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We Have An Announcement To Make!!

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February 16 by Alex 83 Comments

family yellowstone trip 2010

Our Family at Our Yellowstone Vacation 2010

We are very excited to make an announcement to each of you!

There will be a new thrifty baby in town with an estimated arrival date of June 18th!!

Yes, we are expecting! Cassie is 23 weeks along and is entering her sixth month.  Yesterday we received an emphatic confirmation that we are having a boy!  He looked great as we enjoyed those high-tech ultrasound machines and the 3D and 4D pictures.  We saw him drinking the fluid and he even threw us a very distinct and cute yawn during the ultrasound.

So here’s the score:

  • He will be the youngest blessing of 5 thrifty kids
  • He will be the second boy (his brother will be almost 5 years older by the time he is born)
  • He will be the fifth child born within 7.5 years but have the longest gap between kids – his immediately older sister will be 2.5 years by the time he is born.

Yes, we have our hands full!

Yes, we know how this happens!

Yes, we intended it!

Yes, we are very excited and feeling extremely blessed by our Lord and Savior who is our provider of all things we have and for giving us another blessing to raise, teach, encourage, love, provide for and enjoy!

And just for the record, our one son is VERY excited! And not only that, but he apparently knew from day one (or rather the 5th week when we found out!) that he had a little brother coming as he has been telling everyone everywhere that “my mommy will be birthing a brother.”

We have been using our thrifty tricks to stock-up on diapers for CHEAP (including buying cheap cloth diapers to try with this baby), grabbing a super deal on a new crib AND playpen (both the crib and playpen we had bit the dust after 4 kids!) and have been keeping our eyes peeled for a super sweet deal on a new cinco-stroller (just kidding!) a double-stroller which is also currently on its last legs – did you know that you can actually get 4 kids in a double-stroller?!

With that wonderful and exciting news, Cassie has been sick the entire time so far (not just the first trimester like with the other four) and very tired.  Surprisingly, she was already super picky about meat, but she has become even more picky and just wants to mostly eat all kinds of fruits – she craves them all day!

We wanted to share with you all this exciting news – and yes, we are ecstatic!

Filed Under: Thrifty Kids, Thrifty Tells

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Comments

  1. Elaine Daly

    Congralations! Hope you enjoy your new addition and he follows you in your money saving footsteps.

    Reply
  2. R Sundhar Raman

    Congratulations
    Take care, you and yours will be in our prayers
    Mangalani Bavanthu!

    Reply
  3. Pat

    Congratulations and God bless all of you.

    Reply
  4. Jeanne

    How lucky you are! God bless all of you.

    Reply
  5. Gretchen

    Congradulation!! Children are such a blessing!! He’ll be so blessed to be part of your family!! God bless!!

    Reply
  6. Carrie C

    Congratulations!!!

    Reply
  7. Jaime

    Congrats! ! ! ! ! <3

    Reply
  8. Melissa G.

    Congratulations. That’s so exciting!

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  9. Tiffany

    From our Litter to yours… CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
    Paul and Tiffany

    Reply
  10. Shahid

    Wishing you a healthy pregnancy! Congratulations!

    Reply
  11. Maria T Owens

    Congratulations!!!! KIds are blessings!

    Maria T O

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  12. Kim M

    Congratulations. I had many stares from others when we would be out with our 5 children. We only had 4 1/2 years between the oldest and youngest.(No Twins) Now they are 25-26 years old and are friends with each other. I am glad that I had them close in age. Now my 27 year old son has 5 with the twins just 5 years old and the last one 4 weeks old. Having 10 grandchildren in 5 years is a blessing to me having my children so close together.
    Hope your all day sickness ends sooner than June 18th.

    Reply
  13. Eunsil G

    Oh my gosh, congratulations to you all!! I got teary eyes when I read your son telling everyone that he’s going to have a little brother…awwwww….He knew that already! Cassie, please hang in there…bless you!!

    Reply
  14. Samantha Bradley

    Congratulations!!! What a wonderful joyous announcement and what a great thing to show your little boy some day as to how happy and wanted he was. You are blessed.
    Praying for Cassie.

    Reply
  15. Stacey Faulkner McNally

    I wish your whole family congratulations,&I hope Cassie feels well very soon!!!!

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  16. Shay Garcia

    Congratulations! Hopefully Cassie will start feeling better so she can enjoy her pregnancy 🙂

    Reply
  17. Leah

    Congratulations! We will be praying for you. Thanks for all you do to share your blessings with all of us!

    Reply
  18. Jenny

    What a wonderful Choice! We love having a big family, Congratulations!

    Reply
  19. Laurie

    Congrats!

    Reply
  20. Maria

    Congrats!!!!! We just welcomed our 7th child on Feb. 12. Children are such a blessing and a joy!

    Reply
  21. Jen

    Congratulations, Thrifty Couple! 🙂 That’s so exciting! We’ve got 4 under age 7.5 too – I can’t imagine adding another right now. You’re amazing!!! Hope all goes well with the rest of the pregnancy. God bless you for keeping up with this site with all that you juggle!

    Reply
  22. Mandi

    Aw, congratulations!!

    Reply
  23. vtfiti

    congratulations!!!

    Reply
  24. Gina

    I am SOOOO happy for your family, another blessing – how wonderful!

    Reply
  25. Sabrina

    Congrats! Children are such a blessing. Hopefully Cassie will stop being sick and sail through the rest of her pregnancy.

    Reply
  26. Sarah

    That is beautiful to hear, Alex and Cassie! It’s so exciting to know you’re about to meet another little guy that is a new part of your family, isn’t it?! You guys are definitely the type of people who can handle a big family with all the energy you (usually) both have 😀 And with your godly values and wisdom 🙂 Don’t worry, Cassie, your energy will come back after the birth with all the changes of hormones to give you that post-pregnancy boost. I will pray though that things get easier throughout your pregnancy. I completely understand! I was always super tired thru each of my pregnancies too. It’s really hard especially when you are at home with kids all day to take care of and they are depending on you. Are you still homeschooling? Is Alex home a lot more now? Well you can write back on gmail if you want. Guess this is getting a little long 🙂 Congratulations and you all are in my prayers!
    Sarah

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  27. Andrea Hales

    Congratulations!!!

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  28. Andi

    Congratulations, great news!

    Reply
  29. joann

    thats great news congeratulations

    Reply
  30. S. Patel

    Congratulations! Wishing you a backache-less pregnancy 🙂 and stress free delivery. Wishing your whole family happiness and health!

    Reply
  31. TRISHA CLARKE

    That’s wonderful, children really are a blessing!

    Reply
  32. Alla

    Gongratulations !!!May God Bless you and your Family 🙂

    Reply
  33. Janene

    Congratulations!

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