Spring Break, and Softball

It's the last day of Spring Break, BOOOOO!!!! I have really enjoyed having this week off! We didn't really do much but hang around the house, but it was so nice to be able to stay up late and get up whenever my body was ready and not when the alarm clock said it was time to get up! I watched a few movies, cleaned the house, (and kept it clean) and just hung out with Allyson. We did go paint pottery at The Clay House with Allison and Michelle, which was a lot of fun! Both girls picked out a converse shoe to paint! I can't wait to pick them up this week to see how they came out. I painted a little vase. I will post pictures when I get the pieces back!


Allyson has also been playing softball still. She is working really had at pitching, and has gotten to pitch a few times in games. We can see a lot of improvement from last year to this year and she is loving it more and more!!

I love the face in this shot with the ball still in view! Such determination on her face!!

This past Friday we went up to the lakefront and watched a movie outside. I always end up forgetting about these but I caught it this month. One Friday night a month the city shows a movie outside on big screen for free!! It is a lot of fun! We bring blankets and snacks and enjoy a movie. This month the movie was "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian". We always forget how cool it gets at the lakefront with the breeze coming in off the lake, so we sure were glad that we brought blankets to keep us warm!

Wahoo!!

I went to Publix today and between coupons, and buy one get one frees I spent $69.00, but I saved $53.00!!! I'm starting to really watch and shop with coupons to save money. When I saw my total and then how much I got I was all happy in the store!!
My best deal was some frozen steam fresh veggies. They were 50% off so $1.19 per bag then I had coupons to go along with it, so it broke down to this:
3 bags= 3.57
$1 off 2 bags= 1.00
$1 off 3 bags = 1.00
.35 off 1 bag= .35
.50 off 1 bag = .50
So total I payed 0.72 for 3 bags, or 0.24 a bag!!! I love it!!!

February Recap

Whew....February was a short month but we managed to cram a whole lot of stuff into it!! Let's see to start out it was a COLD month!!! We live in Florida and well I have a limited supply of long sleeve shirts, and sweaters and the ones I have have gotten a lot of wear this month!!

Let's see we went to the county fair and had a blast despite the cold! We took Allyson's friend Nathaniel with us so that she had someone to ride with, and they had such a good time!

We sold a whole lot of Girl Scout cookies, both in pre-sales and in the cookie booths!

Allyson started softball again, so we have been running back in forth between practices and the season started on Saturday but it was cold and raining so the first game was canceled. So her first game is this Tuesday and I'm so excited to watch her play. I even think she will be pitching an inning!! She has improved so much over the year! Last year she couldn't throw the ball from 3rd to 1st, she barely made it from 3rd to the pitcher. But now she whips that ball from 3rd to 1st!!

Oh, yeah she even went to the dentist for her cleaning and got a clean bill of health! No cavities for her!!

Alright here some pictures to go along with our month!

COLD!!!

Uh, we live in Florida!!! This past week it has been so cold it's not even funny!!!! Don't get me wrong I have been enjoying this cold weather, however I'm not use to it and DO NOT have enough warm clothes for these cold days!!!! Especially shoes! 98% of my shoes are open toes, and my little toesies are cold!

This past weekend was the perfect stay home and relax watching TV, on Saturday we even got sleet and SNOW in the middle of the day! Uh, again this is Florida not somewhere we are use to having this cold weather! Allyson thought that was the coolest thing, and well quite frankly I thought so too!

In this picture Allyson is on her way out to school and is all bundled up!
She is wearing:
1 tank top
1 long sleeve shirt
1 short sleeve uniform shirt
1 light jacket to keep on in the classroom
1 heavy fur lined jacket
1 pair of jeans
1 pair of super fashionable boots!
1 hat
and a pair of gloves


We are not use to having to wear so much clothes to keep warm!

Christmas

Gasp!!! 2 post in 1 day! Well I said that I would get the Christmas pictures up so I better keep my word!!

Warning: Lots of Pictures!!!

Have to have the pictures in front of the tree before the chaos happens :)

I even managed to get in a picture!

Devin with his guitar that he wanted!

Steve usually gets a car care kit for Christmas, he loves cleaning the car!

Allyson and her super awesome Converse shoes!

These next few shots are of Steve opening his present from me! I love that this year I actually got him something that he was not expecting at all!! A LAPTOP!!!

Him realizing what it is! I love the complete happiness on his face in that picture!

You think he likes it?

Me opening my present from Steve! A beatiful white gold necklace!!! I love it!

It's not all of the pictures but a good amount of them! We had a very nice Christmas at the house. My parents and grandparents came over for a very yummy fried turkey dinner and we got to spend time together!!

New Year New Blog

WOW!!! I can't believe the last time I updated this thing was in May!!!!

Well one of my plans this year is to update this thing more often!!!

Alright really short glimpse of our life since I last updated:

• I graduated from UCF with my bachelors degree in Elementary Education
• I got a job at a brand new school teaching 2nd grade
• Allyson started 3rd grade, and is loving it
• I turned 30!! Not as bad as I thought it would be :)
• I've lost about 30 pounds and would like to loose another 20
• Steve is working midnights again :(, but hopefully not for much longer, I don't like this shift at all!
• Because I've been super duper busy I've really slacked off on taking pictures and well I don't like that too much either!
  

Alright next post will have pictures of Christmas! Just have to get on the computer that has the pictures on it.