Grocery Score!

I love a great deal and love it more when I just stumble onto one! Yesterday I went to Albertsons because they had a double coupon promotion and I actually had a few coupons. I bought 6 jars of 16 oz Skippy Peanut Butter (because Nolan has decided to chunky is gross) that were regularly $3.29 each, 2 gallons of milk (regularly $1.88 each), and 4 Yoplait yogurts (on sale for .69 each). My initial total was $26.26, but after coupons and sale prices, I paid $5.98 before taxes! That felt good! I think I'm going to look into this coupon thing more seriously!

Army Deserter

Miles has left the army behind, the army crawling that is. For the past 2.5 months he has been the cutest army crawler ever, but recently we noticed that he'd been mixing more of the traditional crawl with his army style. Well, now it's all regular crawl (darn!). I wonder if he qualifies for G.I. bill benefits from being an army man for so long...

Miles & Movies

I've been taking more movies than pictures lately. Miles has discovered the piano. Check out his demanded practice session! He's got some Victor Borge thing going on.



Nolan has a game he likes to play with Miles. It's a baby version of "Chase-Chase"



And tonight we went to Sweet Tomatoes. Miles tried lots of foods. He loved Jello, but found it difficult to eat!

If Today is the 5th of July

that means yesterday must have been the 4th of July! We had a mellow day around here. It was just Miles and me for most of the day in Lindon while Dan and the Big Ones were at the Heber Valley Camp for the Belliston family reunion (I went with Miles on Friday night, but came home because there were "communal cabins" and I was afraid Miles would have a "baby night" and scream all night and irritate our cabinmates). Miles and I spent the day playing, unpacking, organizing, breaking down boxes, and napping. Dan and the Big Ones went canoeing, paddleboating, and challenging coursing (which included a big zip line!). They got home around 7 p.m. Dan and I went to Home Depot and bought 6 more gallons of paint (master bed, master bath, and dining room) then went to Cafe Rio (where we ran into Dan's cousin who livesin Oregon)- no BBQ'ed burgers or ribs for us! We went home and got the Big Ones and went to Pleasant Grove to watch the fireworks. We thought Miles would be excited about the fireworks, but they started too late and he was asleep within 5 minutes of the show starting. So that was our day...what a lazy, and basically atypical way to celebrate the 4th!

When We're Helping We're Happy...

... and we sing as we go. For we like to help mother for we all love her so! Today we worked hard! I got 4 hours of housework out of the older boys. We attacked the PG house today. We got there at 11 a.m. Nolan went to piano and returned around 12:30 p.m. I let Jonathan doink around while Nolan was gone. Then it was lunch time, followed by KIITG (Kick It Into Gear) time. The worked from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Nolan cleaned every set of blinds in the house... 10 2" horizontal blinds. Then he finished sorting the last of the stuff in his room... keep, DI, or trash. Then he helped watch Miles. Jonathan washed every wall in the house. Then he washed the inside of every window in the house. He cleaned all the mirrors. Then he took care of the last stuff left in his room and watched Miles too! As for me... I just watched them work! Hahaha! No, I cleaned the storage room. Collected all the odds-and-ins together. Vacuumed some, did some baseboards, cleaned a toilet and tub, cleaned the stove, washed the refridgerator, washed out the kitchen cabinets, then cleaned all the window sills and tracks (yuck... my least favorite job in the world). We made great progress. Hopefully tomorrow, we can finish the baseboards, attack some grout, wipe out the oven, and check the doors and doorframes for fingerprints. Then, all that's left to do it the touch-up painting, clean the Pergo and tile floors, and get the house rented! The end is in sight!

Miles & Dan

Miles loves his dad!

Golf Tournament

I must start by saying I didn't get any good pictures of Jonathan because his group started at 7:30 a.m. when I was at the pool with Nolan who was at swim team.

Both boys played in the Provo Freedom Festival Youth tournament. They found the day to be educational. They'd never played at Cascade golf course so it was obviously unfamiliar to them. The course wasn't set for junior players so they had long distances to cover. Nolan played 9 holes. Jonathan played 18. The back 9 are referred to as the "mountain course" as they are literally playing on the side of a mountain. Hard! Hard! Hard! They both finished their games though. It was a good experience for them even though they got impressively high scores!.