Wedding Pictures - FINALLY

I have finally taken the time to post the wedding pictures that were requested over a year ago! Now, I'm not going to be post all 800 that I have...but I have chosen the select few that you will see. Enjoy!

~The Decorations~

The Unity Candle

The Auditorium

The Wedding Cake

The Grooms Table

The grooms cake has to be (to me) the coolest cake ever! It fit Josh so perfectly!

The Concept of Kind Words

What ever happened to kindness and kind words? This is a lost concept in today's day and time and is something that we need to be reminded of. I'm so sick of people dogging each other out and then turning around and calling themselves a Christian...WhAt?!

Christian simply means to be Christ-like.

Now, I may just be making something up but talking about others and dogging them out just doesn't seem very Christ-like to me. There are ways of handling things to where no feelings get hurt in the process and where kind words are used. If everyone would just remember that kindness is key...a lot more people would be a lot happier in the end!

- A rant from a 21 year old wife and soon to be mother who is sick of unkind words!

My Coupon Savings 7-23-2010

Total Without Coupons = $174.80
Total With Coupons = $65.74
Total Day's Savings = $109.06

Percentage Saved = 62%

The Best Deals Today Were...

1) Tonys Personal Pizza = $0.20
3) Hamburger Helper Box Meals = $0.55 ea.
3) Resolve Spray N Wash = $0.50 ea.
6) Campbells Chunky Soup = $0.70 ea.
2) Arm & Hammer Liquid Laundry Detergent = $2.49 ea.

My Coupon Savings 7-16-2010

Total Without Coupons = $127.05
Total With Coupons = $31.29
Total Day's Savings = $95.76

Percentage Saved = 75%

-Best Deals Of The Day-

5) BIC Disposable Razors equaling 36 razors = FREE
2) Emerald Trail Mixes = FREE
4) Fiber One Pastries = $0.15 ea.
1) Fabuloso Cleaner = $0.33
5) Suave Deodorant Sticks = $0.47 ea.

What A Wonderful Year

One Year Ago...

I Married My Best Friend!

I LOVE YOU, JOSH!

My Coupon Savings 7-9-2010

Total Without Coupons = $150.05
Total With Coupons = $43.88
Total Day's Savings = $106.85
Total Percentage Saved = 71%

I was super excited when I totaled out my complete days saving from 6 different stores! I went to Walmart (rare occasion for coupon shopping), Food Lion, Kroger, Publix, Rite Aid and CVS. The best deals of the day were...

• 8 Oral B Advantage Deep Clean Toothbrushes - FREE (only paid tax of $0.89)
• 5 Old Spice Odor Blocking Body Wash - FREE (Buy One Get One sale)

As I said, I was super excited when I saw my total savings. To know that I got $150.00 worth of stuff and only paid $43.88 for it is sooooo amazing to me! I am completely hooked on coupon shopping!!!

Coupon Trip Savings Coming In A Post Near You...Tomorrow!

(Photo Courtesy of Google.com)

I will be taking my second coupon shopping trip tomorrow and I am SO looking forward to it. My savings this week should be better than that of last week's shopping trip. I plan to go to 4 stores. Publix, Kroger, CVS and Food Lion. I will post a picture of the outcome like I did last week. Keep your fingers crossed for me!!!

Independence Day

Josh and I were able to spend time with both sides of the family for July 4th celebrations. Saturday we went to Josh's Pawpaw's for a cookout and fellowship with the aunts, uncles and cousins. Sadly, I forgot my camera because we were not even sure we'd make it to the cookout or not, so when the decision was made that we were going...I was too rushed to remember the camera! :o(

Sunday we went to our church for service and then went over to my grandparent's house for a cookout and swimming. A lot of my family didn't get to make it, so it was just my Grandparents, my Aunt, my cousin - Karlee, Josh and I. I was able to go swimming for the first time in what seems like an eternity and oh my did it feel good!!! I was also able to talk Josh into going swimming with me. (that took a lot of talk!!!) Later that night we watched our little LEGAL firecrackers while everyone around us in the neighborhood shot off their BIG ILLEGAL fireworks! LOL

Karlee being as cute as she can be!

Our little LEGAL firecrackers...ooh pretty! Ah, just ain't the same! LOL
(I think we're getting the BIG ones next year! Hehe)

My First Coupon Deals

I decided to start collecting coupons a few weeks ago when my sister-in-law Jessica showed me how to get the best deals using them. After a week of collecting coupons from 5 newspapers and the SmartShopper paper that comes in the mail, I was able to take my first shopping trip. I was both excited and nervous about it. I was so scared that I was going to do something wrong and not get the deal that I was hoping to get. Now, granted I did not get the kind of deals that most people get due to the fact that this was my very first trip and I don't have the supply of coupons that the others have. After talking with Jessica I feel pretty good about my first ever coupon shopping experience. Here are the deals I got...

I went to both Publix and CVS to do my shopping. I am going to give you a combined total of spendings and savings.

Before Coupons - $85.83
After Coupons - $27.78
Percentage Saved - 68%

My favorite deals of the night were-
Pampers Swaddlers 36ct. - $6.99
6 M&M Pretzel Candies (two of which are missing, we ate them on the way home)- FREE
3 Kraft Sandwich Shop Mayo - FREE

My Last Trimester!!!

27 Weeks Pregnant!

I am so excited to be in the "last leg of the journey" with my pregnancy. To think that I only have 89 days left before my due date...wow!

The pregnancy is still going great. I go to my next check-up on Friday and that is when I will have my pregnancy glucose check...I have to honestly say that I'm not really looking forward to that drink that I have to drink before I get there. I've heard it's yucky.

I've got a yeast infection that I got due to taking my antibiotics for that sinus infection I had 2 months ago. Yes, I've had it that long...but in my defense, I had never had a yeast infection before and had no clue that I had one. So, I did a lot of research on yeast infections and pregnancy and talked to my sister-n-law, Jessica about it. (She gets a yeast infection with every pregnancy) She told me to get Monistat 7 and treat it with that. I didn't call my doctor due to the fact that every time I call them, they send me to a answering machine and I NEVER get my phone calls returned after several attempts. So I got my advice from someone with some experience in that area. So far, the yeast infection is a little better, I still have 3 days of treatment left. I am so ready for it to be GONE! Don't worry...I will be telling my Dr. on Friday what is going on...I'm not going to leave that out. :-)

I guess that's pretty much it for a pregnancy update. Until next time...

Created To Be His Help Meet

-Part II-
Three Types of Men

Debi Pearl depicts three different types of men in chapter eight. We're only going to look at one of them in this post.

Debi compares the three types of men to God's triad nature. I personally did not see this connection when she describes what these types of men are like. We will see shortly how she describes the first of these three types of men.

• 3 Types of men = God's triad nature (according to Debi Pearl)
  

Here are those three types of men.

1. Mr. Command
2. Mr. Visionary
3. Mr. Steady

We're going to look at Mr. Command today.
(Pg. 77)

Mr. Command is described as,

• strong
• forceful
• bossy
• low tolerance
• will not yield
• controlling
• self sufficient
  
• boastful (pg. 79)

To me, these descriptions just don't give the Command Man a good reputation. To be known as bossy, boastful, controlling and forceful...I mean, who would want to even be near this man? While reading on the Command Man I didn't see her mention many good qualities about him.

A Command Man that has gone bad and abuses his wife is not at fault - the wife is!

"A Command Man who has gone bad is likely to be abusive. It is important to remember that much of how a Command Man reacts depends on his wife's reverence towards him. When a Command Man (lost or saved) is treated with honor and reverence, a good help meet will find that her man will be wonderfully protective and supportive. In most marriages, the strife is not because the man is cruel or evil; it is because he expects obedience, honor, and reverence, and is not getting it. Thus he reacts badly." (pg. 79)

I agree that your husband does deserve respect, honor and reverence...but even if he's not getting it, there is NEVER a reason to be abusive physically or emotionally. The husband is to love his wife as Christ loves the church.

Ephesians 5:25 "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;"

It seems to me that Debi describes the Command Man as unapproachable. In the points she gives for the Command Man she describes him as a man that will not do household chores, won't engage in casual conversation, and will not comfort the sick or hurting. (pg. 79-80)

One Week Before My Last Trimester!

It doesn't seem possible that I am only a week away from my 3rd trimester! It has FLOWN by!!! Kloe is making me bigger by the day it seems like. In my last post I was bragging about still being in my regular clothes, well...not so much anymore. The skirts barely button and the shirts ride up. I've also already got those wonderful things called STRETCH MARKS - UGH! LOL Josh has to put lotion on them due to the fact that I absolutely cannot stand the feel of lotion...which I will need to get over as soon as Kloe gets here.

I hope to post another picture when I hit 27 weeks.

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