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The End of a Short Week

With Memorial Day being Monday it cut the work week short. It has flown by, thank goodness! I am one step closer to going on vacation, woohoo! 15 days to be exact, or two weeks from tomorrow whichever way you want to look at it...

Tomorrow is going to be an awesome day! We are hanging out with Karmen, Matt, Ava, Alline, and Madyson. We are starting out at Mom's swimming for a little bit. Then we are going to Karmen's house where we are going to watch a movie and I am sure we will eat dinner in there somewhere! It has been so long since we have all hung out together...

Sunday we are heading out to Georgia to pick up a dining room table and chairs from my cousin Tyler's house. Brenda and Jimmy (hi Brenda!) came down this past weekend and she said that Tyler and Caty weren't going to use this table and chairs after they got married and she asked if we wanted it... It was Brenda's mom's table and chairs! It means a lot that Brenda asked us if we wanted it, because I know how much it means to her.

Ava is such a big girl now! I have some new pictures of her on my computer at home... She is swimming by herself!!! Karmen puts her floaties on and away she goes. Someone is always right there with her but she LOVES swimming by her self! She even jumps off the side or diving board to Matt! She is growing up too fast.

Well I am going to go and work... Have a great day!

The Grocery Game

I know Karmen updated about this but I am going to as well...

The Grocery Game (TGG) is such a fantastic idea! I wish I had come up with it... It isn't that I am lazy and don't feel like doing the "hard work" myself, I just want the best deal possible and TGG seems to be a good way to do that... especially since grocery prices are going up everyday!

It is $10 for 8 weeks and if you refer people to the site and they enter your email address as the person who referred them you earn free weeks... So if anyone is interested in joining TGG please leave me a message and I will give you the email address that I am signed up under...

It makes you feel good to look at your receipt and see how much you saved. Like last week when Zach and I went to the grocery store, we saved $30! That is exciting to me because if I had not taken the time to look for those coupons or the sales we would have spent that $30 instead of saving it... Now with TGG it is easier for me to save money!

A busy weekend coming up...

Memorial Day weekend is coming up and I don't know about you guys but I always get excited around Memorial Day because it is the official start of summer!!!

This Memorial Day is going to be super busy for us. Saturday we are having a "family reunion" with my family. It is really a surprise birthday party for my Uncle Bubba!

Sunday we are going up to Cullman for decoration with Zach's family... the past few years I have actually had some severe allergy issues up there so I am going to take a Benadryl BEFORE we leave and take them every 4 hours the whole day.

Monday I am off work!!! And we are going to Zach's sister's house for the mandatory Memorial Day cookout... it should be fun.

Onto other things, I go on vacation in 25 days... I bet you can't tell that I am excited about it! Life has been so stressful the past several months so it will be nice to get away for a week...

Anyways, I am going to go talk to Lindsey. We are thinking about switching our photography blog up some... I will let you know when we make any decisions...

Our Grocery Shopping Trip

OK, the first picture is EVERYTHING we bought yesterday and the second picture is a close up of the items on the table...

We spent around $130 and saved $30... I think we did pretty good for our first trip as this combined with what we already have is enough to last us approximately 4 weeks...

We are having a cook out at our house today for my family so that is what the charcoal, wood chunks, lighter fliud and meat are for...

Also, today is picture day for me, Karmen, Mom, Nanny, and Ava so I will be posting those to the photography blog either today or tomorrow...

Gotta go clean and get ready! Have a happy Sunday!

I want to be like her...

I have stumbled upon a "mommy blog" recently that I have thoroughly enjoyed reading. Dooce is a fantastic writer and she constantly makes me laugh... The cool part about her is that she makes a living by writing her blog and the advertisements that are there!!! She has made enough money that her husband has quit his job and they BOTH stay at home with their adorable daughter!

OK, this makes me a tiny bit jealous because I want to stay at home... it is not because I have children, because I don't, and it isn't because I am lazy either. I just feel like I could get more accomplished in a day if I didn't have to work. I would also get to see my family more...

Maybe my blog will become an internet sensation (yeah right!) and I can having people lining up at my door to advertise on here!

For now I will continue to work and will continue to not get anything done because I don't have enough hours in my day...

On to other things... I am now on a coupon craze! I am all about clipping some coupons!

Zach and I are trying to save money to pay off some of our credit cards and by cutting back on eating out and finding good deals (and coupons) on food at the grocery store can save us a ton of money... We are going to the grocery store tomorrow so I will post about the trip and let you know how much I saved!!!

I don't know about you guys but I am SO glad that it is the weekend... So with that said I am going to go enjoy the start of mine (with a piece of hot fudge cake)... Have a fabulous evening!

Today is a special day...

because today is Karmen and Matt's anniversary. They have been married for FOUR years! I can't believe it. It seems like just yesterday she was planning the wedding.

Congratulations you guys!

I am a little late with the spring cleaning...

I all of a sudden have the urge to clean my house from top to bottom... I want to catch up on ALL of the laundry, reorganize the closet, clean out the front bedroom, scrub the tub, clean the carpets, clean out the refrigerator, organize the garage, clean out the front bedroom closet... as you can see I have a long list going, whether or not it all gets done is a different story!

I will let you know how much of this we actually accomplish...

On to other things, there are only 32 days until my vacation! I am so excited. I love going on vacation but I am so sad when I have to come home. Hopefully the week will not fly by and we can actually enjoy our time down there.

This weekend me, my mom, Karmen, Nanny, and Ava are going to the botanical gardens to have some pictures made. I don't think we all have had our picture made together before. Hopefully I can get some good pictures... Don't forget to check the photography blog next week for the pictures.

Not much else to update on so I guess I will get back to work! Have a great day!

Total Success!

Today was Karmen's Taste of Home Entertaining party and I think it was a complete success... I made a little bit of money and Karmen is getting over $100 in free stuff plus three items for half price!!!

I am currently sitting here watching Ava sleep. Karmen and Matt went to a birthday party and Ava zonked out before they left so they left her here with me to sleep! She is SO precious when she sleeps...

Tomorrow is Mother's Day so Happy Mother's Day to all the mom's out there!

I feel left out because I am not a mommy yet... but not enough to make me want a baby right now. Let's get all the dermatologist appointments out of the way for this year and then we can TALK about it... no guarantees though!

Speaking of the dermatologist, I have to go back the week before we go to the beach, yuck! I am thinking of changing it to the first part of July because we have vacation and then a wedding... I would go on to the dermatologist but we are going to the beach and if they remove something I don't want to have to deal with an open wound while I am down there. It is bad enough having to deal with it and keep it clean here at home but down there I think it would just ruin the whole thing for me! Everyone start praying now that Shelley (my doctor) doesn't find anything that she wants to remove when I go... I don't want to go through any of this mess anymore.

Anyways, everyone have a great day... I am going to go surf the internet!

Weekends just fly by...

I have always said this, even when I was in elementary school. The weekends seem to fly by and the weekdays pass by as slow as a snail...

So it is the end to another weekend and I am yet again dreading the work week... I am looking at it as I am one step closer to my vacation which starts on Saturday June 14th!

I emailed the rental company that we rented the house through to see if they have wireless internet access at the house. I surely hope so!

Anywho, I am going to go... we are going to Zach's mom and dad's for a cookout tonight...