Mr. Rebates

For those of you that know me, you know I love a good bargain! In fact, I'd almost call myself the queen of bargains. I love nothing more than to know I am saving my family money and one way I have learned to do this is through a website called Mr. Rebates. It's so easy to do. It's free to sign up and there are a boat load of online stores you can shop at. Once you sign up, you visit the site, enter the store you are looking for in the search engine, visit the store through the Mr. Rebates site, and earn a percentage of your purchases back. The money is deposited in to your Mr. Rebates account where you can withdraw it at any time (once posted to your account). If you refer a friend, and they sign up giving your email address, Mr. Rebates will give you a 20% rebate on their purchases, at no cost or rebate loss to them! I like to buy clothes for Lucy on Ebay, and as luck would have it, Ebay is one of the sites that gives a rebate! Every penny counts. If you want to sign up, click on the link to the right. Feel free list me as your referral (silasandchrisi@yahoo.com). Let's start shopping and save some money!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Christmas is finally over and done with and we had a BALL! Lucy got a new Pottery Barn Kids table and chair set from Mimi, and TONS of fun things from grandma. She is getting to be SUCH a big girl, and it was so much fun for me to watch her eyes light up when she discovered something new! Here's a beautiful scrap book page made by my mother in law - she's SO talented it makes me sick!

We have so much to be thankful for and we hope everyone has a Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous New Year!

I HATE you Santa!

My office held a Santa party for the children of employees this past Friday. I was one of the party planners, and was so happy that Lucy would be able to join us in the festivities. My Mother-in-Love picked her up from daycare and brought her down to the office where we had snacks galore, presents for the kids, and of course Santa! When the jolly old fella walked in that was it! Lucy made a b-line for the back of the room, screaming the entire way. She wanted nothing to do with him, his jingle bells, or his ho, ho ho'ing. She did finally sit on his lap with a little urging from mommy, but I am fairly confident that she has nothing but Hate for the man in red. I will post a photo when I have a chance. Her reaction was just priceless. Lucy may not like you right now Santa, but I sure do and I know in time she'll learn to love you too!

To Tree or not to Tree....

It's December 7th, and I am sad to say we don't have our tree up. Not only do we not have it up, we don't have it period. We always get a real tree. It's exciting to go find the perfect tree. Silas and Lucy went last year and picked out a tree and they surprised me with it. He did that our first year together as well. I'm just dragging my feet this year, and I'm not sure why. Perhaps it's becuase it's a lot of money to shell out for something that we'll only have for a few weeks. Maybe it's becuase Lucy doesn't understand what Chirstmas is about, so why bother? Or maybe, just maybe, I just don't have enough Christmas Cheer? We don't have anyone coming over other than my mom, and well, I am pretty sure she could care less if we had a tree or not. My dad and his wife won't visit us, we're not doing any holiday entertaining, and I just think it's a lot of work to do when no one will be there to enjoy it. Does anyone else feel the same way? Can anyone give me that nudge in my backside to get me motivated?

I NEED SOME CHRISTMAS CHEER PEOPLE!

Our pumpkin

Make a Smilebox scrap pages

If you've never visited Smilebox, you should! It's a service that allows you to create and send scrapbook pages, invitations, recipe cards, and much more! While it's free to do the creating, if you want to print anything you do have to pay. I made these two pages this morning in about 3 minutes. Just upload your photos to their site, find the design you want to use, drag your photos to the page, save it, and you're done! It's so EASY!

xo~

Some new Favorite Things

Happy hump day! I am home sick today. After napping all morning, I decided to hop online and I came across a new website:

http://sarahbrownsfavoritethings.blogspot.com

Not only is her blog visually pleasing with all of the fun, bright colors, but there are lots of cute gift ideas for the upcoming holidays and giveaways galore!

check it out - I have a feeling some of her favorite things will become your favorite things as well!

xo~

Birthday fun

WOW! Did I really just turn 36 yesterday?!?! YEP, I sure did. I had a great birthday weekend filled with fun activities and lots of birthday wishes from those that love me the most! Friday night we went out with my mom and my in-laws for dinner, Saturday Silas took me to one of my favorite little breakfast places, Bubs Cafe, then we headed out to Raccoon Lake for the day. Yesterday was very low key. We went for breakfast with my mom and then we came home and put our jammies back on and stayed in for the day (after I ran to costco!). Silas was so sweet and is sending me to the spa for a good day of relaxation, which is something I totally need. All in all, turning 36 was great, I can't wait to see what is in store for me over the next year!

Below is a picture taken on Saturday of us at the Lake. THANK YOU BRELAGE's for inviting us to spend the day with you, your family, and friends! We had an AWESOME time!