For those of you who have been wondering why I haven’t been talking about my fertility treatments…

It’s because

I’m PREGNANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a picture of our baby at 7 weeks 4 days. We got to HEAR and SEE the heartbeat on this day (December 17). Today, I am 9 weeks 1 day. My due date is August 1st. We waited to announce it to everyone because we wanted to at least get to see the heartbeat. We were talking about waiting until the 2nd trimester, but we decided we wanted everyone to know! We are several weeks past the point of our previous miscarriages and are feeling very good about this baby. If you are wondering, this did happen on the cycle where we had "taken a month off". ;) I wasn't on the clomid. We are very excited about that! I know the Lord has chosen this baby for David and I and I am SO grateful to Him and Him alone for the privilege He's given me to try to be a good Mommy. We appreciate your prayers for us up until this point and hope you will continue to pray with us through this journey we are now on. There are many months before we will be able to hold this baby in our arms, but we know it will go by fast and look forward to that time. If you have any questions, please ask. I am an open book about it, so I don't mind!

Coupons

As a request from a sweet friend, Joni Bergoon, here is the blog that I follow that MAJORLY aids me in my couponing. I hope this helps some of you!

Southern Savers

Christmas Decorations

Just thought I would share a few of our Christmas decorations this year. Enjoy!

Couponing!!!

I have recently gotten back into the whole couponing game and am doing much better than before. I have found many good blogs that have helped me figure out how to get the most for my money. I am going to list two recent trips where I did pretty well.

K-mart recently doubled coupons up to $2.00. That meant you could get up to $4 off of a product! Here are my results.

Cost of products pre-coupons: $53.92
Money saved in coupons: $37.16
Money out of pocket: $16.76

That’s a 69% savings! This was my first big trip where I was able to save so much money. Some of the things were already on sale so I had those savings too, but I don’t remember what the original price was for those products.

BI-LO Grocery Store has become the place where I most watch for sales because they double coupons EVERY DAY up to $.99. That means you can save up to $1.98 per coupon. Here are the savings from my most recent trip.

Cost of products pre-coupons: $10.67
Money saved in coupons: $7.60
Money out of pocket: $3.07
That’s a 71.2% savings!

There are actually some other savings I incurred from just the normal sales at BI-LO that I didn’t have coupons to use. They had great sales on different meats and produce. Below is my total savings including the products I used coupons on.

Cost of products pre-coupons: $51.76
Money saved in coupons & sales: $31.80
Money out of pocket: $19.96
That’s a 61.4% savings!


I think I did pretty well for my first two big transactions. I am hoping to get even better in the future! This is making an amazing difference for David and I. It’s saving us money plus we are able to get more things that have been on the “absolutely not” list previously!

Our Precious

It's been a little rough for the Emigh family lately. (That's my maiden name) Our beloved poodle, Precious passed away last Sunday. I am thankful that she had a very long life with us. She would have been 15 this past week (that's 105 in dog years)! She has been a major part of my life since I was 12 years old. We have definitely lost a member of our family. Home will be much different when I arrive in a couple of weeks. I am not looking forward to going home and her not being there. Don't get me wrong, I am excited to see my wonderful family, it just won't be the same to walk in the house and not see my little Precious. She got me through many tough times by just letting me cry and hold her. Even after I moved to NC, when I would get home, she would always come running so excited to see me after being gone for so long. She will definitely be terribly missed. Below is a picture of me and her on the day I had my bridal portraits done. I am glad that we thought to get that shot!

New Table Wreath

I made a wreath for the first time yesterday and I am very excited! I think it looks pretty good for my first one. It only cost me $3.25 to make! What do you think?