tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647147648010325652024-03-05T21:42:47.544-06:00Life With Tiny Turnerssloturnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976904706695213432noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364714764801032565.post-37819533399924403152015-10-07T21:24:00.005-05:002015-10-07T21:24:59.634-05:00Evie is One!
Evie, what a year this has been! Today we went for your one year check-up and you weigh 21 lbs 4oz and are 30 inches tall. You have grown so much since coming into this world at 7 lbs 6 oz and 20 inches! You were so small and quiet when we first brought you home. I was always so worried about your brother hurting you by accident, but you have long since taught me not to stress so sloturnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976904706695213432noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364714764801032565.post-58794874491548173242014-08-09T08:52:00.000-05:002014-08-09T09:00:34.518-05:00Holding Hands
Declan, there are so many things I love about you, but one of my absolute favorite things about you is how much you LOVE holding hands. And, yes, you really love it!
I have tried counting the number of times you ask to hold hands throughout a single day and each time I quickly lose count because it happens pretty regularly. You want to hold hands while I try to get you ready in the sloturnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976904706695213432noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364714764801032565.post-77222161873904696092014-05-27T05:56:00.000-05:002014-08-09T05:57:14.182-05:00Declan Update- 2 Years!
You are 2 years old! I am terrible at keeping up with these
posts for you because there are simply not enough hours in the day, but maybe I can do a better job this year. :)
You have
learned and changed so much over the last year and it is absolutely incredible!
You now weigh 35.6 pounds and are 37.5" tall. You are officially more than 3 feet tall!
You now wear 3T clothes and size 6.5 sloturnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976904706695213432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364714764801032565.post-16993657605210455032014-05-23T14:30:00.000-05:002014-05-23T14:30:03.420-05:00Circus Birthday Party
I always call Declan monkey because he loves to imitate them and he climbs on everything so it was only fitting to do a birthday theme that could somehow include his love of monkeys and animals in general, thus the circus/carnival theme. I have known since Halloween that we would be going with this theme after Declan got so excited about being able to dress up as a monkey for sloturnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976904706695213432noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364714764801032565.post-18519830146749573672013-09-25T07:20:00.000-05:002013-09-25T12:20:22.999-05:0016 Months
Declan, today you are 16 months old! You are growing up so fast and are, of course, still bigger than most everyone else your age. Daddy says you are going to be a defensive tackle with the build you have, lol. Your current size makes dressing you a bit difficult at times because things are either way too big or way too small. Carter's, Target and The Children's Place need to get onsloturnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976904706695213432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364714764801032565.post-32040114248075089652013-09-04T18:18:00.000-05:002013-09-05T15:19:22.138-05:00Cheap Challenge 2013- Lessons Learned
Total spent: $290.47
Groceries
Eating Out
Gas
Household
Entertainment
Clothing
Dog Needs
Week 1
$25.10
$13.86
$0.00
$5.34
$4.99
$0.00
$0.00
Week 2
$5.23
$22.71
$44.65
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$22.98
Week 3
$43.59
sloturnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976904706695213432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364714764801032565.post-38427255607514813832013-09-01T11:24:00.000-05:002013-09-03T11:27:52.357-05:00Cheap Challenge 2013- Week 4 and Final 3 DaysAugust 22-31Spending total: $56.37
Groceries
Eating
Out
Gas
Household
Entertainment
Clothing
Dog
Needs
$0.00
$0.00
$20.00
$5.37
$31.00
$0.00
$0.00
I was really worried going into this week since we had just over $15 remaining in the budget. Luckily, the weeksloturnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976904706695213432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364714764801032565.post-92153781927281237562013-08-23T22:46:00.000-05:002013-08-26T22:49:04.088-05:00Cheap Challenge 2013- Week 3 UpdateAugust 15-21Spending total: $89.24
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I love wreaths like this and I am always looking at them on Etsy, but I really did not need to spend $50+ on a wreath for the front door so I decided to figure out how to make one for myself. Here are the results and step-by-step tutorial of how I made a fabric wreath.
You will need the following:
Pinking Shears
Ruler
2-3 yards of fabric (Amount depends on the width of the fabricssloturnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976904706695213432noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364714764801032565.post-46925136671345751012013-08-15T18:34:00.000-05:002013-08-18T18:35:33.000-05:00Cheap Challenge 2013- Week 2 UpdateAugust 8-14Spending total: $95.57
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August 1-7Spending total: $49.29
Groceries
Eating Out
Gas
Household
Entertainment
Clothing
Dog Needs
$25.10
$13.86
$0.00
$5.34
$4.99
$0.00
$0.00
The household purchases we made were for the hooks to hang Dec's swing on the back porch ($2.07) and a new
sippy cup after one cracked ($3.27).
$4.99 was to watch a movie over the weekend on sloturnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976904706695213432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364714764801032565.post-23516658413640310852013-08-02T19:14:00.000-05:002013-09-05T15:21:01.741-05:00Cheap Challenge 2013
For the month of August, we will be doing our best to save money by commiting to the No Spending Challenge, or, as we will call it, the Cheap Challenge. I have had this and many other money saving tips, challenges, and budget plans pinned to my Frugalista board on Pinterest for quite some time and only a few of them have actually happened in the Turner household.
At this time in our sloturnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976904706695213432noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364714764801032565.post-91956900304436523262013-06-07T11:51:00.002-05:002015-04-14T22:17:28.950-05:00Transporation Birthday Party
I cannot believe it has been over a year since Declan was born and we brought him home from the hospital! This first year has been filled with so many wonderful memories and we were so excited for the opportunity to celebrate our little man and his first year of life.
I love parties so I could not wait for the chance to plan the first of Declan's many birthday celebrations. I had several sloturnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976904706695213432noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364714764801032565.post-3175930929502624952013-03-25T08:31:00.001-05:002013-03-25T08:31:36.952-05:0010 Months Old!
10 Months!
Stop growing!! Ok, don't really
stop, but can you somehow slow down a bit? You are getting so big and
independent now and I can't help but miss the moments where you had to
be carried all the time and were too tiny to get around without my help.
Don't get me wrong, I love that you are growing and I love the new ways
we get to interact, but I can't believe sloturnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976904706695213432noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364714764801032565.post-47247977514516348942013-03-09T17:14:00.001-06:002013-03-09T17:14:30.695-06:00Bunny Patch TreatsI love Easter and I know I am completely skipping anything St. Patty's Day related (and I do love St. Patrick's Day!), but I needed an excuse to buy some yummy Easter candy for myself and felt a little crafty so I decided a project was in order.
Plus, I really just liked all of the cute pails in the dollar section at Target today. So, here is what I came up with using my dollar section finds andsloturnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976904706695213432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364714764801032565.post-23900789347314926172012-10-30T21:07:00.000-05:002012-12-10T21:10:03.034-06:005 Months!
Originally written on 10/25/2012, but being a mom has meant a lot of things don't happen on my planned schedule so I am finally getting it off the scrap piece of paper I wrote it on initially and on here for you.
Wow! I cannot believe you are five months old already, but, at the same time, it is so easy to see because you are growing so well! Right now you are teething sloturnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976904706695213432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364714764801032565.post-83677734462451911582012-10-25T00:42:00.002-05:002012-10-25T00:42:59.412-05:00Baby in a Pumpkin
I saw this idea on Pinterest with this pictures used as example:
After seeing it I knew I wanted to try this with Declan, but decided it would look cuter if he were outside in the pumpkin (plus, the idea of having my son in a potentially wobbly pumpkin atop a table was slightly terrifying). I began the search for pumpkins, but quickly sloturnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976904706695213432noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364714764801032565.post-53460085164995277462012-10-12T18:26:00.001-05:002012-10-12T18:26:11.358-05:0020 Weeks...Time is Flying By
Declan, today you are 20 weeks old and I am in awe of how much you have accomplished in just 4 and a half months. When we brought you home from the hospital you were so tiny and now you are an arm full! When we went to the pediatrician on Sept. 25th you weighed 16 lbs 6 oz and were 27 inches and an 1/8 long, thus placing you in the 75th and 95th percentiles respectively. You are growing out sloturnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976904706695213432noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364714764801032565.post-13408626576658467152012-10-12T17:24:00.002-05:002012-10-12T17:32:22.489-05:00Finally Getting StartedFor a long while now I have wanted to start my own blog. I kept putting it off because I wasn't sure I could make the time to do posts frequently enough or write stuff other people found interesting, but I have decided to go ahead and get started because I want to be able to document the life I live with my incredible family. I may not post every week (or even every month) and others may not findsloturnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976904706695213432noreply@blogger.com0