Wow, my blog use to be so important and now I haven't even thought about it. I gotta get better! Well, truly not much has been going on with the Arnold's. A couple weeks ago I was really homesick so we decided to make a trip up to Idaho . . since Cory had some work to do anyways. That weekend my nephew Regan got baptized and it just happened to b
e Superbowl weekend. So it was fun. It was much needed on my end and honestly Araleigh's too. Lately she has been having little break downs about how she wants to go live in our other house by Grandm
a. It has been almost a daily thing that she says. She has so much fun with all of her cousins and LOVES her grandparents on both sides so much that she keeps telling me that its time to go back to live by them now. Wish I could say okay but we can't! Really nothing has been exciting here though. Araleigh is so busy with school, dance, and playgroup every week that we keep pretty busy! Canden is a NIGHTMARE! He is SUCH A STINKER. He has now figured out t
hat if you push a chair to wherever you want it means you can climb up on whatever you want. Yesterday I found my dining room chair in my kitchen and him up in the cupboard getting himself some fruit snacks. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I now have noticed that he has put this all together and it's very often that I am seeing little chairs scooting down the hallway with him on the other side heading for an agenda. He seriously keeps me on my toes. I have FINALLY st
arted to work out to some videos I have and let me just say . . . this this kids it is next to impossible to get the full affects. If I go down to do pushups . . within seconds he is jumping up and down on my back . . . same with sit ups. When I do my leg work outs with kicks. . . he comes and hangs on my legs. Today was actually really funny. I was doing these squats and all the sudden every time I went down in the squat he was there spanking my butt. lol Its very distracting and this little guy really doesn't seem to want mom to lose this annoying weight. He is getting so big and talking like crazy. He has decided that he doesn't like much sleep and that has been hard on all of us.
As you can see in the pictures: Araleigh is taking FULL advantage of Canden's immaturity! He thinks it is SO MUCH fun to get dressed up with sis, put make up on and wear heels around the house! Yesterday they both came walking out of my room with my hats on holding hands . . . and what does he say as he comes to show me? "MOM, TOOT!"
Valentines Day this year was a fun one for the kids. Araleigh got to have her party and take her valentines . . . which she has waited a year to do. (She hasn't forgot her VDay party last year!) Well, Daddy this year decided Christmas wasn't over or something and got them baseball mits, balls, Araleigh got all her soccer gear and a ball, we got flowers and chocolate and candy and I got my strawberries that I love as I do every year! It was a good day. Cory and I went to Twigs here in Spokane . . . it is one of our favorites now. WE FINALLY FOUND SOME PLACE WE LOVE! It was so yummy. We went expecting to pay a good bill . . . and ended up getting our appetizer and side salads for free!! It was sweet! Then since we had a sitter and we didn't want to go to a movie I dragged Cory to the store to do some last minute Couponing! lol I have been really into it the past month! There were some AMAZING promos and sales going on that I couldn't resist. I have decided that I am going to try really hard to get my food storage stocked up by these deals and only the stuff I use. So far it has been amazing. Here is what I have done the past few weeks:
(61 cans soup, 1 6pk snapple, 5 oils, 1 18ct eggs, 2 chocolate milk, 2 bags cookies, 1 chapstick)
Oop = $6.17 + 1 $10 oyns and 2 $5 on nextshop. I Made $13.83 just for buying food storage!!!!!!!
(6 Swiss Miss, 16 Snack pack, 4 cases 6pk Snapple, 4 protein bars, 2 donuts)
$4.61 oop baby + $10 oynp and $20 snapple rebates. that's a lot money making woot woot
35 ketchup, 9 bbq sauce, 6 canned tomatoes, 3 butter, 9 pudding, 2 Pam cooking spray, 2 stove top, and 1pkg provolone. All for $24.29 BOOYAH!!!! I saved $114.63
This was all on one sale that Albertsons was having and I just kept rolling the $10 on your next purchase for each transaction. AMAZING DEALS!
Last week I took that kids to the Dentist. It was Canden's first time. I didn't get a picture of him alone cuz he was being a stinker. But Araleigh was fabulous as always. This is our new dentist and let me say this place is AMAZING. You walk in and there is a HUGE play area on the right with books, animals, chalk boards, movies. On the Left is a indoor slide, a Boat filled with like 8 playstations with little kids games. The kids were in heaven. Canden did better than expected. I thought I was going to have to hold him down. But he stayed on the chair by himself. Araleigh was a champ just watched the movie. Unfortunately we were informed of a cavity on her end. So she has to go get one filled next week. Which she will never want to go again. Luckily they give her some kind of medicine that makes her super relaxed and they said it makes her forget or something. Hopefully it does. She is usually pretty good with tough situations but even I don't like the dentist. But here are some pictures from the Dentist trip!
Canden laid on her so he could walk Mickey Mouse too. lol
Cory's Grandma Millie passed away last night. What a wonderful life she lived. Last night I was reflecting on death and there was such peace in my heart for some reason. Much because I know that last night she had a wonderful reunion with the love of her life. This woman was truly amazing. So many people love her and she was Sugar City's little socialite. She was so involved in so many things and attended the Temple regularly working there. One thing that she has passed down is her wonderful influence and glowing testimony of the Church. Cory and I were talking last night and he told me that one thing he will never forget was a few months ago he went to her house for something and when he went inside he found her by herself in her den reading the scriptures. He said it was an amazing thing for him to see that her being a widow and being all by herself--- she was just there all alone studying. It truly touched him. The past year my little family got pretty close to Millie. The kids really loved her and Araleigh ran to her for hugs every time she saw her. When we moved Millie always told my mom when running into her how much she missed our family. It meant a lot to me because of how many grandchildren she has. But us living with the Arnold's last year really gave us an opportunity to get close to her. She is amazing and lived a wonderful life. She is the one person that I have never seen anyone beat out on a shopping trip. And up til the very end she was still running around shopping. We always knew that when it was time she would go really fast. . . and she did. But she was still running like crazy until that time. What a blessing to have known her and be married into such an amazing family to whom without this wonderful woman . . . would not be. Thank you Millie for bringing such wonderful people into this world and touching the lives of so many. You will be missed.
