Couponing

You know what I really love about couponing (besides saving money)?

I get to do the majority of my shopping at Albertsons and Maceys....not Walmart.

Love it!

8 Months

I can't believe he is 8 months.

Army crawling.

Says Hi.

Waves.

Claps.

Attacks Hadley when she has something he wants.

Is carried by Hadley (not with permission).

Eats rice krispy's by grabbing a handful, bringing them all up to his face and seeing which ones fall in his mouth (last night he ended up with one up his nose).

Still wakes up at night (a good night has only two wakings).

Is so stinking cute.

Makes us laugh.

They officially have a team

My sister had her 6th baby last night.

It was her 5th boy.

One little girl in the middle of them.  Don't worry she holds her own.

A week over due he came out at 7lbs 3oz (that's small for our family) and ended up coming c-section.

He has a name.  It's either Cody or Caleb.  Decisions, decisions.

We're excited to have another little cousin.

The Difference

Me with Strep this weekend: Fever, Chills, Dead in Bed, Requiring Prescription Strength Painkiller (there's none left...so don't bother breaking in to get it :))It was 48 hours before I got going again...I'm still not 100%

My girls with Strep: Bouncing off the walls, no pain meds needed.

Good Gravy

What good is food storage if you can't get the lid off!

I'm about ready to get the drill out and start drilling holes in the top.

The instructions "break here and lift" leave something to be desired.

Break with what.

All I need is 2c of oatmeal.

The food storage is supposed to make my life easier....

Food Storage

So I have a new calling and entails food storage and training others for it.

I have followed one blog for a while in hopes of improving my own food storage and making sense of it.  For Christmas I gave Reed (don't be jealous now) a 3 month food storage plan with menus and items needed.  This included a list of what we would need for these menus (supposing we couldn't get anything fresh), what we had already and we still needed.  The original plan was to get all the items and be done, but I decided to shop the deals for them instead.

I have since found another site (which has a contest going on right not) that covers similar items.  It is a coming together of 3 different blogs that teach food storage, money saving and cooking with food storage ideas.  Great combo.  You have to love the internet when it can make so many things so much easier.

So go check them out and share any sites you have found too.

Happy New Year

I bet none of you still have pumpkins on your porch.

We're lucky like that.

We had a fabulous Christmas.  My goal: lots of fun memories.  I think it was accomplished.  Sledding, parties, ice skating, movies, games, wii competitions, lots of fun and we all enjoyed just snuggling up in the house and hanging out with each other for a lot of the time.

A few fun pics of the whole holiday vacation fun follow:

The first one is my dad at 1 year old.  He got a rocking horse that he still has.  Hadley asked for one just like it for Christmas...and the elves remembered how to make it.  She was very excited.

pjs on Christmas eve...don't they look really excited.

Max and Jadey were caught trying to change the clocks in our room at 3am (one of the clocks alarms went off)

Soccer with some families from the ward.  Followed by a traditional make doughnuts and take them around with some caroling.

School sing.