Teeth!

Can you see my two teeth??

My little jumping bean

Alli wanted to show everyone how much she loves her jumper!

It's about time Publix!!

Well the holidays and their sales have come and gone. I've been watching the Publix B1G1 sales for the last couples weeks with some frustration. The items that have been on sale were not items that we needed, would use, or even wanted! So this week I perused the sale circular and wasn't very excited. The more I looked at it though, the more I realized wait...these are things we would use! The best part is that a lot of what was on sale were high priced items. So I was ticked to be able to save as much as I did. So it was time to stock up while I could get them cheap!I was able to get the Voila meals in a bag, V8 Splash, Quaker Oats Chewy Granola bars, Fruit roll ups (Ben likes these), Lenders Bagels, Del Monte canned vegetables, Duncan Heines brownies, Swiss Miss Cocoa, Kelloggs Cereal for B1G1!!!! It was great. The best part is that the deals were good enough that I was able to get other sale items and items that we just "needed" and still be able to keep overall cost savings at 50%.
Total before sales and coupons: $128.6
Total Publix and coupon savings: $65.36
Total cost after savings: $63.24!! Woo hoo
This was a great way to start the new pay period since Ben just got paid today. We are definitely good on groceries for a week or more!

I guess I've got the bug

I guess I've got the scrapbooking bug. Since I didn't start scrapbooking when Alli was born, I'm a little behind. So that's why I'm doing so many here in a short amount of time.

Promotion update

Well Ben interviewed the other day for the driver promotion. The interview went as well as it could have. Today he received an email stating that due to budget constraints the city has put a 30 day hiring and promotion freeze into effect. So we won't know anything for a month. What else is new? heh.

Still scrapbooking. I'm really excited about how some of these pages are turning out. I have been able to find some really cute quick pages which have allowed me to just add in pictures. My biggest problem is being creative with my own pages. It isn't uncommon for me to spend 1 hour on 1 page...I know...silly but I'm very particular and not very creative. So I spend tons of time looking at other people's pages and try to see if I can recreate it or make it look similar. So here are the most recent pages. 3 of the 5 were quick pages and made this super easy!

Just a little something

I thought I wasn't going to scrapbook anymore but a lot of that had to do with me not feeling like I had a reason to. Now that Alli is here...I have a reason. Here is the beginning of her album.

Not one but two

I took Alli to see Ben at work today. He was playing with her and said, "Hey did you see her other tooth?" I said, "No, what other tooth?" I got Alli to open her mouth and sure enough, she is getting her second tooth in to the right of the first. Woo hoo...So far she hasn't gotten the runny nose with this tooth coming in. Hopefully it stays that way. I'm still hoping to get a picture soon.