Please pray for my friend!

My friends little boy went into the hospital today for dehydration. Please pray for them. It is scary to have any child in the hospital.

*****UPDATE********

Levi is feeling a little better but they will be keeing him another night. Please pray for his quick recovery and rest for mom and dad!

Weekly savings

So, I have been trying really hard to be a frugal mommy. We are going to try to lay out a budget soon for everything as soon as I get the house stocked. We will follow it to the letter and I hope to start getting out of credit card debt. We don't have much but I want to pay those boogers off and cut them up for good! Here is what I saved this week!

Total spent without coupons and savings: $339.45
Total Out of Pocket: $145.32
Total Savings: $194.13

I saved 57% by just using coupons. I also would not have spent this much but diapers had a great deal and I stocked and stocked on diapers so we are now set until the summer. I also had to buy some shaving cream and some other things that I did not have a coupon for. YAY! I am learning slowly but surely.

Jack Frost is back again!

The cold weather has returned. I thought that we would be getting some spring like temps but no, back to the high 30's! I cannot believe it. We even left the air on last night and it was 62 in our house this morning when we woke up. However, on the bright side all of us slept really good last night and Bryce woke up in an excellent mood.(the time change has been killing him all week)

Loving the Sunshine!

I am so ready for this! I can't wait to go swimming and all of this wonderful weather is just giving the itch! It is in the 80's in Alabama today and tonight it is supposed to rain and bring back the springy temps.

I do have another prayer request. This family had adopted a little girl over the weekend only to have the birth mother come back and take the baby. When you cannot have children and adoption is your answer, to have this happen is just like a miscarriage. Being an adopted child I feel for this mother. Trust me blood is not thicker than water!

Just call me Ms. Frugallity!

I have really trying to cut back on our grocery bill. Well, I am trying to cut back on all of our bills but that is too much at once. So, in an attempt to save money I have been reading multiple blogs about how to coupon. I have never been good at this, only saving a buck or two at a time. Then I found http://fiddledeedeeblog.blogspot.com/. Publix is my favorite grocery store. It is so much cleaner than some other stores in town. Well Ms. Fiddledeedee is a whiz at this coupon game so I decided to give it a try. Wow when you pay attention it is not that hard and Publix had a great ad last week! My total savings on last weeks grocery bill was $124 on $134 worth of groceries! I am pumped and can't wait to continue.

What a great weekend!

We had a great time spending time together this weekend! My mom and dad also returned home from a trip to Cali! Lucky dogs. Steven and Bryce were so so happy to see them! Saturday we headed to huntsvegas for a cookout at one of Blake's good friends. I love his wife and she has older kids too so it is always fun to hang out with them. Although, we realized that our family has not been at their house in 3 1/2 years! I have got to do better. Before we went to their house we went to my favorite store, Kirklands. I have been wanting to decorate better in the house and I had a coupon (I will blog later about this) so off we went. I found a bunch of great stuff and the house is starting to look as if people live there. Here is a picture of my mantle. Blake does not like the paintings on there but I love them.

After such a great weekend we headed to bed early on Sunday night in anticipation of the coming work week, only to be woken up around 1AM with a stomach bug. Thank God we bought this house because our old house only had one bathroom and both of us were sick allllll night long. It has been a rough week so far. Blake just today returned to work!

Blizzard of 2009

Here in Alabama, we see snow maybe once a year and usually it never sticks. To my surprise Sunday morning everyone was still asleep when I woke up. Something told me to look out in the backyard. It was snowing! This was a gorgeous, big and flakey snow! So after the kids got up and I finally got dressed we headed out into the fun! So, I did mention that we live in Alabama right? Bryce does not have gloves. What do we need them for?

1. It doesn't get that cold here

2. He wouldn't wear them anyway

So I had to find my ski gloves and he wore those. He definitely could not go outside without some sort of gloves on. I have never understood why but when there is a chance of snow here people make a dash for the grocery store to buy eggs and milk. I am not a fan of milk and do not drink it! YUCK! But why if I am stuck in a house would I want to only have eggs and milk? I have bagels and sandwich meat. We tried to play quickly because Steven wanted to sled down some hills near mom's house. So we played, ate breakfast, and loaded into the car. Within 10 minutes the snow was melting quicker than Frosty without his hat. I hated that Steven couldn't go sledding but maybe the next time. Whenever that is!

Steven's Snow Angel