Our Girls

I have not been the best on keeping up on our lives and blogging about what we have been doing. So I will try to catch up. I feel like to talk about myself is really boring.... I have nothing really all that interesting going on, I feel like I do the same thing every day, and so I don't know what to say about myself.... I have started to LIKE working out a lot lately, for some reason it has become my out, and just make me feel so good in the morning. (I have not really lost any weight, but I am still working on it) I have become a addict to Mario Cart, and I have to say that I am AWESOME at it.... (not that is anything to be that proud of...but I am) (I can finally beat Ryan at SOMETHING) My house feels like it is never clean, and my laundry just keeps getting bigger and bigger, and same with the list of things to do. I am still so in love with doing my books online with Heritage Makers, and work on keeping my photos up all the time. I am also so in love with my Husband!!!! It is funny how there are just days that I can't get enough of him, and my heart feels like it is going to explode when I am around him. He is such a wonderful dad, and husband and I am so so so so in love with him!!!!
And the most exciting thing in Ryan and my life is our girls! They are so AWESOME. They are the reason I get out of bed in the morning....(seriously.... I have to get Alexis ready for school)
They keep me going even when I just want to crash and take a nap, they mess up the house so I have something to clean, (that is true, but it also sucks) and they make me laugh when I need it the most!
I love my family so much!!!!
here are a few random pictures

Our neighbor Jean had these Tu Tu's made for the girls for Christmas. She is so sweet and we love her. They are so cute, and the girls love them.






Alexis wanted to see what she looked like when she did her cool trick

This is Mickey, Lizzy's cousin. Lizzy loves to play with her and asks to play with her every day... They play so good together
they did their hair all by themselves
bff


Elizabeth thought it would be so much fun to run through the big puddle, but after she about froze I think she changed her mind.

saving money

So I have become a coupon shopper, and I am now a believer. But there are tricks to it.... You don't really save a lot of money if you only have one coupon, and only buy one item.... so the trick is to do the PYP (pinch your pennies) if you have not heard of that, it is when your local newspaper sends you five of every Sundays paper, and that way you get five of every coupon. And the other trick is to save your coupons for the sales. So if you have a coupon for a cereal for 75 cents off, and when it goes on sale for 1.00, you can buy the cereal for 25 cents.... Also a huge helper is you can print your coupons online at the web site at the bottom. (you can only print two coupons per computer, but if you have a couple computers you can print four or more of every coupon)
This all sounds so hard and complicated, but it gets easy once you go a few times and figure it out a little.
The biggest key is this!

Go to grocerysmarts.com then it will ask you for a password and you can use min, it is g84rcm. After you do that it will ask you for your area, and which store you want to see the sales for. (the one I look at the most is Albertsons) then you print of the list, and highlight what you are interested on buying. Also it will tell you what it is on sale for, and also in the right side it will tell you what it will be with a coupon. That lets you know if it is a great deal or not, and after you see that you can buy gushers for 60 cents, you might buy more than you would have before.
There are a ton of tricks about this like if the coupon is for Kix cereal, you don't have to use it for just kix, you can use it for any general mills brand, and the same goes for all the coupons.. It isn't what is on the coupon, it is the brand itself.,
I hope this helps
so go to
grocerysmarts.com and remember the password After you have loged in, you can save it under you favorites, and then you don't have to sign in every time.

What's go'n on....

I have had a lot to do it feels like, and at the same time feel like nothing has gotten done... I hate it when this happens.
I went to my family's house this weekend, and was able to go to my cousin Jaguel's wedding reception, (I can not believe that she is married....) it was a packed house, and was very beautiful. The following day I went to Chris's candy shop!!! (Heidi's Fudge in Rigby) and bought some of the best Carmel apples, Carmel pretzels, and fudge... It was all so good (we love the apple pie Carmel apple)








While I was there I told Chris all about the coupon shopping that I have been doing, and told him how much money I have been saving. He didn't believe me at all, and thought I was full of it, so I took him and my mom and showed them how it is done. My mom spent $200 and saved almost $500. With all the savings we had, we payed 39% for all we got. It was a lot of fun.
I spent 94, and saved almost $200. (If you all want to learn how to do it, I can let you in on my secrets...)
Anyway, on Sunday we went to Chris and Cindy's, and they blessed baby Tessa. They did it at their home, and had a huge crowd show up and it was so much fun to see all our family, and friends, that came. They are done remodeling their home, and it is so beautiful!


Also, Cindy went in for her surgery the other day, and it was not what they thought it was at all. They thought she had a tumor growing on her ovary's, and they were going to go in and remove the tumor and the ovary, and when they went in, they found out that her appendix had burst and attached itself to the ovary.... so I guess there was a lot of infections to clean up, but she was able to keep both her ovary's, and will be well soon!!! Such great news!!!! But so crazy and painful for Cindy. The poor girl has been through so much.

Alexis and her new trick

Alexis is so flexible!!! (as you can see in the video) She has always been able to do a good bridge, and other tricks. Last year she learned how to touch her toes to her head backwards and just kept working on it. She went from her head to her nose to her chin and now she can put her feet around her neck.
She was looking in the Guinness book of records and saw a lady doing the other trick she did in the video and she just said, "I can do that" and she did. She gets better and better every time she does it, and I think she likes all the attention she gets when she shows everyone.
I have not found out if this is going to do anything bad to her back, but it makes mine hurt just watching her do it.

The Weekend

We got a waffle iron for Christmas that rotates and it makes the best waffles in the world!!! They are so fluffy, and thick and yummy!!!! (thanks mom)

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmm
Alexis has been asking for waffles for breakfast lunch, dinner, and snack time!!! She loves them!
This weekend we were in Idaho falls for the baptism of my nephew Tanner Wray Merrill and also for the blessing of my niece Ava Rose Merrill. It was fun to have to days of get together s and hang out with my family. The picture above is my Grandma Merrill and little baby Ava.
Ava was sleeping so deep and so cuddly. I love holding babys when they will snuggle up to you, and she smelt so good. I think I am getting very baby hungry.....
The three little princesses. My girls love playing with little miss Mia. She is so cute, and they all get along so well.
Brytlee eating her dinner, and she is wearing her new Christmas dress that my mom gave her. I LOVE the dress. It is my new favorite!
Baby Tessa (Chris and Cindy's baby) She will be getting blessed next Sunday, so we will get to go and see my family again and get to all hang out. I really enjoy getting together with everyone, and watching all the kids play together. I really think that I have the cutest Nieces and Nephews in the world. They are all so sweet, and such great kids!!!! I love them all so much and wish I could spend more time with them all.

One of the days that we were there we all went to the pool and swam for a few hours and then after we were done Summer babysat all the kids while the Adults all went to dinner and a movie. We saw Yes Man and I really thought it was funny. There was a really bad part in it that made me feel really uncomfortable but besides that I had some realy good laughs.