Update on the E-Mealz

A few people have been asking how my new venture with E-Mealz has been going. I will say that it has saved us quite a bit in groceries!! Not to mention, the recipes are AMAZING! Blake and I were both very skeptical because we can be kind of picky eaters, but the food is so good :-)

For those interested, here is the link:
E-MEALZ Easy Meals for Busy and Frugal Families

Riding with Blake serving papers and trying to stay cool... At least the A/C finally got fixed today, yay!

New Cake!

Today was my "cake club" meeting, the Cake Divas, and we made a Fairy Toadstool cake with little fairies. Mom and I made one together so it wouldn't take as long and it came out REALLY cute!

4th of July!

For the 4th of July this year, Blake and I took my sister, niece and nephew down to Cedar Creek Lake where we got to see and spend time with my dad, Grandma Patsy and the rest of the family. We had a total blast! We rode on the boat out in the lake, went swimming and watched an airshow. During the evening we swam in the lake while watching the fireworks that were directly over our heads. They were so close to us that after every firework exploded, we got a nice shower of ashes, shells, and other debris. This is by far the BEST way to watch fireworks and celebrate the 4th.

My house is an oven...

Monday our A/C went out. In Texas, this is the worst thing that can happen during the summer. The one appliance in your house that you pray will survive. Our house got to 92 degrees inside :-(

Two nights and 2 1/2 days of no A/C and 5-6 fans constantly blowing and very little sleep led to a very grumpy Ashley and Blake.

Thank goodness that the previous homeowners had purchased for us one year of a Home Warranty (that expires this month). For only $60, the A/C guy came out today (Wednesday) and let us know that the fan motor was out. They have to order the part and it won't be in for a few days. They did, however, show us how to manually run the A/C. We now are back to our nice, cool house and loving it.

My Animals...

For those of you who don't know, we have 3 animals in our house...

First came Zoe, full of attitude...














Next was Pebbles, the princess...














And finally came Jack, TROUBLE...














As some of you know Jack came to me under the false pretenses that he was a chihuahua (all I wanted was a small little lap dog). Later as he got bigger, and bigger, and bigger, and even bigger...the vet confirmed that he is a PITBULL/CHIHUAHUA MIX!!!! This was not what I was prepared for...

I am still having so many problems with Jack and desperately seeking the right person to train him. I've talked to many trainers and taken many of their tips and tricks and put them into use and got absolutely NO progress. I've never given up on an animal before, but if Jack can't get his act together soon, he will have to go. Granted, I will give him to someone that I know can care for and take care of him properly. But I am starting to think that this dog and I just aren't a good match.

E-Mealz

So, I've been put in charge of our food budget.

Great....

While I was listening to Dave Ramsey's talk show this afternoon with Blake, Dave Ramsey recommended something called E-Mealz that would save you tons of money on your food budget. I went online to check it out and it's AMAZING!

Basically, for $5 a month it plans out your meals for you and even gives you an item by item grocery list. If you choose a specific store, it gives you the prices and the average price for that whole week.

For a week of food for 2 people, it averages $40 a week. Now, from our past experiences this is a HUGE difference!!

We're going to try it for a few months and if it really works and makes that much of a difference on our food budget... I'm sold.

I'll try to keep an update on here to let everyone know how it's going. The first try is this coming up week.

If you're interested in trying it also, here's the link...
E-MEALZ Easy Meals for Busy and Frugal Families