Mike's Weekend Project

My sweet husband put hardware on our cabinets this weekend, they actually turned out really nice. And just as a side note... he installed these cabinets and a few months ago did the back-splash as well. Isn't he so talented?

I LOVE Coupons!

So my newest hobby is COUPONS!! I've never really been a couponer, mostly because I thought it was a waste of time, well that was because I didn't know HOW to coupon. I always bought generic because it was so much cheaper than brand name even with a coupon, which is true if you aren't shopping the deals. For example I'd like to share my AWESOME SCORE with Rite Aid from today.
I bought all of this and after rebates they will have paid ME $4.77! That's right, I MADE MONEY off of this:

Price Breakdown: After Coupon After Rebate

1. Toilet Paper (9) 3.99 3.99
   
2. Venus Razor (2 cart) 5.00 0
3. Mayo x 2 .86ea .86ea
   
4. Ragu x 4 .86ea .86ea
5. Skippy pb x 2 .86ea .86ea
6. Werther's Chocolate 2.99 0
   
7. Light Bulbs (2pk) 2.00 0
8. Clear Duck Tape 1.49 0
9. Probiotics 5.99 -3.00
   
10. Cheerios (1serv) .34 .34
    
11. Kotex Tampons (18ct) 3.59 1.59
    
12. BIC Black Pens (2-10pk) .50ea 0
13. Durex Play (No Jokes) 5.19 2.19
    
14. Crest Toothpaste 2.04 -.75
    
15. Zantac 1.49 -8.50
    
16. Oil Free Face sunscreen 4.48 2.49

I used two transactions, with two $5 off coupons as well making my total a profit of $4.77

Some cute Pics of my baby!

Roman loves dinner time! This is him laughing at Mike and I laughing at him.


Roman was eating some leftover cereal from breakfast off his highchair.


Momma and baby, seconds before this picture he was trying to help mommy look for coupons on the internet. By helping I mean: eating any and all paper in the vicinity, trying to grab at all things not in the vicinity, attacking the mouse, grabbing the screen, eating pens, banging the keyboard which for some reason always brings up the help menu or configure your key board menu, who knew this was a menu?

My Garden!

So I decided to build a garden this year. After much planning I went with the corner garden (really to avoid covering any sprinkler heads), plus I started all of my plants in my window box months before. Anyway, after enlisting the help of Mike, my grandpa and uncle I was on my way. I also shoveled a whole YARD of dirt. For those of you who don't know that term... it's like 8 truck loads! I had many blisters on my hands. Here is my garden in all it's glory. You actually can't see all of it, my tomatoes are more like trees (not in picture). Also not visible because my pumpkins and squash are OUT of control, are two steps in the corner. I have strawberries and herbs on them.


Here is some of my fresh produce from my garden, we also had some great corn come out... but we ate it before I got out the camera.

Baby Friends?

My friends Sara Snow and Heidi Sitake came to visit me! Heidi also brought along baby Pona. He's one month younger than Roman. They happen to have similar outfits so we took the following snapshot.
Pona here is as happy as he got around Roman.


This is Pona normally around Roman... he was pretty much terrified of my lil guy. Poor Roman, he's not off to a good start in making friends. (Though most people are thinking poor Pona)

Bennett's Birthday Party

So Bennett's Birthday (Mikes nephew) was in July and the party was at Chuckecheese. Oddly enough I took a ton of pictures and NONE of the Birthday Boy. Here are some of cute ones:


Grandma Shideler sat with Roman (or one of the other grand kids) on this ride for about 30 minutes. Who doesn't love Grandmas?


Grandpa Shideler gave Abbey a bite of his cupcake. He was posing for the picture and Abbey took the cup cake into her own hands... literally.


Roman loves Birthday cake, he was pretty excited to get to feed himself.

Roman is into EVERYTHING!

So my sweet little boy has been dubbed "Mr. Destructo" He really likes to make messes.

Notice the drawers are open too.

Then not long after that, Roman is playing nicely in his room. Mom is sweeping the house. Then Roman is awful quiet, mom sneaks into his room and she finds him playing with the wipes.

You got to love this kid!