A New Year- A New Motivation!

Well Happy 2010 everyone! This has been a great year so far! I feel my life is more focused and I am ready to see what God has in store for me this year!

I have decided to dedicate this blog to the deals I find by using coupons! I hope doing so will motivate me to keep you all updated on my family life as well! So I guess you will just get a whole buffet of topics from me. :)

I want to start off by posting some deals I got today from Homeland and Target. These trips have been my most successful to date and I thank God and the 918 Coupon Queen (918couponqueen.com) for the blessings they have poured out on my life because of coupons!

Please watch the 1st video. This will show you all the deals I got at Homeland this week. The Homeland in Tulsa doubles coupons-- so that's why I was able to get all this stuff so cheap! My total for this trip was around $15 dollars.

I then heard that Target got a HUGE shipment of the WeightWatcher SmartOnes and clearanced some of them out to .48 a piece. Some of the boxes had peelies that were $4.00 off 10 and then I had 4 Manufacturer coupons that equaled $4.00 off 20 of them. I got all of them for FREE and only had to pay tax! My total for all 40 was $1.64.

I also got some GREAT coupons in the mail today! Please watch the video. The Coke coupons were from Recycle Bank , the StarKist coupons were from VocalPoint and the NesCafe samples were from the Taster's Choice website! I love free stuff!!



I must say that today has been the best deal-finding day for me so far! Thank God for coupons!!!

Let it Snow Let it Snow Let it Snow!!!!

So "Mother Nature" decided to dump almost a foot of snow on Tulsa in less than 8 hours!

I went to a Preteen leadership conference at the church on Saturday at 9 am and it started snowing. By 2 pm I was trudging through the snow trying to get in my little car with a one-foot snow drift on the driver's-side door.

It was the perfect snow for snowballs and snowmen and at church this morning it made my heart melt (along with the snow because it is almost gone now) when the children were telling their stories of their first-ever homemade snowmen.

Growing up in Ohio, you take advantage of all the snow and just pass it off as a normal, every-year thing. Here in Oklahoma it is like a freak of nature to get anything past 2 inches.

I am so happy we had a day where the kids could go out and enjoy one of God's beauties. I am even more happy it won't stay around for weeks on end like it does in Ohio :)

Hangin' Tough!!

So laugh it up..........................

.....I went to the new kids on the block concert!!!!!!

Many people's response to me telling them I was going to their concert was like, "oh.... that's cool....*chuckle under breath*"

But let me tell you people.. it was probably one of the BEST concerts I have ever seen! They know how to entertain a crowd! They moved all over the stage, performed in the middle of the floor seats (where I sat, of course) and had TWO, count them - TWO encore performances (complete with green and white confetti)!

They sang their old songs (which are the ones I know) and some of their new songs.. it was great from beginning to end..

And I am not afraid to tell you all that I WENT TO THE NKOTB CONCERT!!! woohoo!

Oh.... Rachel said that at the end of the show girls were throwing bras and panties at them.. and they were kicking them back into the crowd! hahaha! Hilarious! I don't know why I didn't notice that.. but Rachel sure did get a laugh or two out of seeing that!

How Time Flies

So a lot has gone on since the last post (Halloween.. yikes)! Christmas came and went, Victoria's birthday came and went, my sister-in-law Ruth Ann had her baby, and Nathan's birthday came and went.... most of those in the month of February! These last few months have made me realize how blessed I am to have a great family and a great support system.

I applied to the OU college of nursing Accelerated program that begins in June of this year. Although I did not get in (tear), I did get put on their alternate list. So there still is a chance! I also applied to two other programs for the fall.. so hopefully they will chose me for at least one of the three.. I will take whatever I can get!

Church is going well! God has placed me into a lot of roles that I never thought I would play. Handbells, Nursery duty, and teaching puppets has me very busy! I was able to sing in a trio with two other girls over Christmas, and will be singing in another trio (with the same gals) during our Easter service! My friend and I are excited about another event coming up to unite the women of our age together. It's going to be called SPICE Night and we have a blog up and running! visit spicenight.blogspot.com for more info!

Well it's time for me to pull an all-nighter at work, so I better get going.. I hope to get some recent pics of Tori up here soon! Speaking of which, she has now slept in a big girl bed for two nights in a row and we are working on potty training.. life flies by so fast when you're having fun!!

Testing my new signature! Did it work?

Happy Belated Halloween

I FINALLY got pictures uploaded to the computer from the Halloween festivities. Just thought I would share a few pics from that. Victoria was a lady bug and some of her costume was homemade! I must say that I am quite proud of myself. Thanks to Rachel for letting me borrow some of her girls' dress up accessories! They worked out great! (don't let me forget to give them back to you!!)


Not a very lady-like lady bug! she did not want her pic taken!

Aunt Jennifer feeding her the oh-so-healthy cotton candy.. Bad Aunt Jeh-phur!

I was the momma bug!

I want mama!!!

Yes, I am training my child to wear heels ALREADY!! lol

Welcome Isaac Jase!

My brother and sister-in-law welcomed their third child (2nd son) into the family yesterday at 4:59 EST! Isaac Jase was 8 lbs 14 oz and 23 inches long!! Congrats Josh and Julie! I love you guys and wish I were there with you!!