Happy May Day!

I totally missed May Day yesterday. Dennis' mom gave us some flowers one year on May Day and I thought that would be a fun tradition to start, I just always forget, so even though I'm a day late, I wanted to give you some flowers from our yard.
We've been doing a bit of yard work in our yard today, in between rain showers of course. We bought a few more bushes for the yard, another red rose, a dwarf honeysuckle, 3 current bushes, and a dwarf pink pixie lilac bush. I love May!!

X-men Beginnings Movie

Although at this moment I can't remember if the movie is Wolverine or X-men Beginnings something or other, but Dennis and I made it out to see the newest X-men movie today. I'm pleased that it was so much better than the monstrosity of X-men 3. It was extremely intense though and I did close my eyes during a couple moments and can I just mention . . . Hugh Jackman!!
I love stories that build off other movies the way this one did. I love seeing the other side of things. Very fun characters and though I'm not a comic book x-men follower I will admit that I watched the cartoons when I was younger. For some reason I always sort of liked Gambit. The character in the movie did lack the accent though and I wanted to hear it.

Leo the Lion

Today we took the boys to City Hall to participate in a Jr. Olympics program that the city sponsored. Leo the Lion from the Real Soccer team was there to greet us as we walked in. Khora was very nervous about this strange creature with the funny eyes. She wouldn't go near him but she would wave hello.

The boys participated in several different events: basketball, soccer, tennis, and track and field. They had a lot of fun! The wind and rain was a factor in their performance out on the field, and we ended up pretty wet. Isaac spent about 20 minutes playing around with the tennis ball while we were waiting around and thought it was so much fun. The city is having a tennis workshop next week for the kids. The boys want to get some tennis rackets so they can play together. The only tennis court in town is only a couple blocks from our house, so we may give it a try! By the way have any of you ever heard of "Pickle Ball". Google it!!

Thursday=House Day

Well another Thursday is over with. I have set aside Thursdays as my take care of the house day. I get my dishes caught up, laundry at least down to the laundry room and order restored to the house, at least to a point where it's livable again. It's also my day to do my grocery shopping. Today was the first trip I've done with my coupons in my handy sheet protector and the only buy it if it's on my list rule enforced. Yes, I'm trying out the grocery Smarts shopping tips. I still don't know what I'm doing at all, but I figure I'm going to give it a try at least to keep my food storage up. I even signed up for extra Sunday papers for the coupons.

The main problem I find with my couponing is that I tend to buy things that I wouldn't normally buy simply because I have the coupon for it. Case in point: I ran to the store yesterday and picked up a few boxes of Kashi brand cereal and granola bars. Never had them before and they're about the same price with the coupons that I would normally pay for cereal and granola bars, so I'm not really saving anything. Although I did get a free pack of Wrigglies Winterfresh gum to put in my purse so that was cool. I need to do a little tweaking in the system I can tell that already. But I'm actually excited about it and going to give it a try. I did score on the Oreo cookies today. I went way out of my way to Albersons for their 2/$4 sale because I also had a $1 off coupon for them. My kids are thrilled because they are an extravagance for sure. I also requested my first "Rain Check" for bottled water to use in our food storage. So I didn't really start off with anything fabulous to report except that I still think Macey's is my store of choice. I'll let you know how it goes.

The best news of all is that tomorrow is Friday. That's dubbed as my "personal day" so I get to do whatever I want. I may just go pull more weeds, but I love it!! There is also scrapbooking at the church. I love Fridays!!!

Happy Birthday Dennis

This is my chance for a Dennis Post since it's his birthday today and even though he probably won't even read this I want him to know how grateful I am to have him in my life, and even more than that, he is my life!
You have always been my tall dark and handsome, musical, athletic, artistic knight in shining armor. I love your good heart and your strength. I love how you put your best work into all you do. I love how you find ways to serve. I love how devoted you are me and our children. I love that you change diapers and do laundry, and so much more. I love how good you are with people. I love how you play the piano at night when the children are in bed. I love that you love to work out in the yard with me. I love that you want to spend more time with me and that you coach soccer and baseball even though it usually means giving up time for other things. You're just amazing!

I love you so much!! Happy Birthday!!

My New Laptop

For our anniversary Dennis bought me a new laptop. (Love him!!) He knew that I've been looking for one for a few months now. I knew exactly what I wanted. I am having so much fun with it. It is an HP Compaq Presario CQ60Z. It came with Vista which I was a little nervous about since I'm an XP girl, but I think I'm learning my way around enough to get by. I took it to my parents house over General Conference weekend to kind of play around with. It was funny because my brother Jared was there with his laptop also. Here we both were in the same room together laptops infront of us, tuning out everything else. We weren't chatting with each other though, but my mom made comparison of kids texting to each other from across the room. But we're not that bad yet mom. What I'm looking forward to the most is being able to go to a scrapbook night with the girls now. It's going to be so much fun.

I Got Published

My scraping addiction has finally paid off, literally. OK so it was only $5 dollars to use the the Scrapgirls Boutique, but hey, I'm not complaining at all, it most likely would have gone there anyway.

I subscribe to a digital scrapbook newsletter from scrapgirls.com and when I opened it today, to my surprise, there I was staring back at me. (It was the layout I posted in my last post here, so scroll down to see it.) I have only posted 3 or 4 layouts on the scrapgirls website, I'm really selfconscious about my stuff, so this totally took me by surprise! I'm pretty pumped about it though and admit that it did make my day! I wasn't trying to win anything by posting it they are just really good at making comments so I posted it to see what others thought. I only win things when I'm not trying to anyway.

If you want to see the newsletter click here. My layout is almost at the bottom.

Happy Day!!!