Nickerson News

More photos coming soon….

Seriously, it is a website.

iheartcvs.com

Go to it and start saving!

My dear friend Heather (aka Owen’s mommy) introduced me and my sis, Kate, to this amazing store 6 months ago. Sure, I always knew there was a CVS, but I HAD NO IDEA the deals that they offered. I always thought it was some over priced  convenience store.

One day I was telling Heather about how I love to save money and use coupons, and she said, “so you know about CVS?” Um, “NO!” She gladly explained their system and I have save $100s of dollars since then. THANKS HEATHER!

If you don’t know about it check out, iheartcvs.com or email me and I will gladly help you out in understanding how you can save your family TONS and TONS of money!

Also, check out moneysavingmom.com if you are looking for great deals and are a crazy coupon lover like me.

Just so you understand a little about what I am taking about, today on my CVS trip I got the following items for $.91. Yes, you read that right….91 CENTS. (and got back $7 in CVS bucks, so I actually made money!)

-A pack of Huggies diapers

-2 Herbal Essence hair products

-Colgate Toothpaste

And every week is pretty much the same savings. Last week I only spent $.41 and got around the same type of stuff. I try to only spend around $1 each trip.

Go start saving!

Life around here gets dirty…real fast. You wouldn’t know I clean the house up every night after Abel goes to bed, because by 8am the next day the house is already in shambles. But I love it! It shows that our home is full of life!

Abel is all boy and if a puddle is in sight, he is there within seconds.

Last Sunday when it was gorgeous here, we took the boys to the park and before we made it to the playground they spotted a puddle and that was it…bring on the mud!

Seth was able to capture some great dirty boy moments!

Abel’s funny jig!

Do you see all that mud!

I’ll leave you with the crazy mad scientist look. ha!

You could say the past 2 months kinda felt like we were in a valley, BUT The Lord was so faithful in watching over us and carrying us through.

The end of November we were struck badly from a car running a red light. I remember holding Abel so tightly shortly have the accident happened and was so in awe of how the Lord protected us. In that moment so many things didn’t matter. In that moment so many things changed for me. The only thing that was important was that we all 3 of us were ok. We made it! We are all still on this earth for a reason.

Two weeks later that double line showed up and baby #2 was coming. We walked around in shock for a few days, but boy that changed quickly and we were happily making changes for our new arrival.

Five weeks later we found out our baby #2 (our August) was in Heaven. How shattered and heartbroken we were. How I didn’t understand why God chose to take our baby. I still don’t understand why God took August, but I have this peace that His will was done and August served his/her purpose on this earth.

Two weeks later I had surgery. The first few days were a little rough, but I started to heal emotionally and physically.

This past Wed. marked two weeks from my surgery. I am healing. I feel worlds different and back to my old self. I still think about August daily and often my eyes well up when I think too long about him/her. But I am reminded of my how blessed I am when I look at my energetic little guy who I hug and kiss a little more each day.

So much has happened in the last 2 months. So much that if I didn’t know God I would be stuck in a valley. But I’m not! I feel like I am on my way up, at least I hope so. My Lord has carried us through and made us better people. I feel years older from these experiences (not in a bad way) but I feel like God has shown me things that I needed to know for His Glory for His purpose.

Last Friday we got our Civic back. Two months and one day later. But it looks as good as new. (Let’s pray it is as good as new.)

Also last Friday, I turned 29. My last year in the twenties, but you know what I am not sad about it. I am going to embrace this year of 29 and live it the best I can. I’m actually looking forward to my 30′s. So many women have told me how much they loved their 30′s. So 30 here I come!

And I have to thank our family and friends. So many cards, flowers, food, hugs, phone calls, emails, text messages, tears and laughs have held me up, kept me going. I am so blessed with such wonderful people who have shown love in so many different ways. Thank You!

I’ll close with some pics from the last few weeks.

Doing a little Abel jig.

Excited about the snow falling.

Stuffing his face.