Coupon Fun!!

So I thought we would take pictures of all the stuff we've purchased for cheap with using coupons. Remember that I do have self control, but with all the deals we've been finding it is hard to pass them up. Almost everything we buy now we can use coupons on. We've been able to save a minimum of 50% on every planned purchase with savings of 75-80% so far. Some things are free, but a lot cheaper is still good for me. I even picked up a free disposable razor at Great Clips earlier today and a $4 off coupon for any Schick razor or refill. I don't know how good the coupon is yet, but $4 is a great amount.

Here are some pictures of the things we've purchased with coupons, but most of the food stuff we already ate like frozen pizzas, ice cream, sausage and other meats, yogurt (and plenty of it), eggs, butter, and other fridge/freezer items. But you better believe our fridge/freezer is full now!!

First off is my pride and joy of health and beauty items...

Here is a picture of the mother-load. Gabi took some closer pictures of the individual areas of "clean!"

Shampoos...

Conditioners...

Razors and shave creams...

Deodorants...

Body washes...es...es.....es

GUM!!!!!...

CANDY!!!...(well some of it)...

Pasta, vinegar, salad dressing, soy sauce, ketchup, syrup, cookie mixes, chewy granola bars, cereals, diapers, paper towels...

Ziploc bags, tissues, and toilet paper.

I'm glad we have space for all of this, and we should be set for a while. Well Gabi told me she is glad I won't smell bad for a LLLOOONNNGGG time. We hope you enjoyed!!

Quick message!!!

Hi!!! I know we don't update this blog as much as we were supposed to but it's just that Bryan's been insanely busy with work and I, Gabriela, am not a blog person (let's keep it real, I have a hard time keeping a journal. Do you really think I'm able to manage a blog by myself? Seriously? SERIOUSLY??).

Anyway, I just wanted to say that we'll try to post some pictures and write stuff here asap. And I also wanted to say something about some changes on the playlist here. It's not that Bryan's been highly influenced by me and started listening to (according to my beloved daddy) "crappy music", it is 100% my fault that there are new songs here and I tell you why: if my name is here and BJ and I don't really share the same musical interests, I thought it would be more accurate if I add to the list some of my favorite artists.

Ok!!! That's enough for my first post!!! (yay, I did it!!! =D)

Gila Valley Temple

We went to the open house for the new temple in Thatcher, Arizona. My wife got a couple of great pictures, enjoy!

This older lady saw we were trying to get a picture of us with the temple in the background and offered her services to take a picture for us. She was sweet, but in her words, not the greatest photographer.

Snowflake Temple

We decided to take a trip to the Snowflake Temple since Gabriela had never been there yet. We woke up bright and early and prepared for our 3 hour journey. It was a little windy when we got there, but was well worth the trip. There was even an old man who offered to take pictures

If it looks like I'm squinting it's because I don't have the cool built-in eye-sunglasses that my wife does. (aka dark brown eyes)

On our way out of the tiny town of Snowflake we stopped to take a few pictures of the Family History Center. The town is so small that they don't even have their own FHC, they have to share with Taylor!!

Desert Trail

The sunset view we get from our house!

One day we decided to go on a little nature walk to get some good desert pictures.

Bus tour of Curitiba

Arnaldo looking at the map as we begin our journey around the city on a cool double-decker bus.

As you can see I was totally excited to have some fun, while Tiago's wife Adriana was just being a dork in the background.

The Opera de Arame, or Wire Opera where concerts and such happen.

Having fun during the ride. We had to stay seated to not get hit by the low phone/electric wires or get hit by trees.

One of the impromptu pictures Gabi surprised her parents with.

The young international cute couple.

These two pictures are of an amazing museum made of concrete designed by the same guy who designed the new Capital of Brazil called Brasilia (with an arial view, the streets are in the design of an airplane). The museum almost seems like something in a sci-fi movie.

The Mendes family.

A cool botanical garden.

Inside the building with a cool banana tree flower. I like how the colors of this picture turned out ... and the photographer ... my wife!!

Almost all of us in front of the garden, someone had to take an awesome picture. Believe it or not, there were quite a bit of people there!!

Our final picture with the Mendes family at their home before the good-byes.