Archives for February 2014

How to Get 101 FREE Prints from Shutterfly

February 18, 2014 by Jules Leave a Comment

Every time I find out about awesome deals I love, I try to share them over on Facebook because I know many of you are just like me. I Love Free Stuff! I also LOVE Photos!

1112092_president_head Get 101 Free Prints with code SNOWDAY. Valid 2/18-2/19

Today, Shutterfly has their amazing 101 FREE Prints. They usually do this at least twice a year but this is like the second time I've seen it in the past couple months.

Many of you may want to take advantage but aren't sure how to...I'm here to and explain the easy way to claim your FREE Prints!!!

Click THIS link or the image below.
Click "Get Started"
Sign Up or Sign In if you already have an account
Select an Album that already exists or start a new one by clicking Upload
After you have the Album you'd like to select pictures from, you may choose just a few by clicking the box in the corner of each desired picture or click Select: All
If you're like me, you won't have 101 pictures to print but you Have To Have 101 to get them FREE. I print multiples of certain pictures and use them as part of thank you cards or gifts for friends and family. Remember, the FREE prints are the 4x6 size.
When you have 101, go to check out. This is where you will put in the coupon code {current code: SNOWDAY}. You will have to pay shipping.
Proceed by putting in your payment method and shipping info!
Enjoy your prints!!!

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Filed Under: Deals, The Ones about Jules Life {Randomness}

Valentine’s Day in a Minister’s Home

February 15, 2014 by Jules 2 Comments

The hard part about being the wife of a minster is his unpredictable work schedule and the awesome part about being the wife of a minister is his flexible work schedule!

Thanks to an unpredictable work schedule, we have rarely gone out on Valentine’s Day. Some years there is a Valentine’s Day banquet, other years your chaperoning the junior high dance. And thanks to a flexible work schedule, we always have lots of opportunity to go out some random night instead.

Since Vday was on a Friday this year, we hosted a fun kid's valentine's day party at our house to their parents could go have a date night! Hope over to A Common Bond and see how we prepared to manage the chaos and enjoy the company.

Filed Under: The ones about the Rothacher Home

Count Your Rainbows

February 11, 2014 by Jules 2 Comments

Last night was a sleepless night in our house.

Around 10pm we woke up Ellie {8 weeks} and changed, fed, and put her to bed for we headed off to bed ourselves. While getting meds for the sick hubs and it started. Izzie. Screaming from her bedroom. I hurried in there to hopefully figure out what was wrong before she woke everyone else.

What caused the panicked scream? Her knee hurt... Through all the crying and whining I think what happened was when she rolled over in her bed {apparently violently} she hit her knees on the wall... Yeah, that requires blood curdling screams.

After a long road of

snuggles
talking
multiple trips back and forth from my room
giving permission for the now wide-awake Mags to snuggle with Izzie
a drink of water
"medicine" {icey hot} on her knees

I just new we were back on track for a good night's sleep.

I made it back to my bed just in time for Izzie to start whaling as she marched into my room to tell Matt of her ailment. He sent her back to bed and gave Mags permission to sleep in the guest room since the single bed of snuggles wasn't working.

A few hours later when Ellie woke up again to eat, Matt made a trip to calm the girls.

A few hours after that Ellie woke Again to eat and the poor girls snot-filled nose wouldn't let her go right back to sleep. Matt was taking a turn soothing her after the evil snot-sucker episode when I hear, "Girls! Go back to bed." I look at the end of the bed to see two silent sisters standing next to one another and staring at their daddy.

I have not idea how little sleep they really got. Craziness.

Somehow The Brother slept through the entire night, wondering in our room {early for him} at 6:45ish. The girls followed suit shortly.

This was a recipe for a disastrous day! I decided to try to get out in front of it before things went south fast. After breakfast and a shower I told the kids to get dressed fast. {They LOVE going} Today was Jamin's Nanna day so he was pumped to go hang out with his grandparents so while the girls finished dressing I fed Ellie {again} and loaded them up. The sick hubs stayed with Ellie.

Where were we going that was so excited you ask? Target. lol I told ya. They just like going. I had been thinking about getting the kids a play broom {kid-sized} so they could do their sweeping chore easier so we headed out in search of a broom!

Target:

located meds for hubs
scored the last play broom in the whole store
found a cute clearance pillow case {Thoughtful Thursday post coming soon}

Our round trip was less than an hour and half and that's 20 minutes one way into town. 😀

One the way home we turned off the colors songs 8[ and rocked out to some Air1 for some mommy sanity. Izzie heard a new song and announced it was her favorite. {lub her} As she tried to sing the catchy yet slightly cheese song in the back seat it was clear that we were "counting our rainbows" by enjoying one another today after a long dark sleepless night.

Thanks Air1 for broadcasting truth
for my babies to learn and love!

Filed Under: Parenting, The ones about the Rothacher Home

Homemade Pretend Makeup {Thoughtful Thursday}

February 6, 2014 by Jules Leave a Comment

Valentine's Day is coming and I love giving my littles gifts but don't want to spend a lot of money. A small, inexpensive, yet cute gift for little girls this year is homemade pretend makeup. This is also a cute gift for birthdays and there's no threat of messes that parents wouldn't be happy about.

What you'll need:

used makeup container(s)
fingernail polish

How to:

clean out any remnants of the make over {I suggest a dry Q-tip}
fill with your choice of fingernail polish {I chose neutral/actual make-up colors but fun colors would be cool especially for eye-shadows}
let sit flat to dry at least 24 hours to harden completely
add a pretend applicator- the original makeup brush cleaned out, new makeup sponge, or Q-tip
gift it to your little princess and watch the fun begin

Filed Under: Birthdays, Gifts Ideas, Holidays, Homemaker, Parenting, Projects, The Ones about Jules Life {Randomness}, The ones about the Rothacher Home, Thoughtful Thursdays

This Year’s Love Note Stations

February 5, 2014 by Jules Leave a Comment

If we are friends on facebook or you hang out on the as Jules is going page, you may have seen our "love note station" hard at work. Mainly by my 5-year-old who loves crafting along with her new found skills of reading and writing.