Coupons & Ward party

So I have always wanted to learn how to coupon and save money, but it has always seemed so stressful and overwhelming to me. Well I have finally learned. I went to a class by savvy shopper and learned the right way to do it and save money, I also have a girl in my ward who has been doing this for a while helping me! I have only been doing it for a litte over a week and I have saved so much money! The trick is to find things on sale and then use a coupon on top of that. I am still a beginner and learning all the tricks, so if any of you do this and have any advice/tips for me I would love it! I put some pics of my shopping trips and savings. Josh thinks I am retarded for posting this, but it was fun for me to lay out all my stuff and see how much I actually saved!!

Shopping trip #1 + 4 more Nivea mens body wash:

9- bags cough drops

2- Nivea womens body wash

5- mens Nivea body wash

2- Reach floss

Childrens cough med.

Childrens flu med.

Simply saline nose spray

Baby Simply Saline spray

Crest pro health Rinse

Blink eye drops

Tylenol pain patches

Immune-C

Normal Cost: $61.92

I paid: $1.99

Saved: $59.93

Shopping trip #2:

Colgate toothpaste: FREE

2- hand sanitizers: $.99 each

Finish dish det. : $1

Purex 3 in 1 laundry: $1

Huggies diapers: $4.99

2- 24 pk. bottled water: $1.99 each

2- Trident layers gum: $.49 each

6- bags chocolate halloweeen candy: $1.49 each

Normal cost: $58.49

I paid: $22.87

Saved: $35.62

Shopping trip #3:

2- Schick Xtreme shaver 6 pack: FREE

(normally $6-$8)

Dawn dish soap: $.50

Crest toothpaste: FREE

Oral B toothbrush: $.25

Normal cost: $15.75

I paid: $.75

Saved: $15

Hope you enjoyed my savings. This will help us build our food storage so much! I am so excited and I just had to share!!!!

I have also got lots of free samples and trial sizes of things.

On another note, we recently went to our ward halloween/ chilli cookoff party. Bentley had lots of fun playing all the little games. We did a trunk or treat for all the kids and it was so much fun to watch Bentley get so excited about treats being put in her bucket!

This is Bent's costume which she loved wearing!!





Bentley and Josh eating their chilli.


Our pretty girl after church one Sunday!!

October fun

We had a fun halloween party on the Ludwig side. We ate food, played games, carved pumpkins, made crafts, and had yummy dessert.
Bentley and her cousins, Brooke, Cole, and baby Aspen. She can say all of their names pretty good now and loves to be with them.

Brooke and Bentley eating their dinner. Bent loved the olives.

Helping dad carve her pumpkin.

She wasn't too thrilled about her hands being so messy!

Bentley and her finished pumpkin!

This is the "after" picture of the railing and wall me and Josh did. Josh cut out the wall and we had to sheetrock, texture and glaze the wall. Then Josh built the post and the railing. Then we stained and glazed it. I am so happy with it and love how it opened up our living room area!!

For family night we decided to make caramel apples. Bentley had fun dipping the apples.

Bentley enjoying her caramel apple!

Bentley started falling out of her crib and after a few times of that we decided to put her crib into a toddler bed before she broke an arm or something else.

At first she was really excited about her big girl bed.

But when it was really time to go to bed she freaked out and would not stay in her bed. For about 4 nights she cried until she fell asleep on her floor right by the door. We would have to push the door open and put her into bed. Then she would come in our room and we'd have to take her back and do it all over again. This was such a hard week and I just wanted to give up and put it back to a crib. Because before this was was such a good sleeper and I never heard a peep from her. Well she's starting to get used to it and realizing it's not so bad. I am glad we stuck with it til she got used to it, even though it was so hard!

Me and Bentley got to go watch one of my brother's baseball games. His team has won all but one of their games. Bryce is an awesome player in the field and batting. I haven't been to one of his games in awhile and I was amazed at how good he is. He's the star of his team and he's got a really good team.

Bentley and Cami cheering on Bryce!!

Melissa and Jace all bundled up at the game! Jace didn't have a hat, so we put my moms ear warmers on him and we couldn't stop laughing at how funny it looked! He's adorable!

Our dog, Lady

This was Josh and Bentley watching our dog, Lady swim around the lake.
Lady swimming with Bentley.

This is our cute dog, Lady who recently died! Josh takes the dogs out in the hills and they run while following Josh is the jeep. Josh took them out one night after school and they ran a couple miles. Somehow Lady ran under the jeep and Josh ran her over. He got out and she ran over to him and then died his his arms. We have had a really hard time with this, especially Josh. He absolutely loves his dogs.

Lady was such a sweet dog. To Josh she was the perfect dog. He spent a lot of time training her. She was an amazing hunter; she would hold on point forever when she found a bird. She was also an excellent swimmer; she would swim all over the lake if we let her. She was very obedient and minded very well. She was also so good with kids. She loved Bentley and all the neighbor kids. She will definitely be missed....


Teaching Lady to point!

Locked on point on a pheasant wing.

Lady and Dixie.

Bentley picking some green tomatoes to give to Dixie. We have tried to pay special attention to Dixie since her buddy is gone.

Bentley using her dad's stethescope.

I thought this was so cute and had to snap a picture!

Bentley with her grandparents.

Josh's dad being brave to let him do an IV. I also broke down and let Josh do it on me. He did a really good job and it didn't even hurt.

Me and Josh went on the Muzzleloader deer hunt the end of September. We had a lot of fun together. We didn't see anything we could shoot. We did lots and lots of hiking. I think I got my workout for the month.

We started hiking at 5:30 and it took us about 2 hrs straight up to get to the top before sunrise. It was so beautiful up there.

We tried to find shade during the day! It was so miserably hot and that's why we didn't see many animals. They bed down when it gets too warm and stay there til the sun goes down.

Here we are at the top! Josh was making fun of my diamond studded sunglasses the whole time and said I was scaring all the deer away! :)

Just another pretty picture of the mountains!! We saw lots of deer, just none we could shoot and we saw a bunch of really big bull elk and moose. Josh is so patient to take me hunting with him. I enjoy being with him so much!!!