Remington

My Moms dog Jose had a litter of adorable puppies! She is a Golden-Doddle and the Dad is a Lab-Doddle so they are adorable little puppies. Nate and I found one that we fell in love with! He was so cuddly and just like a little baby! Nate even named him Remington we called him Remi and Chubby. But my mother didn't love me enough to keep him at her house for me...so..she SOLD him.. So here is a post of remembering my adorable little (once was mine) puppy..

These puppies were GINORMOUS they were way to young to be eating big dog food

When ever you walked into their room you would get attacked it was super cute they were like little piranhas

This our Remington cute, fat, and lazy.. :)

Smiths 1/9/12

Is it sad that my trip to the grocery store has become one of the highlights of my week? Sometimes of my month, since i don't go weekly?...

When i do my trip i am planning my entire month of food plus all my coupon items.. We budget $200 a month for groceries and couponing items. This trip i had a full list of all the things i needed plus a separate list of all my coupon items.. Luckily my food list was MOSTLY fresh fruits and veggies and a couple other loose odds and ends ( which added up ) BUT my coupons were all in order! We collected all of our items and headed to the register. Nate and i started making our bets, of what we thought the total would be. i could tell Nate thought we were going to be over budget. It didn't help that by the time everything was scanned it was showing 341!! I even panicked a little when i saw that! After we scanned our Fresh Values and handed her my stack of 50+ coupons all valued at a $1 or more we just watched the numbers go down and down. All the way down to 141. That is $59 dollars UNDER my budget and i am OK with that!
Spent $66 on groceries for the month & $75 on my coupon items
All of my couponed items would have been $195 which means on that alone i saved $120 with coupons and items being on sale.

Our haul included..
7- Old Spice Body Washes
7- Olay Body Washes
7- Secret Deodorants
14- Old Spice Deodorants
7- Boxes of Tide
7- Herbal Essence Hair Spray
8- Covergirl eye shadows

Our haul!

The receipt went down to my knees!!

Gracie loves when we make little forts for her!

Isabelle's 4th Birthday!

My adorable niece Isabelle turned 4 yesterday and i was lucky enough to be able to make her birthday cake for her.. The theme was pink princess so here is what we came up with....

It was thrown together really quick and i did learn some valuable lessons.. Letting someone else bake the cake is AWESOME but.. Don't just assume they know what your brain is thinking if you need 2 of each you need to tell them and not just assume they make cakes in their sleep like i do. Luckily i was able to figure it out without loosing all the height of the cake! Looks pretty cute for a short afternoon of work.

Year in Review 2011

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Our Christmas Celebration 2011

For Christmas Eve this year we decided to do something different than usual. Instead of going to one of our parents houses we invited my Mom to ours! We baked a ham, and had some mashed potatoes and corn.. YUM. I also made some Sugar Cookies to leave for Santa :) We gave a plate of them to my mom.. Apparently they were really good her and my Stad were fighting over them on the way home. My mom is not a big game player but we played a couple rounds of Buzz Word ( which Brent is AMAZING at ) while Nate and Brianna played with her Christmas present.. Super Mario Bros Wii.

This is the one we got for ourselves

This one for Morgan & Jenna

Nate and i started a tradition of getting ourselves 2 ornaments a year which we have loved doing. ( one personalized and one that describes something that happened that year )  and so we decided to share that this year and get one for his two brothers that got married the same year as us.

This one for Austin & Larissa

 We gave out some other fun gifts which included...

For Brianna

For Dave & Alexis + Babysitting

To Lola

To ourselves!

To Mom & Brent

To Michael

 

To Madison

And MANY more.... 




Christmas Morning... Nate woke up at the butt crack of dawn!!! Just kidding it was 7 am but still... We had a very busy day so we really needed to be up that early. We spent lots of time with both of our families it was good to see everyone Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without lots of family. 

Guess we were good this year SANTA CAME!

Our PRESENTS!!

Very early morning!

My AMAZING PRESENT!! iPad 2!

Nate opened a box full of WRAPPED presents!

The after math...

He was shocked??

Grace enjoying her BOXES

Our Christmas Collection.. We SCORED

Katelyn's STUFF!

Nate's STUFF!

Katelyn's CAKE STUFF

Our baby!

Be a GRINCH! Remember that Christmas doesn't come from a store.. It means something more!

Early Christmas in Park City

This trip unfortunately did NOT go as planned... We always do Christmas with my Dad a week or two early, usually a weekend getaway of some sort. He would rather have lots of time of his own on a "fake Christmas" than a squished one on the real day and trying to get all of us together is hard enough as it is. Which is fine because i already feel like going to two houses is NUTS!
This years trip happened to land on the same week that Nate was at school, which we thought was GREAT because he would be done early and we could just head right up! BUT... His Aunt Rhonda's furnace went out earlier that week and i noticed she had commented about it on her facebook. I had Nate call and see if everything was ok and if there was anything we could do for her. Her furnace was 14 YEARS OLD and was completely dead. So poor Nate changed out a furnace before we headed up there. Our plan was to leave for Park City and 12 noon instead we got there at 12 midnight. Once we finally got some food and some sleep we were ready for the next day. Which was full of family, games and Walmart trips :) ( last min christmas shopping anyone?)  Nate convinced our nephew Austin that his name was Barry... Apparently Nate asked him what his name was and Austin stalled so AJ decided to help him out by whispering BARRY.. He is now Uncle Barry...
 Saturday night we drove BACK down to Pleasant Grove for my work Christmas party which was way fun and worth coming back for! We won a really nice poker chip set... which i think we are going to exchange for a popcorn maker... yum :)   Sadly i woke up Sunday morning SOOO sick! I basically missed all of Christmas. Nate got to spend the whole day watching sports with my family.. lucky him.

Festival of Trees

I finally was able to drag Nate to the festival of trees this year. They are GORGEOUS trees...but  LOTS of trees.. we gave up after about an hour but took some pictures!