back from a hiatus?

Well, softball is winding down, in fact this is our first weekend off in almost 2 months! We have one more tournament and the championship game of another on Monday and then we are all done and we go back to Volleyball! When is the rest! But, I have to tell you, I love it and I wouldn't have it any other way!

We are still working on paying down our debt and living frugally, well we were until softball that is. All the travel in the summer leads to alot of me

als out and sometimes all three meals in a day out so it really did do a number on our budget. We are back on track now with eating at home at e

very possible time!

We have our garden in 16 tomato plants, 6 jalepeno peppers, over 100 green bean plants and 20 cucumber plants! No onions or potatoes this year... it has been so wet and rainy here that I didn't have time to get it all in! I can't wait until we can start eating garden fresh produce! Yum!

Here are a few pictures from our summer of softball :)

Runner up in state!

Well, now that the excitement of Junior High volleyball is over... we can get back to our regularly scheduled life for 1 week. Yes, you heard me... 1 week. In one week track meets start, club volleyball tournaments start and travel softball is still practicing. Nuts I know.

Here are a couple of pictures from the state championships.

Regional Volleyball Champs!

Softball, Volleyball, not time for me Oh MY!

It is all I have been doing lately. Not that I am complaining because I am not... Just busy is all. This week we start sectionals for volleyball, so that should be exciting. Haley made a club volleyball team last week so just when I thought that volleyball was almost done... this smacks me in the face. I have not been doing well at all with not spending. I haven't done any real grocery shopping in 2 weeks so we have been eating out alot! I need to get it together and pull my head out of my butt!

We had some more cutbacks at work in the last few weeks. I had to let another person who worked for me go. So now we are down to 3 in a department of 5. Things are getting hectic and I am the only one that doesn't get paid overtime, so I have been trying to pitch in and help more by staying later. I don't mind as it is apart of my job to pick up the slack when things like this happen. I am sure I am losing most of the people that have read me over the past few months, but just know that I will be back soon... hopefully very soon! I like to blog, and I really like to read blogs! I really need to be better at commenting more as well.

I have alot going through my head, this is the last year that I am going to be the president of our travel softball league and I have a ton to do and no time to do it in. I really need to get motivating and get the few things left that I have to do for it!

Have you ever felt like your writing is just all over the place... I guess, I use this more as a journal of my daily life then a blog about anything in particular. I went back and was reading a little of it and it is pretty hard to follow. And I noticed that I talk about Haley alot! lol .

Oh well... I might never be one of those super popular blogist's but that's ok... I like this little place to journal my hard to follow thoughts :)

What is with this Snow!

It snowed again last night... not nearly as much as they said we were going to get (6-8 inches) but it is still cold and the wind is blowing like crazy!

We had an exciting week with Haley's volleyball team! They one their conference championship on Thursday and the game was so exciting!! They won in two games and the best part was that they won against their arch rival!

Back in the Saddle again!

After a two week hiatus from frugal shopping I am back on track. I did my weekly shopping trip this week. Below you will see a picture of the goods. I didn't have to buy any meat this week because we still have plenty in the freezer. So, with the money I would have boughten meat with, I bought some toiletries and cleaning supplies and cat and dog food. I spent $57.43 and I am done for the week. Woo hoo.

There was a great deal on cereal this week. I bought 4 of Haley's favorite (Fruit Loops) for less then $4.00 and then I got 2 boxes of Rice Krispies and 2 boxes of Corn Flakes also for less then $4.00.

This week's menu will include:

MeatLoaf

Pork Chops

Home Made Chicken Strips

Pizza

Taco Ring

Haley gets two choices but she hasn't made them quite yet. I will have to update when she does.

It is about 3:30 here and I have quite a few things left to do before tomorrow. I am going to make homemade bagels for breakfasts this week. I think I will make some cookies as well so we have something to snack on. This past week, I made Pioneer Woman's best ever Chocolate Sheet Cake! It was awesome! We all loved it!

Before I go, I have one recommendation from my grocery shopping today. I love salsa! Not necessarily super hot salsa, I like it to have a kick but I also like to taste all of the ingredients. I had two coupons today for $1.00 of Wholly Salsa, and one of my grocery stores had them on sale for 10/ $10. So I bought two of them for Free! It is the best Salsa I have had in a long time, next to home made. Not super hot but definately a kick and you can taste all of the great ingredients! Try it the next time you have a hankerin' for some Salsa, it won't let you down!

I have fallen off the wagon

Life has been busy busy lately... We have been going everywhere for volleyball, work has been busy, and I am trying to get the season started for softball... that includes getting games schedules and tournaments as well. Also, my daughter and her friends are thinking about starting a club volleyball team... Since I have experience with running a softball league, I think I have been volunteered for Volleyball as well. We shall see!

So, I have fallen off the wagon, the cooking everything at home wagon... We have eaten out 2 times this week do to very poor planning on my part. I didn't get to grocery shop at all for the last two weeks. I have stopped to get milk and a few veggies but for the most part we have been living on what we have. This is fine and we have plenty to get us by... But I did not plan any of my meals this week at all!

Last night we had a late volleyball game and we were all starving after it so we went out for Pizza, and tonight Haley was going downtown with her friends so Jim and I decided to treat ourselves to Mexican! We could have definately gone with out those two expenses... but oh well we are back on track for the rest of this week and next now!

Since I haven't been blogging much lately I don't have any new recipes ready and I have still been trying to learn how to edit my photos in elements... I just haven't had much time to devote to it. So, here is a picture of my daughter that I am currently working on.