Please excuse me

while I descend into one of those "I'm the greatest thrifty Mommy in the world" posts.

Alana won't have to sleep in a cardboard box anymore! Just kidding. She's eight months old and I was thinking that it's really time to get her a crib, but they discontinued the one that I bought for Liam and I was sad. There was one at Target for a while that was close in style and price, but I waited too long and they stopped carrying it in stores. And then I found out that it would cost $70 (!!!) to get it shipped. So I got on Babies R Us tonight and found that their cribs were 20% this weekend, with free shipping, AND they had just started to carry the crib that I liked at Target. When checking out, I realized I hadn't checked to see if any coupons would work, so I moseyed over to retailmenot.com where I found a coupon for an extra $10 off. So the crib that I had been regretting not buying at Target that would have been $267 with tax AND I would have had bribe someone with a truck to get it home? I got for $231 and shipped right to my doorstep.

Then, I figured I might as well get a mattress. So I checked and mattresses also were 20% off AND free shipping AND I got to use my coupon again AND I got a free umbrella stroller. Not bad, eh?

Happy Thanksgiving!

For the record, we are not vegetarians. This comic still cracks me up though.

While I was in Deseret Book...

I had an intense desire to move all of Glenn Beck's books to "Fiction."

Alana waking up and asleep

One time I checked on Alana, I found her with her legs tucked under her and her rear up in the air. By the time I grabbed the camera she was waking up, but it still wasn't graceful:

This was after one of our "baby boot camp" sessions.

She had been screaming, rolled over and tuckered herself out.

Liam and Elmo

My sister sent this towel for Liam for his birthday. He loved it and wouldn't let me take it off. Note the stuffed Elmo also on the couch (hard to tell because he is also red):

Halloween

Sorry for the shadow. I'm still trying to figure out lighting.

She's a gingerbread cookie if you can't tell.

This face just says it all, doesn't it? "For the second day in a row, I'm stuffed back into this thing?!?"

Liam was the chef/baker.

The chef in his kitchen, a birthday present.

Annie Get Your Gun

I've been meaning to post some of the pictures for Annie for a while (and have been hearing about the lack thereof from my sister) but I was waiting until the pictures from the professional photographer had come back. Well, turns out that I would have had to pay for those, so here are the amateur ones from me:

The English dancers surrounding Queen Victoria. The woman who plays QV was a huge crack up.

Russian Folkdancers. Don't those boys looks so pleased to be there?

Italian dancers. The girl second from the right was the sweetest girl ever. She dances with Utah Regional Ballet which was the company attached to the school I used to dance at.

Square dancers. Their ages ranged from 8-11 and there were 16 of them, so it was impossible to get a picture of them all together.

These were some of the costumes that I did. I also had to sew entire ball gowns, but I don't have any pictures of those.