Hayden and I decided that Spring is here! We saw our first dandelion of the year! He knows that Spring is when Baby Brother will be here! Any day now! The sooner the better in my book. I was at the doctor yesterday and she guessestimated him at 7.5 pounds right now and he should be gaining 1/2 pound to 1 pound a week. So if i go to the due date he'll be about 9.5 pounds, so now would be better with the whole birth thing in my book! He is in the "position" for birth and is causing me no pain! I really can't complain this pregnancy has been a breeze so far.

Its been nice enough for Hayden and I to go on walks after work this week. He has been riding his bike and he flies on that thing. We are ready for summer over here! Jason and Hayden have been out golfing a few times already too! Jason said the course has been pretty busy and they've had to double up with random people and Hayden is always entertaining them! Hayden's big feat this year so far is that his ball skipped over the water on a pond 3 times and hit the bank and was in! He was very proud of this. Hayden also putts all day long in the house with his little putting green. He also has become a basketball shooting pro. He stands across the living room from his hoop and makes it 75% of the time!

We will be keeping everyone updated on the progress of Baby Brother, which hopefully will include his blog debut, soon!

As many of you know I love to save money! And with Carson on the way my spending isn't exactly equalling my saving! But I've found a few ways to save money which is quickly adding up to savings.

Kmart lately about once a month is offering double manufacturer's coupons up to $2.00. Which is HUGE on diapers! I've been saving $3.00 a pack on Pampers and Huggies. I can't seem to find $2.00 off coupons for diapers, only $1.50! But I bought 3 packs this week of diapers with the price per diaper just under .16 per diaper. Kmart also had diapers on sale this week, which are the normal Target diaper prices, but Target can't beat the doubled coupons!

I also have been signing up with all the baby companies to receive their newsletters and coupons which equal free samples too! I've received 2 full sized formula cans and 1 smaller size. Plus 2 one day samples. I do plan on breastfeeding for a while, but I know I won't for a whole year.

Also I've recently found out that a company will send you a check for .75 per pack of Huggies and $1.00 per pack for pullups(Hayden uses at night still) you must have at least 5 receipts and then they'll send you your check! I don't have 5 yet(I can't find a few of my receipts!) so I'll report back when I do. But saving another .75 per pack that brings my diaper prices down to .145 per diaper!

I also am a firm believer in store brands! Except for laundry detergent and dishwasher soap, I'm a total brand snob on these products! I love Tide and my clothes show it or not actually!!!! Jason has been our resident dishwasher and he was using 2 packets of the store brand in the dishwasher and it wasn't getting the job do until i started buying Electrsol(sp?) tablets(i think!!). I should totally be getting paid by these companies for name dropping!!! On website i frequent it showed the savings between buying name brand and Target brands this week and the savings before coupons was 46.7% savings. Thats a lot!

Any other ideas and tips on saving money would be greatly appreciated!!!