Spring Break Fun and Balloons!

This past week was the boys and my spring break and truthfully I was not doing cartwheels about it. The boys really enjoy school and need that outlet for their energy, and I enjoy the break even though I am in a class of 8 kids down the hall, other kids actually listen to what I saw when I tell them to stop usually. Anyway, the week actually turned out great. Both boys seemed to catch onto that it was spring break and decided to sleep until 9 every day...yes I said 9. We all three enjoyed being lazy and just playing around the house and enjoying the weather. Parkes pulled out his sidewalk chalk and had lots of fun. Cash had his first experience of running free in the back yard and had a blast. Brandon joined in on the fun on Saturday and we spent all day outside playing with the neighbors. Cash has started clinching all the muscles in his body when he gets really excited to the point he is shaking. Here's the best shot we have gotten of it below. It is so funny and he will start doing it for the laughs too. He has formed a love of balloons and today as we walk in Harris Teeter he started getting really excited because he could see the balloons he could hardly control himself. Parkes has decided that his favorite color is blue (everyone must have one and if you don't Parkes picks one for you....we will see how this goes as Cash starts voicing his opinion more). But anyway, Cash carries his balloon around with him for hours and gets really upset when it is taken away. Here he is eating with it because he had a death grip on it I couldn't pry it out of his hands and it was not a battle worth fighting over.

Happy St. Paddy's Day

St. Paddy's Day has become a big deal this year around our house. Parkes got to do the leprechaun hunt at school and has been looking for leprechaun's in the woods so he woke up very excited today to see what all the leprechaun has turned green, and he is decked out in head to toe green (a shirt just wasn't enough). So we have the Guiness Stew in the crockpot and I'm about to start working on some Irish soda bread to round of the festivities for tonight. Here's Cash at the pool on Saturday. We found the perfect rainy day activity to get out of the winter blues...the Bellevue Y has a great indoor pool for kids. My brother-in-law had taken his girls there and I keep meaning to go, but you know life gets busy. Well Parkes had been talking about the pool and Cash absolutely loves the bath so we decided to go and it was so worth it. The boys had so much fun on the slides and fountains, and the best part they were worn out and asleep at 7:30 leaving a nice night for mom and dad. For those that know Parkes' sleeping going to bed at 7:30 is unheard of...usually 10 is doing well. Anyway, have a great St. Patrick's Day!!!!

Cash Walks!

Well Cash has finally decided walking might not be so bad and has started taking steps. He still definitely prefers crawling, but has taken up to 10 steps. Above he is showing off his walking and his chunky legs. You can also check out the black eye which has started looking more like eye shadow. Below is his preferred method of movement. He scouts around the house like this the majority of the day.

First Shiner

Cash got his first black eye today...pretty good with how rough our boys are. It doesn't really do it justice in this picture, but you get an idea. Luckily it happened in my classroom right before he wen to his so his teachers didn't have to come and tell me and no accident report had to be written up. He cried for all of 30 seconds before he wanted down to play some more. Of course if I take Cash's picture Parkes wants his taken as well so here he is with one of his "kids" as he calls his small stuff animals.And finally this Walgreens Deal from Southern Savers is just too good not to share. I did it Sunday. Now if you printed off the $5 coupons for Huggies then it's a great deal (if you just have the $1.50 off ones then it's still not bad). I actually did this deal then took my $10 register rewards (print off with receipt) to buy 4 12 packs of cokes for $13 (so paid $3) which printed off $3 more register rewards which I then used to buy milk (so paid nothing). So when I left Walgreens I had spent $17.50 and had a total savings of $90 for 4 Glade products, 3 packs of diapers, 4 12 packs of cokes, milk and a coke for me to take to church. Now what really got my out of pocket was the deal below was $6, but the tax was $6 because it is on the total before the coupons are taken off.

• Buy:
• (3) Huggies Diapers $10 ea
• (4) Glade Lasting Impressions or Sense and Spray $7.99 ea
• Use:
• (3) -$5 off Huggies printable (will work for any type)
• (2) Glade B1G1 printable
• (2)-$4 off Glade Manufacturer coupon from newspaper
• (4) -$4 off Glade Walgreens coupon (only need one, computer will take it off x 4) from Easy Saver Rebate Book
• Total Due: $6.49
• Get: $10 RR back, you make $3.51 profit

So with Walgreens and after a $23 Publix trip (I saved $38) I am almost at my $50 weekly grocery budget which I have done great the past two weeks of keeping and that includes buying 4 packs of diapers and 5 boxes of Captain Crunch which Brandon was very excited about.