Big Weekend!

We've had a big weekend....we went to Owenton for the 127 Yard Sale (the longest yard sale in the US!) and we had a blast. I got some more Christmas presents and clothes for Rose for next year, but mainly it's just nice to spend some time with Bodie's family. We used to get up there a lot more but with job changes and stresses over the past year (not to mention our growing family) it has made it harder to get up there. So it has been wonderful the past two weekends with Lana and Fellar coming down and then us getting so spend some time with everyone up there.

Maureen came up on Sat. and she and I got to go around for a little while...shopping for the soon-to-be little boy....and congrats to Joey and Randi for their annoucement! We will hopefully be preggers in the near future, but things are just not right for us yet.....Patience is a virtue or so I'm told....until then, we just a new puppy - I think that will suffice for a little while!

Below are some pictures from our weekend, I got to get to grocery listin!

Pictures from Mexico

I'm always behind....

It's Sat. afternoon and I've got just a minute before Maureen gets here to completely reorganize my house - not my Forte! - so I thought I would catch-up for a minute.



Friday morning I got my office cleared out, pretty much. I'm starting a new job on Monday and even though I'm not completely finished at FB they are hiring new people left and right so I thought they might need my space. Then I met Maureen at the LOCS sale and got the rest of my Christmas shopping done for all of the kids that we buy for, Rose included! I just find that Rose has soooo many toys already, most of which she doesn't play with and I see piles of toys around other houses. With us going on our debt diet (I'll tell you more later), I can't bring my self to pay an arm and a leg for something that the kids will play with twice. Whatever. Daycare then called and Rosie had diarriea again (there is a Roto-virus going around - great!) so I went and picked her up and we headed to BRU to buy some diapers with my coupons and get a gc.

Busy already this morning

So since I start a new job on Monday and have to get up at the buttcrack of dawn...I've been practicing this week getting up, getting everyone going, and trying to be on time. I think we are going to be able to accomplishi it with Bodie's help and getting up just a little earlier - Eeek!

It has been kind of nice to get up and get going before the rest of the world and feel like I've already done so much - versus sleeping my day away. However I think I will look forward to sleeping in on Sat.!

I've been meaning to take my grocery bags that I have with me on my, what seems like 600, grocery trips this week and have continued to forget them. However this morning I remembered to pull them out of the corner of the garage...ready to go! Then realized at Wal-mart that I forgot them again....grrrhh! But I'm going to run back to Kroger at lunch b/c they were marking down their meat this morning and we are going grill out tomorrow night for Bodie's parents...so if I could get it a little cheaper I would be so excited!

I am going to definately do a better job of menu planning for this coming week b/c I feel like I've spent so much money this week. Here comes the Envelope System! Any favorite receipes would be greatly appreciated - especially for garden green beans, yellow squash, zucchini, potatoes, and tomatoes. I think I'm going to try and steal, I mean borrow!, Mom's dehydrator and try to dehydrate some potatoes....We like the Au Gratin potatoes and my little freezing and drying book says that they do ok...I'll let you know.

Too much I know....

So I told you I was going to try and be better about this....Twice in one day! I have a mile long to-do list and I haven't felt like I have gotten anything hardly accomplished on it, but I think I made great strides this afternoon. I went through all of Rose's clothes and seperated her closet into what she could still wear (24 month and up, some 18 month clothes still though...). I can't believe how many clothes this little girl has! And how many she has never even gotten to wear...which only goes right back to the livestye of living more frugally that Bodie and I are trying to start doing. Maureen, Randi and I are having a yard sale on the 23rd of the month and I know that baby clothes usually sell really well, so I'm thinking about going through her bins (yes she has 3 extra large clothing bins - 0-6 months, 6-12 months, and 12-18 months chock full of clothes!) and getting out some clothes to sell. Bodie said go for it, so we will see.

I also got mine and Bodie's bathroom cleaned (and I mean cleaned - sink, toilet, and bathtub! Woo hoo for me!) - which for those of you who know me, you know how much I love cleaning so getting all of this done is a big accomplishment! Especially considering I didn't hardly even get started until around 3!

Sox (our new puppy) did really well about using the bathroom outside today - no accidents inside! I am amazed at how smart she is! Rose is still not completely sure of her at times...she loves Sox when she can pick her up and torment her, but not so much when Sox jumps on her! I don't know that I completely blame her because those puppy teeth hurt.

Last thing for the evening I got half the tree beds in the back yard sprayed with Round-up. I know this pretty much goes against every environmentally friendly thing I am trying to accomplish, but I just cannot stand weeds taking over my beds! Any ideas on a "green" method for complete weed eradication? We are going to look into the company around her that does "green" yard work and see if it is something that we can swing...we will see. Met the neighbors, they've got two younger kids - as do a lot of families in the neighborhood, which is really nice! - and they seemed super nice!

I did put new batteries in my camera and will hopefully be able to upload some pictures soon...got some cute ones of Sox and will hopefully have some nice ones of the house for everyone to see!

Will I ever catch up?

I have found a new passion for reading others' blogs which only makes me want to update ours more often! Bodie asked me the other day about our "blog"...."do we have one" he asked? Yes, I replied...."Does anybody look at it?"...No one besides Kelly (if I'm that lucky!) because I don't update it that much! So I am truly going to try and do better...which it really helps that we now have internet at the house!

We have moved in (sort of...there are still piles of crap everywhere!), and adopted a new dog on Sunday. She is 12 weeks old, a black lab mix named Sox and as soon as I have pictures (actually a camera that works) I will put some up! We are still looking for Loki, but wanted Rose and us to have a canine friend back in our lives.

Our lives have changed a little bit more here recently...I am starting a new job on Monday and leaving the insurance business. The pressure of sales quotas and the like proved to be more than I wanted or could handle right now. We want to have another child and decided that me being completely stressed out all the time was not the best way to attempt to bring another child into the world.

We are going to have to make some adjustments to our lives and we are both trying to bring ourselves on board. I have been reading lots of blogs about living frugally and have read Dave Ramsey's book "The Total Money Makeover" and we are going to concentrate very hard on learning to live within our means and reducing our debt. So any help or ideas would be much appreciated!

That's about it for now...I will try to update a couple of times a week...that's my goal!

Changes...

A lot has changed in the past month...we have moved into our new home and with that came joy and sorrow. We are so excited to have our own place, however in moving the plumbers let Loki out and she has not returned. It's been three weeks since she disappeared and I am still coming to grips with it. We've posted fliers, internet ads, newspaper ads, knocked door to door and no luck. I am asking for prayers that she may one day return...