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I really love Chipotle. I've only been there 3 times, but really, they are so yummy! Today I found myself craving a Chipotle burrito bowl. I have 2 kids with birthdays this upcoming month plus back to school shopping, so my husband and I really couldn't justify the expense of eating out. I figured i'd try my hand at making them at home. I went to the 99 cent store and spent 1 dollar on a package

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Tiny and I met while working the Los Angeles County Fair in 2007. This is a couple of pics of us when we first started dating. I can't believe we're celebrating our wedding anniversary in just 6 days!I pulled up the first picture and Jenna exclaimed "Wow mom! You were so skinny!" lol. I was only 10 pounds lighter in this pic than I am now. It's amazing the difference 10 pounds makes. (BTW, give

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(Above, from left: Christian, age 8, (on his lap) Autumn, 5 or 6 months old, Gwen, 3yrs 4 months, Jenna, 2yrs 3 months. Taken on the last Christmas we spent with my grandmother. )I was going through some old files and I found this, dated Friday, June 18th, 2004. It was in with a bunch of old emails I sent my sister when she was serving in Iraq with the Marine Corps. I used to send her all kinds

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This happened several years ago-it kind of makes me grateful that our lives have settled down a bit now that the girls are older.(Above, the guilty party)Often people ask me what I do all day, staying home with my kids. I think maybe some of them assume I can't possibly have enough to keep me busy or entertained without working outside of the home. Here is one day in our lives for those who

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AutumnJennaGwennieEchoMommy (My Gwennie took this picture!) :0)3 LittlesMommy and Autumn

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Two pics from my wedding that I didn't even know existed until today! I love them, and the rest of the 380 other pics that were taken along with them ! Thank you so much, Patti!

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Last Saturday night I was terribly sick with my asthma. (yeah, I have been fighting too much illness lately. No fun.) I lay in bed, coughing and struggling to breathe...and finally gave in to my inhaler. I puffed it and it helped tremendously. I didn't sleep well, tossing and turning and coughing a lot. My chest was all sore and my body was achy. Just a not so good night all around.First thing

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I had a really great day with my girls yesterday...we played with bubbles and sidewalk chalk, did the Cha Cha Slide in the front yard, and just generally had fun. It was a beautiful, sunny afternoon, and the kids got out of school early, so I was able to spend more time with them than usual-my favorite kind of day. For dinner, we had a freshly made chef salad piled high with tons of veggies,

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is in exactly 30 days! I want to be healthy and slender for my husband. My anniversary present to myself (and him) is that I am trying to lose as much weight as healthfully possible before our big day! So far i've lost 13.8 pounds-10 of them in the last 6 weeks, when I really started getting serious about this. The super fun thing is, hubs has jumped on the health bandwagon, too! He bought us a

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A pic of me with my oldest daughter, Echo Jade.

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Sarah Mae, over at Like A Warm Cup of Coffee, is giving away free copies of her book, 31 Days to Clean- Having a Martha House the Mary Way. Click here for details! This sounds like a wonderful book to inspire me to do some spring cleaning around here! I can't wait to get my copy. Thanks, Sarah Mae!

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Preparing for the week ahead by making breads, tortillas, and granola bars for my family. On this most recent Monday, (last Monday) it meant making 38 flour tortillas, 18 sandwich rolls, 16 almond dark chocolate chunk granola bars, and 1 loaf of whole wheat flax seed bread.I feel so grateful when I look in my fridge and pantry and see freshly made tortillas and breads that will last my family a

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Foodiacs' Spring Fling Giveaway is offering a King Arthur prize package which includes a Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer and a year's supply of King Arthur flour! Click on this link to enter.

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They are making a new church directory at Valley, and we were told that we should bring the family and have our picture taken for it. When we got there, I was surprised to find our worship leader, Jessica Mahan, behind the camera lens. This woman is talented! She not only beautifully leads worship at our church, and gives voice and piano lessons, but also, apparently, takes stunning, professional

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The worship band sings "Oh Glorious Day" up on stage. It's one of my favorite songs. My husband sits next to me. He takes his huge, strong arm and puts it around my shoulder, pulls me close to him. I rest my head against his chest...and he starts to pray. "Dear Lord, we thank you for all these blessings You have put upon our lives, Father. We ask that you would watch over the children, Lord...

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and her family are in the process of adopting a beautiful, precious little bundle of joy named Anna Faith.She has started a blog to chronicle her family's adoption journey-and boy, is it a beautiful one! Would you mind clicking on over to my sister's blog and checking it out and praying for my beautiful niece and her family?

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Christian, now has his own music page on facebook... Click here to check it out and like it!

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We were supposed to spend a day picnicking at San Antonio Falls near Baldy summit during spring break, but it rained just about the whole week. The one day it didn't rain it wasn't warm enough to take the girls up there.A cold day demands hot chocolate! We decided to have a "tea" (hot chocolate) party. The girls and I made homemade biscuits to go with our hot chocolate. Gwennie had hot herbal tea

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Jenna does her daily read-aloud in the kitchen. Every evening she reads to me while I cook dinner.Autumn in her "cardboard box Jeep" for 1st grade safari day. The first graders got to "safari" all around the school and show off their Jeeps. Autumn's had real working taillights. :0)Gwennie got the citizen of the month award at school! Great job, Gwennie!

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You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You: because he trusts in You. ~Isaiah 26:3

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I'm grateful to be married to a fellow believer, but I know there are so many Christians out there who are not. This is the best article I have ever read on being unequally yoked. Absolutely beautiful, well written and encouraging-in fact, I love Courtney's whole blog altogether!Thriving In A Spiritually Mismatched MarriageThe ending is spectacular, and I think there are several principles we can

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All aboard the Disneyland Railroad...At the end of the day we went on the Astro Blasters....We were having so much fun we didn't even take very many pictures! I'm so happy that I got to spend a day with my family at Disneyland. My littles had never gone before, it was an awesome experience.

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For Valentine's Day, my hubby bought me new kitchen appliances. A fridge, and a new electric stove. I'm so grateful, because our last 2 stoves were awful-the first one kept making these big popping noises and then going out on us. The second one had one large burner that kept going out as well, and a very small oven with only one rack. It also burned almost everything. Even when I turned it down

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I need to be loyal to my Lord...my God. I need to be true to Him. I need to fully submit to only One...nobody on this Earth matters as much as Him. I don't live for man's approval, I live for the Love of Adonai. El Shaddai. The only One in my life capable of raining his Agape love down on me. The only One who has mercifully forgiven me of every dirty sin I have ever committed. At the end of the

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Lord, thank You so much for the awesome message I received at church this morning and the cleansing time I got to spend with You in communion. Thank You, also, for making me feel refreshed as a mother and wife this weekend. Please help me to do my job with a joyful heart, and know that I am beyond blessed with the wonderful husband and precious children You sent here for me to love and

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