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Snap-EZ 4 Life Stocking (finally!)

Snap-EZ 4 Life Stocking:

New AIO and Pocket Diapers in nearly Every Size/Style!

Check out our Stocking News Page here:

http://www.snap-ez4life.com/InStockUpdates.html

Some Serious Diaper Stocking Around Here!

First Time Ever - Snap-EZ Eco Trainers In Stock!

Available in two styles -

Read more about them here:

 http://www.snap-ez.com/InfoECOTrainers.html

Other Snap-EZ Stocking:

Fresh Stock on the Snap-EZ Eco Pocket Diapers!

(We started offering these about a months ago and they are selling like crazy!)

Read More about them here:

 http://www.snap-ez.com/InfoECOpocket.html

Plus!  New Skinny Large Pocket Diapers and Chubby Medium Pocket Diapers!

(Larges were restocked last week)

Training Pants in various sizes!

Happy Shopping!!!!!! 

A bear in our neighborhood!

(photo courtesy of WA State Dept of Fish and Wildlife)

We had reported some unusual things happening around our house and also that
a telephone pole that had been used like a cat scratching post (but the
scratches removed about a 1/4 of the pole and were from 2 - 4 feet above the
ground) just a couple of weeks ago.

A game warden came out and basically said it wasn’t a cougar or a bear (LOL now , but possibly a
bob cat. That was a relief as a bob cat doesn’t attack humans unless they
are rabid.

So we basically forgot about it….until our neighbor told us about this:

http://www.bellinghamherald.com/256/story/467339.html

So our visitor wasn’t a bobcat but a 200 pound black bear! It was put down just miles from our house!

Here’s a great place to learn about wildlife here in Washington State - I spent an entire afternoon perusing this site back when I was trying to figure out what we had prowling the neighborhood and I had even thought it might be a black bear after reading this little tidbit “It has been debated whether bears mark trees to convey social information akin to territorial marking in other carnivores. Such marks are most easily seen on smooth-barked species of trees—alder, aspen, birch, and white pine—on which tooth and claw marks will contrast most visibly, but any live or dead standing trees may be heavily chewed. Human structures such as utility poles, footbridges, and even outbuildings may also be chewed”

Sure sounded like this telephone pole we saw just around the corner from our house:

.…shows how much game wardens know!

http://wdfw.wa.gov/wlm/living/bears.htm

I’m a little in shock! We live in the woods, but are not in back country - we are just 7 miles from the nearest town, less than 2 miles from I5, and miles and miles from anything I’d
consider wilderness or bear habitat!

Thanking God that our children and pets were kept safe from that guy and that is wasn’t MY house that he decided to go visit,

Ruth

Things are finally settling down around here…

into a more normal level of chaos! LOL!

(I just found this in my draft file - I thought for sure I’d posted this, so this was actually supposed to appear about a month ago!)

The move into the new house combined with painting the new house and launching our new line of Eco Pocket Diapers and Trainers made for a very insane year so far.

But today it seems like I am finally finding a new normal including getting caught up of things I had let slide, like paying bills (I hate snail mail anything!), clearing off my desk (this was a much needed project as I had a pile about 2 feet high on it of “things to do” and mail to go through), organizing the garage (haven’t had a garage in over 13 years and it was a disaster from the move), cleaning up the back and front yards (I’m using the term loosely are our back “yard” is just a clearing with natural grasses and plants growing in random areas and definitely NOT mowable as it’s not even close to level), and finding the baby stuff and starting to get it out!

This also includes finally getting somewhere on the last “to do” things on the list for the new house - final trim painting (this was my job), tile in the kitchen, and carpet in the hallway and stairs (I don’t do flooring!). We are hoping to have the ouside of the house painted in the next month or so (by someone else as I am NOT going up on a ladder 2 1/2 stories while over 6 months pregnant, and I don’t exactly like the idea of my DH doing this either).

Here’s some updates on our family -

We found out a few weeks ago that we are having another girls this time around. This will be so nice as our youngest DD is following 3 boys in a row, so she’ll have a close sister to grow up with. I actually got a box of her clothes back that I loaned out and they were all her preemie clothes - she was SOOOO tiny! I can’t believe how tiny those clothes were! She only weighed 6 1/2 pounds at birth, and then dropped to 5 1/2 pounds in the first week - she wore preemie clothes for 4 weeks and just made it to a normal birth weight for our family at about 6 weeks!

Our oldest son who’s in the Marines has been transfered to California and will deploy to Iraq in January or February. He will get about a months leave before he goes so he’ll get to see the new little sister and our new house! Big changes around here since he had leave last!

Our second oldest son is still working full time where my DH works and loves being a machinist. He’s also working on fixing up a 74 camaro - is working out the kinks on a tuned port injection. That is one serious boy toy there - it screams “I am owed by a young man who loves noise and power”. He also just finished his last year in Bible Quizzing by going to Nationals in Minnesota last April (I think I blogged about this??) and had a great time. He’s already planning on coaching a team next year - we’ve got 3 more kids that will start quizzing next year! He also is taking up the sport of golf, loves to play church league softball on Monday nights, volleyball with friends every other Saturday, table tennis on Tuesdays and now he’s been adding extreme frisbee on Thursday nights -he’s one busy boy!

Our oldest DD is currently in Germany! She left Monday for Berlin for 11 days on a short term missions trip. They are working with the Green Family in Berlin to give out thousands of pamphlets to people in Berlin telling them of Christ and inviting them to their fellowship. Spritually, Berlin is a very hard place and the Greens have been there for years working hard to spread the gospel, but the harvest is slow, but the need is great! She is a part of a 9 member team that will be hitting the pavement each day. I’m so excited for her to experience this team work and the blessings of working to bring people to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ!

Before she left, she was busy with Karate two nights a week, taking care of her 4 miniature schnauzers, working for me, and getting ready for her trip! Both her cat, Misty, and her dog, Rhianna, are having surprise pregnancies that will probably be due before she returns, so she might have puppies and kittens to deal with once she gets home again! I am sorely missing her help around here, and if we are correct on the puppies and kittens, I will be that much more anxious for her to get home!

Our third DS is busy riding bike every day - he saved enough to by a really nice bike and loves to do long bike rides - like 30 mile round trip rides! He’s also been going to the driving range with his big brother, playing table tennis on Tuesday nights, and is participating in Karate as well! He is our all around handy man around here - especially if it involves anything motorized - moving the truck (my DH has an old farm truck and he loves to move it around our property.

Well - that’s all that I found saved, I had more updates on the younger children, but that will have to wait for another time!

No, I haven’t fallen off the planet!

But I sure haven’t had any time for blogging!

I’ve never been a diary kind of person, and taking photos of everyday events is not my strong suit!  So when you combine my lack of talents in those two directions with a HUGE move, painting our new house, cleaning/painting/fixing our old one, being in the first trimester when way over 40, homeschooling 6 children, dentist appointments, tutoring appointments, a business to keep running (and adding a new line of diapers as well), and keeping my husband happy and my 9 kids at home cared for and keeping in touch with my oldest who’s overseas in the Marines….let me see….oh I forgot - going out of state to watch my second oldest son compete at the National Bible Quizzing Tournament, putting our mobile home on the market and showing it around 3 times a week….and for some reason, I just can’t find much time to blog!  LOL!

So here’s a quick catch up as to where we are now (there’s just not enought time to even hit the high spots other than what I did above!) -

Our oldest son is transfering from Okinawa to 29 Palms, CA next month!  He’ll finally be in our time zone again!  Bummer is that he’s with a new unit - Recon - and he has no idea if he’ll be continuing with computers, or if he’ll be facing a new job description - he will also be spending at least 6 months of the next 2 1/2 years overseas, most likely Iraq - God’s Grace is what will get us through that if it comes to that!

Our second oldest son is still working fulltime where my DH works and is doing a great job - and using most of his income to fix up his two cars and other hobbies (like video games).

Our oldest daughter just turned 18 and can’t wait to have her own Costco card so she can help with the shopping - not the usual thing for just-turned-18 yos to be excited about, but then again, when you homeschool your kids just don’t turn out “normal” - they turn out so much better!   She’s also getting pretty deep into dog breeding/training and hope to start competeing in the AKC and UKC this year with her latest dog, Sebastian!

The rest of the school aged children are growing and learning and doing normal stuff.

Our two littlest are typically very busy and often getting into trouble, but they’re so cute it’s hard to get mad!

As of now our kid’s ages are: 21, 19, 18, 14 (15 in 2 weeks), 13, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2, and #11 due September 30!

We are in our new house, but there’s still trim to be painted, and flooring to get done, but that should all be done by the end of May - and then we have to tackle painting the outside! I don’t even want to think about painting again!

I will put up a photo after the mobile is moved off and the new house is painted, as it doesn’t look much different from the last photo from the outside!

We just sold our mobile home last night (well, we accepted an offer and will do paperwork next week) - Praise The Lord - I tried very hard to rest on God’s providence in this but at times I found myself worrying about “what if it doesn’t sell” - but I only hurt myself and should have always trusted Him for this!

I figured out during my recent spell of being on bedrest after my trip to Minneapolis (Bible Quizzing) that I need to keep to home this summer and get my rest - this is a real testing time for me!  And for my family as they’re used to me going 90 mph 24/7 and now they’re having to help out more and allow me to get the rest I need!  So no camping trips this year, bummer!  Oh well, our van’s broken so we can’t take the trailer anywhere anyway!

And business wise, out first round of wholesale orders is going to be shipped out next week!  We are frantically trying to pull everything together this weekend - so check out the “What’s New” page for information about the new Snap-EZ Eco Pocket Diaper and the retailers who will be carrying them this first round (I already have about 9 more retailers in line for the next shipment!).  We are so excited about this project…maybe this will be the ticket for my DH to start working from home with us and then start on his own business!!!!

Above all, God’s been working on my heart to trust Him at all times, even when things don’t seem like they are making any sense - I am in His hands 24/7 and nothing will come my way without his loving hands allowing it for my good (to make me more Christ-Like) and for His Glory and to show me His grace! - and what a peace this  gives when I am leaning on  and trusting in Him!

Glad you stopped by and read my long update!  Hopefully things will be slowing down a little more and I’ll do a little better here!

Ruth

Snap-EZ enters the world of Wholesale!

We in the beginnings of producing a new Snap-EZ pocket diaper for Wholesale! This new pocket diapers will be very similiar our current pocket diapers, with small differences in labeling and materials/colors.

If you, or anyone you know, might be interested in offering this new pocket diaper, please email me at snap-ez at snap-ez.com (change the “at” to @) for more information and a wholesale application form!

Stay tuned for more on this exciting new adventure for us!

Ruth

Updates, Surprises, and a Snap-EZ/Snap-EZ 4 Life Moving Sale!

Sorry I haven’t posted in a long while! Once I got started on painting the inside of our new house, we were down to survival level functioning around here - do what it takes to keep the children fed, educated, clothed and keep the business afloat, and spend 4 - 8 hours a day painting!

All that is left on the house is window trim painting (me - should be done by Tuesday), carpets/laminate flooring (Tuesday - Friday), Staircases (early next week), Cabinets (Wednesday - Friday), interior doors installed (after cabinets and carpets), and then finish plumbing (sinks/toilets etc) - then we can get a temporary occupancy permit and move in! Then the work of cleaning up the mobile home and putting it on the market and finding a buyer will begin!

We are so close we can taste it - the kids are even dreaming about moving in and I have trouble sleeping as my mind’s going 1000 miles an hour thinking about moving/arranging furniture/all the room/all the light/everything clean and new! I’m sooooooooooo excited I’m about to burst!

Needless to say, it’s been tough - especially while recovering from the sprained knee and one other surprise - I’m expecting again! Blessing #11 is due to arrive here late in September! So if I’m slow to post here, reply to emails, or anything else, I’m sure you’ll understand that I’m running slower but having more than usual to do each day (I’m down to just painting a few doors and window trim, so I can do short spirts of painting now and that helps) and having far less energy than usual to do it all in!!
So while we’re gearing up to move and moving into our new house/shop I thought we’d celebrate by having a sale!

To celebrate, until the end of March, all our AIOs are on sale - both diapers and trainers!

$4 off AIO Solid Color Diapers, and $2 off AIO Solid Color Trainers!*

And at Snap-EZ 4 Life - Sale Prices on all our Snap Pads - $1 - 3 off every size*

Best prices on these in years!!

Happy Bargain Hunting!

http://www.snap-ez.com

http://www.snap-ez4life.com
*Sale price appears once item is added to shopping cart!

We are painting…

I sprayed primer last week, as well as painting the garage - all interior of course! We started putting color inside the house yesterday after the texture got finished. But I didn’t get very far - just one room.

So last night it snowed 4 inches of fluff - you know…the kind of snow you brush easily off the car. We’ve been below freezing around here for over a week so all our puddles, big and small, have been frozen solid. This made for much fun for the children sliding and such!

So this new snow covered all the ice and made a very beautiful picture this morning. I was so anxious to get more painting done (I was only able to pick up some of the paint), and we were completely out of cheese and peanut butter (a complete crisis for our family, especially me as I always have peanut butter on toast for breakfast!), so I decided to brave the elements. I envisioned going off the road in this cold, so I put on my thermal undergarments, and donned my DSs rubber boots and headed out the door.

I hadn’t gone even 15 feet from the front porch, hadn’t even put on my gloves or zipped my coat yet (I had started to get too warm in the house), and woooof I was on the ground - found some of that hidden ice!

Remember those nasty “hurdler stretches” you did in PE? Well, they hurt back then, but let me tell you, at 44 and when done suddenly and involuntarily, it is very painful and tends to do nasty things to your knees! It makes a nasty little popping sound!

It totally freaked me out, so I sat there for a moment and took a little inventory and I seemed to be OK, just a little weird in the knee - so I got up, moving carefully, and got the snow out of my purse, gloves on my hands, zipped my coat and cleared off the car, testing the knee.

It seemed OK so I left to run my errands - got the paint, got the groceries, and added one errand, that of going to the pharmacy to get a large ace bandage for my now qutie sore knee.

I did have one more adventure between errands - I found one intersection to be much icier than it looked - I found myself doing a 180 before I had much time to even ponder why I was seeing the telephone pole, stop sign, and fire hydrant fly by - but I did have time to say a quick prayer “please don’t let me hit anything!”. But all was OK, and after I got straightened out and headed in the direction I wanted to go, I was actually laughing - so glad God saw fit to preserve my DH’s car!

So instead of doing the painting I so wanted/needed to do, I spent most of the day with ice on my knee. I did go out with the girls long enough to show them how to paint and they got pretty far on their bedroom!

I’ve promised DH to go to the doctor tomorrow if it’s still quite painful, but I just wasn’t up to venturing out again today for some strange reason!

Anyway, hope you enjoyed reading about my adventures today - It will make a great story to tell my grandkids someday, I’m sure!

First Sale in 16 months at Snap-ez

Well, it’s been over a year since I discounted our prices (November or 2005 to be exact), so I thought I’d give it a try and see if you guys like a good deal!

Here’s what’s on sale at Snap-EZ

Solid Color Snap-EZ Pocket Diapers- now only $15.95 all sizes*!!!

Nap-EZ Stuffable Trainers - $2 off solids, prints, and fleece!!

Wet Bags - $2.00 offregular retail - ALL SIZES!

Diaper Pail Liner Bags - $3.00 off - now just $15.00 ea!

Sale ends 1/25/08 - and it might be another year or two before I do another sale!!

See you there!

Ruth

*except Extra Large, they are also discounted, but the price for the sale is $17.85 instead of $18.95

Snap-EZ 4 Life Dealz - Prices Slashed!

It worked so well with Snap-EZ, I decided to do the same thing for Snap-EZ 4 Life - all DealZ Sets were marked down an additional 50% this week!

Nursing pads as low as $.50/pair, Snap Pads as little as $2 ea, Adult Diapers starting at just $16, and Snap Extenders just $3 - 4/pair!
Get some while you can as at these prices, they’ll clear out quickly!

Ruth