Blake

Looking at these pictures I took today of Blake I can't believe at how old he looks. He is growing up so fast. Grandma Harris bought him this cute new outfit for church and I thought I would take his picture and post it up for her to see . He loves taking pictures, he always wants to see every picture I take right after the flash goes off. He was even saying "cheese" for me. :)




Jared has been in an electronic phase and has been programming a microchip to read the temperatures of the meats he is smoking in his smoker. Anyways long story short he has been looking into different robots for fun and has made Blake obsessed with robots. Jared bought him the yellow robot in the picture, so he would stop playing with the more expensive one he bought the other day.
Blake loves to play with it and will say in a robot voice, " I am a robot". The robot runs out of batteries fairly quickly since Blake never turns it off. Anyways to get Blake to try to use the toilet yesterday we kept bribing him with candy and he wouldn't even try, well Jared said, " I will put batteries in your robot if you go poo on the toilet." Blake quickly ran to his toilet and a few minutes later squeezed out a tiny poo. I know kinda gross but super exciting, I guess we know his weakness now. He even sat through all of Sacrament meeting today because he had his robot and when he was getting a little loud making his robot noises Jared helped him put Robot to "sleep" and they covered him with a book. My boys are just too cute. :)

Target trip

I just got home from a very successful Target shopping trip with just a few little hiccups. Target is pain to use coupons at but after a few calls to the managers the cashier was able to punch through ten of my coupons that weren't registering!
Anyways I got
10 glade candle tins
10 glade candle refills (Christmas presents for church people and teachers)
6 Wii games (Christmas presents for hubby and kids)
6 bags of Halloween candy ( I am putting it up high in my closet, hopefully it will last until next year).

Total was $53! I saved $134.77, plus for buying the Glade candles I got back $20 in Target Gift Cards!

I love coupons!

Pics for the Grandmas

This Halloween we kept it low key. Since I feel like I am always trying to save money with all of my coupon shopping I decided we weren't going to be buying costumes this year. Elizabeth went as hunter using things we already had.




Blake went as Bob the Builder. I had got the hat and tool belt online earlier this year when it was on clearance. I thought it was cuter than anything I saw at the store anyways. I don't know what is up with Blake and this funny smile but he does it a lot.

Kayla wanted to be a vampire nurse this year. Luckily Angie had this nurse outfit already and I never ended up getting the vampire teeth :( So she had to go just as a nurse.

On Halloween we always visit My Grandma Harris (Mimi) and My Grandpa Booth. This is a picture of my Grandma and my nephew Wesley (Rich and Liz new little man). Isn't he such a cute froggy?
After visiting my grandparents and my aunt Gail we headed home and sat outside and passed out candy with my Uncle Mike. We didn't do much trick or treating this year. We had the ward Trunk or Treat Friday night and all the non chocolate candy we got from there I handed out to the kids that came to our house. :) Yay no half eaten suckers on my carpet this year!

Happy Halloween!

Halloween is coming

Halloween is coming!

A man is walking home alone late one foggy night...

When behind him he hears:

Bump...
BUMP....
BUMP...

Walking faster, he looks back and through the fog he makes out the image of an upright casket banging its way down the middle of the street toward him.
BUMP...
BUMP...
BUMP...

Terrified, the man begins to run toward his home, the casket bouncing quickly behind him

FASTER...
FASTER...
FASTER...

BUMP...
BUMP...
BUMP...

He runs up to his door, fumbles with his keys, opens the door, rushes in, slams and locks the door behind him..
However, the casket crashes through his door, with the lid of the casket clapping
Clappity-BUMP...
Clappity-BUMP....
Clappity-BUMP ...

On his heels, the terrified man runs.
Rushing upstairs to the bathroom, the man locks himself in.
His heart is pounding; his head is reeling; his breath is coming in sobbing gasps.

With a loud CRASH the casket breaks down the door.
Bumping and clapping toward him.
The man screams and reaches for something, anything, but all he can find is a bottle of cough syrup!
Desperate, he throws the cough syrup at the casket...

And,





The coffin stops

Let me know if you want it

Well this week the Old Navy site did not do a $75 off $100. I did win a $25 off $100 coupon, not that great but if you would like it just leave a comment and I will email it to you. First to leave the comment gets it. I totally understand if no one wants it though. :)

My shopping trip 10/17

Alright ladies just got home from all of my shopping today. The kids have been off of school this week and I DID NOT want to take them shopping with me. I hit up 4 stores, Target, Walgreens, Safeway, and CVS.
Target
6 Ortega Taco Shells- .63 a piece
2 M&M- 1.50 a piece
4 Chef Michael Dog food bags- .26 a piece
= $8.84

Walgreens
1 Vitamin Lotion
1 Chapstick
2 cream chicken soup
= $1.37
spent $10RR and got back $10RR :)

Safeway
15 Macaroni cheese- .33 a piece
2 milk- 1.37 a piece
6 Dial Hand Soap- free
Febreze Noticable- free
2 Bacon-1.63 each
1 Deli Meat- 1.50
=$13.46

CVS
2 Kashi Cereal- free
2 Neosporin Lip Care- free
=.47 in tax

So I spent a total of $24.14. So awesome! Kayla is so excited that I bought Macaroni and Cheese that she is making it right now all by herself.

Old Navy, Anniversary, Birthday

Look what I WON! Every Thursday Old Navy updates their site and hides coupons ranging from 15% off an item to the mack daddy of them all $75 off your purchase of $100 or more! The $75 coupon is incredibly hard to get, once the site resets sometime on Thursday the $75 coupon is gone within 30 seconds so you have to be super fast and find it right away! I just got really really lucky. I probably screamed at the top of my lungs for 10 minutes because I was so excited. Jared came home right after I had won and thought I had won something better than $75 bucks by the way I was jumping up and down and screaming "I won"! Dang, if I ever won the lottery I would probably pass out. I tried yesterday and was too slow, I had a chance for the $50 off the $100 coupon but didn't find it in time. :(

So here is what we ended up buying at Old Navy this week.... Kayla got a dress, a pink shirt, and a pair of brown pants. Elizabeth got the plaid skirt and two undershirts. Blake got two shirts, two pairs of pants, and not pictured a tractor trailer toy. I only paid $26!!!



Last week was also our 11th Anniversary and Jared's 30th birthday. Jared and I left the kids with Grandma and Grandpa Dutton and drove to North Scottsdale to stay at the 5 star Fairmont Princess. Wow! It was truly beautiful and romantic, we have never stayed anywhere remotely as nice as this place. After our dinner fiasco last year for our anniversary and paying over $100 for 1 steak! we decided to go to Outback for dinner and get a good dinner for under $50 bucks, it was really yummy.
Jared's birthday was on Sunday and we celebrated with his family at his sister Angie's house. They made homemade chili and cornbread which was really good. We also played poor little black cat and fruit basket tip over. It was a really nice weekend and are so blessed to have family around that we can share our many experiences with.