Where is Washougal?

We leave for Washougal, WA soon. It's a very small town about 1/2 hour outside of Portland, OR. I have been there almost every summer for 20 years. My grandparents had a summer home there and when they pasted away my parents wanted to keep up the tradition. It is one of the most beautiful places I have been to. It has a prefect balance between city life and the most amazing National parks.

The house has a river in its backyard! Ethan loves that he is so close to a good fishing spot. I have so many memory's there. The picture below is my sister and I by the river. I am glad that I am able to take Zac there to create memory's of his own!

A few of Zacs favorite things!

His books

His trike. He doesn't ride his trike, he pulls it everywhere.

His frog pool.

Nice job Julie!!!

Today my big sis graduated with her master's degree in education from BYU. I am so proud of her. She has worked hard for two years and now she is done. Julie is one of those people who loves school. She teaches school and she is always taking some sort of class for herself. I know someday she will go on and get her doctoral degree. I hope she has a wonderful day! I know she will enjoy the much needed break.......... till she has kids!

$50 a week

As EVERYONE knows the economy is hurting. I don't care if your rich..... you still don't like paying $4.15/gal. And with that food has also gone up alot! In an effort to save some money I thought it was time to cut our food bill in half! I started to think about it more when my friend did a poll on her blog and asked everyone how much a week they spent on food. I thought about that and I put in my answer which was $125. One of the answers on the poll was $50 and I thought how does anyone do that with kids!!!!!!! If I was to do that I would have to cut some major things out of our food. I thought we would have to live on nothing but Mac & Cheese. I wasn't willing to sacrifice Zacs eating habits because he eats so healthy. I still thought I would give it a try. I went online and found some coupon websites and I asked Ethan's mom to save the Sunday paper coupons for me. I also planed out the meals I was going to make for the week. That Monday I went to the store so excited, thinking I was going to save tons of money. I end up with Zac screaming to get out of the cart and me walking out of the store spending $70 for the week. I felt so defeated. The next week I tryed it again and I spent $62. I was getting closer but not to my goal yet. This week I did it!!!!!! Exactly $50. I got a ton a great stuff also! Strawberry's, Avocado, Chicken, whole grain bread....all kinds of things. I saved $20 with coupons and sales. A long time ago I bought the reusable bags. It has been so worth it because Smiths gives a 5 cent credit for every bag, every time you use them. Every cent counts! I know some weeks I will have to spend more but that is OK because I'm still saving so much money. Coupons really do work! Hopefully I can keep it up!!!!!!

Help!

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