last of the photo's

All four Cousins here (Justin, Nellie, Payton, and Clayton). Justin and Nellie are 3 weeks apart in age and so are Payton and Clayton.

Payten and Clayton

Grandma Nellie with little Nellie and Clayton

Grandma Nellie and Clayton

Yes, I slacked on photo taking..not one picture with Sam, or my friends, or the whole family ones that we took.....next time!!

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Even Clayton got a ride on the 4 wheeler...

Justin loves the hose...

Must clean his Tonka Truck!

And, "Officially" Future Aunt Jenny with Clayton. The boys love her....she makes goofy faces with them.

CA trip

We got to CA about 11pm on Wednesday night....long drive, but the kids slept most of the time. Clayton only cried for 1 hour after we stopped to eat. not bad.

Thursday we hung out with Grandma June and went to town for Lunch....Justin had a blast on the 4 wheeler and hanging outside playing all day!

He took his truck up and down the driveway many many times

Had to call to him to make sure to turn around...he would have kept on going and going.

Silly faces...

My cutie!

This last week

Justin and "Digger" his BFF. We go everywhere with Digger..to the grocery store, the mall, anywhere..Digger comes too.

We started giving rice cereal to Clayton this past week too....He loves it....

This is my $4.17 target purchse today. Sorry - couldn't resist a coupon photo....look for the buy the Special K cereal and get a protein drink/bar free (a sticker on each box)....plus used Target coupons and buy one get one free coupons from SpecialK website.....

and this is what I did at Rite Aid today

So, yes I was pretty busy today. I did two of these this morning with kids and two after dinner with NO kids...much easier without 2 little ones...

I paid 2.95 for this:

8.46 for this:

3.47 for this one:

1.28 for this one:

So, My out of pocket is 16.16. I will be getting back 4.00 in a single check rebate and a $35.00 Prepaid Visa Card....so I just made $22.84

what will I do with all this...I will use most of it...some will give away to those who I think might like it or want it....or I have a pile of loot to keep for when you need it.

You too can be a couponer!

I paid 1.45 (yes one dollar and 45 cents) in the end for all this at Walgreens! I have so many friends that have or are having babies...you too can get some good deals....

Okay this is what I did....

Purchase #1
Huggies 8.99 - the CAB (Childrens activity book that I paid .99 cents for early you can use coupons in it over and over since they are walgreens coupons) wasn't working so they price adjusted to 7.99 for me...

Valentine pencil $.59

-2.00 MQ huggies
-$.39 pencil Wags Coupon
-6.00 Dove RR

OOP was .19 and I earned a 3.00 RR

Purchase #2
Dove 5.99
Valentine Pencil $.59

-1.50 dove coupon MQ Printable
-.39 Wags pencil coupon
-3.00 Huggies RR

OOP = 1.69

Then I kept rolling this 5 times, except I was out of the 1.50 dove coupons, so I used the 1.00 ones and I then paid 2.19

In the end I have 1 pack of pull ups, 2 packs of diapers, 2 doves, and 5 holiday pencils. My total OOP was.....4.45 and I have $3.00 in RR from the huggies..I plan to go back.

Dinner with Dad

We love having my Dad come over for dinner...at least every other week....

Teething...

Potty training in our future

So, Justin really needs to get potty trained. I have been reading up on the 3 day potty training. I am not sure about going nakee from the waist down for 3 months as they reccomend, but...I could do a few days for sure-I think. I also have new carpet in our house and am not looking forward to pee on the carpet either.

Any suggestions?

Happy 3rd Birthday to Justin

Happy Birthday to Justin. He turned 3 today!

We had a family party planned for tonight, but Justin has a cold and we don't want to share our germs...so we cancelled that and will do another day. Also, our BFF's Reese and Carsten (And Aunt Dana) were in an auto accident and probably need to get more rest. Yes, they are fine, but probably a good weekend to get some R&R for all of us.

So, here we are again...celebrating with just us at home. Seems like Justin has a cold every year at his Birthday.

This mornig before lunch we made the cake. Justin got to lick the spatula....YUMMY.

And here is his cake...made by Mommy...

Blowing out the candles...

What else is there but anything "Thomas"

And, trusty little brother hanging out....

No more home phone

I decided to cut off our home phone. We never use it and only have it for telemarketers. Well, after getting the bill and noticing that we were paying $27.00 for a phone that isn't really plugged in...just the answering maching, I thought it was a serious waste of money. So, you can now get ahold of us via email or cell phones.

Picture Updates

I took a few pictures of the boys after bath this week. Justin loves the camera. After we take a picture - he wants to see. Today he has the snuffles...hoping it passes quickly.

Clayton is such a happy baby.

Sorry I have been flaky about posting pictures...here are a few from this past week.

a new year....

Okay, so everyone is always saying, I will loose weight this year...well. I am not going to be the one to have a "new years resolution", but I am getting back on track. I have been eating well...but today I am going to start counting points. I will have until August to go to WW, then I will have to pay, so I need to make the next 8 months worth it!

Thursday nights are my night to go to the meeting. Todd will take the kids and JoAnn and I will trek to the meeting! I just got out my pen and paper and wrote down what i have eaten for the day...so far a yogurt and coffee.....

I will post to the West Coast Weight Watchers group from now on about my progress. Hope to see a change :)

Saturday events..

Saturday was a huge day for my family. We had a total of 33 people out at Dad's for the family Christmas. My cousin sent some pics (I didn't take one picture all weekend long)...here are a few...

My happy boy

This was a little bit of a preview of the "boys" gift from Uncle Sean. This is for all the boys to share...right now Reese is the only one who can go Solo on it. I think they helped Justin and Carsten on it this weekend - we Mom's stayed indoors...hoping no emergencies!

a drum for Christmas.

This is another Christmas photo. Grandma Nellie sent us a "drum set". Up until today it has been pretty good...Justin gently beats the drum, etc....so, Reese and Carsten come over for dinner and they show him how it is "really" done...we will see what tomorrow brings for the drummer boy!

Merry Christmas...

After about 20 photo's I finally got one with both happy!

Todd had 4 days off...so on Thursday (Christmas Eve)....he started on the project....here is the before...

And the after...

Cousins visit.

We had the two boys over on Friday night for dinner and fun! This was there first time at our house without their Mom and Dad...originally was going to be a sleep over, but thought a 4 hour time period was a good starter...I tried to plan a fun activity for the evening..they couldn't wait to get all the loot out....we had to have dinner first....here they are all enjoying the crafts....My intent was to make decoration for Papa's tree...well, they sorta did, and then they got more creative, etc....we ended up with a few feet of links for the tree, too many paper plates with stickers, etc for Oma and Opa...and just a ton of fun.

This was Clayton for most of the evening...

And, after a full evening...knowing Mommy and Daddy were on their way..we decided for a quiet activity...

Busted...

Here is the photo shot of what I came out to after putting Clayton down for a nap...no, he didn't get into trouble...it was our fault for thinking something so tempting could be left out while I was putting Clayton down. We had discussed it the night before, but thought we would see...well, now they are all in my closet! Sorry Grandma...Clayton's gift got opened early...but he likes it...I let him play with it and he watched it very intently

Oh dear...

I wonder if Justin will live to 5pm when Daddy comes home. He has been not napping and fighting it..no nap yesterday, but he then sleeps in...but with no nap we are horrible, misbaved, and a POO!

Oh, and while I was putting Clayton down...somebody (don't know who) busted open a Christmas gift....it wasn't his though! HA

Tubby time with Justin

Clayton's first bath in the big tubby with big brother Justin...he loves the water and was a slippery little fella...