I love this kid...

Diapers?

Of course right now, I'm dying to get good deals on whatever I can. I just wanted to tell you guys about this deal going on at diapers.com. I've never ordered diapers there before, but I've heard really good things about it. So here's the deal...

Spend $49 or more and get $10 off your order as a first-time shopper with code NATD6261. PLUS, get a $14.97 rebate (or a free subscription to Parenting magazine) You'll find information on the rebate on the Diapers.com home page. The girls at Pinching Your Pennies found out that this was the best deal....

buy 1 Huggies Extra Large Case diapers for $38.99
buy 1 Huggies Jumbo Pack diapers for $10.99
Total diapers = $49.98

- $10 off $49 purchase using code NATD6261
+ Free Shipping
= $39.98 shipped

- $14.97 refund for Parenting Magazine
= $25.01 after rebate

divided by 184 diapers
~ $.14 per diaper

Here is the best deal I could find on LUVS...

Buy 2 Luvs jumbo packs on sale $7.99 each = $15.98
Buy 1 luvs extra large case = $35.99
Total diapers= $51.97

-$10 off $49 code NATD6261
+ Free Shipping
= $41.97 shipped

- $14.97 rebate for Parenting Magazine
= $27.00 after rebate

divided by 248 diapers (size 4, smaller sizes have more in the box)
= 10 cents per diaper

They always give free 2-day shipping on orders over $50, and don't forget to use my code when you check out (NATD6261), You will get $10 off and I will get $1.00 credit for each person that uses it.

Just to compare, I usually get my diapers at Costco, and right now they are $49.99 for 200, that ends up being almost 25 cents each. At Wal-mart, they are $9.20 for 34 diapers, that makes them about 27 cents each there. (huggies)

Anyway, I just wanted to let you know about a pretty good deal.Let me know if you need any help with it!

A week's worth of fun!

This week has been such a fun week! We've been working on our kitchen floor, so our house was a disaster!!!! Every day I tried to find something fun to do outside of the house so we didn't have to tip-toe around construction... Here is a peek into our week.

SUNDAY: Superbowl. We spent the day at Casey's parents' house. There was lots of food and fun. It's always fun to get together with Family. Benson had a fun time playing with Trapper and Gunner, although we missed Addyson and Rylee. After the game, we watched a very funny "Office". It is one of our favorite shows.

MONDAY: Our good friends, Chelsey and Trevan, invited us to go swimming at an indoor pool in Bountiful. The water was a little cold at first, but after we got used to it, we all had a lot of fun!

TUESDAY: Benson and I took lunch to Casey at work. When we were on our way home, I heard on the radio about free Grand-Slams at Denny's. Benson and I waited for about an hour in line, I'm not sure it was worth the wait, but it was a nice day and we had fun on our little lunch date together.

After Denny's, we went to see my friend, Brittany, and her new baby. It brought back memories of when we first came home with Benson and what a special time that was for us. Ahhh, the memories.

WEDNESDAY: I had my wedding ring in to the jeweler in SLC, and it was ready to pick up. We called Chelsey and Trevan to see if they wanted to go with us to pick it up and then go to the zoo. Lucky for us, they did want to go, and we had a wonderful time! The boys especially loved the monkeys.

THURSDAY: Grocery Day. This was a LONG day for Benson. We went to 3 stores, used about a million coupons, but only spent a little money. I LOVE this coupon program I am doing! This week I got a lot of bigger things (chicken, fish, pasta, milk, make-up, medicine, V-day stuff, etc.) and I still feel like I didn't really "break the bank". I keep saying that I have more time than money and because I love staying home with Benson so much, I am willing to do whatever I can to help out around here. It just so happens that saving money is really fun too! Here are my stats for the week:

Items Purchased: 113, Total Spent (including tax): $92.48, Total Saved: $163.96...

That's about $.82 per item. My goal is $1.00 per item, so I feel really good about my shopping this week.

FRIDAY: Clean-up Day. Since we had so much fun all week, we spent Friday just chillin' at home. Casey worked really hard on the floor everyday after work, so it was almost done by Friday and we were able to get some things done around the house. We did spend a little time outside playing with our neighbors, though, and that was fun. I hate to admit it, but we didn't even get out of our PJ's until after Casey came home from work. It was a really good day at home.

SATURDAY: We woke up early and went to Home Depot, one of our regular date spots. We picked out some trim for the floor and a few other things we needed. Casey went home and worked on the floor while I went to a baby shower for my good friend, Kamille, and Benson went to the Haws home. I only stayed at the shower for a while and then we headed home to help Casey work. He was almost done by the time we got home. After only a few more trips to Home Depot and one stop to Lowe's, our floor is DONE!!! No more carpet-tile!!!! See my next post for pictures!

Cruisin'

We're back! We had such a great time on our cruise and we took a TON of pictures, so I'm not going to go through them all right now. If you want to hear all about everything and see some of the pictures, visit my sister, Tami's blog. She did a great job of posting!!

http://nickandtami.blogspot.com/

And we're off....

Happy Birthday to Casey!!!! The big 2-4! I'm so glad I have you. You are such a good dad and husband. I sure love you lots!

Also, we are leaving tonight (at 12:50 am, actually) for our cruise to the bahamas! Benson will spend half of the week at Casey's parents' house and the other half at my parents' house. We are excited to have a week to ourselves, but I know I'm going to miss Benson a lot. Casey keeps reminding me that both of our parents have raised kids and everyone turned out ok (mostly), so a week with his grandparents will probably be good for Benson.... Except that's not what I'm worried about at all, I'm worried about missing him too much! I'm sure we will all be fine!

Wellp, Bon Voyage!

Coupon Chaos!!!

Bless her sweet little heart, my cousin (and good friend) Judi, taught me how to be a coupon queen!

Today was my first time doing coupons for reals and it was so wonderful! Since we are leaving on our cruise in less than a week, my objective today was mostly snacks for us for our trip and non-perishables that will last till we get back. Here are the stats on what I got:

9- cheerios snack mix

6- boxes of fruit snacks (the good kind)

6- boxes of toaster strudels

2- Honey Nut Cheerios

6- boxes of gushers

1- 4 pack of yogurt

3- soups (in the nice microwave container)

2- brocolli

2- cauliflour

6- boxes of fiber one cereal bars

2 pounds of butter

bananas

5 pounds of potatoes

1- gallon of milk

1- loaf of bread

1- syrup

1- baking powder

TOTALS

51 items

$63.76 used in coupons

$56.68 in store savings

Total spent: $43.60 spent (including tax)

Total saved: $120.44

Thanks, Judi, you have officially saved me millions of dollars (hopefully)....

Also, I wanted to make a clarification on a previous post. In the post "a friend for everyone", I posted a picture of the big boys and the little boys, but I didn't post anything about us girls (Chelsey and me). This is because Chelsey and I were the ones taking pictures. She is my very good friend and we all love the Stowers.... So there, I don't want anyone thinking that I have ill feelings, cause I don't (at least not about the Stowers).

Happy New Year!!!

2008 was a good year for us. It was our first full year with Benson. It has been a lot of fun watching him grow and learn. He is such a good little boy. He can follow directions and is learning to talk to us. I feel like we are at a good point with Benson. He is starting to depend on us less, which is sort of sad, but it makes things a lot easier. It's really getting fun to play with him. We play every morning for a long time and then after lunch, he takes a really good, 2 hour nap, so I can get all of my work done while he's asleep. It's nice for me to have some time to get things done and still have time to play with him. It seems like this is a good time for our family. Our favorite thing to do is watch movies together. We love being together and spending time at home.

I really feel blessed in my life right now. Sometimes there are struggles and hard times, and trust me, everything isn't perfect. But we are doing really well. I'm really looking forward to 2009. I hope this will be a good year for us. We leave for our cruise with Tami and Nick in a week and a half, and I'm so excited to spend soem time with Casey, but I know I will miss Benson. He really is the biggest part of my life and I feel so lucky to get to spend all day with him and try to teach him. It seems like he is teaching me more and more each day.

Life is good!

A friend for everyone

Our new-found friends from the ward, The Stowers, came over on Friday to play. We have hung out a few times with them and even spent a wonderful weekend with them at their cabin in Bear Lake. Benson and Trevan are quickly becoming best buds. They are so cute together!

Here are the little boys playing and having treats...

Here are the big boys playing and having treats...

How Low Can You Go???

Casey and I are true fans of KSL.com's Classified section. It is one of the many sites we visit daily. We have bought a lot of things and sold one laptop on KSL.com.

On Monday, Casey just happened to open up the free section and notice there was a 57" HDTV listed. It had only been online for 1 minute and he called on it. They promised him that we could come and get it, so we went and got it yesterday in West Jordan. The TV wasn't working right, so Casey looked it up online, and turns out that everyone who owns this model of TV has the same problem.... when the TV gets to be 6 years old, something happens and the screen goes totally green, then turns off. So Casey looked online some more and found the solution. You have to turn one screw about 1/8th of a turn and whalah, fixed. So we picked up the TV last night (thanks for the help, Andy) and brought it home. Casey took out a few screws to get inside and then turned that one screw a little bit, and tah-dah, fixed. It took about 10 minutes to fix.

So now we have this beauty sitting in our living room. It's HUGE all around, I'll have to get rid of my entertainment center (it's all your's, Andy), because the TV is bigger than the entertainment center.
So here is our free TV, I guess it did cost about $15 in gas to pick up, but that's it!

Also, in about October, we noticed this basketball hoop listed for free in Harrisville, so we picked it up for free too. It is a really nice hoop, Casey loves it.

Things my Daddy taught me....

To get us all in the Christmas spirit, we decided to decorate sugar cookies yesterday. Doesn't it look so clean and peaceful and wonderful?

Have you ever tried to do ANYTHING with a very curious one-year-old around? Well, after trying and trying to keep him away from the frosting, his loving father gave up and handed the kid a spoon.

By this point, McKenzie is GAGGING!!!

(The frosting didn't turn out so well, I guess I need to work on my frosting making skills, but Benson seemed to like it.)

A couple of weeks ago, the Haws family had a "yankee swap" for our Christmas presents to each other. Thanks to Brady, Casey got this "AWESOME NERF GUN". He and Benson love to play with it. Although I have to keep reminding Casey....

WE DON'T POINT GUNS AT PEOPLE!!!!!!