New Home

We are so very lucky to have the parents we have. They are very supportive in our decisions and have done so much for us throughout the years. We moved back to Sibley in April 2011. Almost two years ago already!
Since we moved, we have looked at every house on the market from $50,000 to $150,000. We have finally found something in our price range and has the layout and yard that we are looking for.
There will be a lot of work ahead of us, but we are very excited! We have submitted our first offer and are now just waiting for answer on our offer. I have never been so anxious in my life!
Wish us luck in this new adventure!

My New Hobby

I am in love with my new hobby!  I took up couponing a few months back and have absolutely fallen in love.  I watched a couple episodes of Extreme Couponing about a year ago and I was hooked.  I knew I didn't want to do anything like that, but the savings surprised me!  I didn't know you could get items for free, or even MAKE MONEY?!   I was instantly addicted. 

Every week I go to the store and get 2 Sunday papers.  I look through the local ones and see which ones have the best coupons.  My mom will also give her coupons to me.  I also print out coupons online.  I always print 2 of each, even though I might not use them.   I've found that it's better to have way too many coupons than not enough.  I clip all of them and then sort the in my coupon binder.  It's a great way to stay orgainized, which is key.

Anything that I do not use, I donate to Upper Des Moines in Sibley.  I figure if I am not going to use it, why not give it to someone that can really use it!  I always feel so great when I donate items.

Coupon Blogs that I Love (and follow daily):
1.  http://www.thekrazycouponlady.com/
2.  http://www.ilovetogossip.com/
3.  http://www.iheartthemart.com/

Coupon Website to Print From:
1.  http://www.coupons.com/
2.  http://www.target.com/
3.  http://www.couponnetwork.com/

Coupon Binder

Another View of the Binder

Stockpile: Laundry

Stockpile: Travel Size & some Tolietries

Full Stockpile

Crawling, or maybe not?

I tired to upload these photos to YouTube, but it's being difficult!   Anyway, we have a semi-crawler.  He's army crawling now.  It's very cute. 

On Sunday, May 1st, he started doing this army crawl.  I was home to witness it.  Right now (May 4th), I am in Apple Valley at training.  I have been able to Skype with Cooper and Daddy.  They decided to put the computer on one side of the living room and sit Cooper on the other.  He went from butt to stomach and crawled over to the computer.  Thank goodness for Skype!  I can't wait to get home to see it in person again.   He picks up on things so quickly.

Here are some videos from Sunday.  I'll post more from later this week during the weekend so you can see how he's improving so fast!

Real Food

On Sunday, we decided to grind up some lasagna that Grandma Julie made.  It was the best idea ever!  He absolutely loved it.  He found it very funny to hold the spoon, too.

Love the outdoors, even if it isn't 90 degrees!

Here are a couple pictures of our outdoor adventures.  Cooper absoultely loves being outside and feeling the breeze.  He went in a swing for the first time.  At first he wasn't so sure about it, but then he started to enjoy it. 

Cooper also got his first Camaro ride too!  It may have only been from the back garage to the front garage, but as you can tell from the picture, he was so happy to be in Grandpa's Camaro.  Daddy hopes the car is his someday. 

He had a bunch of firsts.  We went around the block in Uncle Michael's golf cart.  It it wasn't so cold, we would have gone further.  The joys of living in a small town!


ENJOY THE PHOTOS!!  Hopefully there will be more soon! 

$2 Walker

We are having a garage sale in a couple weeks.  Everyone was bringing their stuff in and Grandma Julie noticed a walker.  We had been looking for one in the stores, but every store wanted $50 or more for them.  This one was used and had a price of $2.  Grandma bought it on the spot.

It was the BEST PURCHASE EVER!  He abosultely loves it.  It only took him 1 day to figure out that he could now go where ever he wants.  He is so excited about it.  You almost have to hide it if you don't want him to be in it.  He also loves to have food on his tray.  We call it his "fuel". 

Check out the video & photos below.  You'll enjoy them!

He loves the central vac plug

Naked baby!

What a ham!

 

Easter 2011

It's that time of the year again, Easter time! 

Unfortunately, Mommy & Daddy had to go to St. Cloud to get their house in order for the renters so they had to leave Cooper with Grandma, Grandpa, Chelsea & Jenna.  They did a great job taking care of him, but they had to miss out on his first Easter. 

Chelsea & Jenna took him to the Easter bunny in Sibley.  They were disappointed that they were only high school girls in white sweats and painted faces.  They decided to drive him over to Ocheyedan where there was a "real" Easter bunny. 

Cooper got his "Cooper Bear" with matching book and another book from the Easter bunny. 

Here are some pictures of that day too. 

They got me to play with Barbies!

The Sibley Easter Bunnies

The Easter Bunny in Ocheyedan

What a cute little monkey/bunny.  :)