kids are dying for juice. Beans. Dry beans. Super cheap, super healthful, and fabulous in so many foods especially to add protein to your diet. Now- the biggest hit to their food budget when I talk...

We finally got higher speed internet that allows me to actually upload pictures. Hooray! That means more posts, and some catching up to do. Starting with my birthday! This year Eric wanted to take me to Italy for my birthday. Since that was a "little" out of our budget, he planned and successfully executed a trip around the world instead. He gave me a passport that I took to all my destinations and had people sign write little messages to me. It's fun to flip through even now. We started the morning in HAWAII with a hula workout video. Ummm. I don't know how those Hawaiian dancers stay so little, because I don't think my heart even jumped once while trying to do it just like it said, but I kind of modified the workout after a few minutes and started feeling more of a cardio workout. Anyway after a quick shower and bringing the kids to my parent's house we we were off to our next destination: FRANCE! We went to the Dalton's house for some crepes. B...