Thanksgiving 2014

Last year I apparently had more time to blog, be creative with things and decorations were up and ready when we got home from my mom's.  It was fun to reread my 30 days of thankfulness blog and I am still thankful for all that!

Thanksgiving this year had some moments of stress and tears (from me too..) with Declan being sick, but overall, I was thankful he was sick over break because Andy or I would have missed work last week and it was great for Grandma to help give us relief with her cuddles and playing with him when I just wanted to eat without my sick boy on our lap.

We did have fun playing games, sledding, clay pigeon "hunting"  (I suck... truly I suck and I hate to be bad at things but I only got worse the more I tried so I may just accept guns and aiming are something I suck at!!)

Click here for video of Britt & Declan Sledding!

 Sick sleeping boy!  

 MMMM! 

 This is how Lance shoots!  And he hit 4/5...   

I hit about 5/30... 

That one time I actually liked the Mall of America

Everything through Declan's eyes is so much more fun!

As a "I'm Sorry and I'll try better present" to Andy, I "gave" him two weekends where I would not plan anything on the social calendar without first asking him and I would do anything he wanted with no complaints.  He picked a trip to MOA as one of the days activities and I went willingly, with my lips locked and vowed to have fun!  And surprisingly, I truly had fun just playing in stores with Declan as it was a fun field trip for him!  He doesn't understand "consumerism" and happily just said "Bye Bye" to every toy or activity we did!

 Got a strolling nap in!

 FISHES!!  A favorite cute sounding word he says!! 

 Definitely would have been too scared to ride Merry Go Round but loved the "horses" as he signed it to me.. Over and over and over when we left because this is the one place he didn't want to leave!

Lego Land with Auntie B!  

Save $20 Dollars on Gas!

I love coupons and reward programs.   I cut the PawPoints off cat litter and Coke rewards off boxes and enter all those online for free coke/cat litter....    But my favorite has to be Super America's.  And many people just have the free rewards card to get 3 cents off per gallon each fill up, but  just don't know about the big perks you are acquiring when you use it!

Another tip for saving money at Super America is use their prepaid fuel card.  Load that, and you get another 3 cents off (or 7 cents for premium) per gallon.  Then Tuesday's are double coupon days and they'll accept all competitor coupons. 

But if you haven't, register your SA Rewards card online and then swipe it at a kiosk in the store and check your fuel reward coupons!  The first time we did this, we had enough points for four 50 cents off per gallon coupons.  Using that on Tuesdays, we DOUBLED it for a $1 off per gallon.. saving 15-20$ with our prepaid card and rewards card for another 6 cents off per gallon.