Our January (so far) in pictures

Daddy lifting the kids 'high in the air'

 I got a new scarf!

 We got wood dropped off

I moved it... 

 and stacked it in an hour and fifteen minutes

 I wore a comfy dress to work

 we went bowling

 wore awesome shoes

 and had fun with friends

 I found an oldie in the safe

 I got fun new slippers

 Kate got to see papa at the airport

 Had brunch at Luke's Joint

 Yummy green eggs and ham wrap

 and pulled pork sandwich

 tooting noises at the table were hilarious

 veggies for dinner all chopped up and ready to eat

 I had a cooking audience

 made yummy crockpot beef carnitas

 Kate wrote me a sweet note

 I had a 3 hour hair appointment

 I got fun colors put in

the final product! 

 I played uno with Kate

The kids had fun with sunglasses.... 

lots of fun.

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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