Saving Money

I like to save money. Actually, I don't really like to spend money, so when I do spend it and save money while doing it...that makes me happy.
For the past month I have been using a couponing blog that has saved us a bunch of money. Here is an example of what we bought Wednesday at Albertsons.

I spent $16.28 cash and bought 35 items.
My savings was $113.64.

20 cans Progresso soup
4 Pillsbury Grands biscuits
4 Macaroni Grill dinners
2 boxes Cheerios
2 half gallons milk
1 jumbo pack diapers
1 eight piece bag of fried chicken (I know, not a very healthy dinner)
1 bottle of baby Tylenol

Not bad for some basics and some quick lunches to take to work!

Sick Day

Eva and I had a sick day today! We both have colds, and Brian convinced me that it was okay to use my sick leave for one day. So, I called in sick and called Megan to let her know Eva would be staying home. Eva and I had a fun and relaxing day at home. Eva even had a four hour nap! Brian had to go to work. Here are some pictures from our day, and a few from our weekend in Oregon.

Little Cowgirl

Riding her pony...

Snoozing away..

This is the result of...

...spending a whole day wedding dress shopping!!

Brian's sister, Melanie, is getting married in May. She invited Eva and I to go wedding dress shopping in Idaho Falls on Saturday with her, her mom, and Patty (her future mom-in-law). It was a fun day. We got to spend the whole day with Grandma Grimm and Aunt Mel, got to see lots of pretty dresses, and ate some yummy food at Chili's. Eva was very good for having to go in and out of the car so much and not being allowed to touch much when we were in the stores!! They didn't buy a dress that day, but definitely narrowed it down. Thanks for inviting us along!

This reminds me of the day when I bought my wedding dress! Wanna hear the story?Well, Brian proposed to me on Sunday, October 9, 2005. Three days later, while I was working for the City of Pocatello IT Department, my boss came back from a meeting and told me that he had seen a sign outside the Paris that their wedding dresses were half off. He told me I should go on my lunch break and look for a dress. So, my friend Taunalee met me for my lunch break and went with me. We looked around the store, picked out some dresses to try on, and then headed to the fitting rooms. I liked Dress #1. Dress #2 was okay. I loved Dress #3 and bought it right then!!! That wasn't so hard. The hardest part was finding the veil. That took me about a month and a half (and we only had a two month engagement)!!

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Eva's 2nd Christmas

We had a very fun Christmas. There was lots of snow!! Eva had fun sledding. Here she is with Grandpa behind the Jeep.
We had our Anderson Family Christmas Eve Party at Aunt Debbie's house. It wouldn't have been complete without the traditional pyramid!!Christmas morning was fun!! Aunt Marcy really liked her presents!!

I don't think Eva really understood why we were all laughing when we took this picture!! All she wanted was another orange to eat.

Can you read Eva's onesie!! She enjoyed ripping the paper off of the presents.

Eva helped Daddy put together the rocking chair she got for Christmas. She loves it and will sit in it and rock her baby. So cute!!We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas!!

Help...I've fallen and I can't get up!!

I was trying some hand-me-down snow clothes on Eva so we could take her out in the snow this week. I thought it was pretty funny!