Flower beds & yard sales

Last week was the Sardinia wide yard sale.  Yes, we ended our vacation a day short so I could get back and get ready.  We put all our junk, err extra stuff we don't need out and still banked a couple hundred dollars!

I used the money to buy new patio furniture for our front deck and plant flower beds in front of our house. I fully intended on taking a picture so I could show everyone, but it's been raining forever sooo.   Pictures to come soon:)

Have a fantastic Tuesday everyone!!!

Mother's Day & Shania Twain

It's something that I said in passing.

Something that I wanted.

For Mother's Day, Robby got me one of the most thoughtful gifts to date.  Why?  Because generally, he gets me anything(within obvious reason) that I want throughout the year and therefore when gift giving seasons roll around... there's really not too much that I want so I always have to tell him exactly what I want.  Which store.  Which brand.  Sometimes even the bar code.

When I was younger, I wanted the Shania Twain Greatest Hits album.  Yes, I realize to some of you, that may seem like the worlds biggest oxy moron.  My mother wouldn't get it for me because she said that she was a bad role model for me.  To this day, I still have no idea what her personal life consists of, but I'm sure my mom was probably right.  But how many celebrities are really great role models?  I can't think of many.

I told Robby this story a month or so ago.  How I wanted it so much, but never got it.  Mother's day came.  I had the sweetest note on my bedside table telling me what a good mom I was to Will.  (Sometimes I feel like I don't have the patience to deal with the terrible two's that we're currently going through, so it's always welcomed to hear that I'm not a sucky mom:).  The note ended with telling me to open my iphone and go into my playlists.  I got Shania Twain's greatest hits album!!!!!!

I! was! so! excited!

So, I started my mother's day off right with having a dance party with the coolest 20 month old you'll ever meet and my pride and joy.

Best Mother's day to date.

Rainy days & the Zoo

April showers bring May... showers?

Confession time:  I actually love rainy days.

Totally dig them.

However, Will and I got a zoo pass that I've only been able to use once because it's rained sooo much.  So, yes... while I LOVE rainy days, I am ready for a small break.  I need some sunshine and some warm weather.

Come on Mother Nature... Bring it on!!!!

Saturday Evenings

Robby and I(along with a team of about seven or eight others) have put together a Saturday evening service at our church.

This past Saturday was our first one.

It was the bomb.com.

We took out all the furniture in the foyer and took everything down from the welcome center and turned it into a coffee shop area.

It really turned out better than I imagined.  If any of you all are in the Brown County area- check out this new service!  It's definitely awesome!

In Sickness & In Health

I've been a horrible blogger(er?) lately.

Will got sick.  Who made me sick.

When I'm sick, all the things that I work so hard on all week go kaplooey.

We get behind on pictures to edit.  We get behind on cleaning.  I get behind on school work.  So by the end when I am finally getting better, I am so overwhelmed with all that I need to do.

Enter last night.

Luckily, my fabulous husband did two loads of dishes, a load of laundry, cleaned the living room and our room so it's not so overwhelming:)  (Luckily, he really heard the "in sickness and in health" part of our vows!)  Now just to get caught up on everything else in life... :)

Happy Monday, everyone!

Couponing & General Mills

So, last week I posted about how I've started couponing.

I think I may be addicted.

No, I'm not becoming one of the crazy ladies on extreme couponing.

But last week, I spent $100 on groceries and saved $175.

That's awesome!

Some of my better items:

General Mills cereal for 54 cents
Breakstone sour cream for 25 cents
Steamfresh veggies for 50 cents
Dannon yogurt 4 pack for 89 cents
Ball Park hot dogs for 1.17 a pack

I would just like to stop for a second and tell you that I feel extremely old that I'm posting about couponing!  How embarrassing:)  This blog is awesome in breaking down the store sales each week and even linking some printable coupons.

Have a fantastic Tuesday, everyone!!

Being MIA & the hospital

Will's been kinda sick lately.

I took him to the dr the other day, he had an ear infection and a virus.  They sent him to Children hospital to get some tests done.  For those of you who don't know, Children's is an hour away from our house.  We sat three hours in the waiting room.  And another 90 minutes in his private room.  Just for the dr to look into his throat and say "I think he probably has a virus."  Probably?!  That's not exactly a word I like used when talking about my son.

So, that was his diagnosis.  Probably a virus.  Ugh.

Sorry for being MIA the last few days.  Will was sick and his schedule was thrown off which means MY schedule was thrown off.  And then I got sick!  So, forgive me:)

Have a fabulous Monday, everyone!