Since it's still July...

I can still post this video from the 4th, right?

Sean's 1st Year in Pictures

It has been brought to my attention that I never posted all of Sean's monthly pictures together. So without further ado... Sean's 1st Year!

4th of July Weekend

What a great holiday weekend! It's our first in months that we both Charles and I have had off work and we didn't have any commitments to parties, weddings, etc. We also both had off on Friday, so it was a long weekend, even better :) We decided that since Ian is now 2 1/2 and we had some time, it was a great weekend to start potty training officially!

We built it up for a few weeks by telling Ian that it was going to be time to say "Bye Bye to diapers!" Friday, we just put him right into underwear and let him run around the house like that. We constantly asked him if he had to go potty. He did great and didn't have single pee accident all day. We ventured out to Madison to run some errands and while he did a great job trying to go in a public bathroom, he held it the WHOLE time!

Saturday was the first that he started telling us he had to go potty. Soo awesome!! He had one accident of #2 on Saturday while we were out. He woke up dry that night (although he's been waking up dry pretty much every night for a few weeks) and on Sunday morning he got up and went pee in the potty right away. He's been wearing underwear all the time (except we put him in a Pull-Up when he's outside at the farm a lot. Today we were eating dinner at the farm. We were all outside and all of a sudden he ran into the house. Charles followed him in and he was trying to get his pants off. He sat on the potty and went pee! He's just been doing so great and we're so proud of him!

Apart from a lot of potty talk this weekend, we've been spending as much time outside and together as possible. Yesterday we filled up the kiddie pool, got out the beach ball sprinkler and water table and enjoyed the beautiful weather! The kids enjoyed red, white and blue popsicles (it was Sean's first!).

Today, Charles and I took the boys to the farm and went to see Eclipse. I LOVED it and Charles thought it was pretty good, for a girl movie at least :) When we got back, we went with Jim (Lolo) canoeing. It was Charles, Ian, Jim and I. It was Ian's first time and while he was a little timid at first, he warmed up to it and loved it!

After dinner just before going home, we lit off the firecrackers and sparklers that David gave Sean for his birthday. Ian thought they were a blast and Sean was pretty impressed, too!

All in all, a great weekend with beautiful weather! We're both off work next weekend, too. Hopefully it'll be as great as this one was :)

Green with Envy

I've always been envious (and inspired:)) of those blogs by moms who find all those awesome deals on food and household needs through sales and couponing. They take pictures of their huge purchases that costs pennies on the dollar.

Well guess what? It's my turn! I snagged a couple AWESOME deals this weekend on things that we've been running low on. Toys R Us, Target and Walgreens were my stops. I ran most of these errands after the kids went to bed to it was stress-free and I was able to sift through my coupons and make sure everything rang up correctly. So here is what I bought:

Toys R Us:

*2 packages of the Pull-Ups Night Time Protection (originally $10.99 each) on clearance for $4.11 each, coupled with 2 $2/1 coupon from mail flyer= $2.11 each

*2 Bottles of Baby Blanket Sunscreen Lotion w/bonus travel spray (originally $10.99 each) on clearance for $4.48, also all Baby Blanket Products are on sale Buy 1, Get 1 50% off= $6.72 for two 12oz bottles and two 2oz travel sprays

*Oragel Toddler Plaque Revealing Pre-Brush Gel (originally $3.98) on clearance for $.98, coupled with $1/1 coupon from Sunday Paper, free plus overage ($.02)

*2 Kiss My Face Obsessively Natural Kids Tooth Paste (orignally $6.99 each) on clearance for $1.71 each

*Boudreaux's Butt Bath Moisturizing Body Wash and Shampoo (orignally $11.99), on clearance for $2.98, coupled with $2/1 coupon from Sunday Paper= $.98

*3 Johnson's Buddies Moisturizing Body Wash (originally $3.99 each) on clearance for $.73 each

*3 MethodKid Squeaky Green Body Wash (originally $5.99 each) on clearance for $1.49 each, coupled with Toys R Us $2/any 3 body wash coupon= $2.47 for all 3

*2 Kiss My Face Obsessively Natural Kids Self-Foaming Shampoo & Body Wash (originally $7.99 each) on clearance for $1.49 each and 1 J/A/S/O/N Pure, Natural and Organic Kids Only! Shampoo (originally $7.99) on clearance for $1.49, coupled with Toys R Us $2/any 3 body wash or shampoo coupon= $2.47 for all 3

Walgreens:

*Four 2-liters of Diet Pepsi (originally $1.69 each): On sale with Walgreens Coupon at 4 for $4, coupled with 2 $1/2 manufacturer coupons attached to bottles= $.50/each

Target:

*Pampers Sensitive Thick Care wipes 60-pack (originally $2.39) on sale for $1.98, coupled with $2/1 manufacturer coupon from Sunday Paper= free plus $.02 overage

My total for all of these products was $18.02!!! If I had bought these at full price, it would have been $136.97!! That's a savings of $118.95!!