Easter Train

On Saturday Kristi, Jeff, Gunnar, Heidi, Ren and I had plans to ride the Thunder Mountain Train. Kristi, Heidi and I performed hula for their Aloha train theme to earn free tickets for this one. The theme was Easter. There was an easter bunny and a little egg hunt when the train stopped. The train ride was about 3 hours total. Gunnar was in HEAVEN over it. He told us Thomas was working... as in the train we were on was Thomas and he had to work to take us along. There were a lot of little kids and they were all so good!

Kristi, Jeff, and Gunnar in Banks where the train stops for about a half hour.
Kristi and Jeff never get pictures of just the two of them so I took it upon myself to get some. Jeff tried to kiss Kristi in every picture at the last second. Kristi wasn't to thrilled with the idea.

On the train. What a BIG smile from the little one.

This was my favorite picture of Ren and Heidi. They didn't plan to look at each other and smile. Just sort of happend.

Can you see the snow? Looks like a sunny April day. But it was totally going through snow patches. Those white specs are all snow.

I didn't have any body to pose with so I found a nice cardboard bunny

Oh and Jeff tried to help me out too and pose with me. Check out all that snow coming down!

This one is nice of them.

Just chillin on the train

I liked this picture where you can see the long train behind us.

A close up

Gunnar and I were just sittin around and took random pictures. He thought it was great.
Oh and after the train Ren, Heidi, and I were starving! Rillz was now off work so we picked him up and all went out to dinner. Heidi picked Jalapenos because chips and salsa sounded good. When she went to the bathroom I told our server it was her birthday (because her birthday was the next day). Heidi soaked it up like a sponge. Haha... Happy Birthday Heidi!

Spending the day with my siblings was a lot of fun and I love them all!

Bedroom makeover

I need a major bedroom makeover. And with Knock off wood designs I feel empowered to make a headboard and dresser that I want. I just now decided, too, that I need to sew new bright colored curtains and make a bedspread with some cute accent pillows. Oh jeez... sounds like I am nesting without the baby part. Anyways, here are some things I am liking for my new makeover.

Headboard: Love this Farmhouse headboard with the arch. It is classified as an easy project to do. Can I (well not just I but with Rillz of course) really make this? I hope because I love it!

and then I plan to make this dresser. Right now we have two seperate tall dressers but I want a smaller longer one to replace both. For some reason I just love this one. I will have to adjust where some clothes go... but I am so willing to. So if you have never checked out http://www.knockoffwood.blogspot.com/ I highly recommend it. She shows plans for making pottery barn/west elm/crate and barrel look a likes. Such great work by her.

Ok back to my room makeover. Lets talk color... I am not set on certain ones yet but thinking of doing the gold/yellow color I painted the nightstand with maybe some brown or red or orange. Totally not sure on accent colors.

My curtains now are a tweed red fabric. The bed is red and brown. It's kinda dark and enclosed. We have two small windows and the room just needs to feel brighter.

This room is not brighter but I still can't get away from the warmer red color. Love it! I wouldn't mind doing these colors.




I like this fabric. I also like the orange scheme. I have an orange chair in the bedroom now.
I could get this in a yellow/brown or red too. Some of my comforters now are Hawaiian print. They are pretty fabrics
Ok the trendy fabrics right now... I can't get away from. I LOVE the sparrow bird and may have to sneak it in the decor. I am not sure if Rillz is so on board with the sparrow theme.

How awesome and beautiful is this fabric. YES! Love it.

This is wallpaper but can you just see it as a duvet cover. Ahh... lovely! Yes, the sparrow.

Clearly I am not so sure about fabrics for now but I will keep thinking about it and hopefully making my thoughts into my bedroom makeover. Slowly but surely. I am sure by the time I get done with the whole room the ideas will be outdated. Thats why maybe the Hawaiian fabrics may be best because in my household it won't go out of style. But I don't know, those sparrow bird prints are like heaven to my eyes! I just really love them... but Rillz... not so much. We all know the bedroom decor is a womens territory anyways so whatever I say goes... Right?!? Maybe not.

My weekend

It was a good weekend. Saturday we went and celebrated Easter at my Aunt Nancy's house. It is always a lot of fun. And this year Rillz was able to come by. The adults had an egg toss. Heidi/Ren and me/Rillz were the last ones standing. Heidi and Rens egg dropped SO many times and never broke. Cheaters. But we put up a good fight. Mine splattered all over my hands. The little ones had an egg hunt. Always a fun event. And then we all played/listened to music and us girls danced a couple songs.

The music men

Heidi hated how Ren was wearing his hat and made me take a picture. Ren didn't care what he looked like and was unwilling to wear it "normal".

Heidi... making music with a wooden frog


The Aunties... Auntie Chris and Auntie Pattie

The guys again

On Sunday I woke up and starting working on my side yard again getting all the weeds out so after the trees get pulled then I can plant my garden. I am way excited! I used to HATE gardening. Like really HATE it. I made every excuse to not work in the garden when I was younger. Now it is kind of relaxing... oh no does this mean I am maturing? Anyways what I hated more than gardening was worms. I am trying to get past my phobia. Really, phobia of an innocent thing that can't hurt me...YES! I really do. Everything about them FREAKS me out. I squeal a bit and then pick them up with a shovel and toss it away. Well, in my own garden I need to get over it because they are oh so common. Not only worms but slugs too. So gross. Anyways, I cleared out the weeds and cleaned it all up.

Rillz came home from work and we took the dogs on an outing for a walk in the foothills. They were so good and SO tired when we got home.

Malu got to walk without a leash because she is a great listener and stays right by us.

She is waiting for us to catch up.

It was relaxing and pretty when we got higher up. Sunday had such perfect weather!

Just another picture looking over a piece of Boise
I had a great weekend. Only 4 more work days until the next weekend!

Fantastic

What a fantastic day of couponing:
My Albertsons trip... My receipt said I saved 100% on my groceries and a manager had to come and approve the purchases. I saved $140 and after coupons paid a whopping $2.80. I think I can pay that! I got some christmas luminating starter kits for christmas presents this year. They were free with clearance and coupons and so were the refills. The head and shoulders I had to pay .50 a thing and then tax was the rest of my balance.




This was my Walgreens deal. I paid $27 but got back $30 in register rewards towards my next purchase. So I made money on these items.

It's Friday!

It's Friday... Woohoo! I am still sick but oh-well. So, the apprentice last Sunday was good. Sinbad definitely was a good choice to go. And The Parenthood on Tuesday is still awesome! An hour a week is just not long enough. Something about that show just makes me happy. Last night I was sitting on my couch and look over at one of my lampshades and said "Rillz, I think I need to recover these lampshades with super cute fabric... don't you?" His response "Oh boy, we are going to be those old people with a house that has all outdated handmade stuff everywhere." Haha. It made me laugh. I have just been in a SUPER crafty mood. I made an example of Kristi's baby present already and it is soooo stinkin cute. I am obsessed and going to make more and more this weekend! The weather should be nice so I am going to do more lawn stuff. Kill trees, weed, mow, organize, you know stuff like that.

One last thing... Rillz can tell you this too but I have been overly baby crazy lately. I want a baby bad. But I absolutely know now is not the time for me to have babies because 1) Rillz and I are not married yet (hopefully soon...did you read that Rillz..hehe) 2) Rillz needs to find a great job with great benefits 3) Well, those first two pretty much cover it.
So no baby for a while for me. :(

Sunny walk

So today I went to work at 9. First, I woke up still feeling like doo doo. My throat hurt, I now had a dry cough that hurt, and my nose and surrounding area was not working to my liking. The last couple of days Sudafed P.E. has been my side kick every 6 hours on the dot. So I get to work feeling blah but then seeing the little boy I nanny so excited for me to be there was so cute and uplifting! We took a long walk in the foothills and it felt so good. The sun was shining but was not super hot. Amazing. We walked up this steeper hill and at the top you could look down on the neighborhood and parts of Boise. So pretty and relaxing. It made me feel better. What a good day! Only 2 1/2 hours until I get to go home.

Couponing

I know...whats new. It is probably getting boring reading these couponing posts. But they are mostly for me for when I am older and can remember the things I did. So here goes.

I got:

15 cans of cream of mushroom- .25 cents a piece

9 cans of cream of chicken- .25 cents a piece

6 bags of tortilla chips (3 were the hint of lime kind... oh my gosh the best!)- $1 a bag

3 packages of oscar meyer chicken deli meat- $1 a package

3 packages of oscar meyer turkey deli meat- $1 a package

All for $18. I didn't keep the receipts but I am pretty sure I must have had a catalina to use because I don't think I paid that much. Not sure. So the maximum I would have paid is $18. Which for 36 items is pretty darn good!

I got this at Walgreens. We needed band-aids and zyrtec allergy meds. Rillz gets bad allergies sometimes and his fingers are always getting really dried and cracked so he goes through a lot of band-aids. For all this I paid $23.50 and still have a $5 register reward. I saved $55. So with no sales and coupons I would have paid about $75 for all this.

I got 28 boxes of post cereal for $8.82. The night before I did this deal I went on post website to see what kinds of cereal they had. I asked Rillz what kind he wanted and named them off. His response while half listening to me was, " I really don't care, get whatever." So I said ok cool. So I get my cereals and name them off to Rillz. I got to the part mentioning "and I just got two boxes of fruity pebbles to maybe use for rice crispy treats or something" and get this response "fruity pebbles!!!! I LOVE fruity pebbles. The milk after you eat them is SO good and I LOVE cocoa pebbles". Are you series! You love fruity pebbles and failed to mention it and I didn't even buy cocoa pebbles. But oh jeez we have a whole stack of honey bunches of oats. So Heidi was so kind to share some of her left over post cereal coupons and I took Rillz to Albertsons to pick whatever 8 boxes he wanted. There is also a new Cupcake pebbles. It smelled like yummy frosting but just tasted like over sugared pebbles. Not really like a cupcake or anything near it. So not pictured in this post Rillz also got 8 boxes of post cereal, tropicana orange juice, 18 pack of eggs, and one gallon of milk for $4.50. And we have a $5 catalina to use on our next shopping trip.