Scrapping Goal

Last year I had heard about people setting scrapping goals. Basically you pick a number for how many layouts you want to create over the year. So this year I decided to set one for myself!
I checked out my gallery at Scrap Orchard, where most of my layouts are, and found I had scrapped a little over 150 pages last year! That blew me away. Over 150? Wow! So this year I'm not gonna go crazy and try and top that but I'd like to scrap 100 and also print out 100! The printing will be the challenge since I haven't really printed any of the layouts I've scrapped. I know, bad Christie!

While I was looking through my gallery I thought I'd post a few of my favorite layouts:

It's a new year, how about a blog post?

Yup, haven't been on here in a while but it's a new year and so I figured why not post a little something?

Here are some photos from today. The sun was shinning bright when we woke up! I felt motivated so I cleaned up the wood storage area and prepared it for a wood delivery and organized/cleaned the garage. When daddy got home from work the kids begged him to lift them up on his hands! It's an amazing sight! 

And with that, here is to 2013!

Couponing Post

I went couponing this morning after I dropped Dylan off at childcare and before I went to work. I had written out everything in my handy dandy couponing notebook, clearly marked the quantities and which coupon(s) to use and also brought my coupon binder along with me just in case! I was in and out of Safeway in 45 minutes which is about normal.
Here is what I walked away with:

2 avocados

3 yellow onion

1 bunch of cilantro

2 green bell peppers

1 lime

1 jalapeno

4.03 lbs bananas

4 red roma tomatoes

1, 10 ct flour tortillas

4 cups shredded cheese

1 lb sliced mozzarella cheese

2 cups parmesan cheese

24 count eggs

17 various Yoplait yogurts

4 various Tillamook yogurts

2 pkgs lasagna noodles

1 jar Skippy peanut butter

32 oz cottage cheese

32 oz sour cream

2 4-count boxes drumstick ice creams

2 packages bacon

4 packages sausage

1 $50 itunes gift card

Total paid: $99.78 for $171.53 in product (42% savings)

I think I did pretty well considering Safeway has always been the 'expensive store' however I've learned that if you wait for the sale, pair up the item(s) with coupons and J4U deals, you can actually score big. 

And there my friends is my first post in MONTHS. I'm hoping it's the first of many to come about couponing, scrapping, kids, family and life.

A Captivating Blog Train - This is Me - Stacked Papers Freebie

The Captivating Sistas have joined Rachel to celebrate her birthday this week!
If you haven’t seen all the fun and games visit this post on Rachels blog Here!
Her store is still on sale for 30% off until May 29th, and the freebie links to the ‘This Is Me’ Alpha on her blog and the ‘This Is Me’ Papers on her Facebook fan page are still active until Sunday only!
Plus a little birdy tells me that if you missed the freebie from the Newsletter on Thursday (‘This Is Me’ Elements), if you sign up by 2pm EST on Sunday May 29th it will be sent out again one final time to all new subscribers so sign up if you haven't already!
The 'This Is Me' Full Kit will also be available for sale in the store on June 3rd for everyone else who missed it after these freebies end!
Rachel and the Sistas have been creating some pretty awesome stacked papers for you with the This Is Me Kit, you can download all nine papers free by following this fun train!!
You can download my portion of this freebie HERE, follow the blog links below from the list to the next freebie, all participating Sistas have been noted in the list so if you’ve got lost or missed a paper check all of the blog links below for the freebies!
Don’t forget to check out Rachel’s Sale and enjoy the freebies and leave us some love in the comments while you are here!
These Stacked Paper freebies will only be available for thirty days so snap them up while you can!

Rachel
Christie< You are Here
Lynn
Ellie
Tammy
Melissa
Carrie
Tamara
Andrea
Lita

ENJOY! :)

You WANT to win this kit!!

DeCrow Designs and Tracie Stroud have teamed up and made a seriously ROCKING collab!!! I’ve already made 4 pages with it, LOL.

To enter for a chance to win visit ::this:: thread. Good Luck!

St Patrick's Day & Scrapping

Well for this holiday I wasn’t as prepared as I was for Valentines Day, but did have some things that I had picked up at the store.

This was the new decore for St. Patty’s Day (except for the give thanks scentsy warmer):

And some fun pictures of the kids:

Last night at dinner Dylan became obsessed with saying belly button “bee b” and pointing to it. It was just so cute I snapped some pictures:

Lastly some layouts I’ve scrapped recently! I feel like I’ve been a busy scrapping machine lately!

New from Micheline Martin:

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Kinda new from Amy Stoffel (posting a little late):

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New from Captivated Visions:

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Not new from CV but my first time playing with These Days kit:

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New from mle Card:

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And an old kit from Tracie Stroud:

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yeah yeah…

Yeah I know it’s been awhile….what, 5 months or so? Well I know it’s no excuse but live is just busy! I won’t go into details and bore you on what the last 5 month have been filled with.
Life is great for us Lemmons. We moved into a bigger house which was needed! Dylan and Katelyn both have their own rooms finally! We also have a dining room! We love to sit down for dinner, let Kate pray for us, and then enjoy a meal as a family. Our new house is also close to my parents so it’s been fun having them stop over for a quick visit or dinner.
Kate started preschool this past year and is loving it. She comes home sharing something new every week! She is also in gymnastics and loves that. Her two favorite teachers are Hannah and Shannon.
Dylan has recently learned how to walk, at 15 months (just like Katelyn did). Once he learned how to walk all he does is follow Katelyn around just wanting to be near and around her. He also loves to climb on everything and anything he can. As he is becoming more active I’m beginning to see the differences between boys and girls!
Conor and I are about to celebrate our 8 year wedding anniversary. I can’t believe it’s almost been 8 years! It has seriously flown by and I can’t wait to see what is in store for us in the coming years.
I’m still enjoying digital scrapbooking. I’ve updated the sidebar with my Creative Teams. I’m on 7, the most I’ve ever been on and I love it!! I’m CT’ing for all the designers that I LOVE!
Here are a few recent favorite pages:
Laughter
(got 1 gallery standouts!!!)

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Sorry
(got 3 gallery standouts!!!)

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Reflecting on the past 12 years

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Chubbs

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Masterpiece

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Well I think I’ll end there! I hope to keep up my blog this time. I’ll pretty much be posting family stuff and updates as well as digital scrapbooking layouts!
Until next time!

Just a little shopping

So I've been following the Krazy Coupon Lady's blog for awhile now. Recently I learned that one of the Krazy Coupon Ladies lives here in Humboldt!! In fact she's coming to speak at my MOPS group in November. I'm so excited!!!

Well today I decided to get all my coupons together, write a shopping list and head on out. I hadn't planned on taking the kids with me but by the time I got everything organized I ended up having both kids in tow. Here is a picture of what I got.

Target:
1st Transaction

4 Reach Floss ($.97 each)
(used 4-$1.00 off so they were FREE!)
1 Curel 13 oz Ultra Healing Lotion ($7.19 each)
(used 1-$1.00 off  Curel Target Web coupon and 1-$1.00 off Curel Manufacturer coupon)
1 Curel 6 oz Ultra Healing Lotion ($3.79 each)
(used 1-$1.00 off  Curel Target Web coupon and 1-$1.00 off Curel Manufacturer coupon)
Total Spent: $8.00 (before tax)
Received a $5.00 gift card which I used on my next transaction

2nd Transaction

1 can of cooking spray
4 cans of progresso soup ($1.25 each)
(used $1.00 of of 4 so they were $1.00 each)
1 up and up facial scrub (2.59 each)
(used .75 cent coupon so it was $1.84)
1 4pk ge reveal light bulbs ($2.00 each)
(used $1.50 coupon so it was $.50)
2 Nutrigrain bars ($2.50 each)
(used $1.00 off of 2 so they were $2.00)
2 packages of shredded Kraft cheese ($2.00 each)
8 blocks of Kraft cheese ($2.00 each)
(used 2-$5.00 off of 5 and 1-$1.00 off of 1 so the cheese was $.90)
1 chips ahoy cookies ($2.09 each)
1 chips ahoy chunky cookies ($2.09 each)
(used $1.00 off of 2 so they were $1.59 each)
1 ink cartridge
1 pack of binkies
(used $5.00 gift card from Curel transaction)
Total Spent: $46.94 (before tax)

Rite Aid:

3 packages of Huggies Pure & Natural Diapers ($8.99 each)
2 packages of Huggies Pull Ups ($8.99 each)
(used $3.00 off of one package of Huggies Pure & Natural, $4.00 off of $20.00 at Rite Aid, $2.00 off of one package of Huggies, and 2-$2.00 off of Huggies Pull Ups)
Total Amount Spent: $31.95 (before tax)
Received $6.00 in Up Rewards for my next purchase at Rite Aid

Family Portrait

Kate has about 40+ little people toys. She absolutely loves them all and plays with them all the time. While she plays with the she tells us who each one of them are. After discovering that most of their names are family members I decided to take a 'family portrait'.

My apologies to...........Uncle Robert, Daddy, and Uncle Aaron! Kate apparently didn't consider gender when naming her peoples.  And Auntie Jennie I'm sorry she thinks you're a clown??!! Strange for sure!