Look what a 4 year old can do...

So... on the day we left the Family Reunion (reunion post to come) Dad walks up to Mom and asks where his walkie talkies are. Mom remembers putting them on the table last night cause Nic needed her to hold Alex for a second. Mom then forgot about them. Okay, now imagine... there a bunch of kids around, creative minds, wandering minds, and grabby hands. Dad begins to freak out a little (okay, a little was an understatement) these are his hunting w.t's and he needs to use them this week while hunting with Chip. Situation = Dad freak out mode. He kind of gets mad at Mom for sitting them on the table. It takes a lot for Dad to get mad at Mom. Mom gets mad, goes out to look on the table and the surrounding areas. Everyone has left but Travis, Lacey, Bill, Nic/Dave, Joni/Kevin and us. We can't find them. We search the weeds, the campers, drill what kids are still there. Dad is thinking the worst. Someone has taken them. One of the kids has taken them to play and they are lost. It was drama for a while. Mom tells Dad she will buy him new ones, even if she has to sacrifice something to get them. Nic says NO. She will buy them, it was her fault for asking Mom to hold Alex right then. Well everyone has left at this point. We are sitting in the Expedition and Nic takes this opportunity to teach her kids about how Heavenly Father will help us if we need help, all we need to do is pray. SO...enter Keili. She offers up the prayer to find Grandpa's walkie talkies. It was cute. Then Nic says (this is my favorite part ) "okay, now everyone go out side and look for them. Listen to your heart, go where your heart tells you to go". CUTE! Dave walks up and goes "I sure hope you aren't shooting yourself in the foot with this one. I think someone packed them thinking they were theirs." Nic told him to have faith. Mom said the same thing. Dad was also skeptical thinking they were GONE FOREVER! SO... keili and Davey and I go out and start to walk around. Davey then tells me that he and Tayt took one on their walk. SO I make him take me where they went, thinking it wasn't far. YEAH RIGHT. We are treking around the lake. I finally told Davey that we needed to go back and have his Dad get on his bike and go look where they went. Then I hear this low yell. Nic is back at camp ( a long ways away) wondering where we went. She sees us in the distance so we start back. We were slow though, I had Davey, Keili, and Miley. Miley is 2. She's slow. We get close enough and I see Nic holding up something. It's the walkie talkies. Davey runs over and so does Keili. Keili was so excited, she ran up and gave them to Grandpa. It was cute. She was excited that her prayer worked. Nic kept having this feeling to go look in the camp trailer where they belong. She finally just did it . GUESS WHAT? They were where they belong. In the cupboard where they go. Dad had seen them on the table last night and picked them up, put them away. Grew Alzheimer's and forgot. Here is cute Keili with the walkie talkie's. Don't ever say a childs prayer doesn't work. Dave, Mom, and Dad were eating their words that day.Then Nic had them say a prayer to thank Heavenly Father for helping us. MOM OF THE YEAR AWARD GOES TO...(drum roll) NICOLE!!!!

One amazing Saturday

I just thought this picture of Keili was funny. She just turned on the vacuum and went to town. I was shocked and near ready to throw the child out the door for fear that the ghost who is living in our house (remember... fire alarms. Man in garage. 911.) had inhabited her body. But it didn't seem to shock Nic, so this must not be too out of the ordinary for Keili. Nic was VERY grateful. I thought it was hilarious. After she finished this room she had me carry it downstairs so she could vacuum the living room . Now that I think about it, how big of an idiot am I? I should have coerced her into doing the basement too. Shoot!Here is a Keili funny (as a side note) I was sitting on the couch holding Alex and she wanted to hold him. So I made her sit by me and put Alex on her lap. She was good for like 1 second then started to spaz out and be too rough so I told her to stop or I would take him away. She didn't. SO... I took him away. She full on gives me this dirty look, and goes (in a SNOTTY voice) "YOU ARE MEAN! (stares me down for a minute) I am going to the hospital to get a baby and YOU CAN'T HOLD HIM!" LOL! I was dying. I'm all... "And... you just think you are going to go in and steal a baby that you can't even carry out?" LOL- kids are funny. Now her name is "keili the baby stealer".

THEN.... introducing.... (drum roll please)....

TAHNEE THE COUPON NERD!!!!

Okay. This is actually kind of funny. So.. I get up early Saturday morning to go use some good coupons and get stuff for Mo Mo's b day party. Plus, they had Kelloggs cereal on sale at Smiths for 50% off. Sa-WEET!!! So... I am on my way there. Mindy calls me and tells me that in the frosted flakes boxes of cereal are coupons for cereal and other breakfast goodies. SO.. I get there. I buy 4 boxes. Go out to my car. Open them up. Pull out the coupons. SCORE! There are some sweet coupons. (See... coupon nerd) NOW... the cereal was all like $1.38-$1.65 on the sale. The coupons I just got out of the boxes were $1 off a box of Kellogg's cereal. Plus other various ones too. So... I go back in. Yes, excited, like it's Christmas cause again.. coupon nerd in action. I buy more cereal with my coupons. Then I proceed to shop. I bought everything you see on this table. I paid full price for NOTHING! Oh... that's a lie. I paid full price for the birthday candles. I go out to my car and unload. Then the, once again, greedy coupon nerd inside me says "coupons. Inside new cereal boxes. HELLO!" So.. I open those boxes to obtain the new coupons to go back in the store (for the 3rd time. in a row.) and buy more cereal. With the coupon, I was getting cereal for like $0.38-$0.68. That is amazing!!! So... yes, I walk my pride-less self back in the store, get 2 more boxes and leave. I could have done this all day long. Well at least until the kicked me out, banning me from the grocery store permanently. How awful. So, I exercised a little self control and left. Then I couldn't get home fast enough to show Nic what I had done, and tell her the funny story of opening cereal boxes in my car, getting out the coupons and going back in to buy more. 3 times. LOL! It was amazing.

Total for the shopping trip (drum roll....) $29.00!!! HECK YES I ROCK!!!
Here is what I got:
1 gallon of milk
4 boxes of Leggo my Eggos
2 6pk of Danimals
2 lbs of grapes
13 boxes of cereal
1 box special K bars
1 lb of butter
2 cans of manwich
2 lbs ground beef
1 birthday cake mix with the decor
birthday candles
1 4pk yoplait delights yogurt
2 1/2 gallons of icecream