Frugal Tip

To help stay warm and prevent the thermostat from being turned up when cold keep warm throws on your chairs in the living room/family room to keep you warm and cozy.

Frugal Tip

Make a budget, plan how you will spend the money you have.

Dave Ramsey has a great "snowball" plan to get out of debt. Go to the library and check out his books!

Little Pumpkin Rides Again!

A couple of weeks ago while at the store, Little Pumpkin picked out a helmet to wear while riding horses at my parents house. She could hardly wait for a nice day to go riding!

Little Pumpkin and her friend feeding Romeo

 So first they had to stop and feed Romeo - miniature horse - some treats. They are learning to keep their hand flat so they don't get bit.

Little Pumpkin petting Romeo

 Giving Romeo more treats and love.

Little Pumpkin waiting to go

 Here you can see her helmet she picked out - it has a horse on it. She was so funny wearing it in the store when she picked it out.

Little Pumpkin and Friend ride horse!

See how attentive the horse is with his ears?

Frugal Tip

Last week we started organizing, this week we are gonna sell the junk treasures we don't need and make some money!

I am sure as you are organizing and cleaning you are finding things you don't use, won't use, or have duplicates of.... Sell em!

Ebay is a great place to do this, best of all you get to add multiple listings auction style for free!

Craigslist is a great place to sell larger item, for free!

Fixing The Comforter So It Doesn't Slip In The Duvet Cover

I bought a duvet cover for my comforter and the comforter kept slipping and bunching up on one side. What a pain!

So I got my new brother sewing machine out and fixed my problem!

Make sure your strips are long enough to tie.

I cut four strips from some left over fabric.

Inside out duvet cover - sewing strips into corners

I sewed one into each corner of the duvet, being careful to not to sew into the duvet itself, but stay inside the interior seam.

keeping duvet cover inside out, tie in comforter

Make a bow or slip knot to easily remove

Then I tied each corner of the comforter into the duvet cover. Then turn duvet right side out!

That's it, no more slipping comforter and it only cost me a little time!

Little Pumpkin

You look Mahvelous Dahling!

Someone got some lip gloss!

Myth Busters And A Trip To The Museum-Lots Of Pics

If the Myth Busters exhibit comes to a museum near you-GO! We had a great time at the museum!

We couldn't pass up the opportunity to get our picture taken with the duct tape boat!

Thank goodness I had the Ergo Carrier! Here we all are at the start of the exhibit-the cool thing is they have the real props from the show!

Little Pumpkin with a paintball experiment - looks dangerous!

Little Pumpkin with all the show props

It was a great experience, the entire exhibit had an air of fun!

The Artist and I couldn't resist - We had to do Jamie's mustache just like Adam does!

Baby Girl is sleeping, oblivious to all the fun we are having!

This exhibit was one of my faves!

They had telephone booths and boxes of capes, masks, gloves, goggles, etc. for you to change into-like a superhero! Who wouldn't love doing this? My kids thought I was a geek! I looked for a pic of me dressed up buy sadly, there isn't one!

This was a live action show, they shot a paintball at a lucky contestant!

How long can you hang on a cliff?

The boys tried the Cliff Hanger-not as easy as they thought!

Baby girl finally woke up! What's all the excitement?

She slept, ate and looked around from the best seat in the house-her Ergo Baby Carrier!

Can The Artist pull the tablecloth out without pulling off the dishes?

Close!
Kids....Don't try this at home!

Kids, let dad show you how it's done!

Oh My!

Dad couldn't do it either, after many tries the challenge proved too much for any of us!

Who Got Wetter?

We went through this exhibit several times, who will get wetter the person who walks or runs in the rain? Who cares! This was fun and refreshing. Black lights and water are highly entertaining! The lady running the exhibit was worried baby girl would get wet, but I just pulled out the rain/sun cover and she was fine-nice and dry!

No one tried this one, trust me I would have put the pics here!

Little Pumpkin

 Then we checked out the rest of the rest of the museum.

 I don't know what it is about dinosaurs, but kids love them!