Yes the little things in life make me happy....
Yesterday we took Andrew to Walmart so he could pick out his cake for his birthday - well actually 2 cakes. One for Friday and his pizza party at school, and another for his actual birthday. He ended up picking out a transformer cake for school and a batman cake for home. Of course they had all these cute fairy cakes which Iz insisted she needed for HER birthday...
Then we headed back to the back of the store and picked up the high chair my mom sent for Eve. Now she will be able to join us at the table for meals instead of sitting in the other room in her swing or exersaucer.
Next we headed to SEARS to pick up my shark mop. I have had my eye on one for a while, but couldn't justify charging it. Then when we got our gift card from SEARS I knew what I wanted to get... I am going to try it out today - it's probably the only time in my life I have been excited to mop....and truth be told after the first time I will probably not be excited because even if it's a breeze it'll still be cleaning...and who gets excited about cleaning????
I'll post an update (with photos) later and give you my full report on the mop (as well as my food saver I got for Christmas :) )
January 13, 2010
January 10, 2010
Slacker party of 1....
Yeah that's me - I'm a slacker.
I haven't started my treadmill workouts - mainly because there are boxes stacked up in front of it - and I think once I got them moved I'd be too tired to work out....well that and I am a slacker.
I started the photo challenge of 1 photo a day .... and I am already missing like 4 days (and its the 10th of January) - the reason??? I like to keep my camera put away so the kids don't break it....well that and I am a slacker.
I did keep the goal of keeping up with what I save with coupons....but I have tons of coupons to clip and add to my binder....no real reason....except I'm a slacker.
ON ANOTHER NOTE
--I have my taxes ready to file on January 16th!
--I have a good part of our Disney trip planned (yeah....the one that is in Sept...no slacking there)
--My parents are coming out the last full week in March - she is on spring break so they are coming out to see the kids. (and me and hubby too) I'm not sure what we will do - Mike will have to work most likely - I know one day will probably be out on the beach...we'll probably rent a seashell for the day so we can have a shower and shady area.
So now on to some photos.....some were from my "photo challenge" and others are just because...
1. Mike introducing Iz to static electricity
2. Eve at 3 months
3. This is what Eve does when you try and lay her down - she tries to set back up....just working those abs!
till next time!
I haven't started my treadmill workouts - mainly because there are boxes stacked up in front of it - and I think once I got them moved I'd be too tired to work out....well that and I am a slacker.
I started the photo challenge of 1 photo a day .... and I am already missing like 4 days (and its the 10th of January) - the reason??? I like to keep my camera put away so the kids don't break it....well that and I am a slacker.
I did keep the goal of keeping up with what I save with coupons....but I have tons of coupons to clip and add to my binder....no real reason....except I'm a slacker.
ON ANOTHER NOTE
--I have my taxes ready to file on January 16th!
--I have a good part of our Disney trip planned (yeah....the one that is in Sept...no slacking there)
--My parents are coming out the last full week in March - she is on spring break so they are coming out to see the kids. (and me and hubby too) I'm not sure what we will do - Mike will have to work most likely - I know one day will probably be out on the beach...we'll probably rent a seashell for the day so we can have a shower and shady area.
So now on to some photos.....some were from my "photo challenge" and others are just because...
1. Mike introducing Iz to static electricity
2. Eve at 3 months
3. This is what Eve does when you try and lay her down - she tries to set back up....just working those abs!
till next time!
January 5, 2010
So it begins....
A few weeks ago I put a little seed in hubby's head that maybe we should move our next WDW vacation from March 2011 to the Fall of 2010. My reasoning was in 2011 DH will be retiring and we will be moving, and finding new jobs etc - so taking a week vacation during that time might not be the wisest moves.
So last night I started prepping our taxes - and thanks to our little tax break (Eve) - we are going to be getting a nice return this year. I told hubby how much - and the rest is history. He has now decided that it would be a good idea - so the planning begins. This is actually a good thing...Eve will be close to one and should be eating table food and be weaned (or if she is like Iz...only nursing at night) & I will have 9 months to gather up the gear for the vacation. What gear? Last trip we had matching shirts...and I made Iz hairbows to match her shirts....but I had only 3 months to get it all done - now I'll have 5 months to procrastinate - 1 month to worry and 3 months to get it done...lol
I'm sure I'll be on here a lot sharing my plans
As of right now though I will be concentrating on making us some shirts - scouting the internet for cute designs and doing some basic planning.
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So last night I started prepping our taxes - and thanks to our little tax break (Eve) - we are going to be getting a nice return this year. I told hubby how much - and the rest is history. He has now decided that it would be a good idea - so the planning begins. This is actually a good thing...Eve will be close to one and should be eating table food and be weaned (or if she is like Iz...only nursing at night) & I will have 9 months to gather up the gear for the vacation. What gear? Last trip we had matching shirts...and I made Iz hairbows to match her shirts....but I had only 3 months to get it all done - now I'll have 5 months to procrastinate - 1 month to worry and 3 months to get it done...lol
I'm sure I'll be on here a lot sharing my plans
As of right now though I will be concentrating on making us some shirts - scouting the internet for cute designs and doing some basic planning.
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January 3, 2010
Sunday Savers
Technically I haven't saved any thing this year. I did my January shopping on December 30th - but since it was from January's paycheck....and the food was to be eaten in January I am going to count it as saving for this year!
I haven't did much "stockpiling" the last two months, so this month was a bit more than usual to pad my stockpile a little.
At the commissary I had 300.46 in groceries
and 85.10 in coupons
Total OOP 215.36
I then headed to walmart...I had 105.56 in items (I had a lot of storage item I did not have coupons for)
and 32.00 in coupons.
Total OOP 73.56
So my total savings to date is 117.10
I haven't did much "stockpiling" the last two months, so this month was a bit more than usual to pad my stockpile a little.
At the commissary I had 300.46 in groceries
and 85.10 in coupons
Total OOP 215.36
I then headed to walmart...I had 105.56 in items (I had a lot of storage item I did not have coupons for)
and 32.00 in coupons.
Total OOP 73.56
So my total savings to date is 117.10
January 2, 2010
A cut above the rest.....
Looking through the holiday pictures I noticed one thing...
Andrew's hair was in his eyes
So I decided to give him a trim.....I usually do it outside so I won't get hair everywhere...but since it is in the 20's at night I decided against it. So I had him sit in the tub and I trimmed his bangs....but then I noticed the back needed trimmed...so I trimmed it - then It really needed to be layered, and I am not the best at layering, so I got out the clippers and cut it all of....
He was so worried, he kept asking me if it'd grow back, I laughed and told him he had many years till It would stop growing back.
So he end result looks pretty good. I know in a few month's he'll be back to sporting a shaggy hair style, but his new look makes him look soo much older ....
Andrew's hair was in his eyes
So I decided to give him a trim.....I usually do it outside so I won't get hair everywhere...but since it is in the 20's at night I decided against it. So I had him sit in the tub and I trimmed his bangs....but then I noticed the back needed trimmed...so I trimmed it - then It really needed to be layered, and I am not the best at layering, so I got out the clippers and cut it all of....
He was so worried, he kept asking me if it'd grow back, I laughed and told him he had many years till It would stop growing back.
So he end result looks pretty good. I know in a few month's he'll be back to sporting a shaggy hair style, but his new look makes him look soo much older ....
January 1, 2010
What a way to start the new year!
Last night we let the kids stay up late(r) and we watch one of the movies they got for Christmas (shrek) then the kids headed to bed. Mike and I then had steaks (mmmm good) and did some channel surfing while getting Eve wound down for bed. She finally drifted off about 10pm...so we took her to bed. I decided that she'd probably be up again near midnight so I was heading to bed too....Mike soon followed.
What seemed like a few hours later I woke up, elbowed Mike to tell me what time it was...and low and behold it was 5:45....and Eve was still sleeping! Wahooo!
Now I know there are old wives tales revolving around New Years Eve/Day - one such says you whatever you are doing at midnight you will do lots of during the following year. We were sleeping - and if our year is filled with lots of sleep I'll take it....because we are going to need lots of rest for the next year (2011) that year is going to be filled with all sorts of chaos, job changes, life changes, moves, etc....so we'll take a nice restful 2010...we're going to need it!
What seemed like a few hours later I woke up, elbowed Mike to tell me what time it was...and low and behold it was 5:45....and Eve was still sleeping! Wahooo!
Now I know there are old wives tales revolving around New Years Eve/Day - one such says you whatever you are doing at midnight you will do lots of during the following year. We were sleeping - and if our year is filled with lots of sleep I'll take it....because we are going to need lots of rest for the next year (2011) that year is going to be filled with all sorts of chaos, job changes, life changes, moves, etc....so we'll take a nice restful 2010...we're going to need it!
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