We also carved our pumpkins on Sunday as our F.H.E. activity! Emily could have fit inside hers if we had put her in it. We hope you enjoy our results!
Monday, October 27, 2008
We wanted to share some of our beautiful Fall weather. We feel so blessed to live in Spokane and enjoy the beauty of all four seasons. Fall has to be my favorite and this Fall has been superb! We are enjoying another week of blue skies, extraordinary colors of the trees and bushes and crisp, cold air! It's the best!
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Fall has Arrived!
We have a tradition that Grandpa Mitchell started when Nolan was born. He engraves into the young pumpkin the name of the grandchild and we eagerly watch as the pumpkin grows and so does the name! This year we have 3 pumpkins with our grand children's name engraved! So Nolan, Emily and Gerret, these pictures are for you!!!
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Mom's thoughts on food storage and money!
I found a new website called frugalisfab.blogspot. It's a great site that offers tips and hints and actually does a lot of your work if you like to redeem coupons. I'm not and never have been a big coupon person but a couple of tv shows have highlighted how people can buy $900.00 worth of stuff for less than $200.00. So I got really excited and started to look up a lot of other coupon websites and filling out forms and all that. Then I remembered something that Amy Dacyszan wrote in her Tightwad Gazette book. She says to look not at the amount they saved but the amount they paid! And I realized that I had set a goal to spend only $100.00 a month on groceries, including food storage. (We're trying to save money for Brady to go to San Francisco with the band this Spring) So buying $200.00 worth of stuff would actually set me back. Plus I also realized that buying stuff is not what I'm all about. I'm about rice and wheat and canning and saving and family. So I have decided that unless the coupon gets me the item free or pretty darn close to free, I'm not interested. So there you have my pearls of wisdom.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
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