The Grand Total

Over the last fives weeks since I have started couponing, I tallied up my weekly savings and found that I have saved over $225 in groceries! That's pretty good I think for just starting over! Pretty cool to think that just taking a couple of hours during my week to prepare my grocery list, and to print off coupons would save me so much money.

Couponing

Last year I attended my first class with my sister about couponing. It came with the offer to order several copies of the local newspaper for every Sunday so as to capitalize on savings from multiple coupon inserts. I was really in to it for several months before I lost the motivation to get the newspaper anymore because there were several months in a row where the coupon inserts really sucked butt. None of them were useful. Or if there were any at all, then I only clipped one or two coupons, absolutely leaving me in the hole when it came to ordering the newspaper.

My best friend is a couponing fanatic. She came to visit for a couple of days this summer and let me in on some of her motivating secrets. So I thought I would try couponing again. Except this time I decided to try it without ordering the newspaper at all.....

Just by printing off coupons from the internet, and cutting them up myself, and with a little help from my mom and grandma, I have been able to save an average of $40 a week for the last month! I have been thrilled with the result since I haven't been working as much this last summer and money has been a little tighter than usual. So here's to couponing!

28

Today I turn 28 years old. Ten years ago I was 18 and in the middle of my second of what would be 5 years of summers spent lifeguarding. Holy COW! Oh how I miss being that tan!

I don't know why, but this age has turned out to feel somewhat significant to me. I can't pinpoint the reason why, it just kind of feels that way. I have a beautiful 2 year-old daughter, a new beautiful home, and a wonderful husband. I have a fantastic family. I have so much in life to be grateful for.

We don't have much planned for today, I'm doing some house cleaning and catching up on some laundry. In a couple of days my best friend is coming in for a visit, and I am so excited and looking forward to it!

This evening is going to be pretty low key, spent with Brandon and Hallie and going out to dinner. I wouldn't have it any other way.

Tulip Festival

A couple of weeks ago we took our first trip down to Thanksgiving Point for their annual Tulip Festival. Brandon had Good Friday off (thank you Pilot!), so we took advantage of the free time and took a little day trip.

Due to the cooler "Spring" we've had this year not all of the tulips were out but the grounds and what flowers that had decided to bloom were beautiful. Hallie loves being outside and she loved the flowers. We got some fun shots of her, but this girl sure is camera shy so most pictures we do catch of her are totally candid ones!

Needless to say we had a wonderful time. We stopped on our way back up at Zupas. I love their salads and sandwiches! Not to mention their complimentary chocolate covered strawberries!

After lunch we headed to my Grandpa Don's house to pay him a long overdue visit. I will have to post that video in a bit. We were there a couple of hours and wanting to take advantage of the day in Salt Lake City, we went over to Wheeler farm to check out the animals. It was so much fun but because the temperature was dropping we didn't stay as long as we would have liked.

Overall the day was a blast and it felt good to have made the most of it.

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Sun Glasses

Hallie and I went down to the Tulip Festival on Thursday and I stopped off at the store and bought a little bag and some sunglasses. Being the sucker that I am I bought Hallie a pair. She looked adorable and couldn't have been more thrilled!

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Well Hello There Stranger!

I have become a complete stranger when it comes to my blog. I haven't done anything for so long, I feel like such a slacker. This lazy blog "sabbatical" has been good for me though.

So this blog post is just to let you know that I am still here, still alive, and enjoying it. I am envious of those on my blog list that are religious about their posts. But I am never going to be one of those that blogs every day, I'm just not that creative, or maybe my life is just uneventful so there's really nothing to say.

With the warmer weather (hopefully) on the horizon, I'm sure I will be out and about with Hallie and finding things to take pictures of and to tell the world about!

Until then, see ya!