November & Family pics

We got our family pictures done!

My sister in law, Jessica took them for us and she did such a good job!

Pictures of our cute Bentley!!!!

She did so good for the pictures.

We had an early Thanksgiving dinner with the Ludwigs! Josh made one of his famous fried turkeys. I forgot my camera, but we had a really nice dinner.

Bentley helping her dad shampoo the carpets. They look so so much better!

Josh went pheasant hunting with a couple friends not too long ago! They had lots of fun!!

Showing Bentley one of the Pheasants!

Cleaning the pheasants. Josh cut up the meat and we marinated and cooked it! Josh liked it, but I'm not a fan of pheasant.

We went with some friends out to Wasatch wing & clay, a hunting club to do some skeet shooting. It was way cold, so pretty much just the boys shot! The little girls had fun playing together!

Bentley and Ella watching their dads shoot! And Bentley licking her snot. The girls went and sat in the cars after this since it was so cold.

Josh and Terry shooting!

Making Cookies!

Me and Bentley made pumpkin chocolate chip cookies one day and she absolutely loved licking the spoons and eating the cookies!

Here is another one of my awesome deals I got!
Sorry if you don't care, but it's just fun for me to figure it out and write down how much I saved! I have been having so much fun and gotten so much free/ cheap food and other household and personal hygiene items.

Anyways, all this stuff would normally cost $66.30
I spent $2.40. Such an awesome deal.

Halloween

Bentley playing in the leaves with her daycare friends!

Bentley and her cousins looking at all their candy!

Bentley eating her candy out of her bucket!

Josh's cute costume....

Me and Bentley getting ready to go trick-or-treating in the rainy and cold weather! We only went to 5 houses since it was so cold. She got so excited every time someone put candy in her bucket!

Bentley and her great grandma Ludwig.

Getting excited for trick-or-treating:)

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!