Question of the Day....

Sorry it's a little fuzzy... Eliza woke up this morning with her eye looking like this!! Last night we had a ward water slide activity where she spent countless hours riding on inner tubes down water slides. There were plenty of gnats and mosquitoes out last night as well.

So what is your vote? Was this caused by a bug bite or some kid's foot?

The Great Outdoors

I have been meaning to post our camping pictures for a while now but time keeps getting away from us! We have been playing hard this summer. So far we have spent a week with family, a most of a week at Redfish Lake, and 2 days in Boise visiting our newest nephew and playing at the water park. We have a few more fun things planned throughout the summer including lots of camping trips, it's nice to have Mike on Summer break! 

 We spent 4 days last week at Redfish lake. It was delightful. There was some snow in the high country! We had a little snowball fight at the top of Galena Summit. 

 Our tent site was so cool. We loved being in walking distance from the lake and close to flush potties. And the best part was it was a walk-in campsite so we didn't have to deal with those pesky 4 wheeling or trailer pulling campers.

 We did a great hike the second day, the kids were so strong. We went about 3 miles. We didn't make it to the end of the trail but we will get there next time! 

 Ian couldn't get enough of the beach. It didn't matter if there was thunder or rain pouring down, he wanted to be IN the frigid mountain water the whole time! The beach by the campground was so nice, only the campers used it. 

 We love taking little boat rides. We paddled hard into the lake and let the waves wash us back to shore!

While we were up there we did some sight-seeing at Custer, an old mining town. We went through the different houses, saloons, school, houses of ill repute. It was great showing the kids how people lived back then. Stay tuned for more summer fun....

Mud sisters

A few members of my family did a 5K mud run in Soldier Hollow. If you don't know what a mud run is, you have to checkout thedirtydash.com and they have videos of one. It is a race/obstacle course/costume party/nut house. My nephew, who is not a runner, loved it because of all the mud and water and the huge slide at the end. 

 Here we are before we have entered the course, you can see it in the back ground. The hay bales and walls in the road nearly killed me, I am too short to climb all those! The mud was so deep in some areas that my sister in the dark pink abandoned her shoes and went in just her socks.

I am cleaner that my sister at the end because I didn't swim through the last moat of mud, which was pretty deep! It was fun and I would probably do it again, except now I know I would wear Teva sandals, and not my running shoes! It was the longest 5K I have ever run.

Is hoarding a bad thing?

This morning I bought 20 packages of pasta, as shown here in the above photo, for a grand total of $2.39. You heard me right. For about 11 cents a package. I am dabbling a bit in couponing and am quickly learning that it can be time consuming but very beneficial if you play the game right. I am still not ready to dive completely in, most real couponers get 5 Sunday papers every week and drive around to 12 different stores to get the great values. I just print off good internet coupons and review Smith's and Fred Meyer's ad's online. I am picky about what I buy, because even if it's a screaming good deal, we don't need 10 boxes of pop-tarts.

Remember that problem I had in November of buying a lot of Tillamook? They are having that same sale at Fred Meyer's where I can get the cheese for 3.99. I am stocking up. I guess we can have homemade mac and cheese for years to come! I will head back over to Freddie's tomorrow so I can get more cheese (I only have 4 blocks!) and use some coupons to get me some 25 cent cereal.

Anybody else out there starting to coupon? What websites do you use?