Falling behind again...

So we can all agree I'm not very good at keeping up with my blogging.  But what can I say I work almost 24/7 and have a house and family to look after.  But excuses aside here I am.

I can't wait for this weekend to officially start.  Fun things are on the calendar and cupcakes are in the oven!  Yes I said cupcakes are in the oven.  We have a geocaching meet and greet tomorrow night.  Although we neither voted in the hidey awards or reached any milestones this year we plan to go and have some fun!  I'm in the middle of baking cupcakes to bring and will make cornbread tomorrow.  I can't however come up with any good ideas on how to decorate the cupcakes.  I want something with a geocaching them.  I thought about doing little travel bugs on them but that might take a really long time!  I also thought of incorporating a the logo in somehow.  I'll come up with something, I always do.

We've been doing a lot of shopkicking lately.  Shopkick is an app for your smart phone that has you scan items in stores while you are out shopping.  Each time you scan an item you receive a predetermined amount of kick pints.  You can also receive kick points by simply walking into a store.  They also give instant rewards that require you to do nothing at all.  Once you have collected kick points you can redeem them for gift cards.  We just redeemed some points for 25 dollars from restaurants.com.  I can't wait to use it!  If you are like me and love a good deal or free things give shopkick a try!   I have also heard that swagbucks is another great way to earn points to cash in for prizes and things.  I might just sign up!

Trip to nc!

So we took a spontaneous trip to North Carolina this weekend.  My husband's parents decided to bring his sister and her family their Christmas gifts.  They asked us if we would like to go along.  That was Thursday, we left on Saturday and we were back this afternoon.  Although it was a short trip we had fun as always. 

They took us to their aquarium, the North Carolina Aquarium Fort Fisher.  It was a very nice little aquarium!  Much better than the one we go to near us in Va Beach.  And the price was great!  Eight dollars!  Here we pay 21!  I always thought it was high and now think so even more!  If they can have low prices why can't ours?  I'll admit maybe ours does have a few bigger exhibits like the otters and the seals outside but I still don't think they need to charge that much.  If it were cheaper I would go more than once every few years.  And usually when I do go it is because I was given a free pass or I was with some one with a membership.  I'm not saying it is a bad aquarium I just don't feel as though I've gotten my moneys worth when I leave.  I do think it is well worth the drive to go to the one in NC! 

Liam loves to look at fish!  I'm so glad they decided to take us!  It's so cute to watch him try and catch a fish as it swims by!  It's also adorable how he gets startled when one sneaks up on him. 

Oh!  Liam said dada and momma tonight!  We were at dinner at my parents.  My mom was feeding him too slow he thought and decided to let her know it and said dadadada.  My mom asked if we heard it.  I heard him say something but it didn't register what.  We all looked at him as he proceeded to say dada again then momma!  I guess he decided to go ahead and get them both out on the same day!  After that he decided he liked dada the best and continued to babble that for the rest of dinner!  I'm so excited for talking.  Let's hope this isn't like his blowing raspberries.  He blew raspberries for a day and then stopped.  We shall see!

Here are some pictures from our trip!  Hope you enjoy!

Pictures!

I thought I'd make tonights post pictures of the baby!  Enjoy!

Geocaching adventure!

We went out on a numbers run today.  A numbers run is when you go out and grab as many caches as you can to bring you total finds up.  Though we didn't end up meeting our goal of ten it was fun.  It was a small goal I know but we were trying to grab some quick park and grabs while the little cacher napped in his carseat.  He napped for about an hour which gave us time to grab a few.  We did a few more after he woke up and had a bottle of course.  He enjoyed a walk around a small pond behind an office building.  I enjoy finding caches in nice little hidden spots like that one.  He liked the fountain and most of all the wind blowing his hair.  He loves the wind!  Although we didn't make our quota we did find 8.  Not too shabby but not great either.  We had three dnf's or did not finds.  I never like leaving with without a find especially if I know where it is and can't get it because of a muggle.  We had two of these today and one true dnf.  If that one was camouflaged it was very well done.  All in all a good day.  We will venture out again tomorrow in hopes to make a few more finds.  We are hoping to hit 200 finds by February 4th for the milestone meet and greet and hidey awards.  We need 58 more!  Wish us luck!

I won't break my streak!

I do not really have anything thought out to say tonight.  Liam was cranky most of the afternoon until I went to work and because of that I never put any thought into what I was going to write tonight.  I have five minutes to publish this or it will become tomorrows post and I will have lost my own challenge of writing every day!  Now four...and the baby just woke up!  Here is hoping he puts himself back to sleep, I'm tired.  Good night!

Coupons

I attempted to print coupons today.  I always get excited when I read about how someone spent fifty dollars on two hundred dollars worth of groceries.  I jump on the computer and start searching.  About fifteen minutes in I start to get discouraged.  I never seem to find any coupons for the things we buy!  It seems there is only ever coupons for frozen pizzas or shampoo I don't use.  I have come to think that maybe people who coupon don't use the same products all the time.  I like my body wash and get sad when walmart is out of my conditioner.  I'm not sure how I would do changing up my things just because I found a good coupon.  But then again I guess that's all part of the game.  But maybe they are just lucky and they use the products that commonly have coupons out there.  I'm not going to let this discourage me though I will keep trying.  I did enter a contest to win a year of diapers.  That would be nice.  I also signed up for free samples of parents choice formula.  But everytime I hit the send me my free sample button it just sent me to a find your walmart page so I'm not sure I will see those.  If I do it will be a pleasant surprise!  I'll try again another day.  Until then I hope you have better luck than I did!

Headache...

Nothing long tonight.  Terrible headache!  I will leave you with this advice, don't sit in a dance studio waiting area for two hours with a headache.  Especially one that teaches tap!  Good night.....