Christmas Vacation on a budget!?

That's the goal, this year go on a weekend trip for as little as possible. Oh, guess I should add that we're going to Vegas. Is there such a thing as a budget trip to Vegas?? Well hotel room, check! I scored Springhill Suites Convention Center for $217 for 2 nights!!! I'm going to use American Express points to get a $100 gift card so total cost for hotel that has free breakfast for a family of six- $117!! Ok starting off budget friendly.... Now to figure out food when we love to eat at expensive places..... Stay tuned for how that works out! For now we're excited to see all the Christmas decorations!! We went right after Christmas 2 years ago and fell in love with Christmas in Vegas!!

Cyber Monday deals

It Works has some amazing Cyber Monday deals!!! Check them out!!! YES that's WOW BOGO!!! http://www.lovetowraparizona.myitworks.com/

Introducing It Works!!

I have recently signed on as an It Works! Independent Distributor. Three years ago I first learned about It Works! Just like so many people I wonder if they "really worked". Well this past fall I decided to give them a try! First product was a wrap, the results after 72 hours were AMAZING!! I was hooked so I decided to try the triple threat. Yep I was hooked so next step was signing on as a distributor. 

I have now personally tried wraps, facials, greens, thermofit, fat fighters, and hair skin and nails. I LOVE these products!!! IF you are looking for a way to help with getting healthy, losing weight, hate those wrinkles, or want to grow your hair longer I'm the person to talk to!! Stay tuned for more posts about our amazing products!! For more info head on over to www.lovetowraparizona.myitworks.com

Don't forget Wednesdays are "Wrap Wednesdays!" Ask me for more info!!

Having fun w/ my new camera

So I bought myself a Pentax x90 camera and figured the best way to learn how to use it is just take LOTS of pictures. Here are a few I took today ....

 I drive past this everytime I drive home from town.

 The old pumphouse at the front of our neighborhood

Time4learning

Wow that month sure went by quickly! My son loved his time learning with time4learning! For a change hubby wasn't having to fight too much to get Chris to do his school work on the computer! I love how easy it is for me to log in and check what he's been doing online. As a working homeschooling mama anything that I can do to make learning fun for the kids and yet easy on me is a great resource.

Time4Learning update

So today was the first day our 7 year old has used time4learning. So far he really likes it, especially the Space stuff on the 2nd grade science. For the first time in weeks it's not a battle to get this child to do some school work!! Can't wait to see how this goes over the next few weeks!!

Time4Learning

Over the next 30 days, I will be reviewing Time4Learning's online education program. It can be used as a homeschool curriculum, an afterschool tutorial or for summer learning. My opinion will be entirely my own, so be sure to come back and read about my experience. You can write your own curriculum review, too!

What do you do on a nice winter day in Northern AZ?

Go play in Oak Creek of course!!!
Yep my crazy kids went playing in the creek today and had a BLAST!!!

Yes, C is in the water and B is on his way back in!

B fell in and his bottom is all wet, crazy kid!!

Why I LOVE Oak Creek Canyon!!!

One of me

Is this just so cool??

a beaver dam

Meet our class pets....

Mr Snowy

Miss Lily

Miss Lily close up

Snowy, Molly and Jitters

Will have to hunt down a picture of Yoshi.

My take on the mail box and household binder system...

I started off hunting on Pinterest for ideas and found two I really liked! One was on The Nest Effect and another was on Lovely Crafty Home then I found ideas for the household binder on pinterest too.

So here is what I came up with...
First the Box..

My Box, I used a clear plastic file box. The calendars were printed off Google.

My dividers, Mail in, mail out, to file, my 2 kids in public school each have a folder, store ads, coupons, recipes, receipts and my cleaning folder.

My cleaning folder- I am planning to start Fly Lady again.

Our Homeschool Binder, it will hold our Sonlight lesson plans.

My Organizher binder I got on clearance at Target last year!

The last section of my binder, I plan to keep our daily homeschool schedule in here, I just copied the page from my Well Planned Day planner.

Curriculum Planner pages I found online Donna Young

I put a business card holder at the front to hold all those cards you get from doctors and businesses.

Here is what my meal planner pages look like, they are from The Homeschool Mom

Page that lists everything that is in my binder.

My pen/pencil holder.