It's after midnight...

And I am still wide awake.

Why? You may wonder... Because every 15 minutes Aubrie wakes up (that is if she was ever asleep) and starts crying. She doesn't want to be rocked, if I take her out she just wants to play. If she does this a few more times, in go the ear plugs.
And please, don't feel bad for my husband that wakes up for work at 4:20... because he sleeps through EVERYTHING! Trying to wake him up for any reason is near impossible. Like last night, I needed to know what time to set the alarm for him to wake up... He kept muttering something about chow and west wing movement. Then he told me to set his alarm for 1:30 am... uhhh no. I finally got irritated after the 10th time of asking that I pried his eyelids open and said, JUST WAKE UP FOR 1 MINUTE AND TELL ME WHAT TIME YOU NEED THE ALARM SET FOR! It worked, he muttered 4:23. In the morning, he had no recollection of the aforementioned conversation at all.
She's quiet right now. I give it 4 more minutes and she'll be whining again. Isn't being a mom just great sometimes. Just for a few days (or maybe just 9 hours at night) I would love to be the dad.

The Great Outdoors

So we decided Sunday afternoon to take a spur of the moment camping trip. We loaded the girls up in the car and took off. Spontaneity is truly the spice of life. The girls had an absolute blast. Aubrie was happier then she EVER is. She just wanted to walk all around the WHOLE time. And Hailey was having so much fun just hanging out. We went on a few hikes, made a campfire, had smores, and just enjoyed our time as a family. Enjoy the picture upload. And sorry for my messy children, we WERE camping. Michael kept making fun of me for trying to clean their faces or whatever every time I wanted to take a picture.
We went on a hike and started to walk back to camp because it was getting late. The girls and I were ahead of Michael quite a bit and he called us back to show us something (I really don't even remember what) well right as we got back to him here come these two deer about 40 feet away from us. It was really neat to see, and we were really glad we turned back around, for whatever it was.

Today is a sad day...

I had to turn my air conditioning on.

I am not looking forward to next months power bill. I've been loving how low they are. Oh well, at least the gas bill will go down.

I'm curious though, what do you keep your A/C at?

Thanks Jessica!!

Blog hopping pays off :). Holly's neighbor, Jessica, who is a darling, sweet friend, read my blog and happens to have an extra phone collecting dust. Now I can stop wondering if Michael is on his way home from work, or if something happened while at work.

And we'll have no more "incidents" like yesterday. I laid Aubrie down for bed, grabbed a monitor (which I haven't used in MONTHS) threw some batteries in it, and ran across the street to get Hailey from the neighbors house. Well I could hear Aubs fine (she was asleep anyway) so I turned the monitor down to eliminate the loud static while chatting for a few short minutes with my neighbor. I turned the monitor up every few minutes and even ran across the street 2 times to make SURE she was asleep still. Well I was there for 20 minutes (I know I know, I'm an awful mom). I get a call on my cell phone from Michaels S.O.R.T phone, which he is only supposed to use in emergencies. Well he deemed this an emergency because he came home, closed the garage, walked into what he thought was an empty house, called out my name, the girls names, etc. Went into Aubs room to find her asleep. Confused and sort of worried, he called me. I told him I had a monitor and he laughed and said, yeah a lot of good that did since you NEVER heard me walk into our house! Whoops! He said next time he's gonna load Aubs up and leave, just to scare the bageezies outa me. Soooo, I have learned my lesson, and in the future I'll leave the monitor turned up, or watch the lights better, and I will lock all the doors if I am leaving my child for the shortest time. BUT it will still be nice to have a heads up phone call from him, so I know he is on his way.

So yes, now you all know that I am not nearly as perfect as you once thought ;).

THANKS AGAIN JESSICA!

Albertons NW Region Deals

I have had a few requests for sharing my deals. So as they come I will post them if I feel they are worthy enough :).
So this one if for people in Utah, Colorado, Washington, Idaho and Oregon. Albertsons right now has their All Free & Clear Laundry Detergent on sale 5 for 15. When you buy 5 it takes off 5 dollars, so 5 for 10. Two dollars a bottle is pretty good. BUT there is a 1 dollar off coupon HERE making it a dollar a piece. This normally sells for 4-5 dollars. Today I bought 15, paid a little over 15 dollars and will be able to do 480 loads. 3.2 cents a load. Generally when you print coupons online you can only print 2 but this website let me print as many as I wanted. I just kept going back and it starting the print again.
So those of you in this region, stock up! This should last quite some time! Does laundry soap expire??