Date Night! (on a budget)

Tommy and I got to have a wonderful date night last night. I think I was even more excited about it because I got to save a lot of money and still have a great night. If you have never heard of the website Restaurant.com then you totally need to look into it. I went on there and found a gift certificate for Savory Sushi. I paid $3.00 for a $25.00 GC. The only catch is on the certificate it say you must spend at least $35.00 to get the $25.00 off. But hey $13.00 for a wonderful sushi dinner for two is amazing. Then after that we decided to go rent a movie and so I looked online again at some wonderful coupon websites and found a code for a free movie rental at the Blockbuster Kiosk. GREAT!!! Talk about a perfect date night on a budget!

Clemson Weekend!

Tommy and I finally got a chance to get away for the weekend with no kids. It was great to relax and enjoy each other without someone saying Mommy Mommy every two minutes. But about three or four hours into the drive to Clemson I started to really miss my kids. This weekend was family weekend up at Clemson and since my brother is now a student up there at the Bridge program we went for a visit. My mom was awesome! She really didn't feel like driving up there since she just saw my brother the weekend before so called me and offered us her tickets to the game and offered to stay home and keep the kids by herself while we got a weekend away. She is Awesome!!! Tommy has never been to a college game so he got the royal treatment for his first game if you ask me! My cousin and his family own box seats so that is where our tickets were! Not only did we get box seats we got a parking pass right on front of the stadium to experience the whole tailgating thing. Once we got to the box it was fully catered. Tommy was in amazement! We get to seat in A/C, eat all the food you want and have two flat screen T.V.'s in front of you to watch other football games along with the one in front of you! Just his luck Ohio State was playing at the same time as Clemson so we were watching that game on T.V. too!

      It was really great to see my brother and where he is living! He is in a awesome apartment complex that the bridge program has all of there student stay at! Way nicer then you could ever imagine! They have a club house there that has a huge outdoor pool with a lazy river around it, ping pong table and volleyball court. Then you go inside a you got tanning beds, pool table room with huge flat screen TVs to watch whatever you want, huge work out room, study room and giant kitchen! Tommy wanted to know how in the world are you supposed to study with all of that around you to do! But it was great! I am really happy for him and can see he really likes it! I just wish it was closer to home! Didn't realize how much I would miss him!

The Family!

The Kids!

In the Box!

It's Coming!

I can't wait for Fall. I am so over the really hot hot days and really over the rain. This morning it felt wonderful outside. While Thomas was taking his morning nap Gracie and I went outside on the deck and painted some pretty pictures for daddy and enjoyed the breeze!

She Did It!!!

We did it! Gracie is potty trained! Wahoooooo! I have never been so happy about someone using the bathroom! Ha ha. It has been about a week straight of using the big girl potty with a few accidents here and there but for the most part she is not wearing a diaper. The only time I am putting a diaper on right now is at bed time. We will work to that stage. We went to Babies R Us the other day and I tried putting a diaper on her for the car ride put she refused and screamed when I tried to change her she we went to North Charleston with Elmo underwear on! She made it the whole way there and as soon as we got there is went potty! I was so excited..... But needless to say we didn't make it the whole way home without an accident. She told me she needed to go but there was no where for me to stop so I tried to explain to a 2 year old to hold it and obviously she didn't understand. How do you explain that to a 2 year old. Hold it! HA HA

A Mom's Purse

I am not sure if it is just me but the contents in my purse sure have changed since I have had kids. The other day I was at CVS (my favorite coupon place) when I was trying to dig around in this bottomless pit of a purse to try and find my CVS card! So after my CVS trip I decided to come home a empty out my purse and clean it up! Let me just tell you what came out of my not so big purse.

-two sippy cups (1 Gracie's and the other Thomas)
-random stack of receipts
-loose change
-Gracie Toothbrush (okay I have no idea how that got in there)
-coupons and lots of them
-keys
-sunglasses
-lots on pens
-my wallet
-my coupon organizer (obviously I haven't been very organized if I have random coupons floating around my purse)
-chap stick
-small bag of goldfish (to keep Thomas entertained with)
and finally band aids!

Okay way to much stuff to be in my purse but I must admit everything beside the Toothbrush I use or would need. I guess to fix my problem I just need a bigger purse! HA HA

Love it.. Love it..

It warms my heart to no end! I love listening to this!

Party Pictures

Thomas birthday party was a great time! Thank you everyone for coming and joining in in our celebration for Thomas.

His Tractor cake!

Thomas was a little unsure of everyone singing Happy Birthday!

But he still didn't have a problem digging into the cake

That cake was gone in no time!

Princess Noa the cleaning fairy! Noa you can come over anytime and clean girl friend!

I wish I had gotten more pictures of all the kids. Like Issac laying on his belly looking like he was swimming and Ansley trying to crawl and the kids playing with Gracie's T-Ball set and Harrison sweet smile! Thank you again everyone for being part of our lives!