Well Sarah is still gone on her BlogHer conference trip. After we drop of Paulin at the airport, we get to pick her up later today as well. We are so excited! The past 5 weeks we have had my (Matt’s) 9th cousin from France stay with us. At first Sarah was a bit timid […]
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Our summer has been packed with fun activities to help Paulin to discover America in 5 short weeks. One of the things on his wish list was to go shopping, so this week we took him to the Boise Mall. He found lots of thing he liked but did not really like the price, $39
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Well if you haven’t heard of Big Juds you are missing out! They were recently featured on Man vs. Food on the Travel channel too! When I (Matt) was in college in eastern Idaho, we would go to one of the original Big Juds. What is so special about Big Juds. Most would call it
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Chronicles of Narnia Box Set Great deal on the paperback Chronicles of Narnia Box Set! Order HERE —-> Chronicles of Narnia Box Set Enjoy The Chronicles of Narnia in its entirety with this paperback box set, containing the mass market editions of C. S. Lewis’s classic fantasy series. The box features stills from the third
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The Chronicles of Narnia Low as $13.29 for the box set on paperback! Read The Chronicles of Narnia in its entirety with this seven book box set, containing mass market paperback editions of C. S. Lewis’s classic fantasy series. The box features stills from the third Narnia movie, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and
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Some of you may remember that 2 years ago we had Paulin from France come live with us for the summer. Matt and I had the pleasure of going to France last summer and spending 10 days with the Herkins family. We fell in love with him and his family and were excited to welcome
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Ice Blocking- Thrifty Fun on a hot summer day Maybe this is just an Idaho thing…. but a silly game that is always fun on a hot summer day. To play you will need: A large block of ice (normally sell them at Gas stations for around $1.50) An old towel A grassy hill And
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“Dear Santa please bring me a doll and two story books and a little set of dishes a table a little skillet and some candy and nuts good bye Santa Alma Barrand” You can tell little Alma is on her way to hosting the worlds best little tea party… books to read dolls to listen
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This Christmas I hope you can sit back and enjoy some old letters (around 1900) from my (Matt) distant relatives that came from France and settled in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Read more of Letters to Santa Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 “Dear Santa Claus, Please bring me a pair
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We recently had a distant relative, Paulin from France stay with us for 5 weeks and LOVED HIM!!! We were recently contacted by a organization locally asking for help for their exchange student program: For everyone who lives in the Meridian/Eagle area (or who knows someone who does), there is an exchange student from Germany that will
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With school starting with in the next few weeks there are many mom’s and dad’s running around trying to get caught up with their back to School shopping. We just went shopping with Paulin, our distant relative from France. He needed to do some shopping for jeans and shirts for school back home. We went
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What is a Mommy Moment, click here Having Paulin in our home the last month has been wonderful. I am so sad this is his last week here in America, and I keep telling him that he needs to come back…. heck bring the whole family. I admit I was not too hip on the idea of
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Chuck E. Cheese’s invited the A Thrifty Mom family to come taste test their new upgraded pizza recipe! With fresh cheese and dough, and high-quality toppings, cheesier, crispier, tastier pizza. My kids absolutely LOVE Chuck E Cheese’s so I was excited to take them on a fun family outing. To be honest the kids are always so busy playing the games
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Before sale price or coupons this would have cost $648.40 I was able to get it all for $149.07 If you follow my budget review you know this is normally more than I spend (normally $50 a week). BUT I have had Paulin living with us the last 3 weeks from France. I am not use
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One of the top 10 professional regular season rodeos is the Snake River Stampede. You can visit their Facebook page here, and tell them we sent you. We bought tickets a few months ago for some awesome up front seats right above the bucking shoots. Paulin, my (Matt) distant cousin from France had never seen
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What is a Mommy Moment, click here They are back… happy to Say they made it home in one piece although a little smelly, sunburned, mosquito bitten and needing to shave. They had a great time! Matt and Paulin left bright and early Monday morning for a 50 mile hike with the boy scouts from our church. Which left
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Guess who knocked on my door bright and early this morning? Yip, two armed police men… needless to say I was in total shock. They asked if anyone had called 911. I told them no, but with 4 little ones in the house anything was possible. They said it came from a SOS call from a phone
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Yesterday was a busy but fun day. After the parade and BBQ we went to the park and played with the kids. Blowing bubbles, sliding down the slide, playing in the dry creek bed and watching the clouds. We then went to the Idaho Falls Chuckars baseball game, and had fun cheering for the home
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