SOLD!

Friday, we finally sold our truck. Bitter sweet because we love that truck and it represented to Troy his accomplishments in his education and career. It's been an awesome truck that we have enjoyed up until Diesel fuel was almost $5.00 a gallon! Although it's dropped in price, I think it's just a matter of time before it goes up again.

We had to drop the price just to see a response. When we did that, we had a lot of calls on it, and one guy who drove from Northern Nevada to buy it. I'm sure he will take good care of it and hopes to pass it to his son when he turns 16. The sweet part out of this deal, is that we know have some money to pay off some debt and hopefully help us buy another house in the near future. Stay tuned for that.

Thanks to everyone who kept us in your prayers and has told people about the truck!

Valentine's Day 2009

Friday, my Las Vegas Family aka Garber's, hosted a Kiddie Valentine Party. It was fun. The kids had heart shape PB&J, Mommies had a Heart Shape Pizza, they decorated yummy homemade sugar cookies( thanks, Karalee and Meagie) ,we brought the sprinkles, they passed out valentines to each other in these super cute homemade heart envelopes (thanks Seana and Erin), I read them a Valentine book, and we all enjoyed being together. It was really fun and we hope to make it a tradition every year.

For Valentine's Day, I had told my friend that we would watch her kids that night, so I had Troy take me and the kids to Cafe Rio (one of my favs) and then we went and spent some $$ on a new flat screen tv, not like we wanted too, our other has been going out and it made more since to get this one then to fix the massive old one. Good thing we get a tax refund. :) Troy also gave me a sweet card thanking me for all I do and how much he loves me! It was a great weekend.

Hope you all had a great one too!

Valentine

114 Things I Love...

I got this idea from a friends blog. I really need to make this list to remind myself of all that I love and have in my life. It seems there is so much negative and stress right now in the world, it's good to remember what is still good in life. In honor of Valentine's Day, here is my list of 114 things I love. (In random order):
1. My husband
2. Kaedance
3. Landon
4. My parents
5. My Sister, Brother, InLaws, Nephews, and Nieces
6. My Grandparents
7. My Friends in Vegas and in Utah
8. The Gospel (Jesus and God)
9. Our Dog, Flash
10. Skin Care
11. Watching my kids grow everyday
12.Being a Mommy
13. Ice Cream and Chocolate :)
14. Television
15. My Bed
16. Having such amazing friends that I can call on for anything
17. Our Cars
18. Having some food storage
19. Learning how to save $ on Groceries
20.Trying to look at the future in a positive light in these hard times
21. Troy's Job
22.My Las Vegas Family
23. My Ward
24. My Education
25. My Faith
26. Watching Kaedie Dance
27. Landon's Smile
28. Troy working hard everyday so I can stay home
29. Tax Returns :) Just filed ours
30. Having warm water when I shower
31. My Wax Pot
32. Books
33. When Kaedance is acting "good"
34. When Landon naps
35. Seeing the sunshine outside and not snow :)
36. Having awesome parents who love me and my kids
37. My sister being able to do my hair when I see her
38. When my brother paints my house
39. When family or friends visit
40. Watching Kaedance write and learning new things
41. How big Landon is getting (bitter sweet)
42. Pizza
43. Date Nights
44. Spending time talking on the phone to my friends and family
45. To go home
46. Resturants at home
47. When I don't have to cook
48. When my hubby brings me flowers
49. The Park
50. Target
51. In-N-Out
52. Makeup
53.Shopping with my Sis In Law
54. Visiting my Family in AZ
55. Vacations
56. Pasta
57. Fruit
58. Water
59. My Laptop
60. Blogs
61. Getting "good" mail in my mailbox
62. Getting "good" emails
63. A Killer Sale
64. Having a large extended family
65. Diet Coke
66. Losing weight
67. Enjoying Excerisce
68. Seeing the results of excercise
69. Growing up with sibilings
70. Having 3 amazing BFF's
71. My temple marriage
72. Temples
73. Christmas
74. Online Shopping
75. Internet
76. Cafe Rio
77. Cheesecake
78. My home
79. When Landon says "hi"
80. When Kaedance laughs
81. When my kids laugh togather
82. Flowers
83. My Chruch Calling
84. Thanksgiving
85. Carson City
86. Lake Tahoe
87. Disneyland
88. Bahamas
89. Trips with friends
90. Papa Garber Tacos
91. Utah
92. My Mom's Cooking
93. When my house is clean
94. When my laundry is done
95. Hugs
96. Kisses
97. Having "me" time
98. The Beach
99. Olive Garden
100. Going to the movies
101. Getting Redbox Dvd's for $1
102. My furniture
103. Pajama Pants
104. Flip Flops
105. Walks with my family
106. Teaching people about skin care
107. Getting a facial
108. Giving a facial
109. The spa
110. Getting my hair done from Eliza
111. Taco Time (in Utah)
112. Subway
113. Outlet malls
114. Being able to think of more than 114 things!

I could go on and on...I really need to be reminded of the good things in life that I love. Small things (like TV) and Big Things(like Family and Faith). I hope you all have a great Valentine's Day and remember the things/people you love!

My Grocery Smarts Class

Wednesday night I held my Grocery Smart Class about how to use this amazing website (www.grocerysmarts.com) with store ads and coupons. I have thought to be pretty good at saving and couponing, but this system is amazing and saves you a ton of $ and time!

I was so happy that my friends who attended are also super excited! I feel that one best thing about this system, is that I'm finally starting to stock my food storage! I encourage all of you to take a class( you can go to www.shopsmartinvegas.blogspot.com) to book one in Vegas and they are now in Utah. So all of you there, need to find out who teaches these classes!

It's such an awesome feeling to walk out of the grocery store spending so much less and having so much more! It can't get any better. I'm thinking of finding out more to be able to teach, so I will let you know if I do. If I don't, I love to tell all my friends and family and can show you how this system works.

My next trip, I plan to take a picture and show the breakdown of what I spent and saved, so stay tuned! :0)

Kaedance and some BFF's

Friday, we went to a Las Vegas Wranglers Hockey Game with our "adopted" family. We love them!! It was fun to go out and be with our friends. Kaedance loves to go to these games. These are some of her best friends "aka cousins". They are all July babies, born one year from each other. I love it! They are cute!

We are so blessed to be included in this awesome family and I'm so glad my kids have these kids to grow up with!

My Crazy Boy!

Landon is getting to big for his own good! Last week, I took the picture of him climbing onto the dishwasher, pulling himself up, to "help" mommy with the dishes. It was cute!

Then, yesterday, Troy and I were talking and knew Landon was following his sister around, when she said, that Landon was climbing up the stairs to get her. I was shocked to see that he had made it up one flight to the landing and was proceeding to the top! Troy loved it! He loves when the kids grow big...me, not so much! I love my baby and want him to stay a baby! It was exciting to see him do something so big. I guess walking is next.

Anderson Dairy Playgroup

We have one of the best wards and one thing that I love is a playgroup for the kids and mommies. Last Monday, we had a tour of our local dairy that's been in Vegas since 1908. It was fun to take the kids to see how the process and bottle milk and ice cream. They have a cute room where you watch a short movie about how the dairy was started, about milk, and the benefits of milk. It was neat. At the end, the gave out samples of ice cream (yummy!) it was so fresh since it was made right there!

It was a fun day! I look forward to going to more playgroup activities.