Transformers 3

Did you know Transformers 3 is in theaters TODAY?!?? No? Well Jake does! For the past couple of days he has been on his BEST behavior. Like I'm talkin' no sass, getting himself dressed(as you can see in pic below), offering to do the dishes, and just being super kind and helpful.

Yesterday he got the windex and a paper towel and started to clean the windows!!! I couldn't believe it!


Just look at that smile!! He is probably thinking: just two more days. Two more days. Hang in there big guy. You can do it.



But seriously, Jake is a great kid and helps out a lot. Kinda reminds me of someone I used to know....


Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna see if I can get Jake to wax the truck. Just kidding. Sort of.

-Leah

Update

Well I'm afraid we don't have anything very exciting to report. We have just been hanging out, living life. Which is a good thing. I'm trying to appreciate the more quiet, relaxing times in our life.

Lets see though, what can I blog about??

Oh! I've been learning how to make bread!!! Which is a LOT harder than I thought. But I think I've finally got it down.




LOL this was the first time that humans actually consumed bread that "I" made! It usually gets thrown is the trash can where it makes a very loud THUD noise.

Lets see, what else?
Steven got the chicken pox. At least I think he did. He was pretty miserable and itchy, and he had red bumps all over. Jake had us rolling when he called them "popcorn chickens".

Here are the kiddos frosting cookies for our FHE dessert.


(Steven still has the pox in this pic, but there were mostly healed at this point. And he is covering his face so you can't really see anything)




We decided to conduct a little experiment and show the kiddos how you can make new colors out of primary colors. I swear, homeschooling Jakers has me in constant "Teacher Mode".


And here are some pictures of the kiddos playing bubbles!







***DISCLAIMER**** I would just like to say that I am fully aware almost every picture you see of my children they are wearing jammies. I don't know why this is, but I promise I do dress them. In real clothes. that is all.
-Leah

Just Trying To Beat The Heat

So. It's only June. We are not even in the 100's. And already I'm melting. Not a good sign....

So in an effort to prevent mommy from melting, we have been doing a lot of indoor activities.

Like,

Making fruit loop necklaces. Or Neck-A-Less as Jake likes to call them.





Making new crayons out of all the old crayons Steven snapped in half. That little guy is the most destructive person I know.


Jake was in charge of sorting the colors, and Steven was in charge of the smashing.

Pretty cool, huh?



And we have also been doing school work. A lot of school work. I'm very proud of Jakers. He works REALLY hard and listens very well. I'd like to take credit for the fact that he is currently working on a 1st grade workbook (when he hasn't even started kindergarten), but I can't. He is just super smart.


Steven insists on sitting with us during school time. He usually just doodles in his Hulk coloring books and says "da Huck, da Huck mommy!" about 5000 times.


Jakers is currently working on a Dinosaur Mural. We will be adding dinos and I will take a pic when we are finished.


And speaking of school, I've been getting some GREAT deals on school supplies!

I got all 4 of these workbooks for FREE on Amazon. They were part of their 4 for 3 promo and I had a $5 gift card so I paid nada!


Then I Finally got my rebate money for recycling my ink cartridges at Office Depot (back in January they were offering $5 bucks for every ink cartridge you recycled).
They also gave me a $10 off $10 or more coupon which is free money. So we went there over the weekend and got all this....


10 copies, pencil holders, a scissor workbook, a water bottle for Dave, 3 over sized posters, a pen for Dave and dinosaur books spiral bound. All for $3 bucks!


Speaking of deals, here are some more great deals I got!

This is Target, Wags and CVS.




First, CVS

I've decided to work as hard as I can to get as much as I can, for as cheap as I can. Did you understand that? Me neither. I guess what I was trying to say is that I'm going into overdrive with food storage. So anyways, I got chocolate bars that were on sale B2G1 Free and I had B1G1 free so I only paid for every 3rd bar I got! The sugar was $2.99 and I LOVE the tubs. The shampoo was a good deal.
Paid $4.03
Saved $44.97!

Then Wags

Once again their Right Guard D.O. went on sale B1G1 free and I had B1G1 free coupons which made it all FREE for me!
Spent $0.00
Saved $89.80!

Then Target

The Suave hair spray's were free
The Sweet Potato fries were free
The sunscreen were on sale and for every 2 you bought you got a $5 gift card!
The Febreeze was on sale and I had coupons for free warmers.
Spent just under $20 bucks
Saved $46 bucks


And here are some great deals I got at HEB

20 bottles of bbq for FREE and 20 bottles of dressing for FREE! We are getting ready for summer!


And another thing I've been doing on my trips to HEB is asking the bakery department for their empty frosting buckets! They are perfect for food storage and FREE! And we all know how much I LOVE FREE!


That's all I got for now!
-Leah

What's New

So I know it's been awhile since I've blogged. But nothing very exciting has been happening. We have just been living life, work, school, church. The usual.

We will be leaving for Dallas on Friday which is exciting! David's brother Matt was called to serve a mission in Peru!! So we are going up to say goodbye. We will miss Matt!

So here are some pictures of some of the things we have been doing lately.

Steven got his first haircut! By me!


As you can see he was very excited about the whole thing....


Let's see, what else has been going on?
Oh! Jake turned 5 this month! I almost lost it!
Here is a pic of his cake that took me and daddy almost the whole day to make!




And here is probably one of my most favorite pictures ever.....


Just look at how jealous he is!! I just had to laugh. I also felt really bad and like I needed to make Steven his own dinosaur cake. Maybe another day.

And here it is again! LOL I just can't get over it!


Here is Jake on his way to the movies to see Thor with daddy. He was VERY excited!



And here is Steven in the car on the way to the movies. Little does he know that he will not be accompanying daddy and brother, but going to Walmart with boring mommy. Poor kid.



Here are the kiddos on Easter







LOL Steven refused to put his dino eggs in a basket! It was pretty funny to watch



And here are just some random cute pictures




And here are just a few pics of my shopping trips. They aren't very exciting because I haven't been doing a lot. I've just been trying to build our food storage and I have also been couponing on rain checks. Which doesn't make for very exciting pictures. But I will say, my new goal is to get more items for FREE. And that's exactly what I did with all this....

FREE

and FREE!


Well that's all I got for now! I gotta go pack for 4 people!
-Leah

Jake and Steven-isms

Steven is SO terrified of the vacuum that he refers to it as "The Bad Guy". I give him a head start up the stairs before I turn the darn thing on.



Steven's very first word was dada.

Stevens very first sentence was "Oopsie, I pee pee in da tubby"!

Steven likes to add onto words and make them his own. Like tubs = tubby tubs. Cupcakes = Cuppie-cakes! Peppermints = pepps. Cats = Kitty-kitties.



Now, for some Jake-isms.

Jake: Daddy look at Steven doing those crazy dance moves! He is such a nut-header!

Jake: Mom, daddy likes to eat jalapeno chips and watch Jurassic Park III.
Me: What?
Jake: Haha oh wait, that's me!



Jake: Daddy, are we going to the "hammerbanger" store today?? (AKA Lowe's)

Jake: Mom, I have a hypothesis that I will get ice cream today.
Me: Oh, really? And what made you think that?
Jake: Um, because there is ice cream in the fridge, and you love me???




Jake: Mom, daddy said I could play dinosaur games on the computer ALL THE DAY LONG!
Me: He did huh? Well, I don't believe it.
Jake: Well(said in very sassy tone), you best be belivin' it, sister!

Me: Jake, go to your room for timeout right now.
Jake: Fine! But we are SO not best friends ANYMORE!!



The End.

The UPS Man

The UPS man dropped off 5 pkgs to our house today! Yay! A few of them were my Amazon orders, and two were to Jake and Steven!! They were SO excited! Here is my online shopping recap The Life and Raisin Bran cereal was FREE 1,008 wipes for FREE (thanks to my AWESOME sister Aubri for sharing her codes!) Parmesan cheese $21.12 for 12 bottles (which works out to be $1.76 per bottle! That is a GREAT price considering these go for almost $4 bucks each at the grocery store!) So I spent $21.12 Saved $54.26! And I received FREE shipping on all my orders! Now, for Jake and Stevens pkgs!! Grandma and Grandpa Trowbridge sent gifts for Stevens B-day! I had a hard time getting a good picture as they couldn't hold still for longer than 3 seconds! I think it's safe to say these guys LOVED the gifts!