Welcome to Ramblings of a Thrifty Shopper! I am having so much fun rambling on about my life, my family, my crazy pets, my crafting and card making and of course my thriftiness! Please visit often and feel free to leave me comments! P.S. Be sure to visit our pet squirrel's blog at the link on the right side!!







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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

What? Squirrel stew?



We use this pot to heat water for various things. Rocky was in the kitchen, alone, when I spotted him sitting in this pot eating one of his pea pods!

Monday, December 29, 2008

Look at this face!


Isn't he the cutest thing you have ever seen?

Richard took this picture of Jaiden and I. I had no idea he was winking, until I uploaded it on my computer!

I just LOVE it!

Harvell family fun









We went to CiCi's with Richard's brother and his family saturday night. There were 14 of us (mostly kids!!). We had a fun time.

Then we went to our niece, Brooke's, new house. It is decorated so cute and so her!

The kids were all so good and had such a good time playing in the game room. Diane got each one of them a stocking with some candy and quarters in it! The perfect gift.

Saturday, December 27, 2008

water, water, everywhere...




No, these are not pictures of a lake or pond. These are pictures of our side yard.

What the heck is up with this crazy weather.

It is 60* and raining(with flash flood warnings). Last weekend it was 6* with a windchill of -30*. And windgusts of 30mph.

Friday, December 26, 2008

F O G



The fog has set in. It's getting hard to see the houses across the street. Even with their porch lights on.

I'm glad we don't have to go anywhere tonight or early tomorrow. It worries me that Heather has to be at work in the morning at 6:00.

Some of our favorite gifts








Birds on a wire...


when I was checking out the cars sliding by, I noticed these doves sitting on the cable line. We usually have anywhere from 4 to 12 doves at the feeders everyday. I don't know why they would have been on the cable line.

Weather update:

it was just announced that we are under a dense fog advisory and a flood warning. It has warmed up quite a bit, hence the flood warning. It is still extremely slippery.

I just saw someone else fall and have seen so many vehicles that just can't get traction. There was a tow truck down the street that went off the road a little bit and had to have another tow truck come and rescue him!!

I didn't even wander out to the mailbox today. Hope Ed McMahon didn't send me anything!!

Elkhart County is under a level 1 state of emergency...





Our county is under a level 1 state of emergency. It is so icy that anyone on the roads, other than emergency vehicles, will be ticketed.

We were going to go to dinner and have Christmas with Richard's brother, Randy, and his family this evening. It has been postponed until tomorrow.

We have seen car after car sliding down our street. The neighbor guy fell and busted his butt a little while ago.

I'm glad we don't have to venture out.

The pictures are of our driveway and our vehicles.

One of Kylah's favorite gifts




Kylah and all of her friends are big fans of the Twilight book series and the Twilight movie. Some gals on a message board I'm on were showing "Twilighted" photos they had made for their daughters. I just knew Kylah would love one. I e-mailed the seller a photo and 2 days later I had the finished product.

I ordered a 5X7 for Ky, Heather and myself and 8 wallet size for Kylah to give to her friends.

It was a big hit. She likes the fact that none of her friends will have seen these!!

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Santa and his little helper




Richard said he wished we had a little Santa hat to put on Rocky. I remembered that I had one in my scrapbooking stuff. It was the perfect size.

It was not an easy task to keep it on him long enough to get a picture!

We think these are so cute!

Christmas tradition...part 2









You didn't really think that my pets would get away without having their pictures taken with Christmas apparel, did you?

They weren't as cooperative as my human victims, uh, I mean models!

Justin told Heather that when they get a dog, she isn't getting a small one, because she'll dress it up like I do Spike!! He's right!

Poor Spikey!

Christmas tradition...part 1







Every year I take my family's picture with a Santa hat on. This year was no exception. In fact, I also got pics of Tyler and Shannon(my nephew, that moved up here from FL and his girlfriend) & Kyle and Taylor(my nephew and his girlfriend).