Weekly Happenings!

Sorry, right now I have no new pictures to post! But we have had a pretty busy week!
Yesterday I went to Monterey and had lunch with old friends/co-workers! I got to see my friend Hayley who is also having a baby! I had a good visit with everyone. After rushing home to pick up Kelsey from school, we came home, she changed and we went to a photo shoot in downtown Bryan which was part of a contest...more details on that Friday! My sister also brought Tateym for her first professional photo shoot, and the young age of 5 days! We took them in an alley in downtown Bryan, the pictures turned out awesome! On Friday, I will need you to vote for Kelsey and Tateym so they can win another photo session! But more on that later!
I did not realize until today that we only have 6 MORE DAYS until we find out the sex of the baby!!! Of course Luke wants a boy, and I really don't care either way. A boy would be nice, but little girls are always alot of fun!
We also are hard at work on our new website and getting things made for our craft booths! Hopeuflly we will have our "grand opening" soon!!

2nd week of grocery shopping & Saving!!

Today I went to Kroger for my weekly shopping trip! I am learning more each time about using coupons and discounts in order to save the most money. My total BEFORE handing over my Kroger card and coupons was $96.73. After coupons and Kroger discounts, I paid $33.79 for 44 items!!

I bought alot of snack foods because I would rather snack 12 times a day than eat a whole meal! Im just not every really hungry! Pre-pregnancy I was starving ALL of the time! Go figure! So that is why you see lots of snacks, I did try to buy healthy ones though...The only thing Im not sure about are the two packs of cheezy noodles. I've never bought those, but if no one seems interested in them, I will donate them to the church food drive. That is my plan, if it is cheap or free get it anyway and then donate it! The 3 boxes of Trix cereal are hard to see in this pic...

2-1 pound packs of hamburger meat (85/15%)

1 pack of breakfast sausage

2 frozen leamonade cups (Kelseys after school treat)

1 bag Green Giant Frozen corn in butter sauce

1 box Apple Toaster Strudel

1 box Cinnamon Toaster Strudel

1 pack Fiber One Key Lime Pie yogurt

2 cans Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls

5 bags of Quaker Rice Cake snacks in different flavors

1 bag Clementine Oranges

1 single serve Horizon Organic Chocolate Milk

1 jar Dill pickles

4 SoBe Life Waters

3 Propel Fitness Waters

4 banannas

3 boxes Trix Cereal

1 Herbal Essence Hairspray

2 bags Nature Valley Nut Clusters

1 box Fiber One cereal bars

2 boxes Warm Delight Desserts

2 boxes Yakisobe Cheesy Noodles (these were FREE)

1 box Scooby Doo Fruit Snacks

3 boxes Hamburger Helper in different varieties

1 case bottled water

And this here Tower of Yummy Delight is something I am very proud of! I got 3 things of BLUEBELL ICE CREAM FOR $8.00!!! That is unheard of these days! Wanna know my secret? A grocery store was running a 3/10.00 ad. If you go to the Bluebell website and register you can print out a coupon for $1.00 off! Luke and I both registered, so that gave us 2 coupons!
This better last a while!

New Baby in the Family!!!!

CONGRATS TO MY SISTER AND HER HUSBAND JUSTIN!!
Yesterday they gave (well Kristy) gave birth to my beautiful niece
TATEYM KAYTE!!!

Check out Kristys blog for lots of cute pictures!!!

http://kristyandjustin.blogspot.com/

My First Day of School! by Kelsey

Well...Mom couldn't wait to hear about my first day of school, so I thought I'd let everyone in Blogland know!

My day pretty much started off with me getting ready for school of course. I was nervous but now I don't even know why since I knew almost everyone and had seen all the others. I'm in the A class so the same people are in my class the whole day. After 1st period, everyone knew my name and anything else important. Still...in EVERY SINGLE CLASS this is what I heard-- "And we have a new girl in our school today!" Wow I'm so glad the 1st day is over and I'm not new anymore. I'm old news now...

1st Period-- Religion, Mr. Bellamy-- pretty nice
2nd Period-- Science, Mrs. Wicht-- pretty nice
3rd Period-- English, Mrs. Catalena-- my FAVORITE!
4th Period-- Social Studies, Mr. Rike-- instead of saying "are you kidding?" he says "NO FOOLIN'!?"-funny!
5th Period-- Math, Sister Josephine-- pretty nice
6th Period-- PE, Coach Giese-- awesome!!
7th Period-- Spanish, Mrs. Vavra-- hard (never taken it)
8th Period-- Band, Mr. Boening-- hard songs but we get to play Hot N Cold by Katy Perry

Oh I almost forgot! My mom made a HUGE deal about this...I didn't eat lunch today because I didn't know what to write on the paper for salad bar. I raised my hand for a long time but by the time he looked at me he had already turned in the lunch count. No big deal right??? Oh not to my mom!!!!!!! She gave my like 50 options I could of done such as go up to him after class and explain the situation and stuff like that. Seriously I didn't think it was a big deal! But she's crazy....shhhhh