Coupon FAIL

Lately, and by lately I mean since Friday when we bought our new printer, I have been slightly obsessed with couponing. I was printing them off the internet and making stacks and piles and lists and planning my mass attack on Walmart. I even dreamed about coupons Saturday and Sunday night, blah, awful way to sleep. Anyways this morning I woke up EARLY. I had a huge list and it was the only time of day I could go so at 7 am I headed to Walmart (because they price match and I THOUGHT I could avoid going to 5 stores this way). I got to Walmart and realized I left my wallet at home. So mad!! I drove the 15 minutes home and then plowed my way through rush hour traffic to get back to the store. I had exactly one hour to get through the whole store or else Trevin (at home watching Addie) would be late for school. I planned on walking out of Walmart with 30 boxes of cereal all under $1 a box. FAIL. I walked out with no cereal. They didn't sell the size cereal that I thought was on sale. In my defense I saw it on a couponing blog, I didn't actually look at the ad. Lesson learned! I figured no big deal I'll just stop at Maceys on my way home to get the cereal. Ha, turns out the kind of cereal I had coupons for wasn't even on sale. So to make a long story short through out the day I ended up at 2 other grocery stores 1 of which I was successful in, the other had some weird store policy that wouldn't let me use my coupons. I didn't find out till after they had rung everything up. So yes my dreams and aspirations this weekend were all dashed in one day. But lots of lessons learned. The main one....couponing isn't my thing, I need a new hobby.

A Haircut and Ice Cream

Someone's hair was a little out of control, time for her first haircut!

She sat so still and didn't move a muscle on our makeshift haircutting chair.

I lied, she isn't naturally that still. We had a little help from the Baby Signing Time video on TV

Later that night we got ice cream cones from McDonalds (yes my addiction is slowly coming back) and she really really loved it, so much so that while I was sitting on the floor eating my cone and watching TV she snuck up on me and got another bite.

Big Girl Syndrome

We have a problem at our house. We call it the Big Girl Syndrome. Now that Addie can crawl and pull herself up and stand she thinks she is independent and is a "Big Girl." This means she refuses baby food of any sort. She also will generally not allow you to put anything in her mouth. If she is going to eat something it is going to pass through her hands for inspection first. In addition, being held is only a means of getting somewhere quicker. If the intention of holding is to confine her then she screams enough to make people give you dirty looks at the grocery store. Naps are also considered optional in her mind. And big girls must like playing in the kitchen because that is her new favorite hang out spot. Happy 9 months to our little "Big Girl!"

Faith

I found this on Pinterest

"we must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us"

Lately I've taken to finding uplifting quotes like this and reading lots of General Conference talks on faith. Trevin hasn't been accepted to medical school yet and time is running out. We don't know what we are going to be doing next fall or where we are going to live. He has started applications for graduate school programs too (the deadlines happen to be in a month meaning we found out he has to take the GRE in two weeks) but lately it just feels like a down pour of less than good news. Trevin said tonight we really should be due for a break soon, seriously, haha.

I'm so glad for my religion, I think if I didn't have it all of this would be a lot harder. But with lots of prayers, scriptures, and General Conference talks things are looking lots brighter than otherwise. I'm sure we will end up where we should be and everything will work out.

Christmas

Just a few photos from Christmas. Yes Trevin had a Christmas mustache, lets not go into that but anyways we had a great Christmas and Addie had a blast!!

4 Years

Trevin, Addie, and I went to Temple Square to see the lights last Saturday. It is so crazy to think about how things have changed over the years. Trevin and I have gone to see the lights 3 years together. We didn't go last year due to my lazy pregnant state but besides that we've gone every year since we have known each other. And every year we take a picture, its fun to look back and see how things really have changed.

The first year we went we were dating. I posted this picture on facebook afterwards and had lots of people comment on how we should get married. We had been dating for four months and had never talked about getting married.

The next year we went we had been married for 6 months. Ha thank goodness for facebook or we would have never thought of getting married :)

Skip the next year and just imagine a fat and complaining version of me.

And then this year. We took Addie to see the lights and she loved it. It was really cold but she had a big grin on her face the whole time. It is sad to think this will be our last Christmas living only an hour away from Temple Square but I'm so glad for all the memories that this tradition has had for us.

Fa-la-la-la-la

I know you are extremely curious as to what we have been up to since last desperately feeding Addie chocolate pie. Well Addie has been busy....

smiling

Riding Winnie the Pooh

Getting into the Christmas spirit

Playing by Grandma Cardon's Christmas tree

Getting my early Christmas present, a big girl car seat

Watched a lot of football with daddy

Went on my first airplane ride to see Grandma and Grandpa Robinson

Tried on hats and went shopping with Grandma A LOT

Played with Grandma's Christmas tree and then tried to eat the fake pine needles that I shook off of it

Attempted to unwrap some presents

Got my very first sweat suit from Grandma

And today I finally got to relax and just play

She never stops going. If anyone needs a workout come play with Addie. We hope you're enjoying the holidays as much as we are!