Craft Time

We had to put Brittley in her own room because the two kids together just was not working and since her new room was basically a craft/office/junk room I had a lot of work to do. I don't have all of her decorating done so I'll post those later, but her bed was the first thing that needed to be done. This is a headboard my parents gave me a long time ago. It has been in the shed for about 2 years now.

White paint and spray painted tin stars:

This is her new bed spread that I made with the help from my mother-in-law Judy who is fabulous!

Here is Brittley loving her new bed! She loves her new room...I never knew that was the key to happiness for her!

It's been a LONG time

I'm sorry everyone I'm horrible with keeping up with this blog I know! I'm trying to be better at it so I'll see how I do and so will you! So much has been happening since January when I last blogged. I fell behind on posting my savings because I coupon every week and get amazing deals every week. I'll try to keep up on all my savings and things so you can follow along. Even though we have done so much I'm going to start fresh and just begin my blog from April. Whenever it is nice we go play in the park or try to be outside as much as possible. One day we walked to the Hansen Park and then we went home....while I was going to the bathroom Tate went back to the park! Thankfully Amana Hardy lives right by it so she went to see what he was doing and walked him back! Here are some of the pictures from the park!

This is our little monkey climbing in a tree!

But living in Twin other days we wake up to the snow when we were just playing outside...this was taken March 29, 2010! Wonderful Twin Falls Weather!

This was on a Sunday hanging out at Grandma Hall's house!

Blog Worthy Savings!

Part of my blog is about savings and did I save A LOT with this one. I had to get the bisquick for my mom because the coupon expired on January 9th so I went after to work to take advantage of the General Mills Catalina going on. Here was my trip:

2 Boxes of Bisquick
6 Boxes of Gushers
3 YoPlait Yogurt Plus
6 Skippy Peanut Butters
= (b4 savings)
Somewhere around $55

After Preferred Card/Coupons/Last week $10 Catalina/Doublers

$5.50

Plus I got $8.50 back so this deal was a $3 money maker!!!!! Not too shabby!

New Year's Eve

This was us New Year's Eve 2008......Clay & I went to Ty & Chevy's and left the kids with my parents, but we never made it to midnight because Clay got food poisioning!! So we were home about 10:30/11 but here was us in 2008!

New Year's Eve 2009:

I know I haven't changed much, but the kids sure have! We had a fun night with Derek, Sarah, & Brody, Rachelle, Dan & Ashlynn Tracy, & Ryan, Amber, & Lexi Harper playing games and hanging out....we actually stayed up till Midnight this year and were in the car driving home when the new year began! Happy New Year to you all hope your next 10 years is better than the last!

Brittley's Christmas Dresses

Christmas Morning

On Christmas morning we woke up to find that Santa had been very good to us! Here are some pictures of the kids opening presents!

Well actually Tate wouldn't open presents he stood up at the top of the stairs looking down on everyone....clapping his hands and saying "yeah!"

I'm really bummed I didn't video tape Brittley opening this dress because it was priceless. For about a month she has been asking for me to get her this dress. 1st of all it wasn't my favorite, I showed her tons of other dresses and yet I couldn't persuade her. And 2nd it was not on sale...I'm am such a Target Junkie that I know never to pay full price for anything because it will always be on sale, well it came down to Christmas and this stinking dress still was not on sale, so I gave in and it was hard for me too! Well she opened this dress and she spun around the room and screamed my dress, it's wonderful! My future brother-in-law is in the background and he wasn't expecting such a performance for a dress so he loved it! I'm glad I gave in because that was the best gift to me!

A new bike from Grandma & Grandpa Paul!

Hope everyone had a great Christmas...we sure did!

Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve we always go to my parents and spend the night with them and wake up Christmas morning and open presents with everyone. I was planning on spending most of the day at my parents, but I wanted to make truffles(for the 1st time ever) and so from about 9 in the morning till 4 in the afternoon I was cooking/dipping chocolates.....and it is tiring! They turned out really good, but they took FOREVER. Now I know why we buy them at the store! But I'm glad I did it because now I know I can make them! We had a great time Christmas Eve and opened our christmas jammies and then went to bed!

On the way to Grandma's House

Christmas Eve

Tate's Christmas Jammies

Brittley's Christmas Jammies