Happy Anniversary Honey

Just wanted to say Happy Anniversary to my wonderful husband. Today we celebrated 5 years together. Eric had to work. I took the day off and cooked a supper for the two of us.Kimber and I dressed up for when Daddy came home. Kimber is wearing her new dress from Uncle Ry-Ry. Thank you. Kimber loved that the baby had the same dress on as she did. :)Kimber giving her baby hugs. We have no plans for the rest of the weekend. I am happy to say I am caught up on paperwork for work. The house is already clean since I cleaned for our anniv. supper. So we are probably going to just hang out at home. I hope all is well with everyone.
I know I promised to write about my shopping trip but it was kind of a bust. I went to Wal-Mart because I needed a few things I could not pick up at Target. The clerk was very rude when she saw I had coupons and then when some of them would not go threw she just handed them back and said they wouldn't take them. The ones she was having trouble with was the printable ones and I have used them there before and not had any trouble. I still saved a little but I was annoyed that about $15 dollars worth of coupons would not scan...or should I say the cashier would not use the scan gun instead of the till to try and scan them in. Ugh. I am not sure where the best place to shop is anymore. I get tired of going to Target all the time and yet I am not able to get all the food items I want there because it is not a Super Target or I would love shopping there. Anyways I am thinking about just trying to shop the sales at the local 2 grocery stores and use coupons there and plan meals around sale items and see if I can keep within the budget for groceries. It is just hard since one of the grocery stores is brand new and kind of over priced and the other one is the only one in town so they don't have any price competition. One is in Fosston and the other one is in Bagley so I will have to do some price comparing. It is all trial and error I guess. :) I will keep trying. Anyways I will quit rambling. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. A big Thank You to my wonderful husband who has been there for me for the last 5 years and a great dad to our beautiful little baby girl. I hope the next 5 are as wonderful as the first 5. Good night.

Happy Easter!!!

HAPPY EASTER!!!
We hope you had a wonderful and blessed Easter. Here are a few pic to catch up on what has been going on around here. I will try to write more later. It is late but I wanted to post some pic for the family that we were not able to be with for the holiday of Kimber in her Easter dress. We love you and miss you and hope to see you soon. I have a shopping trip planned for this week so I will update you on how I am doing after. Daddy is feeding me snicker salad. Yummy!

So I was ambitious this weekend and guess I started spring cleaning. I cleaned out a closet and made it into what it was supposed to be in the first place...a pantry! Yeah more food storage space. Then I boxed up the baby stuff Kimber no longer uses and moved it upstairs into a storage space. Then Sat. night I decided I was sick of looking at our bathroom floor. We had put down stick tile and some had holes in them from where the house has shifted and nails are popping up so I took up some of the tiles and replaced them with ones that I found in the closet I cleaned out and now our bathroom floor looks way better!!! :) YEAH!!! Sorry for the messy pic of the bathroom but I thought for those of you who don't believe I get my hands dirty...here is the proof. I pulled up some of the tiles and replaced them with new ones.

It was so nice out on Sat while taking a break from cleaning Eric and I took Kimber on her first Spring walk. Here is Kimber and Daddy looking and the river flowing by our driveway.

Kimber walking with Daddy. It was hard to get her to hold hands since she is little Miss Independent. Humm?? Wonder who she took that trait from? I am not telling:)

Come on Dad let me walk all by myself. (Kimber in her mud cloths, when you live in the country you tend to pick a couple outfits to let them just get dirty in. Although I am not sure she will like playing in the mud for a while...she is a girly girl.)

She was calling for the dog to come along! ha ha She loves her animals and loves to tell them to be quiet when they are barking too.

Come on lets get a move on.

We went swimming a couple weeks ago at the local pool.

Poor Kimber YES her lips really were purple. We finally had to take her out. She decided at the end of the time she liked playing in the water and we weren't going to let go. Maybe next time she will enjoy it sooner.

Another successful trip to Target.

My mom and I went shopping today after meeting a friend for lunch and getting Kimber's pics done. If you wanna check out her pic. you can look at the post after this one. So anyways I just had to say I have been doing some research online and printing online coupons and found some AWESOME deals today. I shopped at Target today and I bought some food items that we normally don't get to have but after the coupons I didn't spend more then .50 on any of the items. I was able to find 2 new pairs of shoes that Kimber was in desperate need of. lol I had let her other shoes get way too tight and felt bad. So I bought her a pair of shoes to wear with her Easter dress since that is next week already and a pair of tennis shoes to run errands around town in and for daycare. Plus I picked up another package of diapers:) Always buying diapers...We are still working on the potty but it has not been as consistent lately. :( We have not been home as much to be consistent with it either and that does not really help. Anyways I was so proud when I came home and realized that I had bought her 2 pairs of shoes, a pkg of diapers, and only spent $5.oo on everything else I found!!!! YES!!! I am getting better at this!!! For those of you wondering I mostly just look at moneysavingmom.com and click on the grocery coupon and the coupon button on top of the page that is black. You have to install a coupon printer the first time you try to print coupons but I have not found any problems with installing this program. She also tells you what deals are where for the week. I check out other sights but this is the one I have had the most luck with. If any of you have found other really good sights please leave me a message. With that I will sign off saying I am posting this pic so you can see the deals I found today.

1 scrubbing bubbles shower starter cleaning kit~Free after coupons I am so excited about this since hopefully it will help me not have to clean the shower so often. Plus it was free.
Eggos

Kotex

Shout

Bagel Bites

Scotts t.p.

Diapers

2 boxes of safety swab Q-tips

pkg of Resses pb cups

dole fruit cups

Betty Crocker Warm Delights

Box of fruit snacks

2 pairs of shoes for Kimber

1 bottle of baby soap.

Total Today: 39.99

Total Savings34.06

I have to say I was shaking when I handed the cashier all the coupons thinking she is probably going to tell me I can't use that many but she smiled and scanned them all threw. I finally walked out of a store thinking I would have spent over $40 on Kimber's shoes and diapers alone! I read on another mom's blog somewhere along the way that she felt like she was stealing and in some way that is kind of how I felt. Even thought I know the coupons are all good, I still feel kind of funny in some odd way. I am sure in time I will not be so unsure of using coupons but it is still pretty new to me. :) Any advice from other coupon experts out there or any other good coupon websites I would appreciate the tips. This is all so new for me. Hope all is well with you and God Bless until next time. Have a wonderful day. Easter is on the way! That is something to be excited about and thankful for. Good night.

Kimber being Kimber.

Our Family pic for 5 yrs!!! This was the only pic she would take with the #1 prop. Not my favorite pic ...but still cute. I think this pic is SO SWEET. :)

Kimber's baby blue eyes. Her in her Easter dress. So the only way she would smile for any of the pic today was if I would let her hold onto these Easter eggs. hehe oh well.

HAPPY EASTER!!!

Mommy signing to me.

Grandma, Mommy, and me.

Big smile.

I would not let mommy go so we just took a pic anyway.

Here is one thing I love...to look at books.

Me and Daddy holding hands.

Mommy and me holding hands.