An awesome deal!

Anyone who is around kiddos can testify to the fact that they outgrow EVERY THING at a crazy rate! No matter how hard I try, I cannot stop this child from growing!! I have developed some what of an obsession with sales and deals. It's also fun dressing up this little guy in his cutie petutie looks. This website is one I just had to share (and I may have already told some of you about)...

www.thredup.com

It's an online consignment store! They have fabulous deals on a range of clothing brands including: Polo, Nautica, GAP, Gymboree, Janie and Jack, and Old Navy. Some of the clothes are new with tags and many are gently used. I have had a fabulous experience with this company. In addition (I have not done this step yet) you can send in your gently used/never worn clothes to receive credit for other items that might just take up space in your closet. Especially for those of here in the Northwoods, there aren't a lot of consignment like options in the neighborhood.

Stellar does not even begin to describe how I feel about this one stop shop!

If you are truly interested, let me know. I think there is something in there where I can send you an "invite" and we both get a $10 credit- BONUS! :) Happy Shopping!

Saturday Hike

There are some weeks/weekends in the Northwoods where I miss the things a "city" can offer- mostly shopping and restaurants! But then there are days like today where you can truly embrace all the Northwoods has.

I started the weekend out with a bang- or rather a fall- down the steps on Friday. My bruised tailbone was not up for too much adventure, but with school around the corner, I wasn't going to let that keep me down. We decided to stick close to home with a hike on the Perch Lake Trails in the Washburn Trail System (about 10 minutes outside of town). We had both Jack and Fletcher in tow. We had let Fletcher off his leash all last weekend to explore. He needed to be leashed on this trail and was thoroughly upset as he could not "track" all the animals. Fletcher's barking only entertained Jack more! However, now I believe both my tailbone and my arm that Fletcher nearly pulled off my body need a little ice.

Fingers crossed that we will be able to continue some weekend adventures this fall. I was at school 2 days this week, 3 days for in service next week, and the 4 days when the kids return. It's always hard when "good things must come to an end".

9 Months

It's hard to believe that Jack is already 9 months. I think the hardest part for me is thinking "This is how long I was pregnant??"- it felt like I was pregnant FOREVER (I did love it... but it was still a long time). These 9 months have flown by in the blink of an eye. Pete and I comment every day on how Jack is changing and growing. You hear us say quite often "Remember when __________". More often than not we seem to thinking about times when Jack was non mobile and would stay in one place! We'll have to get a video on here of the "crab" crawl he does to move himself around!

At his 9 month appointment yesterday we found out he weighs 18lbs 14oz (which puts him between the 25th and 50th percentile) and he's 28 inches long (between the 50th and 75th percentile). He's still in the 98th percentile for his head but we just keep saying he has a lot of brains.

Now that is one happy little guy.

Here we go...

So... I have decided to enter the world of "blogging". I consider myself fairly technologically savvy, however I have found this set up to be a bit challenging. Bare with me here...

I wanted to set up this blog to better communicate with family and friends. With the arrival of Jack, it seems like having extra time is non existent. I made this resolution for better contact January 2012. And 8 months later, here we are, better late than never. So check back when you can to check out the fun and fabulous times of The Youngs!