WooHoo for FREE

Or close to it! I haven't couponed in a while because quite a few of the stores around here quit taking Internet printed coupons and that's where I usually got my best ones! Brookshire brothers (a grocery store here) started sending coupons for things via email. Finally I remembered to take them with me today. So here's what I got for free there.


Free pens for school!


Free frozen pancakes-I hope they are good!


Free paper plates

Then i ran over to CVS for a couple of things



First I bought arm & hammer laundry detergent 2/$7 get a $2 ECB, then the kotex u products were $4.99 get a $4.99 ECB. We don't need these yet but they were free so I'll put them up! So my total was $12 something but then I had a coupon for $1 off 2 for the arm & hammer, then I had a coupon for $1 off the kotex u product. So I paid $10.81 for my items & got back $6.99 in ECB's. So my items cost me $3.82! Awesome!

When I walked into CvS, i scanned my card like every good cvs shopper does & I had a 50 cent ecb! Ok SO I needed milk, bought 2 gallons @ $2.99 each! $5.98 total-$4.99 ecb from he kotex product then my 50 cent Ecb I paid 49 cents for my milk!


*Autumn*

~Scouts go to CMC~

There's a World Conservation Award for Cub Scouting & since it's summertime we've been trying to do things that we don't normally get too during the school year. Since we have 3 cubs whose parents work at CMC we thought it would be the perfect field trip for the boys!


Don't they look thrilled? Granted it was like a million degrees outside!





Honorary Cub Scout here! Her flip flops were WHITE before we got there!! It was interesting to see what Tyson does every day!

New Favs

I did these towels for a friend. I'm not quite finished yet, I still need to sew the ribbon on them. Did you know there is other kinds of ribbon out there besides zebra? I know right, *GASP*

Anyways, I love love love the yellow one!!!!





*Autumn*

~Talents~

So Jed came to me last night a little sad and asked me what I thought his talents were. I told him I thought he was a GREAT artist (have you seen this kid freehand something?) & he's very funny & can make people laugh. He's very witty! I *think* those are two awesome talents to have! I know he gets discouraged because Heather does cheerleading & everyone is always making over how good she is~and she is good! (I think she's gonna be doing her no handed back in competition this year! WOOHOO!!)

ok so back to the talents, so this is what I told him...Not all people have atlethic talents, but if you want your talent to be a sport you have to put in lots & lots of practice. But it's ok to have other things as talents..So as we went to bed last I continued...Heavenly Father has given us all talents, but it's our job to develop them & use them for good. I told him I didn't really feel like I had any talents either, so at that moment Heather pipes up "Yes you do momma, you have a talent for making cute things!" I don't know if that's really a talent, but I enjoy doing it!

SO do you think you have talents? Are your talents something that's not so obvious (like playing the piano is obvious)? Any thoughts?

~New Favorite~

I think a friend recommended this site on Facebook. Not all the ideas are hers, but I love that she shares what she comes across!

Lil' Luna

Matter of fact, I think I'm going to try to do the SILHOUETTES today while we are laying around the house! I've seen these on several blogs and just haven't ever gotten around to making them with my kids, but I think they are so classic.

*Pioneer Day*

We had a Pioneer Day celebration at church on Saturday. When they announced it a few weeks ago they asked the Primary children to dress like pioneers. I thought I had just the dress for Caroline to wear. This dress is one that my grandma bought for me to wear when I was caroline's age! In the back of my mind I thought it was probably too small which kind of depressed me, but I still dug it out! Jed wasn't quite as thrilled!









Much to my surprise it fit perfect! Caroline was sooooo excited to wear it too!!!! She was so cute!

















She is making butter here.








With her butter!
*Autumn*

Caroline has mastered the self portrait! One day (who knows when) she snagged Heather's camera & her glasses & took these pictures of herself! That girl is HILARIOUS!!!

Heather turns 12!!!

Can you believe it? I can't! We planned an American Idol party, which would have been tons of fun, but most everyone Heather invited was out of town! bummer! She did have fun with her friends who came though!

The cookie cake!:)

The Hall of Fame~her friends signed it when they came in!

The V.I.P. enterance

The red carpet

The "Welcome to Hollywood" sign


The Party Crew!

We started out trying to sign karoake, but the girls didn't seem interested. Thankfully I borrow a Wii game from Rachella called Just Dance! We put that in & they started having fun! After we played that then they wanted to sing again! GIRLS!!!

Heather had fun & that's all that matters!:) Next year, I'm going to pay her off & take her shopping! :) Happy Birthday Heather!

Another project

My friend Caryn asked me to stitch around these letters and make a shirt for her youngest son. T-shirts are so hard to do because they pull and have a mind of their own!!!! They turned out pretty cute though!


Caryns


Taylors


Tuckers
*Autumn*

Big Things are happening...

Can you believe in just 4 days Heather is going to be 12??? I can't~it seems like it was yesterday when she was born! Yesterday, she had her 1st interview with our Bishop. She's completed her Faith in God program and will begin the personal progress program next week! When she turns 12, she will start participating in the Young Women's program at our church! I am soooo excited for her to begin this journey. I hope she will be blessed with the great leaders that I was when I was in the YW program. I also hope she'll take the opportunities to learn more about the gospel & develop her own testimony. I am very proud of the young lady that Heather is becoming!

Another Project

Some bags I did for a friend.





*Autumn*

Another Project

Keeping busy! Thanks Rachella for the help! This is a shirt.


*Autumn*

Happy Birthday Caroline~FINALLY!!!

Caroline's birthday is April 19th. Yes, really! When it was her birthday, we were in the middle of cheer competitions, going on our cruise, then it was the end of school, then we had recital, then scout camp, then disney. You see where this is leading~I kept putting her off with her birthday party b/c we were busy~kinda hoping she would forget about it, HAHA yeah right! So finally I just sent out the invite and went for it~We had her birthday July 10th, yes, 3 months late! To make it worse, she wanted to have a celebration of our DEAD dog Sammy, which is a whole other story, if you haven't heard that one yet remind me to tell you some day! So I thought we would have a slip & slide, cupcakes & presents~simple!

and YES I know this isn't a very good picture of me! Sorry!







and dog bone rice krispies! Yum-O!

After it was over, she told me it was the worse party ever! So much for that!

Still Waiting...

I'm still waiting on my mom to send me the CD from our Disney Trip so I can blog about it! She says she sent it, so maybe tomorrow! In the mean time you get randomness! haha Since I am not responisble enough to keep up with a camera I have to rely on either my phone or Heather's camera (which I lost at one time too, but found again!

These are more pics from the 4th of July in Oklahoma. When we were growing up, my cousins & I played together ALL the time. We were more like brothers & sisters, unfortunately most of us have moved away from OK, so the cousins now don't see each other as often. I kinda laughed when my mom wanted to take this picture of us with Jeff b/c it seems like we have a million of these pics b/c we take one EVERY time we see him, which is usually once a year! :(




It was so funny to see Charity. She was so quiet at first & then she warmed up & made friends with Jed! I loved that b/c Jeff & I were good pals to growing up!


Here's Caroline proud of a parachute firework she caught! What a treasure!


Another picture of the pyros! This is so funny b/c I would never light fireworks I'm such a chicken!




My uncle is such a big kid & he built this zip line in his backyard for the kids. They were more interested in playing on that, than popping fireworks. There were a couple of close calls with the zipliners & the pyros! LOL




While we were in OK, my cousin Chris & his wife Ami blessed their new son Carson. As we were walking into the Church, the Bishop greeted us "hi, Bishop so-so, How are you?" I replied with something simple like "fine and you?" He stops in his tracks and wants to know where I'm from. I'm thinking he thinks he recognizes me~nope, he knew I was from East Texas "God's Country" when he heard me talk! He is from this area & recognized the accent I guess! WEIRD!!! Anyways, I tried to get a self-portrait of me and the kids, didn't work! LOL