{"id":4364,"date":"2009-03-19T23:21:23","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T03:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehappyhousewife.com\/?p=4364"},"modified":"2009-03-19T23:21:23","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T03:21:23","slug":"ultimate-blog-party-welcome-to-the-happy-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/ultimate-blog-party-welcome-to-the-happy-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate Blog Party ~ Welcome to The Happy House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.5minutesformom.com\/5654\/ultimate-blog-party-2009-instructions\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/\/i89.photobucket.com\/albums\/k210\/5m4m\/buttons\/events\/ubg1.gif\" alt=\"Ultimate Blog Party 2009\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWelcome to all my <a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/5minutesformom.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ultimate Blog Party Hoppers!<\/a> I know you are all busy jumping from blog to blog finding all sorts of new and wonderful bloggers. To keep it short and sweet I&#8217;ll introduce myself and then tell you the rest of the story with pictures to keep you moving right along.<\/p>\n<p>I am <a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehappyhousewife.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Happy Housewife.<\/a> I have been blogging on this site for over a year. I feel like my site can be summed up by my tagline, <em><strong>&#8220;thriving on one income in a two income world.&#8221; <\/strong><\/em>I am always looking for ways to save money and reuse items in order to live thriftier and &#8220;greener.&#8221;\u00a0 This year our challenge is to<a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L1OsgFMzv-c\" target=\"_blank\"> <strong>live on half my husband&#8217;s income<\/strong><\/a> in order to save for a house. I am also a military wife and mom of 6 (soon to be 7 kiddos) so I write about military life, kids, and homeschooling. The newest project on my site is writing <a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehappyhousewife.com\/our-story\/\" target=\"_blank\">Our Story<\/a>, or the story of how my husband and I met, got married a few weeks later and well, it isn&#8217;t finished yet so I don&#8217;t want to give away the ending.<\/p>\n<p>Now on with the photos&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is me<\/strong>, the picture is actually a bit deceiving because we don&#8217;t live on a farm&#8230; we live in the suburbs of D.C.<\/p>\n<p><a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/s533.photobucket.com\/albums\/ee336\/anderbach\/?action=view&amp;current=DSCF2418-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/i533.photobucket.com\/albums\/ee336\/anderbach\/DSCF2418-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is the rest of the fam&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/i533.photobucket.com\/albums\/ee336\/anderbach\/DSCF0982.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"441\" height=\"331\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yes, I am married to Mr. Incredible. <\/strong>You can read all about him<a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehappyhousewife.com\/what-a-mighty-good-man\/\" target=\"_blank\"> here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>We have a big family, <\/strong>sometimes people ask if we are trying to field a baseball team, I tell them we prefer soccer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/i533.photobucket.com\/albums\/ee336\/anderbach\/DSCF0007-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"483\" height=\"362\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We love parties so much around here we celebrate 8 of them every year&#8230; but that wasn&#8217;t enough so this year we are <strong>adding another!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We especially <strong>love making and eating cake, would you care to join us for some <a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehappyhousewife.com\/easy-as-ice-cream-cake\/\" target=\"_blank\">ice cream cake?<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/i533.photobucket.com\/albums\/ee336\/anderbach\/DSCF0016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"379\" \/><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehappyhousewife.com\/easy-dessert\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trifle?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/i533.photobucket.com\/albums\/ee336\/anderbach\/DSCF0058-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"487\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehappyhousewife.com\/castle-cake\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Castle Cake?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/i533.photobucket.com\/albums\/ee336\/anderbach\/DSCF0009-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"482\" height=\"361\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/i533.photobucket.com\/albums\/ee336\/anderbach\/blog\/DSCF1346.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"344\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehappyhousewife.com\/star-wars-cake\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Star Wars Cake?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/i533.photobucket.com\/albums\/ee336\/anderbach\/blog\/DSCF1454.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"290\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>or perhaps a <a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cVqXHbEKpaI\" target=\"_blank\">Barbie Cake?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/i533.photobucket.com\/albums\/ee336\/anderbach\/blog\/DSCF1248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"606\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I almost always <strong>make the cakes myself<\/strong>, because I am frugal&#8230;. and I have lots of help in the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/i533.photobucket.com\/albums\/ee336\/anderbach\/DSCF0033-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"346\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>I love to cook <\/strong>and share many of <a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehappyhousewife.com\/blackened-scallops-and-pasta-with-asiago-cream-sauce\/\" target=\"_blank\">our family recipes<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/i533.photobucket.com\/albums\/ee336\/anderbach\/DSCF0059-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"438\" height=\"328\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Okay, I don&#8217;t really make meals like that, they <strong>look more like this&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3222\/2411350581_9bdf755d00.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"447\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every other week I write about <a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehappyhousewife.com\/category\/military-commissary-deals\/\" target=\"_blank\">Commissary deals<\/a> to <strong>help military families stretch their grocery budget.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/i533.photobucket.com\/albums\/ee336\/anderbach\/DSCF0004-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"484\" height=\"343\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I also run<a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehappyhousewife.com\/thank-you\/\" target=\"_blank\"> a program<\/a> that <strong>donates expired coupons to our military families overseas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/i533.photobucket.com\/albums\/ee336\/anderbach\/DSCF0005-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"359\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Occasionally I will post super great bargains, like how to <strong>get free ice cream<\/strong> just by going out in your pajamas.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/i533.photobucket.com\/albums\/ee336\/anderbach\/blog\/DSCF1448.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"355\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">We love to have fun and<strong> learn ways to make things cheaper and better ourselves.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/i533.photobucket.com\/albums\/ee336\/anderbach\/IMG_0743.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"580\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I love to sew and find <strong>new ways to use old things.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Shirt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/dsc05596.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-580\" src=\"\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/dsc05596-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"441\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dress<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/dsc05604.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-581\" src=\"\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/dsc05604-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"493\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thanks for stopping by<\/strong>, I promise I won&#8217;t keep you any longer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/i533.photobucket.com\/albums\/ee336\/anderbach\/DSCF0270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"489\" height=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For lots of frugal ideas, &#8220;green&#8221; living tips, homeschooling adventures, great recipes, organizing tips, military deals, and fun crafty projects <a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds2.feedburner.com\/thehappyhousewife\/uGIP\" target=\"_blank\">subscribe to The Happy Housewife<\/a> and have each post delivered straight to your inbox or reader.<\/p>\n<p>You can also <a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/HappyHousewife\" target=\"_blank\">follow me on Twitter<\/a> for daily musings, deals, and updates.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a moment you can <a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehappyhousewife.com\/going-green-reducing-our-waste-and-a-giveaway\/\" target=\"_blank\">hop over to my giveaway<\/a> and enter to win a copy of <a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0764571877?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thehaphou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0764571877\">Melissa&#8217;s Great Book of Produce.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-506\" src=\"\/\/www.thehappyhousewife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/hh_signature_green.jpg\" alt=\"hh_signature_green\" width=\"163\" height=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are some great prizes up for grabs at the Ulitmate Blog Party this year. I hope I win some cute hair bows from<a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chesapeakeribbons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Chesapeake Ribbons,<\/a> for my soon to be 3 girls. Or maybe a <a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/madebymichellestore.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/ulimate-blog-party-2009.html\" target=\"_blank\">Made by Michelle diaper bag<\/a> for the new baby. A gift card to the <a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/heavenlyhomemakers.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heavenly Homemakers gift shop <\/a>would be great too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to all my Ultimate Blog Party Hoppers! I know you are all busy jumping from blog to blog finding all sorts of new and wonderful bloggers. To keep it short and sweet I&#8217;ll introduce myself and then tell you the rest of the story with pictures to keep you moving right along. 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