Grand Prix Race

This was the first derby car race for the Horton boy's and they took it very seriously, well maybe not Quaid, but Johnny sure did. They worked on this car for an entire month!!! With a few minor setbacks they ended up getting it finished and on the track with hopes for 1st place. Quaid's Buckeye car ended up finishing 2nd place, so he got a trophy and was sooo excited!!!

Meanwhile Bailey and her little friend's made their own little car's out of boxes and watched the movie Cars while the race was going on...Bailey would NOT let me help her with her car, she's very particular about how she does things. It was a fun night for everyone!

Annual Christmas Parade

Every year we attend the Christmas Parade on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Last year we got there late and didn't get good seats, this year we found a great spot on the curb and set up our blanket to watch the parade. It wasn't too cold, but definitely should have brought an extra blanket, but when we were leaving Daddy said it wasn't too bad, it was like Spring..HAHAHA...well where we were going to watch the parade it was a little windy and a tad colder than at our house. We ended up watching most of the parade, even though it is probably the CHEESIEST parade EVER...lol Some of their costume's are so crazy, but the kid's could point them out and loved it, while we were in the background chuckling which one was the cheesiest :)

Bailey didn't like the LOUD firetrucks

See, told you they were cheezy...lol

This guy was pretty cool ;)

The cheeziest of all...lol

(Quaid and Bailey loved seeing Mickey and Minnie though, however they have NO CLUE that we're secretly taking a surprise vacation for my 30th Birthday in March to Disney to see the REAL Mickey and Minnie Mouse)

A Shower for Aunt Julie and Baby Paige

I am sooooo SUPER excited about my new niece who's coming in Jan or maybe the end of Dec, or by Bailey's prayer's in a minute (Julie might like that...lol) My sister in law is so adorably pregnant with a cute lil basketball..lol We had so much fun at her shower and playing games, Bailey won the 2 twin bear's from a pass the Twin's game. Then she opened her gifts and got the cutest stuff, makes me want another girl..lol Bailey too can't wait till baby Paige get's here, her gift to Paige was her very own "Uh-oh" (that totally looks like Julie and matches her diaper bag..soo cute) Bailey also pray's every night, usually it's the same prayer, Thank you for this day, please help baby Hadley get better and the new add on is: "Please help baby Paige get out in a min.", she is very anxious to meet her new cousin and now it's on her prayer list every night :)

I snuck in a pic of her lil Basketball ;) Isn't she sooo cute??

My 1st Diaper cake...I didn't realize I had gotten the diaper's with pooh all over them, so I had to wrap the diaper's up so it would look cuter...lol

Thanksgiving

I'm so thankful the Lord has always provided and has blessed us with such a great family. We enjoyed Thanksgiving at Grammy & Grampy's. The turkey was EXCELLENT and as Johnny say's the best turkey he's ever had...lol It was a nice dinner and good family time :)

Making your Home a Haven

This week, I am participating in the Making your Home a Haven!! I'm going to work on getting organized and tidying up throughout my home to make it more peaceful. Today is tidy up and remove that clutter, so I am on my way to having some quiet time with the Lord. (thank goodness for Curious George..lol) Then I will make my list for meals this week, then my daily cleaning /organizing tasks for the week.

Thing's have been quite crazy around here lately, lots of running around, couponing, computer time (I'm taking a break this week), pink eye for Bailey in both eye's :( Johnny has hurt his back or we may be thinking it's his kidney's :( UGH...it's around this time last year he had the kidney stone, so he will be on his way to the dr today....and I've had some unusually weird stuff going on with my lips :( Thankfully Quaid (the one that is actually in school around all the GERMS..is great!! Please pray for our health this week and peacefullness as I go about my week to Make our Home a Haven :)

If you would like to participate, go check out Monica's Blog!

Dumpster Diving

Yes, that's right I do it...lol!!! However only at the Recycling center only in the newspaper's...only for coupon's!! We live in the town, so we have to take our Recycling in either on Thursday afternoon's or Saturday morning/afternoon. The kid's have so much fun sorting and helping me, then off we go to the Newspaper box (which is HUGE) and look for coupon's. Unfortunately today it was near impossible for me to get to any of the newspaper's because the box was sooo deep and hardly any paper's :( So Bailey and I walk out and one of the worker's waves me down, he say's "Wait a minute, are you looking for coupon's", then I say "Yes", "well follow me, I've got some for ya"...I'm thinking maybe there is a hidden box somewhere in the back (which sometime's is the case and they let me go back there to go through them..lol) However this time, he hands me a bag with about 15 insert's in there...WOW, I was sooo thankful that he would do that :) Maybe I go in there too often...lol I don't know, but it was great and sooo made my day!!

A little update on couponing and how much it really pay's to coupon, Target has been my new best friend this week :) First they have a Glade Holiday deal, if you buy any 4 glade Holiday product's you get a $5 gift card. Most of them are on sale for $2.50, there are B1G1 coupon's out there, as well as $2, so buy 4 and pay $6.28 or $5.22, then get back a $5 gift card...pretty cool :) I had done that deal last week and still had $10 left over in gift card's, so I took those and used them on a Kellogg's cereal deal where if you buy 5 boxes at $2.75 each you got a $5 gift card. I had $1 off coupon's for 15 boxes of cereal, most were printable's found here: http://bricks.coupons.com/Start.asp?tqnm=rjnefah1098550&bt=wi&o=54148&c=KC&p=uU1wzMHO
I did 3 different transaction's, rolling each $5 gift card I recieved onto the next order, making my total for 15 boxes of cereal $5.93!!! (and I still had a $5 gift card left :) And my cousin is sending me some rebate check's from Kellogg's if you buy any 4 of the listed cereal's in one transaction you get $10 to spend on Beauty, Health or Pharmacy item's. (Thank you Libby) So of course I had to go back 1 more time and do the deal again...you can NEVER have too much cereal!!! Oh and while I was there they had some Garnier Fructis hair conditioning glaze on clearance for $.54, so I opened up my coupon binder and took out 6 $1 off coupon's I had and made $.46 on each!!! It has been a GREAT week at Target :)

Trick or Treat

This year, Quaid wanted to be The Joker and Bailey was a little Princess Butterfly. It was sooo much fun for Bailey this year, as she already has an ENORMOUS love for candy (like any other kid), but she was having soo much fun going house to house skipping :) It was funny, because every year we have a tradition of going to my parent's house, go trick or treating in their neighborhood then come back and eat dinner. While we were out my Mom called and said if Bailey got tired then we could bring her back in case Quaid wanted to go around some more. At that point we had already gone down their street and came back around to go on another street, right then Quaid said, "Can't we just go back to Grammy's now?" Bailey shouts out, "NO Quaid we have to get lots more candy" So we talk Quaid into going a little more, then we decide to go a different route so we can hit a few more houses. As we get the furthest away from Grammy's, Bailey decides she has had enough!!! GO FIGURE! We hit a few more house's then Quaid and Daddy split off as Bailey and I head for Grammy's. So we get back and warm up a bit, then the boy's come back with Quaid's bag half full (it was a BIG bag to begin with), plus 2 little stuffed animals??? Who know's?? lol Either way it was a Great night and almost perfect weather, especially for us..in the mid 50's :)

Here are a few pic's from the evening!!!

Almost Forgot....I WON a Giveaway!!!!

WOO HOO...I visit alot of blogs on getting idea's on how to work the best deals/coupons. It just so happen's that many of these blog's have giveaway's almost every week, so I entered one and I WON!!! Thank you to Centsible Sawyer for this awesome Baby...Bailey is going to LOVE IT!!! Shhhhhh....it's gonna be for Christmas though :)

Here's the site, so go check it out and check out Denise's other great deals:


http://thecentsiblesawyer.blogspot.com/2008/10/and-winner-of-butterfly-kisses-doll-is.html

Pumpkin Patch/Apple Orchard

On the hunt for the perfect pumpkin

Nope, that one has diwt on it, Bailey says :)

Hmmm...that one has dirt on it, but an added bonus...a whem (worm)

She's going to save the worm

Awww....he's sooo cute Mommy

See, look at my "whem"

Quaid found his Pumpkin

Here comes Daddy carrying the pumpkin's

On the hayride back from the Pumpkin Patch

Gonna go pick some Apples now

I found some Mommy :)

Of course they have to make sure they are good!!!

Cheese with the mouth full

Teamwork

We can get more up here

I think we have PLENTY of Apples for now :)

Off they go

While Daddy get's to carry the good's back...the hayride was taking WAY too long, so we walked back.

***I know your probably wondering what happened to Bailey's sweet little "whem", she held him the whole way back on the hayride, then she get's down, then we follow and she's looking down, then tell's me "I put the "whem" in his home" which was right at the bottom of the steps to get off the wagon :( So I'm sure her little "whem" didn't live long after that...lol

My Best Friend's Wedding

Oh my how I never thought I would see the day...I DO LOVE YOU STEPH!!! We have been best friend's for over 13 year's...wow I feel old :) Stephanie and I met in High School where we were instant friends, mostly I think because we both loved to talk and she lived in the same neighborhood. We did almost everything together, cruising around in her convertable with the music cranked (yes we thought we were soo cool), going to Chi Chi's to celebrate our birthday's, driving through corn field's in her Jeep (we were trying to avoid running into a guy who wanted us to give him a ride home from the bowling alley, we told him we weren't leaving yet and to avoid driving by him walking down the street, we took a little detour through a corn field...only to come out in Kmart parking lot to see a cop (although he didn't catch us...THANK GOODNESS), late night talk's about BOYS, shopping spree's at the outlet's, spying on people in our neighborhood...lol, late night's at Bob Evan's (where I worked as a waitress and she started dating then got engaged to my Manager), trip's to Columbus, you name it we did everything together!!! Actually she is responsible for intoducing Johnny and I, remember that Manager she was engaged to, well him and Stephanie thought it would be a great idea to hook us up. So we met on a blind date at Abe's (Manager from Bob Evan's) apartment. While things obviously didn't work out for Stephanie and Abe, they sure did for Johnny and I...lol And of course, Stephanie finally met her Man, Kevin.com!!! It's a running little joke that Stephanie's Dad nicknamed every single one of her boyfriend's...since Steph met Kevin on Match.com, he's known as Kevin.com...lol

Anyway, that's a bit of history on Steph and I...now here are the pic's from her Wedding Day!!! Congrat's again and I love you guys!!!!

WHEW...those were alot of pics!!! Prob should have done a slide..but oh well. The wedding was FABULOUS as you can see, Steph you were soo beautiful and I'm sooo happy I got to share your special day with you and Kevin. I'm so happy for you and the Love you finally found :)

***The kid's had a BLAST too...as you can tell ;)