Oh! CANADA

Eric left for Canada this morning for a two week "field trip" for work.  I am actually quite jealous that he gets to go back to my home country.  I also am going to have a fun two weeks with the kids alone :o(  Oh well, this will help make up for the hours he was reduced at work.  

In the meanwhile, my friend and I have started coupon shopping.  If you have no idea what I am talking about, to sum it up in a few words, we are getting groceries/paper products and the like for near to nothing and sometimes free.  It also isn't a scam.  You just keep your coupons, watch the sales and then use the doubling coupons from thriftway and Safeway grocery stores.  We also watch a website called the grocery game.  I got all of this for $2 the other night.  The most expensive items were the boxes of cereal for 25 cents...everything else I got for free using coupons printed offline and from the newspaper.  

You will also find bloggers who know what I am talking about and they can help you out.  Here is the site my friend and I use.

We normally don't get frootloops and frosted flakes, so this is a treat in our house.

The Boy's

Here are some pictures of Morgan and Alex.  Two very cute boys who are growing up too quickly.

THANK YOU Auntie Heather and Uncle Matt for the cute shirts for Christmas.  We love them!

One of Morgan's favorite things to do is wear Alex's pants.  They are pretty tight on him, but for some reason he thinks they are pretty cool.  Your a silly little boy Morgan and I love you!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Ring pop tongue from Morgan.  You think there is a little dye in this sucker, em yeah!

On our journey to Montana,we stayed with my cousin Jed and his wife Melissa in Spokane.  They got dumped on and we went outside, unburied their car and built a gigantic snowman.  Melissa thought pepper lips would be cool, I totally agreed!  They looked like big juicy kissable lips.  I am going to make it a tradition.   The snowbank we build the snowman on was a good 6ft high.  We had a fun time trying to get the huge balls up there, but with 4 strapping strong adults, we managed to do it. We had a ton of fun with them and hope to visit again this summer.

Yes a little scary, but all in good fun.

Brinlee and Grammie playing in the Montana Winter Wonderland.

A lovely shot of me and my little Alex Christmas morning.

My strikingly attractive brother and his marathon running gorgeous wife.

Morgan testing out the new bike from Grammie.  It was a hit!

Allie and Tara sporting their happening jammies from Allies mom, Heather.  They were way cute and Tara loves them.  Thanks Heather.

Here is Grammie pulling Tara, Brinlee and Morgan around in the snow.  Everyone had fun but Brinlee, she wanted her Mommy (related to teething?).

Eric chopped all my mom's wood for her, it took him a few hours, but I am sure he enjoyed every minute of it.  Eric is interesting in the fact that he really enjoys shoveling, mowing the lawn (all yard work) and chopping wood.  It is just too bad he doesn't get the same enjoyment from things like laundry, dishes and changing dirty diapers.  Oh well, at least I don't have to shovel (Wait we don't get snow anymore, Eric would you consider vacuuming fun? Let me know).