8 things about me

My Friend Kacee tagged me on this a while ago and things have been so crazy lately I am just barely getting around to it. Here it goes......

8 Favorie TV Shows
1. Greys Anatomy

2. American Idol

3.Dirty Jobs

4.Leverage

5. Ghost Whisperer

6. Anything involving home improvment

7. Spongebob Squarepants

8. ???

8 Things I did Yesterday
1. Went to work

2. Picked Aidan up from the babysitters

3. Picked Alyssa up from school early (she was sick)

4. Crashed at my in-laws while my hardwood floors were getting re-finished

5. Made Dinner

6. Got Aidan off of my in-laws stairs a million times!!!

7. Watched my neice

8. Painted my upstairs hallway

8 Things I look forward to
1. Spring

2. 7:00-8:00 Bedtime for the kids

3. Fly Fishing

4. Date Nights with my hubby

5. Girls Nights Out

6. Naps

7. A warm not reheated 3 times meal

8. Reading about my Camera

8 Favorite Resturants
1. Olive Garden

2. Macaroni Grill

3. Texas Roadhouse

4. Five Guys

5. Tepenyaki

6. Cafe Rio

7. Ruths Chris

8. Anything Italian

8 Things on my wish list
1. Time

2. New pair of jeans

3. A new purse

4. A spa retreat

5. For all my kids to get better

6. nap

7. to go fishing....soon!

8. to stress less

People I tag are: Kami, Stephanie, Lynne and Heather

Food Storage Update!

Okay so I thought I would put the tips and suggestions off of the food storage websites I talked about in my previous post and see if it was worth it to me. Okay so this week I planned a menu which is something I have been trying to do this year anyway and then off of that went and figured out which of the items were on sale and what I needed for these dinners and then made sure I listed the sale prices on my grocery list so that walmart could get the price match. So for my first time doing it this way I saved $24.04 off of my regular weekly grocery bill. I think that is pretty great personally. Then I went through and figured out what items I wanted to buy for my food storage and by buying on sale items and then having walmart price match I saved $52.45. So for a grand total $76.49 this week in savings. That is nuts! Well just thought I would share. I personally I feel like it was totally worth the extra time it took to plan this all out. I am way excited to see what I can save next time I go to the store.

Food Storage

So I know that I should already have made a new year resolution and broke it now even. Well I am a little behind in the game so I am making a mine today Ground Hogs day is a holiday so I figure it counts. Holiday=Resolution right? Anyway, I have really been feeling like I need to get back on the band wagon with food storage. I had a pretty good head start at one time when we lived in our old house but when we moved I hadn't done that great of a job rotating it and so I had to get ride of a lot of it because it was going to expire. And then when we moved into our new house I didn't have shelves built to put my food storage on so just shoved what I had left into my pantry and since I had more cupboards then I knew what to do with since my kitchen was now bigger I just filled them up. Well needless to say a year has gone by and I am barely getting around to getting back to getting my food storage plan back in order. I have come across a fantastic website and blog that I thought I would share in case anyone else is up for feeling inspired. This girl is my food storage hero. Check them out ; www.myfoodstoragedeals.blogspot.com or www.myfoodstoragedeals.com Wish me luck and I will keep you posted!!!!

Baby Steps!

Have I mentioned for Christmas that Ron bought me a very nice camera. I was jumping for joy I have been secretly wishing for one for a long time. My wish finally came through. I have mostly just taken some pics of my kids but my friend asked me if I would be willing to take a couple of pictures of her new baby Carter and I thought I would give it a try. I really have no idea what I was doing but I think between the crying and baby bodily functions they turned out alright for a girl who has no idea what she is really doing. I hope one day that I can take some photography classes or find someone to teach me so that I can figure out what the heck I am really doing so that I can at least take some awsome shots of my kids. Baby steps I guess. Anyway here are a few that I think turned out pretty cute.

Ode to the Sweet Potato!!

The other day Aidan wasn't really feeling up to eating what I was feeding him so I just turned him loose and let him figure it out on his own here is the result of my actions. I only wish I loved sweet potatos this much! YUM!!

Santa Claus is coming to town!

Last week we had a family get together with the Jones/Knutson family and Santa popped in for a suprise visit. The kids were so excited to see him and he had gifts to top it off. I was just waiting for one of them to cry but no one did not even the babies. Here are some pics of my kids putting in one last Christmas request. Enjoy!

Kids say the funniest things!

Last night we were hanging out the T.V. was on but we were all in the other room except for Avery, she came in and said "Mom do we live in Utah?" "Yes" I answered next she says "What are oysters?" I am thinking where is this going? I explained to her what they are... then I said "Why?" She said " She said there was this guy just on T.V. and he said Get ready Utah a lot of new oysters are headed this way." I just started to giggle then we told her what he really said was "Get ready Utah there is a lot of new moisture headed this way." I seriously was laughing so hard. My poor bladder. So then a little later she finally said "Mom what is moisture anyway?" She is such a funny kid!

This morning I was driving to my babysitters (who by the way is the best babysitter EVER!!) anyway we are headed to my babysitters and Avery says "Mom can you change your name if you want to?" I am thinking oh great she wants to change her name to some crazy thing...So I hesitantly answer "Yes you can if you really need to but most people don't, Why?" She then said "Well you should change Aidan's name to Jesus." I again try not to giggle to much, I don't want to offend her and so I just played a long and said " Well that is a good name but we will probably just leave his name as it is. Why do you think we should change his name to Jesus?" She then said "Well it is Christmas and he is a baby." Duh, why didn't I think of that first......Seriously she is hilarious.