Baby 3 update

I am 17 weeks along now (I will be 18 on Friday) with this little one... seriously will I ever be out of the teens?!?!? Baby center says that they baby is the size of a turnip now. Are you serious?!?! Just a turnip... my tummy tells a different story, maybe more like a cantaloupe. Ha.

We go for the big ultrasound June 2nd. We still haven't really decided if we are going to find out if we are having a boy or a girl or just wait until delivery day. I go back and forth. On one hand I would love the surprise, but on the other we have decided this baby will be sharing a room with either Garrison or Allie- Parker (bless this sweet child :) and my type A personality is screaming at me to have everything in its place and more than just a few yellow and green sleepers. So we shall see.

Garrisons quote of the day

It seems like Garrison is always saying things that are cracking us up! Today after Ryan had to discipline Allie-Parker for standing on the couch he was telling her that he loved her and Garrison looked at him and said, "Daddy, I love you, but I want to stand on the couch."

I could not help but laugh :)

Happy Mothers Day!

We had such a wonderful Mothers Day! Of course, with all the craziness of running around seeing family I forgot to take pictures, sad. Even with no pictures it was still great.

I started the morning by being greeted by Garrison saying "Lets go in the the living room" (same thing he says every single morning) at 5:30. But, I got to sleep in for another 2 hours while Ryan took care of the babies! And if that wasn't great enough I was served breakfast in bed... with no little fingers grabbing at my food!!! It was so wonderful! I could really get used to this type of pampering :) The best part of my day was on the ride home and both children were asleep and Garrison woke up and said, "Happy Mothers Day Momma, you are my best friend". I will never forget it!

I could not be more thankful for such a loving husband and such precious gifts... "Behold, children are a gift of the Lord," Psalm 127:3.

Sweet Allie-Parker... I love you precious girl. Thank you for all my sweet kisses and hugs today. You have such a tender heart, but you are so tough too! You make me laugh all the time because it seems like you can fall 100 times and never cry, but as soon as you get in trouble you get so upset! I can not wait to see you grow up. You will be such a good wife and momma some day... but please take your time!
Sweet Garrison... I can not believe that you are a little boy now and not a baby! You have such a great imagination... I love to sit and watch you sometimes just to see what kind of fun things you will come up with. You are such a great helper with sweeping and throwing away trash! Thank you for always helping and trying to remember to say "yes ma'am". I love you sweet boy.

Most days I become so tired of doing the same silly, seemingly small tasks over and over. But I am finally coming to realize that raising my children is more than just a mundane thing I am "stuck" at home doing. So when I am telling Allie-Parker for the 5oth time today not to open that cabinet or trying to get Garrison to be kind to his sister I will tell myself I have been entrusted with these children. I pray that I teach them more than just their numbers and ABC's, but teach them about and show them Christ's wonderful, selfless love.

Publix Trip #2

I made my second trip to Publix this weekend. This time I came with backup- Crystal and April made the journey with me across the bay. We all ended up doing really good! They spent around 50 bucks each and saved 50 and I spent $53 saved $78! The picture really doesn't do how much I was able to buy justice. After looking at some old receipts I would of spent $40 alone on all the meat I purchased if I had bought it at Target. I also bought Ryan enough deodorant to last him half his lifetime and got it all for free! So I think the trip was very successful! We are taking a couponing class this weekend, so we are hoping for even more savings the next time we go!

Here is what I got:

2 bags of bagels

Gallon of milk

Ribs

3 packages of chicken

1 lb ham. meat

2 boxes of cereal

6 deodorants

bananas

1 can Rotel

1 diced tomato

coffee

2 bags of rice (equaling 10 pounds!)

Multi grain crackers

2 Juicy juice

2 mini box juices

12 pack of tp

2 taco dinner kits

Ryan's last softball game of the season

Last week was Ryan's last game of the softball season- they were playing Theodore (a huge rival for the girls and for their Coach) so naturally we all wanted to be there to see our team win! We loaded up and headed to Semmes. I think this might be the first time I have made it through the ENTIRE game... but only because my very helpful Mother in Law came! I can't really tell you any details about the game because Allie-Parker insists on putting every single acorn she can find into her mouth... but I do know the Vikings won! "MGM... say it backwards, MGM", sorry Ryan I had to do it- its my favorite cheer :) Go Lady Vikings and Go Coach Little!

The funniest girls you will ever meet... they keep Ryan on his toes!

Ryan trying to explain to the babies that he isn't coming home but heading to football practice... can you believe its already football time?!?!?

Family pic with the winning Coach, isn't he cute?!?!? Baby three is saying "hello" to everyone!

First trip to Publix

So... I must admit I was a little skeptical about this whole Publix thing. Well that all changed Sunday. I collected coupons and did research throughout the week and it paid off! I was able to buy $150 worth of groceries for $50! It equalled out to be 45 items! I was so excited. I got tons of cleaning supplies... the cost of these alone would of been at least 50 bucks at Target (were I used to shop ;) I am hoping to get down to even less. I have read on a couple of blogs of ladies from our church were they bought about $100 of groceries for $10- what in the world?!?!? Sounds unreal... but they have the pictures to prove it!

All in all I was pretty please with my savings, considering this was my first trip!

Here is the picture of all of my goodies...

What all was in my cart you might ask...

4 Green Giant Steamers

3 Kashi Cereals

3 bags frozen fruit

4 cans Green Giant corn

4 cans Green Giant green beans

1 dozen eggs

1 All Small and Might detergent

1 box Teddy Grahams

2 boxes of strudels

2 Windex multi- surface cleaner

2 Shout stain removers

2 Lysol toilet bowl cleaners

4 4 packs of Del Monte fruit cups

1 24 pack of granola bars

1 bunch of grapes

1 Scrubbing bubbles

2 pastas

1 olive oil

1 BBQ

2 Yoplait yogurts

1 Palmolive dish soap

1 Peperidge Farm flat bread

1 box of Del Monte chillers

Bye Bye Soy Milk

We have been trying Garrison on cow's milk for the past few days... and so far we like what we see! No intolerance symptoms, no bad diapers, and his eczema seems to be staying the same! What a huge praise this is! Not only did Garrison go pretty smoothly with the transition our grocery bill has went down roughly $20 a week!

His lactose intolerance has been something we have battled pretty much since day one with our sweet little boy. It was so hard to see his tummy always hurting him, not to mention disgusting cleaning up vomit and awful diapers ALL OF THE TIME ;)

We are going to give it another week or two and if things keep going great then we will introduce him to the wonderful world of cheese!