Wordless Wednesday

Reaon #392 why I was excited Hannah was a girl: Disney princesses

These shoes belong to a little girl I babysat yesterday.  Aren't they adorable?  I  am very excited to be able to introduce Hannah to the world of Disney princesses.  Maybe someday she too can have her own pair of Cinderella glass slippers aka jelly shoes.

Spaghetti dinner

We had spaghetti for dinner last night, which made for some cute pictures of Hannah.

Nathan insisted I take pictures of him, too.  Isn't it funny how he posed for this one?

I think he looks just like his dad and uncle Matt in this picture.  I'm pretty sure my mother-in-law has pictures of both of them as children with this same smile...

The kids were goofing around together this morning and I just had to take this picture.  I love watching them play together, it makes me glad we had them so close together (20 months).

Great shop

This is a picture of all the groceries I got yesterday for a grand total of $11.55: three bottles of bbq sauce, three bottles of mustard, two bags of pecans, two ears of corn, two cans of mandarin oranges, toothpaste, pasta, 1.5 pint of ice cream, two pounds of cherries, a box of popcorn, a bottle of salad dressing and a bag of potato chips.  I love playing the grocery game, especially in a big city!  The retail price on these groceries was over $55!  I stock up on what is on sale, combining sales with coupons, then make meals out of what I have in my cupboard from previous sales.  My goal is to not pay full-price for anything and not to have to go to Walmart to stay in my budget.

Blessings

Our Family Home Evening topic tonight was gratitude, so I thought I would share a couple of the blessings that we are grateful for right now.

After over three years of marriage, we feel we have arrived.  Last week we got our first real kitchen table.  A family in our ward is being deployed to Japan and were selling this beautiful table for a great price.  They even delivered it to our house in their Suburban!

We have been eating off a small wrought iron patio table with only two chairs and using our piano bench and office chair for extra seating, so this really does feel like a luxury.

This picture gives you an idea of the size of the old table, although this was Nathan's second birthday last November and since then he has graduated to a booster while Hannah uses the high chair, making the seating arrangements even more tricky, particularly when we had company!

Our friends also gave us a kiddie pool.  We put it on our patio and the kids are having so much fun!

Hannah continues to love the water.  She has two adorable swimsuits this summer, I love clothes passed down from friends!

Jared decided to lure Jack into the pool with a bowl of food.  He wasn't too sure about the water, but being a dog, he'll do anything for food!

Nathan "reads"

Here is a video of Nathan helping me "read" a Diego book we got from the library.  He loves this book and asks me to read it with him several times a day.  Disclaimer: the words he is reading are pictures with the words underneath them.  :-)

4th of July cookies

I made 4th of July themed sugar cookies for the families that Jared and I visit/home teach.  They turned out pretty cute I think.  I used my mother-in-law's amazing sugar cookie recipe which always turns out cookies that are beautiful AND delicious, both important qualities in a cookie, in my opinion.

When Hannah saw her big brother licking frosting off the beaters, she decided to try to climb up him and steal a taste.