Happy 1st Birthday Brady!

I can't believe my baby is one! This last year has flown by. We are so blessed to have Brady as part of our family. He has 7 teeth, says ball, mama & dada, and crawls everywhere. The theme for his party was a sports theme. This was perfect because he loves to play with any kind of ball.

We had a lot of family and friends over...

we all fit in our apartment, luckily.

Cole sure enjoyed playing with his cousins.

The cake turned out wonderful and we had enough for everyone.

Brady had fun with his cake but wanted the frosting off after playing for a while.

He received many fun new toys.

His cousins were very helpful bringing him the presents and helping to open them.

Thanks to all who came and shared this very special day with our sweet baby boy. We love you Brady!

Walgreens Trip

We just started receiving multiple Sunday papers this last month and have been putting our coupons to good use. I will admit it is a lot of hard work from looking for the great sales to having success with a cashier who knows how the coupons should work. Luckily, I have been getting great advice on how to juggle everything with the help of some wonderful coupon blogs. These sites are amazing and they give you links for internet coupons that can be used right away with a store's weekly ad. They also tell you what newspaper coupons to use and how to use them.

Today I went to Walgreens where their Purex laundry detergent was buy 1 get 1 free. I had 4 coupons for buy 1 get 1 free. So, I was able to get all 8 for free! I bought dish soap for $.89. I didn't think I could really get all of these for free, but it worked. This is what I look for, things that my family uses everyday at a great price. I have a great stockpile started for many things already.