"mommy, can you put me in the dirt?"

This is what Aspen asked me on Saturday night. I was confused, and asked what in the world he was talking about. "You know," he said, "put me in the dirt so I can go be with Jesus if I don't feel better tomorrow". He had been miserable and sick for a couple days by then, and I guess he was just fed up with feeling that way! Of course I was horrified that he would say or even think such a thing. So morbid for a 4 year old, it creeped me out!

When Aspen is sick, things slow down here a lot. Our normal routine when he is sick is that he gets to lay on the couch and watch tv or play video games. We have been watching a lot of the old Tom & Jerry Tails and Popeye. Journey is so used to playing and being bugged by Aspen, that she is confused when he is too sick to do those things. She misses his attention so much that she has taken to bugging the garbage out of him. She hits (gently) him, pokes him, touches keys on the computer when he is trying to play, etc. All in an attempt to get some attention out of him. I call it pay back!

Well, unfortunately, he is still sick, but luckly he hasn't asked to be put in the dirt again :)

Updating Life

Every Friday Aspen's friend, Sofia comes over for the morning. This week we also had Peyton. It was a very busy day going from two to four kids. Almost like having two sets of twins! At least we had beautiful weather and were able to take a walk.

Peyton peeling the bark off the tree on our walk.

Here's the crew on our walk. It was challenging to keep all four on the sidewalk and in view!

Aren't they adorable?

Yes, he has entered the age where it is almost impossible to get a picture of him without a weird face.

Finally, one good picture :)

Savings Blog

I have joined up with my sister-in-law, Christina on her savings blog
www.saving4myfamily.blogspot.com
For those of you that are interested, I will be posting my savings over there!

October Savings

I decided to try out the cash envelope system for budgeting in the month of October. We have never really used cash and have never put ouselves on a budget before, but with the economy the way it is, we have been searching for ways to decrease our bills.

Here are the ways we were able to save money this month:
Car insurance - I shopped our car insurance and was able to save $95 a month by switching to GIECO! Ha, Ha. But really, we did. :)

Switching our cable TV from Comcast to Direct TV. We will save about $70 a month.

And, drum roll please.............Groceries.
I put $220 in cash in our grocery envelope for the month. I only spent $205 of that!
I have $15 in cash left over to put toward November's budget, $24 in coupons off my next purchase (used like cash). And I saved 77% on my groceries for the month!

Unfortunately, we did go over our eating out budget of $100 for the month, but over all, I think we did pretty good considering we have never put ourselves on a budget :)