Finally...

I have a spot for my family's food storage!  Ty built me these awesome shelves last weekend and we were finally able to empty all the closets, cupboards, shelves and other areas I had stuff accumulated.  Don't be fooled, I still have mass quantities of food inside my pantry and tons of toiletries in my closets still, but for now this is all the room I have to store.

Crazy? Maybe... Smart? Definetly!  Wanna know why?  Because everything I bought for my food storage, I did with coupons!  I am a religious follower of  'The Krazy Coupon Lady', recently she was featured on the TLC show Extreme Couponing (hopefully you watched it).  She has taught me so much and I'm so glad I have learned how to stretch my dollar, spend less & buy more!  If you aren't a couponer, I encourage you to do so.  BUT, you have to do it the right way and match the coupons with the sales.  I average 80% savings each trip to the grocery store!

I think everyone should have a food storage, for many different reasons.  2 years ago, we were able to live off of our food storage for a very long time!  It saved us so much money in the long run because when we lost our jobs we atleast had food...and plenty of it.  My goal is to get my storage up to a 2 yr supply of food and a 1yr supply of toiletries/hygeine items...so far, I have met my toiletries goal and am working on my food goal.  I just wish I had more room! lol

I bought 20 boxes of the Special K Granola, if you've never tried it you need too!  It's excellent as cereal or on yogurt & ice cream ;)

Beleive it or not, the fruit snacks will last the kids 6 months...for reals!

My Little Angel

....Snow Angel, that is.  We got hammered last week with some freezing cold temperatures and about 2 feet of snow. One day our temperature registered at -30, brrrr!  We set records that day!  Hmmm, well now that I think of it, we've set records before here in Bellemont before..hence..Tornados!

Alexa was busy playing in the snow making snow angels...how cute!

Christmas Day

We spent the day with the family and all the kids, it was great!  The kids all had a blast.  Bill cooked us some "grub" on the grill!! hehe You never realize the importance the bond of cousins is, until they are reunited with each other after 6 months.  It was great to see them all so close and happy together.

The kids got to stay at Grandma & Grandpa Morgans house for 4 days while Ty & I headed off to Vegas the day after Christmas, it was amazing to get away with the hubsters!

Alexa & Annalese

What do you get a guy who is infatuated with guns for Christmas?? A gun encyclopedia!  He doesn't look the least bit excited about it, nah, not him!

It's a pillow, it's a pet...It's a Pillow Pet!  Anyone else have kids who had these things at the TOP of their lists' too?

Dominique

Alianna in her new skates, skating with her daddy.  Isn't she edible?!

Sweet baby girl

Tyler & Brenton....cuties!

Paige & Alianna

Whitney & Tony...I LOVE this girl!

Kyla & mom

The boys playing xbox...they have literally tuned the girls out, lol

Buddies

He's so handsome!!!

It's VEGAS BABY!!!!

I think Robin forgot to Focus the camera!!!!

2 of my favorite people in this world!  Billy and Robin you guys make our lives so much better ;)

This year we decided to do Christmas at our home on Christmas Eve night since we had to wake early and head to the Morgans for Christmas Day. We have a tradition in our home on Christmas Eve that consists of a very fancy dinner with the kids (which they LOVE since they get to dress the table up all fancy and use all the fine china we have and drink champagne out of fancy glasses, ahem, sparkling cider in plastic flutes, lol) along with opening up 1 gift prior to going to bed.  Well, this year we surprised them and let them open all their gifts instead, I love surprises! (so did they!)  We ended a great evening playing all the new Wii games and fixing Santas plate. P.S. I'm so hooked on the dang wii!  Talk about some fun family times!  We hope you all had a fabulous Christmas!

All she wanted for Christmas was a new smart phone, (which we told her she would get when pigs fly) Guess th piggies learned how to fly, hehe



Happy Little Camper!!



Such a sweet boy!!  His secret santa knew just what he wanted!

Ever seen a kid get SO excited over some electric princess toothbrushes??  I must say we have some strange kids!

Wait, is that what I think it is?? Maybe not, wait, yep....it is...a SMILE!  Ugh, her smile melts my heart!

She's very orgnized and strategic with her present opening....she must her Type A thing from someone else

Alexa's throwin' that organization thing right out the window, to heck with that she says..she's on a mission!  Funny thing is that we even had to fish some of her new presents out of the trash since they got mixed up in all her wrapping mess, hehe

He is his fathers son, he must guess what each gift is before he opens them!  He HAS to shake them, feel them, listen to them and sometimes even smell them....scary thing is that he's never right!

It's beginning to look a lot like...

Christmas!!  We've had some amazing weather this past week, wouldn't ya say?  The kids are totally diggin' all the snow, so is Bo. 

We can't wait for Christmas this year, this one will be such a special one since our family is so spread out now and we don't get to see each other as often as we would like. Then it's off to Sin City for Ty & I the day after Christmas, woohoo!!

Have a Wonderful Christmas Everyone and enjoy the special time with your families!!!

Kyla & Alexa playing at the Park across the street from our house, this is how much snow we got from 8pm-6am the next day!  (hey, this is alot for us!)

My beautiful Tree looks like it's a cotton tree!

Bo LOVES the snow, he races back and forth, over and over again!

Truly Amazing!  The beautiful scenery out my back door, I could look at that everyday!

Is this not the most precious thing you've ever seen?  I love that girl!

RIP Stephen Foxhoven

My cousins Husband passed away on Friday December 17th, 2010.  After a motorcycle accident the day before Thanksgiving in 2008, which had him in a coma for the past 2 years, he was called up to the Lord to be free again. May he finally be in Peace and be Jessica's guardian angel.  May Jessica find the strength to get through this difficult time knowing he is in a better place and watching over her now.  He was taken too young at the age of 24 but, he will forever be with you Jessica...

What's a Fathers lesson to his Daughters??

Well, for Ty, it's teaching the girls' all about Firearms.  One of our most precious privelages as Americans is the right to posess firearms, a privelage that Ty has been unable to have for so many years.  Almost 15 years ago Ty got introuble and lost his privelage to ever own a gun, this past year he was finally awarded his civil rights once again. (After a 2 year fight) Needless to say, this is a HUGE accomplishment for Ty one that he will be forever grateful for. 

Ty is so passionate about teaching the kids how to use & respect firearms in a way that is safe.  Paige is our biggest fan of target shooting and can I tell you that girl has good aim...so ya' better watch out!  Ty is taking Paige on her first hunt next fall for Wild Turkey.  Tyler already got to go on a boys trip hunting for squirrell this last October.  What great Father/Child bonding!!!