Indoor Christmas Decor

I don't have a ton of space in our tiny tiny house so these are my displays for the season.  Next year I hope I get that new house for Christmas with more space to decorate.

I started my Nativity last year and I am in LOVE with this collection

Willow Tree

 My little village that was passed down to me from my grandma.  This is only a few of the houses that I got.  She had such a big village that all of us grand children got some of the village.

He's our tree this year nothing fancy.  These are our whimsical tree ornaments which I plan to put on a white tree once I have a place to put a white tree.  YES, I will be the person with a few trees.  Just love the idea of different theme trees through out the house.  Oh I am excited just thinking about it

This is our mini frame tree.  As you can see I have yet to fill all the frames yet. 

Well this is our living room as of now. 

Seasons Greetings!!!!!

We were in a parade

We were in a local parade with SeaRay boats.  K rode in the boat and threw candy at my head.  OK the children but I was walking next to the boat so I was dodging candy left and right.

We went through 200lbs of candy.  How crazy is that?????  We had fun and a great workout for hubs and I who walked the whole thing. 

Enjoy the photo's of our float

On our ride back to the highschool we all jumped on board.

This boat would make anyone HAPPY Christmas morning :o)

270 Slx SeaRay

Ponce 6 Months....a little late

Ponce Sebastian

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6 Months old

September 25th 2011

Only breed Issue at the moment is a Cherry eye which is easy to massage back in.  However he's so playful it pops out all the time.  Are we going to stitch it in NO have heard from so many who have had it done and they don't work for long.  it's not bothering him or us so why put him through that.  Also our vet said because he is young as his eyes grow it may even just pop back in (Writing this almost near his 8th Month it's already smaller).  At the point it causes Issues we will talk about having the 3rd lid removed with saving the duct with worst case is removing it and putting in daily drops.

Has a little Mohawk on the top of his head.

totally a mama's boy

Loves squeaky toys/chewies

let's me dress him up with cute shirts/jackets/jeans and pajama's

working on leash training

goes into cage when told him night night, however he doesn't sleep there at night

Very little accidents in the house but I'm home all day only time for accidents are early morning

Learning basic commands such as sit/down/come

Has learned to climb the ladder on sons playset and slide down the slide.

loves to be held by mama on the swing

Just a little bit about Poncy

Fall time @ Disney World

Happy 40th Birthday Walt Disney World

Mr. Duck as what K calls him

Enjoying some street dancing

I've been busy..Ponce 10wks

I am in one of my house cleaning modes again...LOL They always hit in the spring and right before Christmas. I tend to just load it all up and sending it off to a local thrift store. This time I am going to try to have a yard sale. My son asked me if he can make cookies and lemonade to sell and donate to a blog friend of ours. So next weekend we are setting up to sell off our stuff. I have no idea how it will go but worth a try.

K and I have been busy with our new summer school schedule. We are traveling around the world (not really traveling just learning about different places) This week we're in Mexico.

Our baby Ponce is now 10 weeks almost 11 wks..Photo posted above. So we are potty training and getting ready to start leash training in another week (12 wks)

On top of all of this I am working on things with my mom and currently have her dog at our place. He's a nice doggy but untrained.

I'm working on a video project for all the stay at home moms or just moms. That's I'm going to say for now of the project as not sure when I will get to post my 1st video as I'm having camera issues right now.

Keep watching for my post.

I've have a few amazing hauls from loft shopping to , drug store shopping with coupons and so on.

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my coupon book

These are my coupons. and my shopping list. I have different days I do different types of shopping. I am by far not an extreme coupon er, but I do try my best to save money. Why do I coupon? I do it to save money for other important things like ADOPTING, buying a house and just being smart with the money that my husband works hard to make. I do my part with making our funds stay in our pockets instead of paying full price on food. Yes there are lots of coupons out there for processed food but you don't have to eat ONLY processed food. In fact I round out our meals keeping sugar, salts lower. I guess I should say within a healthily limit based on the cdc standards.


I started couponing with just clipping coupons of products that I wanted or needed just at that moment on sale or not. did that for years. About a year ago I started to match coupons with sales but not seriously. 4 months ago I really started to take couponing seriously. Go figured I didn't start this when we dealt with money issues with furloughs with hubs job back in 2008. I started getting serious about it when jobs have improved. oh well I'll be ready if anything happens. My biggest save today is 99% but that is NOT common for me. My excuse is that I live in one of the toughest states to coupon in. Do double couponing here. Can't wait for my fall trip to SC to give doubling a shot. Washington were i use to live even doubles now :o(

in my coupon book i have my coupons sorted by category and in baseball card sheets and in my coupon holder I have my clipped coupons going to be used for each shopping transaction and also my coupons about to expire, online coupon codes.

i get my coupons online, Catalina's, peelies, blinkies and the news paper. My stores do alot of BOGO so I always get at least 2 of each coupon. cost my $8 a month in news papers but I save far more then I spend getting coupons. at first it took me a few hours a day getting everything put together but now it takes maybe 2 hours a week to clip my coupons, put them in the binder, make my shopping list& matches and pull all coupons and so on. I schedule my couponing and shopping trips through out the week and for most of my couponing is at night once son is in bed or out with his dad and normally while catching up on shows recorded (criminal minds and the talk normally)

Well that is my brief on my couponing

Ponce is home

5/20/11

Ponce Sebastian ........

8 wks old

5lbs 2 oz

We went and picked him up from the breeder at his 8 wk vet appt. He was given a clean bill of health and given shots. It was a long drive home but Ponce did awesome he slept most the way home snuggled in my lap.


The adjustment has gone great hardly any whining at all we are all enjoying having a baby in the house even if it's covered in fur and breath smells..LOL hubs likes puppy breath. EWWW! but he's so snuggling.

Mothers Day 2011

I had one of the best days of relaxing for Mothers day. I was able to sleep in and when I woke up I got the cutest card from my baby boy and a thing for my van so I can use listen to my music on my ipod and a flower pot and cake decorated by K. Isaac got my favorite donuts and an IOU for my mothers day/ birthday gift of an Ipad. And he sent me out to get my mom and we both got some cute hair cuts. I also got some really sweet messages from my dad and brother to wish me a happy mothers day. Those calls made my day. Just in love with my family


Love you all


Photo to come I think hubs put them on his computer

were expecting a....

After a year of talking about it we have deiced that it's time to add our 2nd and last dog for a while. We contacted a breeder after talking to a few families who have gotten puppy's from her. We checked into it and after lots of thoughts we put our name on the list. Our boy was born 3/25/11 in a litter of 6 (4 males, 2 females) from Jasmine and Ace Newborn Photo2 Weeks old We start our visits at 5 weeks old. We are on the search for a name now. Bella is such a perfect dog to raise a puppy with and she needed a puppy pal. She was the happiest when my mom was at our house with her dog. Pup comes home at 8 weeks (May 20th) K wants to name him Radish

Guess the breed

Getting Real Friday

 

Sometimes my desk looks like this

 

Coupon/Price Binder

Finances Binder

Grocery/stock up shopping list

IPod with wires still attached to the laptop even though I’m not charging the pod

old school books waiting for our local homeschool book sale

Photo’s that I need to take to the store to buy frames for so I can finally get them up on the wall (6 months waiting..Opps)

Homeschool book catalog

Change jar for our adoption

the list goes on but this is how the desk looks most the time.  I think I need a few shelf's near my work station for home binders and school stuff so I can get to them easily without them taking over my desk.  Yes I know I have seen worst but I am a type A personality and this is cluttered to me.

Homemade Chocolate covered straeberries

Chocolate covered Strawberries...YUM!

Washed and dried
The dipping and decorating

Chocolate
1TB of veggie oil
keep the chocolate moving it burns easily (on low med)
Chocolate and water don't mix so make sure the berries are dry

Simple, easy and YUMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Manual mode.... week 1

I'm linking up with a fellow blogger who is also wanting to learn her camera so that we can take the photo's that we see and share them with you.

finding serendipity


I am new to taking the time to learn the camera so please bare with me. I was using just a simple point and shoot for the longest time. just felt intimated with learning all the settings of our canon...this year I am going to start the journey of learning how to capture the moment :o)


My photo's where taken on an over cast day in central Florida. The first photo is of a Hibiscus in a pretty shade of pink.

The 2ND photo is of a shrub that attracts lots of butterflies.

Both taken on Manual 50mm at ISO 200 no flash

The House Wife

Well this is me. I am braving the camera with not much notice.. Ha K wanted to take my photo so i figured some may want to see who this Modern Housewife is.

Well this is me on a typical day

Jeans,tank top and my earrings and hair pulled back out of my face.

Books on my nightstand..2011

The nook has a few books downloaded that I plan to read this year.

My goal for the year is to read 15 books..Don't have a ton of time to read but this year I am making the time to sit down and take time out for myself.

Book list..as of today

So long Insecurity..Beth Moore

Empty womb, aching heart..Marlo schalesky

Look Again ... Lisa Scottoline (READ)

This side of Heaven... Karen Kingsbury

The Duggars..Jim bob Duggar

Cutting your grocery bill in half..Steve Economides

America's Cheapest Family

The 7 highly Effective families..Stephen covey

Positive discipline..Jane Nelson

Blogging for bliss

The Bible (counts as 1)

2011 Resolutions

This year is a big year for our family but for me in general I have a few resolutions that I pray to complete this year.

#1. My biggest one for the year is to read the Bible from cover to cover. Yes you heard me right the WHOLE bible. I want to know the WHOLE story not only bits and pieces of the story. I have already started the reading and I'm hooked. Now there are some really hard parts for me to muster through as of right now I don't get it. I am talking about the whole chapters on son of this person had these sons and those sons had those sons. Yes the family tree part and that's not bad it's trying to figure out some of the names and how to say them. Having a hard time with that even in my head....I tell ya they didn't make phonic names :o)


#2. I am also trying to read 15 books this year. For some that's not much but coming up with the time is hard. So for me I am having to teach myself to take that 3o-1hr for my self to sit down and enjoy some light hearted reading. As of today I have finished 1 book and I'll blog about the book in a few days. Awesome book about an adoption.


#3. eat breakfast...yeah another one of those things that I believe most do but not something I do all that often. Now it's not just to eat breakfast but to make healthy breakfast for both K and I to enjoy for we start school. So often I will make K food and me go without just because I would rather not eat as I'm not all that hungry. But, I am making myself eat on most mornings and it's been nice to sit down with K and small talk over things like oatmeal,quinoa some fruit and a glass of OJ.

#4. get our coupon binder going this year..yeah this has been something I've been wanting to do for a while so that I can keep coupon nice so that I will use them more....who doesn't like extra money in their pockets....

#5. Walk in a marathon just to do it.....Looking for a family one so that we can all do it together. we are already training..At least K and I are and he's making the 16 min mile (15min) and we have some time to keep training..he's trying to get to 14 min mile

off to get working on my resolutions

Breakfast this morning....New year = another diet change for the family

1 3/4C oatmeal with 1T of brown sugar

8oz OJ

Banana

All I have to say is YUM

It's worth the cooking time no more instant stuff for our family.

We already eat fairly good if your looking at AMERICAN standards but that's not good enough for us. Adding more grains taking away a lot of sugars and unhealthy fats and adding more healthy fats to our diets and also lowering sodium.