My Texas Bluebonnet Babies

Mommy, where are we going? Mommy, do I have to take bluebonnet pictures?

The poopy faces were worth it. Rest assured the kids are not inbetween the highway and the access road. Instead they are way out south in a pathetic little trail of bluebonnets but I have my obligatory bluebonnet pictures :)

Hey Mom! Look! I'm not puking!

That made me giggle when I heard that from the backseat on our way home from Waco today. I promise I'll give you the context.

Melissa, and I decided to take the kids to the zoo in Waco today. We all got up and were on the road in good time. We were all in the van which turned out to be quite the blessing since you can't really catch puke when you're driving down I-35.

Poor Grace got carsick on the way there. The first round made it into the bag we gave her, the second round went into my purse :( yuck. Creighton's jacket and hat got hit, as did the camera, and two books, oh, and both of our church bags. Thankfully, as soon as she erupted she felt better.

We had a great time at the zoo. We fed the fish, watched the Gibbon swing in the tree, played at the park, took insect pictures, well you get the idea.

After the zoo we went to the only Panera Bread Company in central Texas for lunch. YUM YUM YUM!!! Then we loaded up the van and drove home. About 20 minutes into the drive I hear a little voice in the backseat, "Hey Mom, look! I'm not puking!"

Hey Mom! I'm still keeping breakfast down

Hey Mom, Look I'm still not Puking!

st. pat's day :)

we had a great st. patrick's day! we went to the first cav museum and walked around the equipment. we also went to the harker heights library for museum time. oh and in case you didn't notice--- grace, creighton and alexis are wearing matching green and white shorts that i whipped up for the day.

that evening we went over to a friend's house to help celebrate an 11th birthday :) a very busy busy day.

st. pats day continued

Pictures of Creighton

pictures galore

Creighton loves his piggy pies.
On the phone allready??!!

Yum! my fingers are tasty

Hi!

It's an addiction

got another steal today. in total i paid $.01 for 17 bars of soap. it was actually two transactions at two different stores. At HEB i actually got 3 bars of soap and $.03 back! then at walmart i scored 14 bars for $.04.

now i know this begs to be asked, "what exactly are your plans for 17 bars of soap?" well, i have several ideas. first, our FRG puts together welcome bags for new babies, these could be saved for barracks baskets, sent to soldiers or heaven forbid -- we can wash with it! it's really gentle so it's great for grace and creighton and i like the smell and won't mind using it myself.

Giggle Box

grace is the funniest thing ever in creighton's eyes and here is proof. never mind the palm to forehead look at me move

woo hoo

so i've taken up competitive shopping -- ha ha. not really but with the help of my friend melissa i've scored some major deals this week. pictured below is my haul from target today. grand total $3.80 ! $9.66 saved!!! the pop and toothpaste were free with coupons, the goldfish were $.79 each with coupons, the papertowels were $.97 each with coupons, and the applesauce were a whopping $.15 each with two different coupons each!!


below is my haul from walgreens. i couldn't go through the transaction process if i tried but suffice to say there is over $90 in product with a total of $28 paid out. and to top it all off i've allready sold the two packages of size 2 huggies on craigslist for $15 so it brings it down to $14 paid! why buy a size i don't need? to get register rewards to buy other diapers and the original packages were only $5 each to begin with! woot woot (ok i readily admit i have no life)

so where do i get all the coupons? all the sales info? below are three of my favorite sites.

http://www.coupons.com/ (free coupons to print out!)

http://www.babycheapskate.com/ (all sorts of kid and baby bargains, top diaper and formula deals each week)

http://www.dealseekingmom.com/ (fabulous site to get the best deals on lots of things!)

i've been busy

i got the sewing bug again this month. it started with a remnant that i found at hobby lobby. it was a white background steelers. it came to be a pillowcase for neilson which is allready in iraq. then i went back and got some black background steelers fabric which became jammie bottoms for neilson. then i had leftovers...

so for creighton i made little steelers shorts. grace got a steelers twirly skirt made with both leftovers. i got a pic of the latter in her skirt but the former's shorts are in the wash so i'll snap a pic next time.

then i tried my hand at making a pillowcase dress for her out of fabric i had allready. i think it's cute and will be very nice for a hot texas summer.

picnic in the park

i know you get tired about my groaning about the weather so i'll focus on the positive. grace was positively excited to get to put her swimsuit on today. we pulled the water table out and she and and the neighbor girl played all afternoon in the driveway.

this was after we took the kids to the park for a picnic. here's the secret about picnics in the park... kids don't each much. grace needed lunch when we got home from having lunch! she enjoyed the playground and the fresh air. creighton hung out on a blanket with his keys and liked watching grace.