Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Exciting upgrade


This isn't exactly what our van looks like, but pretty close. We have a newer car parked in our carport this evening. A friend of ours buys and sells wholesale cars and he found this car last weekend. It was a pretty good deal and we are in need of a bigger car.

I have been driving a truck very similar to this:


Imagine the backseat with door to door carseats! No room to breathe, yet alone move! It is insane to think that I could even fit 3 carseats in the back.

Now, I have more room and better gas mileage! What a way to upgrade and no car payments, yeah!

Monday, May 24, 2010

Bountiful Baskets


We finally have a co-op coming into the valley, well one that I actually know of, let's put it that way. It is: http://bountifulbaskets.org Each basket is $15 and for the first basket you pay a one fee of $3. There is also $1.50 handling fee.
I ordered one basket and I also added on a 25 lb. bag of carrots for $10, which we are chopping up and putting in our freezer. A couple of months ago we found a freezer at a garage sale for $50, very exciting!
They had extra add-on's and I believe they change them so they aren't the same. They offered for an extra $10 5 loaves of bread and them some kind of cake and of course the carrots too.

For my basket of $19.50 (first time basket) I got:
8 peaches, 8 apples, 7 bananas, 4 avocados, a coconut, head of cabbage, head of romaine lettuce, small bag of baby carrots, 2 cucumbers, small container of blackberries, container of strawberries, and 6 tomatoes.

All of the produce is in great condition and not overly ripe, so I will have time to use it all! I can get this every 2 weeks, so I am thinking of ordering 2 baskets every 2 weeks and volunteering sometime, then you get more! Great way to get good produce. To get organic, there is an extra fee.

I know that this is available in Utah, Idaho, Arizona, Nevada and Eastern Washington (sorry family).

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Too Cute!

I recently went on a trip to Washington state to see the birth of my sister's baby boy, Jaike. While we were up there we went to Salt Creek, a place just west of Port Angeles. We would always go camping and explore the tide pools. It is a great place and was a gorgeous day, amazingly!
I haven't gotten all of my pictures off my camera yet, but I do have this one of Carter enjoying the rocky beaches, enjoy!