9 days and Counting!

There are soooooo many things to blog and think about, but alas! There is only ONE thing that seems to be on my mind these days......DISNEYLAND!!!! We have been planning this trip for what seems like FOREVER and now it is only 9 days away! AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Yes...that was me hysterically laughing because I'm so excited! And thrust me folks I'm earning this vacation! These last few weeks have tried my little Megan sanity! Just some drama and a few mini breakdowns, and a WHOLE lotta busy has taken it's toll. This week there is an extra 1 1/2 of training at work tomorrow, Pack night that I get to lead on Tuesday (oh boy!), and more cub scout training stuff on Sat, tack on cleaning the house, shopping for the trip, planning what I can, and packing- OH this week shall fly! Works for me! It is all worth it to be going back to my FAVORITE vaca spot that we haven't visited since 2007 when Daae was almost 2! Bonus fun is that Maemaw and G-dad are comming too! YAAAYYY!!! Our party of 6 is going to take Anaheim by storm and have a whole lotta fun doing it! Before I hit the hay here is a mini family update- Daae is LOVING school! She is always so excited to go and she is sucking it all up like a spunge. Today is Jaxon's first official sucess at crawling!!! He wasn't too thrilled about having to do it, but he CAN DO IT! Now to clean the carpets and find a baby gate for the stairs! As for Riley and I we're just movin' right along, work, home, friends, and eachother keep us busy and happy! Well that's all for now folks!!! Sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite!

Kindergarten!!!!

Yes I know that kindergarten started LAST Tuesday, so please forgive this week late post! So Daaelynn is in school and LOVING it! She is so happy and excited every day to go. The only thing she does not love is walking up the hill to go home every day LoL I enjoy it though because hopefully it will help me ditch all my extra layers this year! She (as you know) has no layers to ditch so she would prefer driving :D Her 1st day her dad was able to get home in time to go with us to school, and I did feel a tiny bit choked up, but WoW I heart kindergarten! She needed it and so did I! Everything went off without a hitch, and I think we are all loving it! Jaxon's naps are a little bit screwed up, but we'll figure it out! And the best thing about kindergarten??? Daaelynn sleeps in her OWN room now in her OWN bed!! REJOICE!!!!!! She said she would do it when she went to school, and the cick did it! So happy all around! Let's hope the happiness lasts all year long!
SCHOOL DAYS!!

striking her rockstar pose!

Opening the door to her education!!!

Say bye mom!!!

Remember my favorite word???

FREE! And I had to share another awesome way I found to get freeeee stuff! But first- a little story :) I started reading a book when I was still pregnant with Jaxon called Enchanted Inc. And then the darnedest thing happened- I found out it was a series! Yeah!!! And the library only had the 1st book! Boo!!! So since then I've been hitting amazon to find the other 3 books. I ended up buying 2 & 3, but got held up at #4- Don't Hex With Texas. It is the last book so it is the newest and most expensive so I delayed and delayed on buying it. And then I heard about a web browser ( like google) called Swagbucks from a friend and fellow blogger ( Thanks Shelli!!) . Basically what you do is you use Swagbuck's search engine and you will randomly be awarded Sawgbucks! With these Sawgbucks you rack up you can buy things from the swag store. Well my #1 FAVORITE thing to buy is....$5 amazon gift cards! See where this is going?! I got my final book for FREE with the points I had earned just by searching the Internet like I always do!!! And guess how long it took me to get the 450 points I needed for the $5 gift card..... 1 1/2 weeks! By the end of a month I was a happy camper because I finally got to finish my series, and best of all it was all freeeeee! And now I am working on more $5 gift cards for who knows what! Christmas maybe- free Christmas presents! Heehee! Another yeah is that when you refer people you also get whatever points your friends earn! So if you end up doing swagbugs and feel so inclined, punch my screen name, megtoes, into wherever when you register! The spread the word and have your friends do it for you! Whether you do or don't you can't lose with swagbucks! AND PS- Shanna Swendson is the author of Enchanted Inc. and I HIGHLY suggest it! Awesome books! Thanks for reading my jabber! :D

July Fun, and It's Only Begun!!!

What a crazy month we've had and it's not even half way thru! Well I have tons to share so here we go! I'm going to work backwards a bit because today ( or yesterday because it is 12:43 am :) was my little girl's fifth birthday!!! Five years old! Holy cow!!!!! So here is a pic of my little baby less than a week old........

AWE!!!! she was SO tiny! Just 4lb 7oz and 17 inches long. Gotta love her big little nose LoL! But look! She totally grew into it!!!

Here she is with her birthday pancake- candles and all! And Oh the day just got better and better!!! We did ( or I rather) did a brave thing and had our first birthday party with friends, not just family, and what a blast we had! We had a water party in front of our house with about... 16 kids! WoW! We played water games, ran through a fun sprinkler, and threw water balloons! And I can tell you this I have to send a HUGE thank you out to my family and friends who helped me set up and then keep these crazy kids entertained for an hour and a half! So Marci, Der, Mom, Katie, and Shayla- THANK YOU! YOU'RE AWESOME! Below are some pics of the festivities! ( thanks to Shayla who aws maning the camers :D )

Our lil party goers enjoying some favors, punch and cake!Presents! Awesome!!!

The little girlies playing a fun water game! Everyone had tons of fun adn it was a great sucess PHEW!

But before our party we had even more water fun! Daaelynn is in swimming lessons this summer and I will tell you they are AWESOME! The things these people have thought up to get kids to learn how to swim and have fun is totally worth the $30! She has had so much fun in the 3 days we've gone so far! Here she is learning to float.....

And here is what we did today- she swam the twisty river! At one point she was like 10 feet ahead of her teacher just swimming away with her life vest. I'm so proud of her! She has just taken right to it! No fear!!!

And the last event was the 4th of July. We went to a park and had tons of fun with Riley's family- eating pizza, playing with water balloons, and watching some fireworks! Here are the Keele Men.... What good lookin' guys I have!And the Keele Women! Hot chicks right there!

And we can't post without putting a cute Jaxie Bug picture in!!! Loving eating solids! Well thanks for putting up with all my rambling! We have more family coming into town tonight,a reunion next weekend and then the 24th of July after that so be prepared for more!!! Peace out dudes!!! ;)

Savings???

Sorry I didn't quite know how to name this post LoL I'm blogging today for some advice As many of you might know, couponing has become a real "in" thing these days! I follow a money saving blog as many of you do I'm sure. With the economy the way it is, it just makes sense to try and save where you can. But, here is the question, DO ANY OF YOU FIND IT ALSO STRESSFUL???Because sometimes I just wanna throw things when I go shopping and the 2 big reasons are A: they are ALWAYS out of the deals I went in there to get! Ok maybe always isn't fair, but at least 50% of what I went to get is gone :( and B: making sure I have all my coupons together and to the cash register AND making sure they all worked out and came off just totally frazzles me! If you know me you know I am not Mrs. Organization! Then if you add in the fact that I usually have at least Jaxon with me on a shopping trip if not also Miss Daaelynn HOLY MIND MELT!!!! So does anyone else have this issue or is it just me??? And then also I wonder if I got a good deal??? I always see people saying they got $80 worth of stuff for like $30!!! So here is my shopping total for today and I need your opinion!!! I shop at Smiths- they had a deal where they would make all your under $1 coupons $1 coupons! SO I spent $76.02 but saved $12.95 with coupons, $5.65 with Smith's promotion (buy 10 participating items get $3 off) AND $33.54 in fresh value savings for a total of $52.54 AKA 41% savings!!! But is that way good or kinda good or what??? I DUNNO!!! I mean $52 bucks saved is awesome, but only $12 came from coupons. So what do you all think???? Give me some advice my wise wise friends!! :D

Your Vote Counts!!!

Yes I said YOUR vote :D We need some help from our awesome friends AKA YOU! My lil Mr. Jaxon in in the Parent's Magazine photo contest!!! Right now the voting is for reader's choice. You can go to the link once a day and vote for this cute guy! And who could resist!?!? Sweet smile, beautiful blue eyes with looong lashes, awesome cool lil widow's peak! He's a hottie-to-be my friends! We don't expect you to go everyday- you can if you want though! And maybe you'll see him in Parents Mag! Yeah!!! Thanks everyone!!!! http://photos.parents.com/category/vote/photo/356366

My favorite word...

FREE!!!! Can't get any better than free! SO I follow a site called www.freebies2deals.com and I'm addicted I tell you! The host and deal finder of the site, Melea, finds the most AWESOME money saving deals and shares them with all!!! She also does some awesome giveaways! I have found the greatest deals, gotten free coupons, and even won 2 headbands recently in the Giveaway Extravaganza she hosted!! Seriously if you haven't checked out this blog-hop on it!!! You can find her button here on my blog down and to the right! Let the $ saving begin!!!!! WOOHOO!