Weekend Update

It’s been a kinda weird weekend. We were so busy that I’m shocked I was actually off work for 4 days!

Thanksgiving went off without any major complications! Kinda forgot the rolls, but oh well. Didn’t seem to devastate anyone. Turkey turned out great and my new dressing recipe turned out pretty good too! Kinda upset that almost all of the leftovers are already gone… I could eat leftovers FOREVER! Pretty sure Daniel’s ecstatic…

Friday went Black Friday shopping with Crystal. We were at Walmart at 4:30 am then off to Target, Toys R Us, Old Navy, Brandsmart, and Kohl’s… and back home by 11 a.m.! It was a lot of fun and not near as hectic as I remembered other years being. Got a lot of great deals so well worth losing sleep over. Pretty sure I was in bed by 8 pm that night though!

Went and saw the Blind Side… definitely my most favorite movie I’ve seen in a long time! LOVE LOVE LOVED it!!!

Took the teens to Stone Mountain Saturday. I absolutely LOVE Stone Mountain at Christmas. It’s so pretty. It wasn’t too crowded so we saw pretty much everything we wanted to see… got pretty dang cold though!

Sunday did the whole church thing. We had Kids Church so really have no idea how the rest of church went! haha Afterwards Daniel and I rearranged our living room and decorated the house for Christmas. By the way, what is it about rearranging a room in your house that just makes you all warm and fuzzy inside? haha Really like the way we have it right now.

Ran over to Danny and Cindy’s to drop off the truck and catch up after their Florida vacation… then headed home to sit in our Christmasy decorated living room

I’m Tiffany Mead and that’s your weekend update

Gobble Gobble

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

My short list of thanks!

I know I tend to take lists to the extreme and before I know it I’ve typed 4,327 words so I’ll try to keep this short… just didn’t want to miss the opportunity to spill my guts on some things that I’m especially thankful for this year

1. Brian and Crystal – they really have filled a hole in our lives… so nice to have people we can count on, have lots of fun with, share all of our ups and downs with, and who will let us vent all our ugliness and still not think bad of us
2. Family – Daniel and I both have been so incredibly blessed! There’s nothing our families wouldn’t do for us. They are unbelievably supportive of all of our little adventures even though sometimes they don’t make any earthly sense at all.
3. Daniel – I can’t say enough nice things about him! He really is the greatest husband and way more than I ever deserve. I love you sweetie! Thanks for spoiling me so…
4. God – I still can’t believe that the One who created the entire UNIVERSE who knows me intimately, all of my short-comings, all of my yuckiness, all of my ill intentions, all of my screw-ups, all of everything repulsive in my life, BUT still wants me for His own! STILL wants nothing but the best for my life. STILL wants me to be so close to Him. STILL!! It just blows my mind! No problem is bigger than that! NOTHING!

There’s much more that I’m thankful for, many more people, many more blessings, but promised I’d keep it short Have a great Thanksgiving everyone!!

I made Daniel very nervous…

Yeah so Daniel and I had a little disagreement… I LOVE for him to go to Publix with me so he can help pick out which 17 boxes of stuff he wants, he can do all the heavy grocery cart pushing, he can help load/unload everything, AND he’s just fun to be with… He normally loves to go with me too…

HOWEVER this week he told me he probably won’t come with me anymore! He was just convinced that we were going to get to the register and have to fork over $500 for our groceries… He even stepped away from the register because our total was SO high before the coupons… Oh ye of little faith! haha

Here’s some of the better deals I got…

• 2 Shedd’s Country Crock sides – 54 cents each
• 2 cartons of Breyer’s icecream – $1.75 each
• 6 boxes of frozen taquito’s, mini-tacos, etc. – $1.49 each
• 2 cartons of Cool Whip – 19 cents each
• 4 Knorr rice sides – 34 cents each
• 2 bags of Idahoan mashed potatoes – made 31 cents
• 4 cake mixes – 60 cents each
• 8 cans of vegetables – 33 cents each
• 2 pkgs of cream cheese – 29 cents each
• 2 cartons of sour cream – 44 cents each
• 1 Marzetti caramel dip – FREE
• 6 boxes of Uncle Ben’s rice – made 61 cents
• 2 cans of pineapple – made 31 cents
• 2 containers of Vegetable Oil – $1.25 each
• 2 jars of pickles – 39 cents each
• 4 boxes of Ritz crackers, asst. – 63 cents each
• 2 boxes of Keebler crackers – $1.50 each
• 2 bottles of Glass Plus cleaner – 24 cents each
• 1 butterball turkey (12 pounds) – $9
• 3 pkgs of rolls – $1.50 each
• 4 12-pks of Coke – $12

I had to purchase a million other items that I didn’t have coupons for and that were NOT on sale… just makes me ill to think about it. So my total for this week is not that grand but even with all that said… I got $270 worth of groceries for $120… so not too shabby for Thanksgiving week…

Weekend Update

My weekend technically started a day early this week because a very special thing happened! New Moon came out! Go Team Jacob!! hehe

Anyways… went to see the midnight showing of New Moon with Crystal… we waited about 2 hours in the theater BEFORE the movie started, watched the 2 1/2 hour movie, then waited 30 minutes in the parking lot to GET OUT of the parking lot! A little pandemonious!! So didn’t get home until 3:30 or so… I’m just not that young enough anymore to get up and function the next day so took the day off!

Friday – pretty much slept until 10:15 am! Then spent half the day on the computer getting various things done for church. By the time Daniel got home from work, I was just about to lose my mind so he whisked me away to Publix for my weekly coupon trip. He knows just how to make a girl happy! haha

Went out to Outback with Brian, Crystal, and Caleb… then headed home because both of us were still exhausted from our all-nighter! Apparently Daniel didn’t sleep enough with me being gone… aahhh

Saturday – got up bright and early! (Thanks Apollo) Some friends of ours donated a washer and dryer to us to. Hopefully we’ll be able to sell it and get some dough to go towards the adoption. Went and picked that up and then headed back to the house to do a little baking and finishing up videos and such for church. Went back out because we were out of canned tomatoes… woops! Made the most amazing meatloaf recipe of all time! Even Daniel LOVES it and he HATES meatloaf Yum!

Sunday was Student Takeover Sunday! So it was all about the teenagers. So much fun. The music was LOUD, we had couches to sit on, Brian and Crystal made us pancakes, and we got to reminisce some camp memories! Fun Fun!

Then the fun was over and I had to go to work… trying really hard to be off the Friday after Thanksgiving and getting a 4 day weekend… so that means getting in some hours on Sunday! BOO! Should be a fun week haha … trying to squeeze in 40 hours before Thursday! WOW! I’m gonna be grumpy! Sorry Daniel

I’m Tiffany and that’s your weekend update!

It’s New Moon Day

That’s all I have to say! haha

11:59 tonight Crystal and I will be pretending to be much younger than we really are and will be screaming and swooning over Edward and Jacob like a bunch of silly school girls! AND LOVING IT! haha

Pushing my disturbance limit…

Yeap… I’ve met my disturbed quota… I’ve seen two movies in the past month that have just out right disturbed me!

1) Paranormal Activity – Crystal dragged us to see a midnight showing of this one… I LOVE scary movies. I’ll watch Jason, Freddie Krueger, Scream, whatever… HOWEVER I don’t do ghosts/demons, etc. I feel like I have a shot at protecting myself from something that I can see… not so much with something that I can’t see! So it was quite an act of my love for Crystal that I agreed to see this movie Just a few thoughts about the movie…

• I was asked a series of medical questions before I was allowed to buy the ticket… do you have any anxiety-related disorders, heart conditions, etc… that was almost enough to make me walk back out of the movie theater. (Apparently someone had a panic attack the night before while watching the movie and was taken to the hospital!)
• The actual movie wasn’t as bad as I thought. It was actually quite funny in parts and they did a great job of spending time getting to know the characters and sympathizing with their “situation”. There were intense moments, but the whole movie wasn’t intense like I thought it might be.
• I’ve never been to a more rowdy movie! (AND I saw Twilight with hundreds of teenage girls! haha) EVERYONE talked, gasped, yelled, screamed, etc. throughout the movie… it was like we all had to talk each other through it! Quite the experience.
• I watched pretty much the entire movie! The last five minutes of the movie I had to watch through my t-shirt because I couldn’t handle the full effect! haha But I was pretty proud of myself for that… By the way – the ending is the best part of the movie!
• Crystal didn’t know it was fictitious until after the movie was over! She thought it was based on actual happenings… yeah I’m VERY glad that I went into it knowing that it was completely made up… I might have cried during the movie otherwise haha
• For about a week I didn’t want to be left alone in the bedroom and REFUSED to open my eyes in the dark because I was afraid I might see something! Now why did I subject myself to that? Who knows!

2) Precious – I won’t write near as much as about this movie, because quite honestly, I’m trying to forget a good amount of it. I’ll just say that “in my world, everyone’s a pony, they eat rainbows, and poop butterflies” – (Quote from Katie in Horton Hears a Who) and I’d just like to pretend that crazy things like incest, rape, abuse, AIDS, etc. just doesn’t happen. Now I know that it does… but there were several moments of that movie where I literally turned my head because I just couldn’t watch it. Devastatingly good movie… definitely know why there’s already Oscar buzz surrounding it… normally the movies that push the envelope the most are the ones that win Oscars…

In other movie-related news… Crystal and I are going to see the midnight screening of New Moon tomorrow night!!! It’s been a long wait and I’m so excited I can hardly stand it… I’m such a dork! haha

Publix Shopping trip #463

Just kidding… but I will say it again! This is SOOO much fun! Definitely my new hobby! Love LOVE LOOOVVVEEE it Anyway, here’s some of the deals I pulled off this week…

• 4 boxes of Kellogg’s cereal – FREE
• 10 cans of BC frosting – FREE
• 2 12 pks of Coke – FREE (Coke Rewards)
• 8 pkgs of McCormick Gravy mix – FREE
• 7 bags of Green Giant Frozen Steamers – FREE
• 2 bottles of Lysol Spray Cleaner – 34 cents each
• 2 Dove Ultimate deodorants – 25 cents each
• 2 boxes of Del Monte fruit chillers – 31 cents each
• 1 bottle of Cascade dishwasher detergent – $1.99
• 1 bottle of Soft Soap hand soap – they paid me a penny
• 15 bags of Chex Mix – they paid me $5.10!!!

So all in all I got $160 worth of groceries for $40!!

Weekend Update

So this weekend was a pretty special weekend… Daniel turned 31!! Yeap he’s really old now! haha Explains why he falls asleep at 9 now! Just kidding Daniel!! Anyway, here’s a little of what we were up to this weekend…

Friday – went out with the family and Brian and Crystal… Daniel wanted the all-you-can eat shrimp at Red Lobster or “The Lob” haha (had to watch SNL Saturday night to get that one)… BUT the deal was over a few days earlier, so we left and went to Longhorn instead. Very yummy! I’m pretty sure Daniel’s rack of ribs was longer than my arm.

Saturday – took Daniel out for breakfast and a little birthday shopping… went and saw Precious which was extremely disturbing! I’ll post more about that later this week… Then we went out for Japanese with some friends to continue the celebration! Even more YUMMY!! Hung out afterwards, watched a little football and played a little Five Crowns (my new favorite game).

Sunday – had a great day at JP! Then we went back to our Baptist roots and had a HUGE potluck lunch down at the JP Barn! I swear I don’t know why we don’t do that more often… so much fun! Was definitely a pre-nap kinda meal, but never got around to actually taking a nap! oh well…

So pretty fun birthday weekend… not exactly a New York City birthday trip kinda weekend like last year… :)

I’m Tiffany Mead and this is your weekend update!

Happy Birthday Baby!!

In honor of my man turning 31 tomorrow, here’s my TOP 31 reasons that I love him soo much…

1. He lets me have the remote control all of the time except on Sundays during football season
2. He’s a better cook than me
3. He puts up with all of my crazy Type-A tendencies, organizing projects, and monthly cleaning frenzies
4. His hand naturally gravitates towards my scalp to give me scalp massages while we watch tv
5. He’ll do something at least once or twice a week that’ll make me tear up thinking of how great a dad he’s going to be
6. He always gives me the newer, more reliable cars to drive even though it means he never gets to have a new car
7. He always smells sooo good
8. He always makes HUGE sacrifices for me… from taking out the dog in the middle of the night and never waking me… to spending almost every penny he had on my engagement ring when he had no income and his car was broken.
9. He’s an eternal optimist, glass half full kinda guy
10. He’s not content for the status quo and wants his life to leave a ton of vacancies in hell
11. The way he’ll make up lyrics to a song if he doesn’t know the words
12. He proves to me constantly that I’m the most important person in his life
13. He’s an incredibly loyal friend who will fight for his friends
14. He’s THE HOTTEST man on the planet
15. He puts up with a job that he hates to provide for me
16. Nothing compares to watching him on Wednesday nights pour out his heart to the students and see how God has completely annointed him with such a gift
17. He’s a strong and independent man but is really a big ole softy deep down
18. He gets so excited watching sports on tv that he jumps around and pulls butt muscles
19. If God were to ask him to give everything up and move to a third world country without indoor plumbing and air conditioning, he would do it!
20. He makes me laugh so hard that I almost pee myself
21. There is NO spagetti sauce on earth that compares to his!
22. He’s always the first one to give in on a disagreement even when he’s right
23. He truly cares for his students and takes his calling very serious
24. He lets me win some of our wrestling matches… but he’ll never admit to it!
25. He puts up with my couponing and thinks its cool and not stupid that we have 23 boxes of potatoes, 17 packages of cookie dough, etc. at our house
26. He can’t stand for me to be upset at him about anything… won’t rest until it’s fixed
27. He would protect me from anything except for well… a snake
28. He’s the goofiest, silliest, most playful man I’ve ever met (in a good way)
29. He has weird phobias that remind me he’s not perfect… like people chomping on ice, feet, and people rubbing his bald head
30. He’s already planning out how he’s going to teach our kids to be coordinated in case they take after me…
31. He loves Jesus more than he loves me

So happy birthday baby! I can’t wait to see what this next year has in store for us!!!