Easter Festivities

The kids had so much fun on Easter. I have to say that it is one of my favorite holidays. On Saturday our neighborhood had a little Easter egg hunt at the park. The kids had a blast. Collin and Maya got a bunch of eggs. Jensen found one egg, threw it, and then started playing with a truck he found on the ground! Typical. That kid is in love with cars!! That evening we went to my parent's house to dye eggs.

On Easter morning, the kids woke up and found their Easter baskets.

Jensen was having an off day. Dan even had to bring him home from church because he was being so nasty in nursery!!

After church it was back up to my parent's house for Easter dinner and another Easter egg hunt!! The kids LOVE this tradition. My mom always makes things SO FUN!!

Jensen and Gracie. Seriously, the two sweetest faces I have ever seen!!

CUTE KIDS!! Jensen having a moment!!

Birthday Fun

Jensen started out his 2nd birthday by getting his "big" surprise.

As you can see by the smile on his face, he loved it!! That morning he started singing "Happy to you!!" We went to McDonalds for lunch, and played and played. After dinner the whole family came over to celebrate!

I thought he was so stinkin' cute opening his presents this year. He didn't even get into it at Christmas time, so I loved watching him rip the paper open to see what was inside!

Even Gracie was excited about this huge car set Grandpa and Baba gave him!!

YUM!!

Happy Birthday Baby Boy!! We love you so much!!

Look who's TWO!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY little man!!

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!!