I'm An Auntie Again!

Elina Zelphie (Zelphie was our Great Grandmothers name) was born at 10:44 am yesterday morning. She weighs 6.8 lbs and is 19 1/2 in long. She had a bit of a rough start yesterday with fluid on her chest and with her oxygen levels, her white blood cells are up too so please pray for this little one. My sister is doing fine , but was not allowed to see her until 4 1/2 hrs after she was born due to her complications.

Wednesdays Prayer List

*I am asking prayer for my sister(Kristine), she is delivering her baby today by a C-section. So please pray for their health and safety.

* Vanessa asked that you pray for her family as their beloved dog died unexpectedly while on vacation.

*Please keep praying the Lord will send work for Karlton. We are going on being behind 4 pay checks. It is really starting to get scary!

*Also we are trying to sale 4 acres and a garage that Karlton has been building for his company, and a 4 wheeler. So please pray the Lord will send us buyers for those.

* I do have a praise report! My mom asked prayer last week for my brothers interview he went to and he did get the job , he started working on Monday! Praise the Lord!

~If you have something you would like us to pray about leave me a comment!!!!~

Bow Give Away

I am working on getting Cutie Patutuz back off the ground. I have been so busy lately that I have not had anytime to work on tutus or bows. I had an order this week so it got be back into the swing of things. Plus I need to be helping out anyway I can right now since hubby is not working that much.

I recently had to change the spelling of Cutie Patutu's to Cutie Patutuz. It was to close in spelling to another business. But I am hoping the z will distinguish it.

Anyway...........I know everyone likes to win prizes so I am giving away this 4th of July bow on the 25th of this month. If you do not like the double flower I can just make it with 1 flower. All you have to do is :

1. leave me a comment here or on http://cutiepatutu.blogspot.com/ .
2. For bettering your chances I will also give you an entry for posting about Cutie Patutuz on your blog or Facebook. Let me know if you do.
3. I will give you 2 automatic entries for purchasing anything from Cutie Patutuz until the 25th.
So that is 4 chances to win!

You can also purchase these bows.
* double flower bow $6
*single flower bow $3 - these would be precious in piggy tails!
(prices include shipping)






My mom made Sara Ava this outfit and found some flowers so that I could make a matching bow for the outfit.


OK lets get started so someone can win this bow!

Mary , Mary(Ann) Quite Contrary

How does your garden grow................

I am going green.... Every year I have had some tomato and strawberry plants but this year I wanted to try to grow some more veggies . I built a small above ground bed next to my fish pond area . Josiah and I planted zucchini, squash, cucumbers, watermelons, cantaloupe, 3 types of tomatoes, and 3 types of peppers, and strawberries. I let all the kids pick out their own plants so that is why we ended up with the plants we did. We planted these about 3 weeks ago so they are allot bigger now then in the picture ( taken a wk ago). I'll take more pictures as our garden grows. The kids are so excited for their plants to get vegetables on them. So far the cherry tomatoes are winning. Our tiny Pear tree is loaded again this year ,so in another month or 2 we should be enjoying some fruit too!

These 2 pictures are from a week ago......

The last 2 pictures are from yesterday. You can see how much everything has grown already.

My poor little pear tree is already drooping from the load of all the pears.

A Giveaway

www.southernsavers.com/ is celebrating their first birthday so stop by and check out the giveaway.This is one of my favorite coupon sites( I have posted about them before)! She has helped me save so much money since I have started couponing! She does all the work for you and makes it sooo simple!

Starting A New Prayer List

Every Wednesday I am going to be putting up a prayer list. If you have anything you want me and others to pray about leave me a comment here. We need to pray about each of these items daily for the week. We need to come together and pray for each other! I don't know about you all but it sure makes me feel better anyway, knowing that others are out their lifting my/our name up to the Lord!

Here is mine...............
I am still asking prayer for the Lord to send (plenty of) work for Karlton. Times are very rough and scary right now! We are still behind on a few pay checks and He has allot of business related bills that are not getting paid, so we are hearing about those 100x a day. So Please lift our family up in prayer right now. It is a very stressful time!

Now please add your prayer request..........................

Wordless Wednesday

Joel Hanging With The Stars.....

My mom came to pick Joel up for the week on Thursday ,to take him to the beach were my mom and dad live. Today they were having a festival down at the beach were Joel got to meet Jackson from Hannah Montana (all my kids love that show), they think Jackson is sooo funny. Joel got his autograph and got to have his picture made with him. He told Joel that he liked his hat. How cool is that! I'm sure that was the highlight of his stay!

Some Really Good Buys ....

Here are some of my best buys from the last 2 days. I bought these 19 items for a grand total of $3.62 , I saved $34.91.

CVS I bought:
-6 cans of soup for .06 cents
How? They had their soup 2 for$1 and I had a coupon for $2/1.
I ended up paying the tax.

Walgreen's I bought:
-2 Ecotrin .32 cents
How? They had it on sale for $2 ea. and I had coupons for $2 off, but it even gets better. After you buy them it spits out $2 RR for each one you buy so I had $4 to spend. So I bought.
-2 Colgate's that were .99 ea.
-2 dawns that were .99 ea.
I needed a filler for .04 so I bought the dried cranberries for $1. So that made my total at Walgreen's $1.62 for 7 items.

Harris Teeter I bought:
-4 bags of wacky mac pasta -Free
-1 box of Special K cereal -Free
Just paid the tax of .26 cents for all.
then I bought:
-1 spray -n- wash for $1.75
How? I had a coupon for a free box of Special K , 2 rain checks from last weeks deals for b1g1 free and then I used my coupons that they doubled for the rest.

I also went to Food Lion yesterday that is not pictured and bought:
-1 green bell pepper .99
-1 Peanut Butter .89
-1 Special K cereal -Free
-1 loaf of bread- .97
-OM Jumbo Hot dogs -Free
Total $3.03
Saved $10.98
How? I had coupons for a free Box of Special K and the OM Hot dogs. Then I used a $1 off coupon for the Peanut Butter. The other items were on sale.

My total for the 2 days was:
$6.65 for 25 items.
I saved $ 45.89

When I took Joel(8) to Food Lion and spent $3.03 on the 5 items he said $3's that all??
Then today when I bought my 1st order from H.T it was for the .26 , Jordan(13) said Whoa!!!!
I love it when my kids know that we got a good deal! I am teaching them at a young age to shop with coupons. Now every where we go they ask do you have a coupon for that? Lol!!! Most of the time I wish! Wouldn't it be nice if there was a coupon for every thing? Esp. Gas!!!?

NC/SC Adoption Get Together June 20th

We will be meeting June 20th at 11 am at the Crossroads Mall located besides Carowinds , at the play ground. Bring the whole family! Invite anyone you know you has an adopted child. Can't wait to see everyone. Post here if you will be attending! We have allot of fun!