Our little get away!

Nate has training today and tomorrow in park city. So right after church yesterday we all decided to go up there. Nate had a hotel for the tonight but changed it to last night. We had so much fun. We went sledding on the golf course hill, to dinner (I had a coupon:) went swimming at the hotel pool and watched a movie (or a show) as Aleena calls it. It was so much fun just to get away for a few minutes. Aleena didn't wake up until 10:30 and I slept till 10:00. I love the dark rooms. My sleep was much needed after 14 kids in nursery yesterday. The first thing Aleena said was, "I loved sleeping at this hotel can we do it again". Making memories that will last. Oh and I had to upload this video of us teasing Aleena and Harley.

Christmas time is near!

The season is creeping up on us fast. We have been so busy with parties, shopping, playgroups, cleaning, and much more. I just wanted to write a little bit about our family tradition. We have many more to come this month but these are the one that are on going or have already passes.
One of my favorite traditions is to go to Idaho with my family and cut down our Christmas tree. This was Aleena's third year. I took her when she was just three months old. All bundled up! This year she really loved it. Eating the snow, finding the right tree and just being in her hiking boots. It was so perfect a light snowfall and not too cold. It only takes everyone about 30 minutes to find their trees and cut it down. But, it is still so much fun. This year we went to river dale hot springs after and went swimming. (I hope that we do this every year) We thought that we found the perfect tree. But in the light at our house it is really quite demented. Oh well it was fun. Aleena had a blast decorating it. She lays under it each night (we had to leave a spot just for her) and looks at the lights and plays with the ornaments.
Another one of our traditions that we just started last year is to go to the bountiful lights parade. It starts at 6:00 when it gets dark and all of the floats have Christmas lights all over them. Santa Clause is always sure to show up. Aleena's eyes were so big. She loved every minute of it. Her favorite part was the fire trucks because they had so many lights.





Some of the traditions that we do each day are Aleena helps daddy but up the ornament on the advent calender. She always waits until daddy wakes up. (he is on graves right now) Then they will put it up together. She always wants to put it on the top. They each night Aleena and I read a story from the nativity scene that I have. Each of the characters has a story to go with them. It is so much fun and she remembers each night. If we go to bed without reading one we have to go back down stairs.
Other things that we are doing this Christmas are making treats with Aleena , going to our work and friends parties, Having a preschool party and just little things like making a snowman and going sledding. Happy Holiday's

Kmarts doubles and I am not done!!!!

Ok so everyone knows that I have OC with coupons. I almost gave up with a bad experiance but I am so glad that I didn't. This week (until saturday) kmart will double coupons up to $2.00. So if you have $2.00 off coupon it will be $4.00 off. Making tons of items free. So I have been to kmart 4 times and this is what I got.

3 Johnson & Johnson soap
24 nail art
7 dog treats
12 tylenol
1 st josephs asprin
3 purell
10 kotex
2 huggies wipes
11 bc cookie mixes
3 chocholate chips
4 nail polish
3 gillette body wash
16 boxes of kelloges
1 vaseline lotion
2 clean and clear wash
6 vicks hand sanitizer
4 Arm & hammer detergent
1 pledge duster
2 juicey juice
4 tuna

m&ms for Aleena 1.06
lifesaver book for Christmas 2.69
Lighter for bows 1.99

My total bill for all transactions was $28.98 minus the stuff I got without coupon for Aleena and Christmas stuff my total was $23.24

My total savings was 296.35 (and I am not done shoping I need to organize tonight)









I also went to target today and got
31 set of two rayovac batteries
1 johnson and johnson soap
6 ouchless hair things
1 coloring thing for aleena
Total bill $ 3.36
Total savings $43.00

Here is the coupon for the batteries (making them free)
http://www.rayovac.com/alkaline/pdf/AlkalineHAB_Online_Rebate.pdf
Here is the coupon for the hair things (making them .19 at target and walmart)
http://www.goodycomfort.com/res/pdf/ouchless_coupon.pdf