been in coupon land!

One month ago (exactly) I went to a coupon seminar. It cost $10 to go but my following grocery bill i spent $48 and saved $58. So I think the one time $10 fee already has been made up for! Most my spare time now has been spent cutting, sorting, and looking for (more) coupons (to cut and sort). Right now I'm using a yearly planner to house my coupons and well it's not really working to well!
Well "That lady" (who held the seminar) is giving away a free coupon binder. Which I as going to make one (eventually) anyway. But free is better for me! Here is a link the her website if anyone else would like to enter to win one...But if you win you should think of me! haha IamTHATlady She has a picture of what it looks like too, and you can order one off her site incase you miss the free entry.

not again...

I realized that its been forever since I posted! Life has been stressful! My husband up and quit his job, with not even a day let alone a two week notice. He started delivering news papers thats night he quit. Big jump in pay for sure! Within four days he had a second job though so it was to terrible. But no were a week behind on pay with the gap. He's going to make the same amount of money but he's killing himself working two jobs instead of one. I also found out in this financial crunch that he started smoking again! He had been smoking about a pack a day for "2-3 weeks" witch in "I'm sorry I lied but I'm still trying to cover my butt here" language means 3-4 weeks. I figured in the average of 3 weeks he smoked away 141 dollars and some odd change! He was stressed about money so he wasted $141! While I'm sitting home doing nothing because we can't afford it, and cutting coupons for everything and budgeting...He is off smoking! I wanted to kill him, it's been two days and I'm still not over it, in fact I'm getting madder as i type...
I haven't gotten a haircut in over a year! After Tiernan I sold all my maternity clothes in a garage sale. I have one (maternity) t-shirt I got for free, and 4 dress shirts (one short, one 3/4, and one long sleeved), 3 spaghetti strap tank tops I wear under shirts and one regular long sleeve thermal-ish. Then I have one pair of black dress pants (that are two short) and a pair of jeans thats hurt. I'm very thankful because most of that (not the pants) were gifts! Now saying that it has been 85+ degrees out and I'm HUGELY pregnant! Do you want to wear warm clothes and dress shirts with PANTS in that kind of weather? No and neither do I! But being tight on money I've dealt with what little I had, wore sweat pants when i could, and hubbies t-shirts around the house. My sister got me 2 more short sleeve t-shirts on sale ($4 and $8) that I now have as of yesterday. At 4 and 8 dollars a piece do you know how many maternity t-shirts I could have had with $141? Somewhere between 17 and 35 shirts! Seeing as I don't need that many shirts I could have gotten capris and or shirts to wear too... But no, the cigarets where way more important! ARG!

On a separate note, Elijah has a big boo boo on his "uncle." On his legs he has both uncles and ankles, but know knees lol! He also went to his first baseball game with my sisters family! Also Tiernan got his first black eye yesterday, curtsy of daddy. Or course it was an accident though, Eli was chasing Tiernan, Tiernan was running (kinda) away hit daddies coffee, Daddy swung his arm to catch it and some how got Tiernan is the eye. My poor little guy! He as pretty upset 'till mommy got a freezer pop for him to eat and another for his eye. Now Elijah keeps getting random boo boo's so he can have one too! My kids are so funny.
Well the boys only nap at the same time for a short period of time, and I've spent a lot of it blogging so I think its time to shower and do dishes! Don;t be to jealous...

Why is it...?

Why is it that:

when you finish doing the dishes you find some more "hiding" in another room?
after you vacuum your kids wants to eat breakfast while watching cartoons and spill it everywhere?
after you clean the toilet someone is GOING to pee on the seat?
during nap time someone drives by with a loud car/truck/sound system to wake the kids?
right after you draw with chalk the rain washes it away?
you struggle to get downstairs and out the front door with your kids and realize you forgot the whole reason for the trip on the table?
when you really want to be outside on a nice day the kids are terrible and don't deserve a trip to the park?
the meal you eat after you mop the kitchen floor gets thrown by your toddler?
when you have dinner ready your husband comes home late from work?
When you have extra money something breaks?

Spring nesting

So I haven't decided if i'm "nesting" or "spring cleaning" yet. What really is the difference? Isn't spring cleaning just nesting when your not pregnant? Thats kind of what I think, so I guess I'm just "spring nesting"? All the laundry is done, folded and for the most part put away! We need more dressers or less clothes. They are all filled to the brim, and there are only more clothes in baskets and storage...
Now the toys...thats a whole different story! The boys each have a tot/bin for their toys, which are over flowing to the floor and daddy had to bild selfs for Elijah room for the "big toys." With baby #3 on the way and being a girl she will get a whole new set of toys! I have been trying to sort and get rid of broken toys, and the less played with. But as soon as we get to the bottom the boys find a toy that is a favorite and just fell through the cracks. I feel terrible throwing away/donating toys. I know at one point all these toys were a favorite of one of my children. But at the same time they are just cluttering my tiny apartment!!
Working at McDonald's sure didn't help any. I got so so many free toys when I worked, and when I came in on a day off with the boys they always got 1-4 free toys from my friends/co-workers. I have doubles and triples of a lot of them. I have more toys and clothes for these kids than they will ever wear/use and i feel terrible getting rid of any of them! I need to just go in and find all the broken toys and toss them, all the stained clothes and toss them!
I have all the clothes Tiernan grew out of, but I promised them to my sister if she's having a boy (they aren't finding out) or my friend if she's having a boy. My sister has a boy and a girl so she doesn't need them, but as her sister i feel its my civil duty (lol) to give her first dibs! But my friend it's her first baby and she doesn't have anything. She finds out next tuesday what she's having. Thats going to be tough to get rid of Elijah and Tiernan's old clothes, I'm attached to them, its sad! We don't have room so I know they have to go, and this IS our last baby, i think, for a while..who knows!
Well after my little rant I need to get these toys ut of my living room so Eli can join his brother for a nap, and I can vacuum, clean out the closet in my room, and load the car with bottles and cans, and recyclables...
*80 days till Kylie is due*

super excited!

Haven't wrote in a loooong time, and when I signed on today I had 5 followers! Wicked cool..love it..
So I'm finally in my 3rd trimester and I can "feel it." Everything is ticking me off and I'm very moody as of late! I got anther bill for a "no show" on a Dr. appointment. I showed up for every appointment I ever made there, or canceled/postponed. I'm really bad with confirmation and I was starting to get REALLY mad, so my mom told me I should wrote them instead of calling. GREAT idea mom! Seeing as I'm extra moody and ticked off I thought I might explode, or cry on the phone with them. So I wrote them a letter and I got the right amount of "witchy" with a inch of polite. I feel a lot better now! I think I'm going to start writing letter more often now!
Today is a beautiful day out and I just want to be out with the kids! But of course Tiernan got cranky and wanted to nap...party pooper!! Eli didn't want to eat or nap but I told him it's the only way to have energy to play more later! I hope he gets up before Tiernan so we can go play out front and maybe go to the park after.. But sitting here with the blinds open and sun just pouring in, I'm getting super antsy to go back out. But I really should fold laundry...yuck!
Not really much "new" happening here lately.. Joe took his midterm last night for Firefighter 1. So I'm excited thats half over. Not sure when Firefighter 2 starts up, but I'm really not looking forward to it! But I have to keep in mind that being a volunteer fire fighter can turn in to a (much needed) career move. Right now I feel its unfair, he's never home as is and I never get to go out of the house alone (no kids), how selfish of him right!? Thats terrible.. being a fire fighter is a very unselfish thing to do! There goes my moody pregnant brian again!
I made a new blog and I think I'm going to go write in that now, I'm feeling quite sarcastic at the moment!

Proud momma!!

So I have been teaching the boys sign language! I think its so cool that they can sign to me... Elijah can do about 8 signs in 2 weeks or soo. A lot are animals because thats what he likes! He knows Lion, monkey, bird, elephant, more, mom, dad, thank you, drink... I think thats all for him. Tiernan can only do to so far but its to cute!!! He does more and drink. He does them both wrong but he's only 13 months he'll catch on. For more he puts one finger to the other open hand instead of both hands "pinched" going together and apart, and for drink he kinda just smacks his mouth instead of doing a c near his mouth. But needless to say I'm pretty happy with it! Tiernan uses his signs a little more since he can't talk, but Elijah uses them randomly when he is talking and he really tried to help his little brother use them!
Because they have been such awesome kids I tool them to the park today, the weather said it was going to be 70 with rain in the afternoon. I thought 9:30 was a good time to go then! Shortly after we got there it got cold and starting getting dark. The boys only got to play for about 45 mins before it started to thunder. I was sad too! Tiernan never has gotten to go to a park to play really, and there weren't a lot of kids to make it to busy. Tiernan still wont walk so he crawled in the wood chips and across the wood bridge thing the bounces. He was having a blast! I took some pictures but left the camera in the car!!! Elijah is so scary at the park! He goes down the biggest slides and down the fireman pole (with mommies help). He's just fearless!
I had to make Elijah a promise today that I DO intend to keep! He wants me to climb trees with him and play! I can't really do all that being pregnant! So I promised him this is our last baby so I can do all the fun stuff with him again soon! I never was much of an outside play person even when I was little (even ask my sister she hated that), But when your mommy you'll do anything for your kids... Yes that means learn to climb trees and touch nasty worms and bugs lol! I might even relearn how to ride a bike, haven't done so since I was 11? maybe...and it wasn't with to much success! To bad they don't have adult size training wheels! HAHAHA!!
Well nap time is almost over for Tiernan I should get laundry ready to go in and do all that mommy/wife stuff I do... Not that I want to...and its national no housework day! But I since I already started I might as well finish and celebrate tomorrow lol!

Easter!

We had an amazing Easter day yesterday! I forgot to put the boys baskets out the night before so when Elijah was going potty with daddy and Tiernan was still sleeping I snuck out with the baskets and put them on the tv stand. Elijah had already picked that he wanted the orange one, and Tiernan would have the blue. We also got a pink one for baby girl for next year. We bought new ones this year so they would all be the same size, no fighting, and Joe gave our to his mom on accident! Eli knew what one was his just by what was in them. He was sooo excited! We didn't really do to much candy. They got cars and bubbles stuff like that! When Tiernan got up he went for the car first and started picking jelly beans out of the Easter grass. It was so cute, and he loves jelly beans!
After playing with toys, having breakfast and some candy, the boys and I went off to church. They did a play and It was so so so cute! AFter church we picked up Joe and went off to my sisters for Easter dinner. My sisters fam, my parents and two other families from church came to dinner as well... They left soon after and then It was family only which was kinda nice, not that it wouldn't have been nice if they stayed. Then Briella (my niece who is 4) and Elijah had an easter egg hunt! That was the highlight of the day. So cute, so much fun too. We only found 39 out of the 24 eggs that were JUST hidden, luckily they are outside though. After it was desert and coffee.
Joe's mom called soon after and we headed up the my brother in laws house for easter with them and more desert. The bys each got another easter basket from mom mom and pop pop. More toys, candy and what not! We only stayed a short while because it was getting late but it was nice. While we were there hubby asked to buy one of his brothers grill from him, So we got a $100 grill for $20. I swear he can buy things you didn't know you were selling, and sell you things you didn't know you wanted to buy! He's to funny! But we have a grill now, it needs a tube, grease catcher, and the tank needs to get filled, but I'm happy! Were grilling tonight!
All in all Easter was a very nice day. Daddy even took Elijah out to ride his new bike for a little, he didn't do to good though. Both boys fell asleep in the car on the way home, stayed asleep to be carried up to beds, and stayed asleep as we put them in. That never happens they must have been beat. I feel asleep on the couch shortly after. This morning though I woke up to a huge mess since we had such a bust weekend. Toys and candy everywhere and the kitchen was a mess even though I've hardly cooked all weekend.
Have I mentioned I hate Easter grass!? Well I do, so to get it out of my sight till next year, I already put the boys candy in ziplock bags and put the baskets up. Now I just have to sort the toys out, they got all mixed this morning, then to their separate rooms! But looking at all the candy they got...holy cow! Hubby and I each got a basket from his mom too so there is more candy in this house than anything right now. I already told my mom she needs to come over and help us with it!
Oops this was ment to just be a little update and turns out much longer than I had anticipated!