Happy Halli/Quincy-Ween!!

Here's pictures from the last couple days.  We went trick or treating on post with the Welsh's on Friday and then Trunk or Treating at church on Saturday night, the kids got a ton of candy!!

Ready for Trick or Treating!

 

The Grinch and Thing 1

My little Devil

I made the Trident so he couldn't hurt anyone with a plastic one.

Another pic of the Grinch with Thing 2

Thing 1 and the Cat in the Hat

Goofy grin at Trunk or Treating

A Huntsman boy

Once he noticed the picture, he posed, I had to snap another one!

Waiting to go get candy

Can we go now?

Halloween was awesome, we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and got lots of good candy as well as getting rid of the candy I had, YAY!!  Next year I'll actually do more for costumes, but I liked the super easy ones this year.

Pumpkin Picking

A couple weeks back we went and picked out some pumpkins with Gma Max before she headed home.  The kids had so much fun and we got lots of cute pictures, enjoy!

Family Photo

Showing off Halli's pumpkin

Posing with Gma Max!

My Cinderella pumpkin

Loving the little pumpkins

photo with Mommy

Quincy insisted on getting his picture taken with this!

Little pumpkin!

Updates on it all!

Life has been crazy at the Jarmon household and blogging as well as picture taking has suffered, mostly the blogging.  So here's my quick update before I head off to bed!

Quincy is doing great, driving us crazy as usual.  He is so sweet and loving sometimes and gives the best hugs, he likes to hug you around your neck, but he has a major temper.  We're definitely working on it, but he'll scream when he's mad and throw or hit things, it's crazy to see someone so small so angry.  He still loves us all to death though and knows even more signs now.  He loves the outdoors, dogs, cars/trucks and babies, and tracks them all down whenever he can.

The 3 of us playing around

Halli is hitting the pouty phase as well as the 'love to annoy my brother' phase.  It makes life very entertaining.  She still loves his company and enjoys playing with him, she loves cooking with mommy and sometimes begs to do laundry, definitely a one of a kind child!

Chad is great, enjoying work as much as possible, staying healthy and playing Ultimate.  He has a PT Eval coming up soon, he's a little stressed about it, but not stressed enough to exercise extra, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. 

3D photo of Kyson's face, he has his hand up over his eye

Baby #3 officially has a name, Kyson Max Jarmon, at the moment it is permanent, but we'll see if it lasts.  Chad's nickname at DLI was Kyse and since we didn't want a jr. we figured doing a variation of Kyse would be fun.  And since we couldn't figure out how to spell it so people would pronounce it correctly, we decided Kyson would work best. Plus I really like it two-syllable.  Anyway,  I am currently 31 weeks and 4 days prego and so ready to be done.  He is a major mover and kicker, my belly looks like the ocean once it gets moving.  Kyson has been given a clean bill of health, his kidney dialation has disappeared and he is head down, so all is good on that end.  We even got some 3D photos of him at the last ultrasound, he already looks just like the other two.

I am doing well, falling farther and farther behind in housework, which I know is expected but is driving me nuts.  Can't wait to be able to have some more energy again, and flexibility, as well as just plain having my body back to one occupant.  Trying to stay busy though and not sit around too much (not really working), attending play groups and hanging out with friends, as well as keeping up on some cooking.

That's about it for us, we had Chad's mom come visit a couple weeks back and it was a wonderful break for me, kids were so well behaved for a week.  Both of Chad's parents will be out here as of Thanksgiving, and mine will be coming soon after if not for Christmas, so life will be crazy!!  Hopefully I'll get a blog in before Kyson is born, if not, it'll have lots of pictures of him! 

Financial Peace

So we've almost done it, we are down to the last week of courses and due to some slacking on our part and trying to catch up.  But oh the things we've learned!!!  We are determined to download all the worksheets and lesson audio before our time is up. Have SO enjoyed the classes and will kind of miss it when it's over.  Pretty sure we're asking for the book for Christmas, so have that to look forward to as well.

We have learned so much, so much more then I can even start to cover.  Especially since I'm almost half asleep and haven't been able to keep up on weekly installments to keep you up to par.  Sorry :( 

But I would definitely recommend it and it has helped us so much!  We are so excited to finish and apply it all and see how we come out in the years to come. 

So far we have paid off our credit cards and cut those up, paid down our car loan an extra $1300 and are continuing to make atleast double payments per month (aiming to pay it off in 2 yrs instead of 4), have set up a small $1,000 emergency fund (the best thing EVER, finding out you have to get new tires on your van isn't that big of a deal anymore, and not any cause for argument).  Life is good and secure, granted I get annoyed at times that we can't pay things off instantly, but as we know, good things in life take time. 

We have been amazed at the blessings that have come.  We have always paid, or tried to pay, a faithful tithe and have found with all this precise budgeting (or as close as I can yet figure out) that we can now visibly see the monetary blessings that have come from tithing.  We were shocked to find that last month we were somehow $300 short and thought we would have to borrow from our emergency fund, but somehow we managed to be perfectly fine by the end of the month.  Then again this month we took our car in for a tire rotation and oil change, just to be told our tires were bent and needed to be replaced, it was going to be $500, which wasn't horrible since we knew we had the emergency fund, but it meant postponing paying off the van so we could rebuild the emergency fund.  Well, once again, come the end of the month we do all of our mathematics and manage to only have to borrow $20 out of our savings, once again with no clue as to how.  I'm chalking it up to blessings and thanking the Lord, never felt so blessed and so reassured that we were making great decisions.

So if you are looking to figure out how to budget well and manage your money, get definitions of investing and help with doing so, are buying or selling a house, want to get good deals, learn how to pay off debt quickly and efficiently, and find a job you love and make it bring in money, this is DEFINITELY a course for you.  I have learned so much I never knew about before, and wish they had taught this in high school.  Dave Ramsey is helping to change the world, one person at a time, helping us all realize we work our whole lives, so shouldn't we be able to retire and survive without government aid in the end?  What an amazing life it will be when we are DEBT FREE!!!!!