The big present

I love watching/listening to the girls play with their new Christmas present. This pictures was sometime after all the gifts were open. I'm really surprised at how clean the room looks in this picture. The house was a total mess, I must have taken the picture at just the right angle or something. Hope you all had a good Christmas!

Christmas Morning

My sister April spent Christmas with us. I'm so glad she came all the way up here, we've been having a ton of fun together!

Christmas Story

"Joseph" leading "Mary" and the donkey to Bethlehem. We spent Christmas Eve with John's family; eating a yummy ham dinner, singing Christmas songs, acting out the Christmas story (pretty much everyone had a part in it), and lighting the angel chimes.

Like Saving Money?

So living on an island in Alaska means I do a lot of my shopping online. To save money I try to use online coupons from

retailmenot.com

You just copy and paste the coupons, if they happen to apply to the website you're buying from. It's kinda a hit and miss, but sometimes you can get 10-20% off or free shipping.

Another way to save money online is by using

ebates.com.

Here you get cash back. You just start from their website and select where you're going to shop from there. Like today I wanted to get some maternity clothes from Oldnavy.com, so I go to ebates, select Oldnavy.com and shop like normal from there. I will be getting a check sent to me from ebates worth 8% of my order. It's totally worth it to spend the extra 10 seconds to go through their site (even if you only get a few bucks back, it's better than nothing).

Retailmenot.com you don't have to sign up, but for ebates, you can click here to get an account and I think $5 on your account:

http://www.ebates.com/rf.do?referrerid=j2jHzE4Iw5ZG%2BruHoNRFIQ%3D%3D

Happy saving!

Thanksgiving

We spent Thanksgiving with my family in Washington this year. It was so fun to have everyone there, including my sister's fiance. We did a bunch of fun things: shopping, playing in the snow, playing games, watching movies, Chuck E Cheeses, going to the temple, eating out (at half the Alaskan price), going to the dentist (that was real fun), bowling, etc.

My girls loved playing with their cousin Clark.

So many more pictures, so little time...

Bored princess

My sister April was taking pictures of my girls earlier this week and this was when Lexi decided she was ready to do something else.

The baby is...

A girl!!! We're so thrilled to have another girl! We happen to think we took some of the best girls names already and are having a hard time picking one for this baby. Any suggestions?