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| Making only the most unhealthy dessert ever! |
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| CHEESE. |
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| Putting our Lagoon season passes to use. |
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| Cashed in our In-N-Out gift card. MMM. Thank you Shane/Jeanette Fam! |
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| Mama and me! |
Monday, September 26, 2011
Just a good weekend..
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Just a lot of random
I feel like blogging but my thoughts really are not organized enough that I should be blogging. But I guess I won't let that stop me today. Nothing too exciting is going on I just feel like writing about random stuff.
First of all...we had a trip planned to Vegas this weekend for the Take Shape for Life regional conference but did you see my last blog post about paying bills and then my facebook status about saving money? We decided that even though we could make a tax deduction on our Vegas trip it would still be a lot to fork out (or most likely, put on the credit card) right now. It wouldn't be worth it to go this weekend. The latest flight we would be able to take on Friday night was only 50 minutes after I was suppose to get off work, stretching it a bit. Then we thought about flying out Saturday morning, staying in Vegas that night and then going home the cheaper way by renting a car and driving home Sunday. It would turn out to be something like $600+ just for one night....so when my Dad told me I should probably hold off this time I trusted his opinion. We are a bit bummed but probably more relieved to not be spending that money. Maybe next year!
What's been going on with us this week....
Saving money has been on my mind and I feel like I am making a mark! Some ways we have been cracking down:
We cancelled Netflix livestream (or whatever it's called) and just kept at the 7.99 "one movie after the other" deal, which hasn't been a sacrifice because we hardly used the wii livestream deal anyways.
We got rid of our unlimited data, unlimited texts, and got a plan with less minutes on our phones. It's been hard for me to not jump on the internet, but our cell phone bill should be under $100 now vs. like $160. Whew.
It's cooling down, so whatever days that I can, I open the windows instead of running the A/C. Night especially is perfect for that.
And I've been meal planning better! I went shopping and stocked up on as much as I could think of for better cooked from scratch/homemade dinners. It's worked great! This week I've made, Asian beef noodles (my version of mongolian bbq), chicken & rice dish, burritos, chicken veggie casserole, chicken croissants and plan to make baked potatoes tonight, skillet steak and corn tomorrow and other good meals this week. (It also helps that Cade takes the left overs to work for his lunch the next day.) So if I can keep this up until next Friday, from my last shopping trip, we will be averaging about $7 a day on food for 3 weeks. Pretty good I think! We can usually drop about $25-$30 on one meal at least once a week by going out and eating. I know that there has been some weeks where it wasn't just once a week that we went out and ate either. So this is a good improvement for us!
I had some great ideas from fb friends on saving money and we've already started utilizing them. We just put some "savings" money aside from Cade's last paycheck. We'll do the same for mine coming up next week. We want to learn about canning and I am trying to be better about collecting coupons. Other ideas are greatly appreciated. I'm not doing this because we NEED to be saving every penny, I just want to be better at being thrifty and be smarter with my money because I haven't been so much the past little while.
Our pooch is in heat again. Ah booo. We keep putting off her much needed vet day and now we are seeing the consequences again. Hey, we're on the same cycle. Neat. Ha. Except hers lasts longer than mine and I don't have to wear a diaper. Poor pooch. I get kind of embarrassed when I take her outside of our apartment complex to go potty and other dog owners have a confused look on their face as to why their dog is acting so aggressive all of a sudden. I know why. I just keep walking and try to make it around the other corner.
Hey, if anyone has a Pomeranian, we can make some cute Pomchi puppies, what do ya say? P.S. we can't tell Cade :)
Besides that, everything I think, is the same. Cade's working tons of hours at his job and pushing through school at night. I'm trying to be a little homemaker during the days and working my part-time job mostly evenings. All is good though. We are happy! Looking forward to my Mom and brother coming into town this weekend then Cade's family coming next! Next weekend we plan to go to an Endowment Session with the Hansen family at the Logan Temple to celebrate Cade's parent's sealing (it's kind of a special tradition). Anxious to see all of them. As for Cade's Mom and sister Autumn, I think they are more excited to see our dog. Haha. :) We sure miss our families being so close by! Excited to move back to Boise in about 5 months and be closer to them! We appreciate though the visiting both families have done to make living "far away" from them not so hard. We are pretty blessed to have such awesome families!
First of all...we had a trip planned to Vegas this weekend for the Take Shape for Life regional conference but did you see my last blog post about paying bills and then my facebook status about saving money? We decided that even though we could make a tax deduction on our Vegas trip it would still be a lot to fork out (or most likely, put on the credit card) right now. It wouldn't be worth it to go this weekend. The latest flight we would be able to take on Friday night was only 50 minutes after I was suppose to get off work, stretching it a bit. Then we thought about flying out Saturday morning, staying in Vegas that night and then going home the cheaper way by renting a car and driving home Sunday. It would turn out to be something like $600+ just for one night....so when my Dad told me I should probably hold off this time I trusted his opinion. We are a bit bummed but probably more relieved to not be spending that money. Maybe next year!
What's been going on with us this week....
Saving money has been on my mind and I feel like I am making a mark! Some ways we have been cracking down:
We cancelled Netflix livestream (or whatever it's called) and just kept at the 7.99 "one movie after the other" deal, which hasn't been a sacrifice because we hardly used the wii livestream deal anyways.
We got rid of our unlimited data, unlimited texts, and got a plan with less minutes on our phones. It's been hard for me to not jump on the internet, but our cell phone bill should be under $100 now vs. like $160. Whew.
It's cooling down, so whatever days that I can, I open the windows instead of running the A/C. Night especially is perfect for that.
And I've been meal planning better! I went shopping and stocked up on as much as I could think of for better cooked from scratch/homemade dinners. It's worked great! This week I've made, Asian beef noodles (my version of mongolian bbq), chicken & rice dish, burritos, chicken veggie casserole, chicken croissants and plan to make baked potatoes tonight, skillet steak and corn tomorrow and other good meals this week. (It also helps that Cade takes the left overs to work for his lunch the next day.) So if I can keep this up until next Friday, from my last shopping trip, we will be averaging about $7 a day on food for 3 weeks. Pretty good I think! We can usually drop about $25-$30 on one meal at least once a week by going out and eating. I know that there has been some weeks where it wasn't just once a week that we went out and ate either. So this is a good improvement for us!
I had some great ideas from fb friends on saving money and we've already started utilizing them. We just put some "savings" money aside from Cade's last paycheck. We'll do the same for mine coming up next week. We want to learn about canning and I am trying to be better about collecting coupons. Other ideas are greatly appreciated. I'm not doing this because we NEED to be saving every penny, I just want to be better at being thrifty and be smarter with my money because I haven't been so much the past little while.
Our pooch is in heat again. Ah booo. We keep putting off her much needed vet day and now we are seeing the consequences again. Hey, we're on the same cycle. Neat. Ha. Except hers lasts longer than mine and I don't have to wear a diaper. Poor pooch. I get kind of embarrassed when I take her outside of our apartment complex to go potty and other dog owners have a confused look on their face as to why their dog is acting so aggressive all of a sudden. I know why. I just keep walking and try to make it around the other corner.
Hey, if anyone has a Pomeranian, we can make some cute Pomchi puppies, what do ya say? P.S. we can't tell Cade :)
Besides that, everything I think, is the same. Cade's working tons of hours at his job and pushing through school at night. I'm trying to be a little homemaker during the days and working my part-time job mostly evenings. All is good though. We are happy! Looking forward to my Mom and brother coming into town this weekend then Cade's family coming next! Next weekend we plan to go to an Endowment Session with the Hansen family at the Logan Temple to celebrate Cade's parent's sealing (it's kind of a special tradition). Anxious to see all of them. As for Cade's Mom and sister Autumn, I think they are more excited to see our dog. Haha. :) We sure miss our families being so close by! Excited to move back to Boise in about 5 months and be closer to them! We appreciate though the visiting both families have done to make living "far away" from them not so hard. We are pretty blessed to have such awesome families!
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Loaded
I feel like spilling my guts....Let me see what I can whip up for ya my four followers! Juicy details on life (I don't have any though). Negative comments about Utah, (but no one likes a debby downer or a hater). The happy feelings I feel after paying the bills and seeing hardly no money in our bank account (did I just say happy feelings?) My new calling (I don't know if I've warmed up to it yet though).
Cade just asked me, (referring to the BYU vs. Utes game), "Who do you think will win that game?" And I said, "I don't know, but I want a baby". Baby hungry is an understatement on my end. I think I ask him about everyday, "Can we have a baby?" ...But he's not budging. Bahaha. It's actually OK, I ask him just because I know what he'll say, and that is a kind, "Soon". (Secretly, I'm glad he hasn't caved). I do enjoy bugging him about it though and "soon" should be soon if all goes as planned. Too much info?
P.S. Go Utes! Because mini vans with BYU stickers keep cutting me off in traffic! Haha :)
Utah has been a learning experience. That's a good way to put it. I say that with sarcasm but I do feel blessed to be learning what I've been learning. I feel like I am more aware of what it might be through "anothers eyes". I have learned a lot about people. Characteristics and behaviors in people is pretty interesting and I try to understand it but I don't know if I ever will. I have been reminded that as a Latter-day Saint I am being watched and being held to a high standard. I have learned how important it is to treat others respectfully and with kindness. One of my favorite quotes is by Marvin J. Ashton and it says, "
Ok, happy feelings after paying bills? The truth is, I love being "grown up". How strange and boring is that. I'm such a square! Haha. I just really enjoy where I am at in life right now. I love being married to my best friend and living on nothing but love. I love seeing how paying tithing blesses Cade and I. I love going through the trials and knowing that things are going to be alright. I love paying our bills, being left with barely anything to spare and then realizing that we are making it still and we are doing this together. We still have so much when it appears we have so little. The small amount in our bank account just reminds me of how blessed we are. I hope that makes sense. Don't get me wrong, I would love some more money....if you want to give up some of yours, I'm all for that..haha. I'm just happy with the experiences we are having.
And my new calling! I am the second counselor in the Young Women's Presidency in our Branch. Branch because we have pretty sad numbers. For Young Women's we should have about 28 girls and we're lucky if we get like 3 to come on Sunday. I am excited about the work that we have cut out for ourselves. It's easy to see the potential this branch has and the potential in the girls and it makes me excited. My only concern is....how will I ever be cool enough to be in this calling? I look back at previous Young Women Leaders that I had and they made it look so easy. I loved them and thought they were the coolest ladies. I just want to be them now that I'm somewhat "Grown Up". Tonight was our first YW activity and we had a good turn out but I don't feel like I'm anywhere as cool as the leaders that I had. I was a lucky girl to have them; they taught me some great lessons and were awesome examples. Thanks ladies!
Kind of like a "Loaded" question, how's that for a loaded blog post?
Cade just asked me, (referring to the BYU vs. Utes game), "Who do you think will win that game?" And I said, "I don't know, but I want a baby". Baby hungry is an understatement on my end. I think I ask him about everyday, "Can we have a baby?" ...But he's not budging. Bahaha. It's actually OK, I ask him just because I know what he'll say, and that is a kind, "Soon". (Secretly, I'm glad he hasn't caved). I do enjoy bugging him about it though and "soon" should be soon if all goes as planned. Too much info?
P.S. Go Utes! Because mini vans with BYU stickers keep cutting me off in traffic! Haha :)
Utah has been a learning experience. That's a good way to put it. I say that with sarcasm but I do feel blessed to be learning what I've been learning. I feel like I am more aware of what it might be through "anothers eyes". I have learned a lot about people. Characteristics and behaviors in people is pretty interesting and I try to understand it but I don't know if I ever will. I have been reminded that as a Latter-day Saint I am being watched and being held to a high standard. I have learned how important it is to treat others respectfully and with kindness. One of my favorite quotes is by Marvin J. Ashton and it says, "
Ok, happy feelings after paying bills? The truth is, I love being "grown up". How strange and boring is that. I'm such a square! Haha. I just really enjoy where I am at in life right now. I love being married to my best friend and living on nothing but love. I love seeing how paying tithing blesses Cade and I. I love going through the trials and knowing that things are going to be alright. I love paying our bills, being left with barely anything to spare and then realizing that we are making it still and we are doing this together. We still have so much when it appears we have so little. The small amount in our bank account just reminds me of how blessed we are. I hope that makes sense. Don't get me wrong, I would love some more money....if you want to give up some of yours, I'm all for that..haha. I'm just happy with the experiences we are having.
And my new calling! I am the second counselor in the Young Women's Presidency in our Branch. Branch because we have pretty sad numbers. For Young Women's we should have about 28 girls and we're lucky if we get like 3 to come on Sunday. I am excited about the work that we have cut out for ourselves. It's easy to see the potential this branch has and the potential in the girls and it makes me excited. My only concern is....how will I ever be cool enough to be in this calling? I look back at previous Young Women Leaders that I had and they made it look so easy. I loved them and thought they were the coolest ladies. I just want to be them now that I'm somewhat "Grown Up". Tonight was our first YW activity and we had a good turn out but I don't feel like I'm anywhere as cool as the leaders that I had. I was a lucky girl to have them; they taught me some great lessons and were awesome examples. Thanks ladies!
Kind of like a "Loaded" question, how's that for a loaded blog post?
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