Tuesday, February 16, 2010

4 posts in 1

This year was the girls turn in our families to plan a Valentine's date. So my Mother-in-Law came up with pretty much the whole thing and it turned out great! We got babysitters for the kids and went to Rodizio for dinner. This year Cody (Kyle's bro) and Eliza were here from PA so they were able to spend it with us!


After dinner, we headed up to the Parrish's house (Some of our parent's neighbors) where they have a ballroom in their home and we had a friend come and give us ballroom dancing lessons! Here we are showin off our skills!

I just had to post these pics from last year, I have been reflecting a lot this past few weeks. Jan 26th marked the day of my first hospital admission due to my horrific mysteriously painful pregnancy! I started off Valentine's Day in the Hospital and was lucky enough to get released that day after 3 whole weeks of testing and procedures to find nothing wrong with me! The pain continued but they never knew why! So here we are on the morning of Valentine's Day last year!


And here we are on Valentine's evening after I got out of the hospital last year!


Okay, now that I am done reminiscing...! My brother-in-law Kip just got married on Feb. 11th. My camera was almost dead and I ended up not even getting a pic of Kip and Emily so I stole this from Katie's blog who was their photographer! Thanks Katie!


Just a few pics of us at the temple and the reception! I got Ezra the cutest little suit. He looked so handsome!

My talented mom did their cake. She has no bakery or any professional tools, she just likes to get creative with cakes. She actually has done all of the Whipperman kids' wedding cakes except ours(she had plently of other things to worry about:) Plus she has done a few other peoples wedding cakes too! Here is the finished product!



Next post...Ezra's swimming lessons! Me and Ez go to swimming lessons every week for the past 5 or 6 weeks. Here are a few shots of him working on his floating and dunks! He just loves the water and it has been so fun!


Final post...swinging! I took Ezra out to the community swings the other day and he loved it. I just wanted to post a few pics of his cute mug!

Monday, February 1, 2010

My Savings!

Okay, so since October I have been big into couponing and I was just so excited about my last trip to the store I just had to share it! I had a HUGE cart full and when I went to check out I was getting nervous about how much it was going to cost. Well, the total came to $220.88 and I started to sweat, so I handed over my fresh values card and the total dropped to $117.84 so I started to feel a little better. Then, I handed over my huge stack of coupons and the total came to a whopping $74.16!!! I was so excited! That is a 67% savings!!! I saved $143.32! This is what I got!

2 loaves of bread
1 gallon milk
apples, romaine lettuce, cucumber
1 can enfamil formula
4 bags shredded cheese (for the freezer)
2 bags mission tortillas
5 bags lunch meat
8 yogurts
4 boxes capri suns
6 boxes kleenex
3 bags solo plastic cups
1 bag solo plastic bowls
1 sour cream
5 boxes cereal
3 apple juice
1 grape juice
4 boxes kraft mac n cheese
4 boxes delux mac n cheese
5 boxes quaker chewy granola bars
4 boxes fiber one granola bars
10 sobe life waters
1 box of butter sticks
2 cans green chilis
2 cans diced tomatoes
1 can cocoa
2 hershey bars
4 philadelphia cream cheese(for the freezer)
and I think that is it...I got 89 items for $74...that only $0.83 per item. I highly recommend using coupons!


Now on to my favorite little man!








We got to have Anna spend the night the other night and Ezra just loves his cousin! He is always happy when she is around! I just thought this was a cute pic of them taking a bath!