Hello! My name is Dawn, and I'm a geek.

Thanks to my neighbor and friend, Tamara, I've been clipping coupons again. I'm also working on a price book. The price book is going to take a while to get it all done. Target alone took over an hour (maybe 2) to write down sizes and prices of everything we use. And I didn't even get everything. I did get everything written down that we use so it's a little easier getting things filled out. I signed up for the Oregonian's Free FOODday Edition, but haven't gotten it, yet. And over the past week of just getting started, I've gotten free or REALLY cheap chocolate, cheese, Ritz, Wheat Thins, and some other things. I have more coupons for free chocolate from Target, too. Good thing it's free because I would not spend $.99 for a candy bar! (It's for the Hershey's Bliss.) I'm sure Kevin thinks I'm crazy, but he said as long as it decreases our spending, he doesn't care.

We went to Joann's last night and saved almost $400! Simplicity pattern's were on sale 5 for $5 with a limit of 10, so we both got 10 (20 total). I also got some lining that I needed, ribbons, a new seam ripper (I actually broke my other one), and fabric & things for a dress. I got to use a 10% off everything coupon. And the best thing, Kevin got me a dress form and was able to use the 40% off coupon! He's been wanting to get me one and is very supportive of all the sewing I've been doing and is very impressed. (Everyone's been impressed with my sewing.) I have so much that I want to work on right now...3 tops, 2 skirts, a dress, jammies for kiddo, chalk bags for Shawn and Veronica, and Heidi got some fabrics for a top and skirt.

Other then all of that, things are going well. Kiddo's getting big. I discovered that tooth number 18 came through sometime this week. Now, she just has her top 2 molars left. She and I both go to the dentist on August 25th. I have a cleaning and x-rays. Her's is just the "How many teeth do you have? Can you show them to me? Oh, how pretty!" type of appointment. Next year, though, she gets a full cleaning and x-rays. She'll also be able to take a dance class and soccer next year. Lilith is trying to put words together. And she's been talking about the beach for a week now...it just doesn't sound like beach. I keep telling her that we will go to the beach in a couple of weeks. Kevin has the second week in June off and we're planning on going to Seaside for a day.

Ok, dinner's here so I need to get going. I'll write again soon.
<3 The Kelley's

Here are a couple of pics from the past couple of weeks.