Happy 4th of july!

Happy independence day americans :)

Couponing!

I've recently started couponing! I was kind of scared to start in on it because it seems soooo over whelming when you first start, but i quickly got the hang out of! Here is just a few of my brags:

Here is my first ever couponing experience. 1 big box of pampers diapers size 4, one jumbo bag of huggies slip on diapers size 3, 2 boxes of kotex tampons, 4 cases of pepsi, 2 colgate tooth pastes, 2 colgate 360 tooth brushes, 2 bags of beef jerky, 6 bags of candy, and a bottle of tide. all of a total of.......$3.03!!!! yes you read that right! After this shopping trip, i was on a couponing high as my friend Christina (the one who really got into couponing) calls it! BTW I can't thank her enough!

Another one of my hauls: 2 bottles of Pantene (one shampoo, one conditioner) 3 pack of physicians formula eye liner, physicians formula eye shadow; has 9 different shades in it, Naunce hair product, cover girl base, cover girl powder, and 2 Hawaiian tropics taning oil.... all of a total of....... $12.21. That out of pocket expense was kind of high, because I lost a $6 extra care bucks and a $3 coupon, which i later found.

another one of my hauls:  2 jumbo packs of pampers, 1 jumbo pack of huggies, 2 bottles of pantene (one shampoo, one conditioner, 2 biore face washes, 1 bottle of nail polish, 1 revlon eye shadow, and a shick razor (i bought all of this going out of town to austin and didn't take the pic until i got back, so some of it has been opened/used) all for.......$3.53 :)

I have another transaction to do this coming sunday when the new sale comes out in which i will be getting:  
2 Aussie (1 shampoo, 1 conditioner), 4 garnier fructis (2 shampoos, 2 conditioners), 2 garnier fructis stylers, venus & olay razer, colgate manual tooth brush, kotex tampons, listerine zero all for completely FREE!!!! So stay tuned for my couponing experiences :)

Visiting Family

We went up to Austin this past weekend. We were supposed to leave Wednesday night, but Ty was being a complete spaz, so we left Thursday early morning, stopped in La Grange and had breakfast with my grandma Cheryl, packed her stuff into my car then headed out to Austin! We swam (Ty even let me take off his puddle jumper and help him swim without it! he even went down the slide and under the water without it, major proud mama moment there!!), ran, jumped in bouncy houses, played some croquet, saw some horses, rode on the golf cart, and played hard in general. Every night we were there, Ty was passed out by 6pm on his own! (granted the first night we were there he had a seizure, and he's always out of sorts for a few days afterwards) This is the child that will usually fight me tooth and nail to go to sleep because he's just so sure that he is missing out on something.

 (Ty made a pallet on the floor and just went to sleep)

 Caleb on the other hand, who is always happy to be in bed my 6pm and not wake up until 9 or 10am, didn't sleep for poo the entire trip. Long story short, he ended up sleeping on the floor the whole time (on a blanket) because that's the only way that I could get him to go to sleep, and stay that way once i left the room. It made for a long trip but all in all we had fun. On our way back, we broke up the trip by staying at my grandma's for a night, then finishing driving the next day after lunch time. Both the boys we so happy to see Paul when we got home.

 

(Eating Watermelon by the pool)

 

(Ty was so tired, he fell asleep at the restaurant in my lap!)

hot date night

So tonight me and Paul got his mom to watch the boys for what was supposed to be a few hours. We were going to go out to eat, then see a movie. We dropped the boys off at his moms house about 6:30, went to a resturant about 10 min away, & sat down. we got our drinks around 7, and ordered our food. I kid you not, as soon as the waiter left with our order, Paul got a call to come into work. They told him he just needed to weld some crush pins on a few different things and it should take about 5 min. Paul told them he had just sat down to eat, but would be there as soon as he could. We ate our food then headed out to his work which was about 20 min away from where we were and he got to workin'. Remember that "5 minute job"? Yea it turned into a nearly 4 hr job! So needless to say our date night went down the drain. But I guess as long as we were together its still a date night right? haha.

I don't know about where y'all are, but it has been hotter than hot here! It hit 105 yesterday, with no heat index. In our garage it was 110! I have a feeling that this year will be much like last year, long hot summer, and a warm "winter". sigh.

Pic of the day

Happy Birthday!

As of 1:52 am yesterday, Caleb is officially a year old! We celebrated his birthday on Saturday, in good old mickey mouse fashion, and he had a blast!

                             

 We had hamburgers for lunch, and cake and ice cream. Then we had some visitors show up! Even though Caleb LOVES Mickey and Minnie mouse, he wasn't so sure about real life mickey and minnie. But the other kids loved them! Then we hit the pinata and opened gifts. We had a great turn out and are truly blessed with family and friends.

In the clear!

We had Caleb's consultation with the neurosurgeon on the 23rd, and while he does believe that caleb's sutures fused early, he doesn't think that there is any pressure on the brain. Therefor, NO SURGERY NEEDED!!!!! I can't tell you how much of a relief this is for Paul and I. We go back in 6 months (Oct 24) for a check up to make sure the Dr. still believes that no surgery is needed, but for now i'm considering that a win for us :)

 On another note, as of this past weekend, Ty is officially training wheel free on his bicycle! We went to max's 10th birthday party, and he wanted to ride 

Reeds' bike. Well his bike doesn't have training wheels... so i figured i'd let him ride it and just told on to him. He got on and took off, when i figured he was doing good steering himself, i let go of the handle bar and just held onto his seat. Then i figured that he was doing well with his balance and let go but ran beside him, and off he went with no training wheels, just like that. It took maybe 10 minutes. So of course when we got home he just HAD to have his daddy take off his training wheels from his bike. He's been riding "baby wheel-less" (as Ty calls it) since.