March 25, 2009

On March 25, 2009, my fantastic Danny turned 35 years old!! You sir, are an old man... We went to Cafe Rio, and had chocolate cake for dessert. For our birthdays and our anniversary this year, we are giving each other a trip to Disneyland in April, just the two of us. SO MUCH FUN!!

That night, my FarMor (grandma) passed away. She is back with FarFar. I have been struggling with my feelings about her passing. We went and visited her on Sunday afternoon, because my dad said that it was going to be soon. I wasn't able to go and see FarFar before he passed away last December, and I have always felt bad about that.
She is in a happier place now. Able to see her parents, sister, and husband. Free from the trials and hardships of this life. It has been hard to watch my dad go through this again. I think that is the saddest part of losing a grandparent. My dad is such an amazing man. He is so caring and thoughtful.
I love you FarMor. Thank you for all of the visits with endless cookies and Coke. You have shown your family unconditional love and support. Go and dance with FarFar until we see you again.

It's Friday Night.....

If you want to know what we did on Friday night, check out thedamfam.blogspot.com. I didn't bring my camera. It was FANTASTIC!!!

Not dead, not pregnant....

Just BUSY!! My lovely sister Erin and I were looking on KSL and we discovered an ad for some cabinets that were being taken out of apartments. So we got the BRILLIANT idea to refinish the cabinets and hang them in the laundry room. Sounds easy enough.
We got the cabinets and started sanding and sanding and painting and refinishing them. They turned out BEAUTIFUL!!
You can't have fantastic cabinets in a plain boring laundry room. So that turned into painting the laundry room. My laundry room make-over took a lot longer then I thought it would, but it was WELL worth it!!


This is the best picture I could get of the finished product! We still need to put crown molding above the cabinets, and get handles for them, but it is pretty much done. SUCH an improvement!

Are you pinching YOUR pennies??????

My fantastic neighbor introduced me to a website called pinchingyourpennies.com. I have been pinching my pennies for a couple of months now, and I can not believe the difference I have seen in my grocery bill!! My food storage is fuller now than it has ever been before (And let's be honest, that's not hard to do!). I always have had good intentions for building our food storage, but I have had a hard time knowing what to buy and when to buy it. This website tells you what the best deals are in the grocery stores each week.
Yesterday I went to Albertsons, and with all of my rewards and coupons, I got $304.59 worth of food for, drum roll please, $47.12!!!!! What?!?! It was crazy fun!! I know, I'm a dork, I get excited over these kinds of things!!
When I brought all of my groceries into the house, they filled my whole kitchen table, and half of my bar!! I was going to take a picture, but then Jensen started climbing all over the table trying to get the fruit snacks!!

On a Valentines Day, on a Valentines Daaaay

Our Valentines Day was very low key this year. Dan and I are planning a trip sometime this spring, so we decided to save the money on Valentines gifts.
We had my family over on Friday for our Friday Night Fun Night. It was so much fun!! We had dinner and played games with the kids. I love the fact that we can have so much fun together.
On Saturday morning I had a bunch of errands that I had to get done. I had to take the kids with me, and by the end of the trip I told them that I would take them to McDonalds if they would hold on for a few more minutes!! While they were playing in "The Playland" this nice lady asked me if my baby was a boy or a girl. What?!? He doesn't look like a girl AT ALL!! Although he did have on his red Valentines Day shirt that has a heart with flames around it and in the middle it says "Hunk of Burnin' Love!" So maybe that confused her...

Don't you love it when....

Your baby falls asleep in the car on the way home, sleeps for like five seconds, and as you are oh so carefully taking them upstairs and placing them in their cozy bed, their eyes pop open and they start talking to you? It makes for a fun afternoon! (HELP!!!!!)

Monkey hand and other random thoughts...

This weekend, I decided that we needed to rearrange the seats in our van. I thought this would be a simple task, because we only needed to move one seat over. WRONG!! We tried to remove the seat, and it got jammed. Collin and Maya were outside with us, and Collin kept saying "I know the answer to the puzzle, I know the answer to the puzzle!" We were not in the mood. I was trying to keep the mood light while we worked on trying to get this dumb seat out. So I asked Collin what he thought. He replied "Just wham it in!" It was so funny the way that he said it, we just laughed and laughed.


After the seat adventure, we told the kids we were going to go get them each a fish. Maya was thrilled until she realized that we were only going to get one fish bowl and put it downstairs. This did not fly with her, she wanted it in her room. She was whining, and whining, and carrying on. Maya gets pretty intense when she gets herself all wound up. So when we pulled into the parking lot she said, "I'm going to kick you guys when we get out." Dan and I stopped and started laughing and laughing!! She realized what a monster she was being, and she started laughing too!


Jensen loves to "help" me unload the dishwasher. His favorite part is helping me unload his bottles. A couple of nights ago he was helping me, and he was playing in the basket that holds all of the tops to the bottles. He started saying "Help, help" and walked over to Dan. He had stuck a piece to the bottle down inside the bottle and reached in to grab it, and his fist wouldn't fit through the opening. He would not let it go! We called him "monkey hand" after that story about the monkeys and the food and the monkeys won't let go of the food. Whatever, if you have heard the story, you will know what I'm talking about!!