Another Good Score!

So, again I have a nice score of food for the week. I'm quite surprised to say that the winner this week is Albertsons- I know, I'm SHOCKED too! They have a really good sale going on until Tuesday and I had really good coupons to match up with it. This is what I got:
10 boxes of chicken/hamburger helper
4 oscar mayer deli creations
2 12pk. keebler snack crackers
3 candy bars(free with coupon)
4 renuzit air freshner
5lb. bag red pots.
2lb. bag baby carrots
2 litehouse caramel dip
4 3-pack pop secret
2 10 pack disposable playtex gloves(free with coupons)
3 2 liter cherry 7-up
2 McCormick gravy mix
2 refrig. Welch's juice
6 pack super pretzel
10 softsoap containers
Grand total of groceries came to $133.56
What I ended up paying for them came to $47.36 for 51 items (less than $1 per item) SWEET! I love my finds. I did good with Harmons, Smith's, and Target this week as well-just not as GREAT as this Albertsons trip. I honestly love the hunt of a good sale and deal paired together. It's a fun little game for me and my family reaps the benefit of it. This week I bought groceries totaling $468.00 but only spent $228.11(had to buy diapers and wipes) which means I saved 51% this week total. Not bad if I say so myself. I will be taking a food shopping break for awhile due to the fact all 3 freezers are full and my pantry and storage room is packed to the rafters. I have no more room for food which is a really good thing to say and know. I stocked us up for half the price it usually costs me. I only wish I had done this earlier in our marriage. I could just kick myself for all the $$ I could have saved in the past 11 years. I have always tried to buy things when they are on sale, but now with the addition of coupons I save, save, save! Well now that I have bragged about my finds I will say adios amigos! Love ya all.

Bella at 4 months!

So, this lit'l darlin' is 4 months now, can you believe it! I sure can't, but then time flies when you are havin' fun. We went to the doctor yesterday and she currently weighs 12 lbs. 10 1/2 oz. and is 25 1/2 inches long. She is in the 30% for weight and 95% for height. She still has a small head only coming in at 30%, but other than that she is as healthy as an ox. She is giggling, grabbing, trying to push off of my legs when she stands, and we are now attempting more food. We've been trying rice and pears for awhile now, but she doesn't have it down yet, but hopefully soon so I can get more sleep. We figure once she has solid food in her fiery furnace of a belly maybe she'll sleep for more than an hour and a half at a time. I'm one tired mommy, but this too will pass, so I'll just enjoy our nighttime fun for now. She smiles up at people all the time now and she is the most ticklish little girl. She's our sweet, beautiful girl who is getting bigger and bigger every day. We love her very much and are glad she has joined our family healthy and happy.

Hogle Zoo Fun!

This is just one of the many cute little animals we enjoyed seeing at Hogle Zoo on our last outing of vacation. The cute mamma snow leopard taking a snooze while her cubs were off playing. We were going to go to the zoo on Wed. but the weather made us change our plans to Friday-which was a very busy day due to it being UEA and all. We had a blast checking out all the animals, had a picnic lunch, and my dad paid for the kids to all go on the carousel and train which the kids absolutely LOVED!Snoozin' Away
Every trip we make to the zoo we have to get the kids' pictures by the gorilla measuring chart.

Logan thought it was the coolest thing.

Alexis enjoyed her ride as much as the other kids.

Logan had a blast as he went up and down and around and around.

Noah kept saying wee, wee, wee, the whole ride. Such a cutie!

Kaleigh's favorite part- the baby giraffe.

The penguins were very active-swimming, jumpin' in the air, diving, and bobbing all over the place. It had Noah squealing in delight.

This is Noah looking at some monkeys- his favorite part by far. Just look at that face.

The rhinos up close and personal.

The kids all love this elephant statue- well almost all the kids. Logan wouldn't go near it because of the squirting. He said he didn't want to get wet because it was cold.

Mamma and Baby elephant. I could just stay there all day and watch this little cutie. I got a ton of pictures of the baby playing, eating, and hangin' with mamma.

Mamma gettin' some food. I've never been there when they were eating. It was quite a sight to behold.

Noah trying to run away from the gorilla statue just as I'm trying to get a picture taken. Silly little boy.

The kids' last picture at the zoo as we discovered we had filled the whole card with all of our outings. What can I say, I just love taking pictures of these guys. Just look at them, who wouldn't! They are all soooo cute! We had a blast over these past 4 weeks and can't wait for our next off-track adventures. Tune in for I'm sure we'll have lots more to say and show of our adventures!

It FINALLY came out!

FINALLY! Laney's 2nd tooth came out-with Eric's help. It has been dangling all week, but Laney was too scared to let us near it. Eric finally got in her mouth tonight and looked at it, wiggled it and here it is.
Yay! I now have 2 "loose tooths"

Bella's New Trick

She has found the joy of her FEET!
She brings them up and looks at them.
She then brings her hands to her legs.

She takes a look at her feet and grabs them.

She then spends unending time playing with them and smiling and laughing- yep, that's right she laughs now too. Oh how sweet this little girl is. She's the cutest little girl, but I'm not biased or anything.

Farmer's Market fun keeps me busy

I just LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this time of year. We have a fun farmer's market just around the corner from our house and this year I took the older girls with me to pick out our produce. We had so much fun, and they were in awe at all the veggies, fruit, bread, and chili cook-off. We got a box of tom, peaches, pears, and apples. We also got a little basket of a mix of plums, pears, peaches, and apples just for eating. We then go a bunch of peppers, onions, 2 zucch, potatoes, and corn. I've been pretty busy the last couple of days. I made 20 jars of yummy salsa, 13 jars of peaches, 13 jars of pears, some fresh salsa for Eric to eat NOW, a chocolate zucchini cake, 2 loaves of zucchini bread and lastly 2 loaves of banana bread. I still need to make the apple sauce and some more bread-pumpkin choc. chip, lemon poppy seed, apple spice, and a choc. choc. chip bread. It's a good thing I have a free weekend coming up. I enjoy the baking and canning, but I must admit it is A LOT harder to do with a newborn. I have to do it in shifts in between feedings, so it takes longer, but I LOVE the end result. I just LOVE fall! HAPPY FALL TO EVERYONE!

Dino Park, RRRoar!

So we kicked off the kids' last week off-track with some good ol' dino fun. Wow, did we have a blast up in Ogden. All the kids enjoyed themselves as you'll see in the pictures. My dad went up with us and he enjoyed seeing the kids have fun and he also liked the park. We wound up getting a family year pass, because after we paid for admission the family year pass only cost one more dollar. SWEET! The year pass has other free admissions with it too- we get in to Tracy Aviary, Ogden Union Station, the nature preserve and half-off to hogle zoo. What a good deal we scored. We will have endless amount of fun for the next year. Yee Haw!
Kaleigh and her infamous need to always pose. Silly Goof!

Noah really enjoyed the playground. The slide especially. It was shaped like a dinosaur of course.

This was a new area, the dig it area. The kids got to dig up fossils and enjoyed the process of discovery- EUREKA!

Again, miss cute little poser!

Alexis thought this was one of the coolest picture opps.

I finally convinced Laney to take a picture with a dinosaur. Eric kept teasing her that they would come to life and eat her. Needless to say, for most of the day she refused to take a picture with the dinos.

Noah found a friend in this frog in the playground. We have many more pictures of the fun, but I won't overwhelm you. We ended the day with lunch at Red Robin courtesy of my dad. He really loves getting to spend time with us on outings and he had this week off, so he joined us. We are ending the girls vacation with Hogle Zoo, so stay tuned for more pictures later.