Like I said in the other post, we have been exploring. We went to 2 water falls around our house and to the lake. Well it took me a long time to be able to catch Stephanie Smiling, but now she does it all the time, and I love it. I have been playing with my camera. I am amazed at how good the pictures are. Well here are some of them.
Well this year we are taking the weekends to really get to know the areas around Tennessee, Last weekend we went camping in North Carolina. Absolutly BEAUTIFUL the mountains were amazing and the river, next year we are going to try white water rafting, this year we went tubing. It was the only thing we could do with the kids, Stephanie did really good. Spencer was a true trooper.
Since I have been back from Florida I have been trying to do this coupon thing. it's taken a couple of week to get the hang of it. But with some persistence and help from my friend Diane. I am doing good. This week I went shopping, it's now kind of a chalenge to see how much I can get for free. I have to go to different places and clip a lot coupons. But SOOOO worth it. I am lucky now that my sister is here so she stayed with the kids in the car while I ran inside and grabed a couple of things from each store. But we don't have a publix very close, but we do have Krogers. They also have Ecoupons. you go to the site choose the coupons you want and it goes straight to my card, than I can use a paper coupon as well. So I went to Kroger on tuesday and my bill came out to $125.00 dollars, after I scaned my card and gave him my 50 coupons I paid $45.37, I am so excited and I get home and tell Borja how much everything costed and what I got for free. I don't think he is as excited as I am. Maybe he will be a little more after Fathers day when he gets his present with the money I saved from groceries... Thank you Diane.
Well it has been a while since I have blogged. We had a great time in FL, spending time with family and friends is always good. We got home the day before Memorial Day, Since we had not seen daddy for 2 weeks we were happy to spend the whole day with him on monday. We went Strwberry picking, it's our new thing. We went last year and I made Jam with it. It turned out so good that now we cannot stand the ones from the supermarket. So I made some more this year. Than we went to a fish farm as you can see the video on the other blog. Spencer had a blast and we had some fresh trout for dinner. We are also staining our ginormous fence, so we did some of that. And planted a very small garden with cucumbers and yellow squash and Tomatoes. And of course watermellon.
We also had some very nice days. We are enjoying the pool, Spencer loves the water.
Stephanie Got a new toy, and she loves it. Spencer has been a little jealous lately so he has to play with it too.
Going to church, Stephanie got that dress as a Christmas gift from grandma... I love my babies...
Stephanie has been smiling for almost a month now. But every time I got the camera out she would stop and just stare at it with this curious face. Well finally yesterday she smiled for the camera. Here is my smiley bug.
I have been so blessed in my life, especially with my family. I have the amazing oportunity to have 3 siblings, and as I went to FL last week I was able to share some of their great achievements. My sister graduated High School, and is now an "adult" I am so proud of her. She is an amazing Young Woman, who trully knows her divine nature and goals in life.
Don't cry little sister, this is just the beginning of a wonderful future. And I will be by your side every step of the way. I LOVE YOU.
I was also able to see my dad baptize his last child. Andrew got baptized on May 19th. It was so amazing being able to see that. He is all grown up now. Next one in the family will be Spencer just 5 more years. Spencer was so excited to see Andrew being baptized that he told every one that he wouild be to.