Clipping coupons

For those of you that don't know I have become addicted to clipping coupons. I started getting into it probably a year ago and have since done my research and have become really good. I tell people all the time how much you can really save but it just isnt catching on. So today I did my thursday publix run and smashed my savings record. I have been saving around 75% off my bill but today I got all of this....


which at publix without coupons would cost $169.23. But with all my coupons I paid....drumroll please... $22.66!! I love it! Its all stuff that we will use and my kitchen pantry is always stocked. I have even been able to start my food storage this way and I am not breaking the bank while doing it.

2 down...12 to go!

Gage had an award ceremony at school on tuesday to celebrate successfully completing kindergarten. Justin had to work so I struggled to handle Sadie and Ethan and take pictures AND videotape Gage...Phew! The pictures are terribly blurring because I was holding sadie in my lap and a camera in each hand so I just couldnt get the focus just right. The fact that Ethan got syrup on my camera so now the focus is very tricky to get right didnt help either. I sat and watched kids get awards for art and music and PE and wondered how good of an idea it was to single kids out in kindergarten and make them feel unspecial because they did not get an award...I was getting really anoid and then each class had a special award for math, reading, science, and something else(hard to pay attention. Gage didnt get any special awards and I was feeling bad for him. Then came medals for each kid who knew all 100 sight words and how to count to 100 and I was anoid again. Gage knows most of his but always seems to slip up on a few words. Then guess what...
His name was called to receive a medal!! Only 6 kids in his class got one too so I was a proud mama to say the least! Heres the best shot I got of him on stage with his medal and certificate...

Watermelon with Papa Anthony

Charles came over to check on his crippled grandson and brought a watermelon which made for a great mess on the back porch. The kids loved it but I think they enjoyed seeing their papa more...





Heres a shot of Justin with his dadio

May Day May Day

This month has been chalk full of injury and sickness. The two highlights were curtousy of Sadie and Gage. Sadie just couldnt help herself and touched Justins motorcycle when it was still hot and gave herself second degree burns. The boys have been burned before but not to where it blistered. We thought for sure that we were in for a long night but Jolene gave us an idea to use apple cider vinegar. As weird as it sounds it worked! Plus it has a lot of other uses. Google it!


We had to wrap her hand up once the blister popped so it wouldnt get infected. She was cute as a little cripple...a loli-pop made it all better=)

Gage took the cake with his episode. He jumped off the swing at school on tuesday and landed wrong on his elbow. He got up, dusted off and went on playing. The teacher watching the swings didnt feel the need or see it necessary to send him to the school nurse nor did she feel it was necessary to send me home a note telling me what happened. Much like the black eye incident (which by the way I have his school picture which shows his eye that I will upload later), Gage came home talking about getting hurt at school but there was no explanation from the teacher as to what had happened. I didnt see anything wrong with his elbow and he complained a little bit but I decided to send him to school the next day with a note explaining what had happened and that if he was hurting to call me and I would come pick him up. The nurse called me at 8:30 saying that he was hurting and that his elbow was clearly swollen. When I got to the school, the teacher was filling out an accident report and the principal was there as well. It seems like this school has already dropped the ball too many times with Gage. If this continues I will try to switch schools. Poor Gage, we went to the specialist today and he fractured his arm so they put him in a full arm cast. He was really wanting a cast but by the time tubby time and bedtime rolled around he was so sick of it! Only 3 weeks 6 days to go til he gets to take it off! I told him to look pitiful in the picture...How'd he do?

Triple Scoop Ice Cream Sundays!

So church is really hard with the 3 kids and it seems so impossible to make it through sacrament. My ward has sacrament last and it runs from 11:50-1pm which is prime naptime hours*Ugh* anywho...I read somewhere to bribe the kids with ice cream. You start off with 3 scoops. The first time they misbehave you flash them 3 fingers which is their warning. The next time you flash them two fingers meaning they just lost a scoop of ice cream. Whatever they end up with is what they get for dessert. We made it easy last week and they all ended up with a one scoop ice cream cone for dessert.

They truely should have owed us ice cream but we are trying to get them warmed up to this new idea. Once they get the idea it will be a bit harder to keep each scoop. We are going for no tantrums from Sadie and Ethan.
All in all it was a better then usual sunday.

Sadie was making a definite fashion statement!







Oh and p.s. anyone who has not yet seen "the face" from Sadie...I finally caught it on camera. prepare youself because its not pretty!

Kids first rainbow

After putting the kids to sleep I realized that there was a rainbow outside. Which was weird because there was no rain and it was a bit overcast. I couldnt help it and went and woke up the boys to show them. They thought it was really cool but they were upset in the morning when they couldn't find it anywhere!

The Boyds came to town!

We had a great time visiting with the Boyds and the cousins all played really well together! Here are a few pictures...







Jess was visiting also with Peytie-Pate...

Ethan's Puppy

Ethan's really only attached to two things, his green silky and his puppy....

I found him like this the other night at bedtime=)