Happy New Year!!

My sweet family is incredible. When I asked everyone to help take Christmas down no one complained. There was however a round of groans, but we made it a game. We took down two trees, snow babies, a couple of villages....lots of other items all over the house in 2 1/2 hours. I am talking boxed up and put in the attic. No items were broken and everything to its original box. It did take another hour to clean the house up and I was blown away. Honestly thought it would take several more hours. One of our trees is 12 feet tall...I almost put it through the window putting it up. So, I let Christian take it down.


This year my family is trying a few new things, one is we are seeing if we can eat at home more instead of eating out. We want to take the money we would spend eating out and go on a trip. OK lets be honest here, more trips. Maybe a long weekend or a ski trip..to add to the trips I am already putting in the works. If this year can turn out half as good as last year we will consider ourselves blessed!

Another thing we are continuing from last year is couponing. We started last year and it is addictive. I went yesterday for my first trip of the new year. It was exciting to get $182 worth of groceries for $82. I am not as good as some of the women, but it excites me! My little CB loves to watch the monitor to see how much I save and is quick to tell his dad how much I have spent. I am the crazy lady at the store with her coupon notebook, 3 kids in tow and in search of all the deals.

One more thing our family is planning to hike the Blue Beaver Trail this Spring. We are going to hike up Lookout Mountain and then ride the Incline down. Sounds crazy! I just wonder how much of the mountain I will have to carry Haley up? Oh well, I am sure we will all have fun!

Until next time!