Wow!

We had craft time this afternoon...now I remember why we do not do this very often...it gives me a headache looking at the mess!! But look at the concentration on Luke's face! That is totally awesome!

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Candy Bouquet

Seriously, how cute is this??!! We made them at MOPS this morning and I am totally going to do this as the kids little party favors from now on at Birthday Parties for my babies! I love this, and it was super easy and it is actually pretty cheap to make! A lot cheaper than some of the previous gifts bags we have sent home from other parties we have thrown! What do you think?

Luke likes them!!!






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Guess who just pee-peed in the potty????!!!

THAT'S RIGHT!!! Little Miss Emily just peed on the potty for the first time!!





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Our $42.00 shopping trip

Here is what we did on our Friday night (lucky us, huh?). We went grocery shopping and some great deals at Krogers (2 boxes of free Ziploc Bags and Bounty Paper Towels for .50 cents each!). Wish I had a coupon for the Kroger brand diapers I had to get, but oh well....I can complain too much as my total was still less that the original price of the diapers!!)

Schnucks was attacked by the Dobra clan next! We bought everything that you see at Schnucks (minus the paper towels, diapers and Ziploc bags). The veggies were .50 cents each after coupons, the 2 small deodorants were FREE!!, the waffles were a buck a box, and the mac and cheese was .76 cents a box. The cereal was all on sale and I used a bunch of different coupons, but paid no more than $1.00 a box. We LOVE cereal in the house and eat is every morning for breakfast, so this will last awhile, which is nice! I did have to pay full price for the milk, bread and Mick's deodorant tho, that alone was over $10.00! My orginal total at Schnuck's was $51.31 and after coupons it was $34.81~I LOVE COUPONS!!!!!!!






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AWANA

Luke started AWANA at Bethany Baptist on Wednesday night. They meet weekly on Wednesdays for about 2 hours. It is like a combination of Boy Scouts and Bible School. Luke absolutely LOVES it, and has his bible verse memorized already for next weeks class. They earn patches for their vest for memorization and attendance and a few other things. He was pretty excited when we picked him up as he was the teachers helper with the flag while the class said The Pledge on Wednesday night! It was odd dropping him off somewhere, away from family, and actually leaving the building for awhile! But he did excellent and loved every minute of it and can not wait to go back! And seriously, how cute does he look in his little uniform with his bag and all??!! Oh and check out my mad sewing skills: I had to sew on the troop # today during nap time "2312" and it only took me an hour and a 1/2 and that is with my sewing machine! Oh and he popped a button off his vest the other night, so I had to fix that too. Oh and the kicker about that troop number? I talked to a friend today and was mentioning how I sewed on his troop number, and she says: "Oh, we just iron ours on, don't they have the little sticky on the back??" Um, yea they did, but I did not know what that was! Oh well, live and learn! We are signed up to bring snacks next week to his class, talk about feeling like a "real" mom now!
So here is a picture of my little man in his uniform (the pirate patch is not part of the uniform ;0)

And- of course, this is Emily, being Emily!





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Woo-Hoo!

I have lost my 1st 10 pounds!!!! That means I am 1/3 of the way there for my 30 before 30 goal!! The first 10 have been hard to get rid of too. I have been doing Jazzercise since May 23, so about 3 1/2 months, I go 5 times a week (except this week! oops!) It is alot harder for me to get up at 5am to be there for class, so I prefer to take the kids with me to the 8 or 9:15 class. This week we had stuff going on and I am babysitting more often, so I needed to go to the 5:30am class M,W and Friday of this week. Made it Monday, but not today! GRRR! Hopefully I will have better luck on Friday morning ;0)


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