Golden!

Today my parents celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. So blessed to have such wonderful godly parents! Happy Anniversary Mom & Dad! I love you!!

And so it begins....

Kyle and Ashley are off to their first day back at school.

3 Months

Bella is full of smiles and is starting to be very vocal. On this night she laughed out load for the first time. Of course she wouldn't do it when I had my camera.

Surprise!

After accepting the news from the doctor and not using any birth control for 9 years, God reminded us that he is in control and that he has a sense of humor. Twelve years ago today, our family was blessed with Tiffany Renae. Can't imagine our lives without her.

Happy 12th Birthday, Tiff!

Good News!!

I always have wondered about these kids that become Christians when they are 4 or 5 years old. Do they really understand what they are doing? I don't know, guess that is between them and HIM. I never wanted to push it on our kids and just prayed that when the time was right they would let us know.

Wonderful night! Started out with lots of questions but ended up with Tiffany praying to receive Christ as her Savior!

After she prayed, Bobby said, "You will finally get to meet Tutu some day".

Kyle 9/23/1999 and Tiffany 7/14/2011

Bargains for the Week

Ashley and I had really caught on to this couponing thing. Here is what we found for the week. This is everything that we got for FREE! No, I take that back we had to pay only .04. Woo hoo!!

These are the really good buys for the week. Sunscreen $2.99-Granola bars .88-Razors $2.99-Bandaids .54- Sharpie .54- Scissors .99.
What will we find this coming week.......

4th of July

Bella had 2 outfits so this one she wore to church on Sunday.

Not sure why she has that frown on her face. Click on it and check it out. Oh my!

Outfit #2-

After spending the afternoon over at Chris and Bills we headed back to Buckeye and sat in front of the house to watch the fireworks at the end of the street.

Happy 4th!

Extreme Couponing?

No, I don't want to get to that, but I am really pleased with what I have saved so far when I put to action some of the things that I learned at a coupon class that my friend had at her house. Never new you could stack coupons or use other store brand coupons and get your store brand items. I don't go in the store with lots of coupons, just the right ones and look at the savings.

Week 1: Bought $199.17 worth of groceries and paid $106.97. That's a savings of $92.20. Not bad for my first attempt!
Best buy: Hair color...on sale for $6.99, coupon for $2 off from Target and stacked with a $2 off manufacturer coupon. Finally cost $2.99!

Week 2: Bought $170.49 and paid $96.58. A savings of $73.91.
Best buy: $2 off any dairy item with the digital Frys coupon. I bought a gallon of milk for .53!

and all things that I use! Yay for me!!

Lake Day

Great day at the lake!

Father's Day Weekend

Bella was finally able to meet her Grandpa and Grandma

Auntie Karli and Uncle Dolan from South Carolina.

Their days and nights were full of visiting with old friends and we were glad they were able to be here for Bella's dedication service.

On Saturday night, we celebrated Steve's (Ashley's dad) 50th birthday out at Matt and Sue's house.



Sunday morning-Bella's dedication at Kyle and Ashley's church. We had 25 family members who attended the special day.

Nanna, Mamaw and Auntie Tiff...

2nd cousins...

3 generations of great christian dads...

one very proud new Dad also celebrating his first Father's Day!

After the service we all went to Top Shelf for lunch.
Good thing we made reservations!

Just another day for this little one!

Kyle and Ashley's house playing "just dance" on the wii.

The big kids take a turn!

Notice the 2 grandpas at the end. I am pretty sure that Kyle and Ashley are doing it correct and Bobby and Steve are doing it wrong, but they are together! lol