The Day After

Hello Everyone, this is Morry. Rachel is cutting out coupons so she asked me to write a blog. For those of you that don't know, Rachel is obsessed with saving money. It's rare that we eat dinner out without using a coupon and we almost always save at least $10.00 in coupons at HEB. Rachel's high is saving nearly $40 one time. I have to admit, that one was pretty amazing. She keeps another blog called the Cha-Ching Queen which tells you how to save and make money. If you're curious about it, click here.

So this morning, the boys got up close to 9am. Rachel got up with the boys and let me sleep a bit. I worked a bunch this week, including well past midnight several days this week. Then having a birthday party on Saturday really wiped me out. I finally got myself out of bed around 10:30 and came downstairs. The boys were sharing bread from the County Line bread and Lizzy was thinking she was sharing some. Of course Lizzy got herself in trouble. The boys seemed kind of cranky. They went to sleep so late last night so I wasn't surprised.

We were trying to figure out what to do so we decided to go to Freddie's Place for lunch. We had a coupon so it was only fitting. Freddies is a very Austin-type restaurant where you can eat outside and they have a playscape for kids. They also had a band playing called the All-In Blues Band. The band was actually pretty good. We figured if we went there, it would cheer the boys up because they could play outside and eat outside. We were right. Both boys really enjoyed playing outside. Noah played in the rocks a bunch, while Evan climbed and went down the slide. Near the end, Evan was pushing Noah in the baby swing. The boys actually ate some stuff as well which is surprising since they were so preoccupied.

When we got home, we put the boys down for naps and they took good naps.

Rachel's parents left around 4pm. The trip to Dallas is normally anywhere between 3 and 4 hours. At 7pm, they called to tell us they were still south of Waco which is about an hour and a half away. I guess with everyone leaving from South by Southwest, I-35 was packed. Oy vey.

We ate dinner outside on our new patio furniture. We got some really cheap small stuff at Target because we needed something. It was under $100 so we got a good deal. Again, the boys really loved eating outside.

After that we went for a walk. Evan walked much of the way and I put him on my shoulders for a while.

When we got back we gave the boys baths and now they are in bed. They were able to play with their new bath toys that Aunt Diane and Uncle Jay got for them. The toys were hits.

Until next time...