Puppy

 

I have finally added Picasa 2 to my computer and am experimenting with it. Isn't Ellie so precious with her favorite puppy in the world. This was in our back yard yesterday right after church.

Weekend Gifts

Our family time was extended into the weekend because of a sad little mis-hap in the fabulous Wellsville mountains. On Thursday, the day before Dan was to report for his trip to London, he took a little "jog" to the top of the mountain. In true Dan "ROCKMAN" style, he chose to jump jovially like a giant mountain goat down the jagged trail. In true Wellsville form, the trail was completely overgrown hiding any perilous obstacles that lay waiting to trap the happy hiker. As you can see, a rickety rock rioted right up and bit Dan in the ankle. He was sooooooooooo sad to have to call in sick for the first six days of a twelve day trip, ha ha. We celebrated our free weekend with a visit from our good friends the Alldreges. We all went to the beach at Hyrum Dam and played in the water, then had fun grilling hamburgers back at the house. It was a fun day and great to spend time with our friends.

This is Ellie sneaking into daddy's luggage. It was hilarious!
Just so I don't have a bunch of weirdos sneaking into my blog and looking at cute pictures of my darling baby, I decided to block it and only allow people I invite on. If you want to be invited, I guess I just need your e-mail. I hope I did it right. I was tempted to put my e-mail here, but decided if you know me, you can figure it out somehow, you know, call me or drop me an e-mail.

Angel Child

The other day after I got out of the shower and had wet nasty hair, I was holding Ellie. She kept petting my hair and saying "Pretty, Pretty," then she said, "Bootiful," I told her she was so sweet. Then she patted my face and said, "I love you so much, mama," It was so sweet! It's great to be a mother. The joy of interactions with this beautiful little girl surpass my expectations every day. She is so much fun.

Groceries - What the $%&*@#?

I wanted to copy an image of a bag of groceries, but I haven't figured out a way to copy images from the web yet. Maybe one of my blog friends can give me some advice about that. My query is about groceries. How can I cut back and save money. My sweet, cheep little sister brags all the time about how she only spends $200/month on groceries. How the crap do you do it? Send me a list, I don't believe it. I spend more than twice that much. Do you have a separate budget category for non-food items like paper towels and diapers. Perhaps I'll try that next month. What do you eat? How is that budget buying any kind of produce? Please help me with this. I see ads for Albertson's where you can get 10 items for $15, but are you really saving if you don't pick items that you always use? And... is it cost-effective to go to different stores. Plus, I HATE WAL*MART!!! I like to get most of my shopping done at Macey's, is this why I'm failing miserably at a decent grocery budget? HELP!! We desperately need to save money so that we can do this whole in-vitro thing and add to our family. My grocery budget is the largest variable in my budget, I really want to do better. Any advice?

Upon our return from Jackson Hole, we wer delighted to get to visit the newest member to the Cooper clan - Baby Casen Stewart Cooper. While we were meeting the sleepy newborn, Ellie and Camden enjoyed some quality cousin-bonding time. I'm not sure if I've seen Ellie giggle so much. They had a blast rough-housing with the big stuffed horse. Are'nt cousins wonderful!