Ellie's First Taste Of Rice Cereal

The faces she made were hilarious! She had her first taste of rice cereal on October 14th. After about a week of that I started introducing fruits and veggies... so far she has had applesauce, peaches, bananas, sweet potatoes (which she LOVES), and green beans.

Weekend

First of all I just noticed I have gone up from 7 followers to 9.. so whoo hoo! LOL Thanks for making me feel loved <3 :P

And now to my post...

We had such a fun weekend!

Friday my husband arranged for the inlaws to watch the kids so we could go out. We had planned on going to a concert at the Christian Family Centre in Adrian because they gave Titus a free pass... but since all the seats sold out and we didn't feel like standing for 3 hours we decided to skip the concert. Instead we went to steak and shake and had a yummy dinner and shake :)

Saturday the inlaws watched the kids again so I could head over to The Mill in Onsted and help out with their fall festival! I did face painting and had a blast! I also ended up winning all 3 of the raffle items I signed up for! LOL I left at 1pm, picked up the kids and headed back over there to let TJ enjoy some of the games and to see the tractors and firetruck.

Today we went to church, picked up a car ( yes.. another vehicle for our driveway :P), and TJ had a "popsicle party" with his aunties and Grandpa Bill. The party was all TJ's idea. We found a 100 count box of popsicles at CVS for $.39 on clearance, so they had probably like 5 mini popsicles each..lol. He played outside all day while Titus worked in the yard and me and Ellie cleaned and played in the house.

Now my sister is over here and we are gonna watch a movie and eat yummy chocolatey goodness :) Yay for ice cream!

Apple Picking!

Last Sunday afternoon we took TJ apple picking at Kapnick's Orchard. It has become a family tradition to go there in the fall , pick apples, and get some of their yummy cider, doughnuts, and apple fritters! The picture above is us waiting to go on our wagon ride out to the apple orchard.

Here is TJ before we got on the wagon... he is such a goofy guy!


This is TJ picking apples... he had such fun!


Daddy let Ellie suck on her first apple. It was actually pretty funny.... I guess she thought it was yummy, so whenever Titus took it away from her mouth she cried and cried and as soon as he put it back she was happy again :)


Me and Titus <3

The boys hunting for apples...



We had such a good time that day. After we went apple picking, we ate some chinese ( TJ's favorite) and then headed home to relax before going out and chopping/stacking firewood.

Now.. off to figure out what yummy things I want to make with all these apples .... :)

Pics!

Day Out With Mommy Under $10

Thought I would give this a try today with my two kiddos to see if it could be done.

Well it can. :P

First off, we went to the Jackson 10 Theater to watch Marmaduke with my brother Josh. During the fall they have FREE matinee's on Saturday's at 9am and 10am. I also am a part of their frequent movie goer program, so I get discounted concessions. We ended up getting a 130 oz popcorn and 44 oz pop to share for $4.34.

After the movie TJ, Ellie and I went to the mall to walk around. TJ got to look at toys in Toys 'R Us and I let him pick something out at the Dollar Tree. He got a Cars paint by number and we picked out an adorable ladybug stuffed animal for Ellie for $2.12.

Then we headed to Bath and Body Works to get me a few goodies! :) I got a free 2oz sample of their new Secret Wonderland lotion , a Candy Corn pocket hand sanitizer, and a 3oz bottle of sweet pea body spray for a total of $1.59!

From Bath and Body Works we headed to Target to see what kind of deals we could get with our remaining $1.95... and we came across a bag for strawberry marshmallows on clearance for $.86!! TJ has been BEGGING me to buy him some of those but at over $2 a bag I have refused to do so.. but for $.86... why not? :D

When we got home we used the marshmallows to make strawberry rice krispy treats and they were soooo yummy!

We ended up having a super fun day and came home with $1.09 left over.