The Millers

Loving this weather! We love eating outside every night and playing until we have to carry the kids to the bathtub!

They got a black, hairy little baby!

Meet Lottie


Colt and I picked up Lottie in Birmingham yesterday. She loved chasing Colt around in the yard.



This little bundle of joy reminded me at 5:30 a.m. why I am not ready to have another child!

Each year my mom does a Valentines breakfast for the family. We have heart shaped sausage, pink heart pancakes, heart shaped buscuits and other yummy breakfast food. Its fun to get together before we head off our seperate directions. I really tried to get cute pictures of all the grandchildren in their Valentines best. Right when I had everyone smiling, Wes said "Look Cam Newton is out". Cam (the donkey in case you aren't a regular around here) gets out because his donkey friend, Pricilla, knows how to open the gate just enough for Cam to slip out.

Then my camera battery died so I replaced it with a cheap battery.

Buggy and Colt love each other. Colt told me that he doesn't want to be called "Rooster" anymore. His new nickname is "Moose".



This little girl is a mess. Her nickname is "Boo".





Friday night we met Katie & Jack Mantooth and Mandy & Cooper Rouse at the Cowboy Roundup.


The Roundup is the mom & son version of the daddy daughter dance. Colt loved watching the cowboys rope a cow. He is already talking about going next year!

I know I still need to work on centering my pictures! I promise its coming!

After hearing me complain about our grocery bill each week, Wes suggested I try couponing. I think his exact words were "try that thing Holly and Maggie do to save money". I spent an afternoon visiting every coupon website, blog and newspaper I could to learn the art. Even after reading comments like "it only takes me 2 hours every Sunday to organize my coupons" and "my plastic shoebox is categorically organized with each product in the store" and my favorite, "I bought 18 things of men's deodorant for $3" I trudged on.

I flunked. I failed. I hated it.

Picture this. I go into CVS and pickup the sales insert. I wander the aisle trying to figure out what I really need (nothing). If I buy a variety of products that equal $25, I get a free pack of Charmin. Evidently, I was the last person in Opelika to discover this deal. Of the items on the list still avaliable, I picked up 2 (Gain & Duracell-none of which we need) plus my Charmin and go check out. There was a line behind me. My items did not equal $25. I leave the store with 3 items I don't need and getting no extra bucks, or whatever the heck I'm suppose to get!

So cross couponing off my list. (At the First Baptist Ladies Conference there will be a breakout session on couponing. I might sneak in the back)

I decided my next challenge would be to eat out of our pantry and freezer. I took inventory of everything in these locations. This also motivated me to throw out those expired things and nasty frozen chicken nuggets my kids refused to eat.

Saturday night I made a meal list for the next to weeks. I wrote down every event we have and what dinner would be. For example, Wednesday nights we have church so Tuesday nights I should cook something that can be leftover the next night. This calendar/list is on our fridge. From this meal list (and my inventory list), I made my grocery list.

By using what we already have, I only spent $107 at the grocery store for lunch (me & Wes), dinner and snacks for our family for 2 weeks. This is only day 2 of the meal planning trial run. But, last night when I was at bible study, Wes looked at the list and cooked dinner while I was gone! Success!!