My Garden

Here are some pictures of my garden. I have zucchini, green peppers, tomatoes, grape tomatoes, corn, carrots, strawberries, cantaloupe, and watermelon growing. Some are doing better than others, but I'm just excited to see something happening being this is my first year. :) My two zucchini plants. One is doing great, the other...well look how tiny! Not sure what I did wrong. Tomatoes! A little green pepper! grape tomatoes! cantaloupe Oh and I have an apple tree, but not sure if they are crab apples.

Coupons!

Thanks to my sister-in-law, Nicole, I have been couponing for 2 or 3 months now and I will have to same I am addicted. It took me a while to get the hang of it and I did almost quit. Let me tell you, I am so glad I did not give up. I have a pantry full of food that I paid less than 1/2 price for and sometimes almost nothing! I'm not one of the extreme couponers that pay 2 bucks for 900$ worth of groceries, although that sounds awesome. I am just finding great deals on food and cleaning supplies and getting my moneys worth. Today I bought around 60$ worth of food and paid 24$. (That is including buying the kids candy at the checkout with no coupons or deal :P) In the past I've bought over 100$ worth of groceries for 40 bucks. Not bad! I hope to some day be much better at this and come home with more, but for now I am loving what we get and so thankful to Nicole! :) FYI, my now favorite grocery store is Publix! Love their BOGO deals! Yep. :) All of this food was bought with coupons! :) And here is just a cute pic of Tara and I.

Blessings

I haven't been on here for a while and so when I logged on I saw all the new changes and it took me a minute to find how to do a new post. I do need to blog more often because a lot happens here in our house! :) So my title is "Blessings" b/c I wanted to share two new ones the Lord gave us. The first one started months ago when Jeff and I were talking about him teaching CPR classes for some extra money. The thing holding us back was buying the dummies. Earlier this week we found out his work is buying new ones and so Jeff mentioned that he would like the old ones. The next day he brought home six of the dummies, for free! We are hoping he can start teaching two classes a month now. :) Our second blessing happened Wednesday morning. Tuesday night our family went door to door selling candy for the boys to raise money for church camp. Jeff ran into one of our neighbors who owns a pawn shop. He told Jeff to come buy Wednesday and he'd give a donation. So Wednesday morning I took the kids into his shop. He asked how much they had left, they both had about 1/2 a box left. Then he asked how much it cost for them to go to camp. I asked him if he really wanted to know, ya know I didn't want to give him a guilt trip. He said yes so I told him 140 and the box of candy makes them 20 bucks. (Each of my boys had already sold one box). So he said, ok, so you've made 40 dollars each and you still owe 200 for camp, I said yes. So he pulls out his wallet and gives me $200! I was shocked. He told Josiah he was proud of him for doing the talking the previous night and not having his dad do it for him. So, he took both boxes of our candy and we left $200! :) So I had enough to hand in our money for the boxes and an extra 152 dollars for camp for the boys. God is good. :)