Free food

I don't normally blog these contests but a whole box of free food? c'mon! I just found this blog www.stlmommy.com It pretty much rocks and you can win the box of food if you visit and enter the contest. Here are the contest details copied right from her blog...
(Written by Andrea U, another St. Louis Mommy)Have you heard about Angel Food Ministries? It is a non-profit, non-denominational organization dedicated to providing grocery relief and financial support to communities throughout the United States. By buying food from first rate suppliers at substantial volume discounts, Angel Food Ministries is able to provide families with approximately $65 worth of quality nutritious food for $30.Each month, a new menu is available. Generally, one box of Angel Food assists in feeding a family of four for about one week or a single senior citizen for almost a month.The “Signature Box” consists of fresh, frozen and packaged food. Angel Food is purchased from the nation’s top food suppliers. The contents of this box change monthly. The cost for the Signature Box is $30.The “Senior/Convenience Box” consists of 10 fully-cooked meals, nutritionally balanced for senior citizens – each meal contains 3oz. of protein, plus starch & 2 veggies or fruit, and dessert. The cost for this box is $28. These are great for singles and people who need the convenience.The “Allergen Free Box” consists of frozen & dry mix allergen-free foods which have been processed to eliminate eight top food allergens: peanuts, soybeans, milk, eggs, fish, crustacean, tree nuts and gluten (wheat, rye, and barley). The cost for this box is $40.Each month, Angel Food Ministries also offers “specialty boxes” of steak, chicken, pork or other meats. A Fruit & Veggie box is also offered.There are no restrictions, conditions or forms to fill out to purchase Angel Food. The food relief program is open to one and all. Everyone is encouraged to participate. Some host sites even encourage participants to apply the money they saved to help someone else in need.One very important aspect of this program is that, unlike other ministries, participating does not mean that you are taking away money or food from someone else whose need may be greater. Rather, by participating, you actually enable them to purchase food at better prices, which benefits everyone. In addition, the host-site receives $1 per box ordered for their benevolent fund. (Fellowship at Weldon Spring uses the funds to purchase extra boxes of food for those that cannot afford it.)Anyone may purchase an unlimited number of boxes of Angel Food by placing an order with a local Angel Food host site. Orders can be placed by mail, in person, or online. (If using Food Stamps, you must order/pay in person)Here are the pros and cons of this program, from my point of view.*It includes a lot of prepackaged, prepared foods. If you’re more of a cook-from-scratch kind of family, this ministry is probably not for you.*It is A LOT of food, for a great price, but because you cannot control the variety, you must be willing to try new things to get the full value of the program.*The program plans your menu for you based on the box contents.*Most of your grocery shopping can be done once a month in one location rather than hunting down sales with coupons. You will still have to purchase some items from the store.If you are currently on a very tight grocery budget, cook everything from scratch, combine coupons and store deals and shop multiple stores to get the very best deal, you probably won’t find these prices to be better than what you currently do. However, if you simply are unable to do those things, you may want to give it a try.Fellowship at Weldon Spring is giving 1 lucky reader their choice of 1 Box from the August 2009 Angel Food Menu. This give-a-way is available for the St. Louis area or anyone willing to pick up their order 8/29.

Unlimited minutes...

Logan has signed up for unlimited minutes on his "pretend" cell phone. (It's actually a real phone that is old and has no service). He has very lengthy conversations that consist of "hi, ya, gioshdofhsodjfosdjf, ummm.... umm....)

He never says "bye."He just hangs up and calls someone else.

He also likes to take his phone into the other room to talk. I guess he likes his privacy. (Or he is copying mommy who often leaves the room to talk)

Oh, and the other day he used my phone to actually call Grandma and Grandpa Bradley.

In other news... Logan now says "I love you." Ok, so it's probably only something a mommy and daddy could understand but when we say, "I love you." He says, "I la lew." I'll take it. It warms my heart. Plus he follows up with an adorable smile because he is a charmer.

Sometimes...

Sometimes it has to stop being all about the baby. It's good for the baby. It's good for the mommy and daddy. And it makes the blog interesting. So instead of posting about Logan today, this post is all about Greg and Jackie's trip to the land.

On Friday night, Logan stayed at Grandma and Grandpa Higgins' while Greg and I went to the land for some evening fishing.

Here is Greg hooking up the motor thing. (It has a name. I don't know it.)

Here is the dock that Glenn is building for the land.

The first fish of the evening.

Probably was caught near the dead tree. Greg always catches a TON of fish there.

MY FISH!! The first one I ever caught from a boat. I had to have help.

I told Greg it should have won a prize for "biggest eyes." He informed me that it only had big eyes because I was squeezing it. :)

We both caught a catfish. I think they are ugly and mean looking so I didn't take a picture of mine.

The sun started to go down. I caught 2 fish and Greg caught a lot of fish-- we didn't keep track.

The moon started to come out. (I'm not good at taking pictures of scenery but I was keeping myself entertained. Greg can fish for a little bit longer than me. But I enjoy being out in the boat with him!)

And Greg caught the last fish of the evening.

We had a really nice break. We got back to Greg's parents house at 10:00. We haven't been out that late in ages!! The next morning we got up early for the Warrenton City Wide Yard Sale. Fun weekend!

A trip to the Zoo

Yesterday we went to the zoo with Grandma and Grandpa Bradley, Aunt Julie, Nick and Alex. It was crazy busy at the zoo but we still had a lot of fun.

First we had a picnic in Forest park. It was hard to find a parking spot or a picnic table. We finally found a whole pavillion that was empty. I guess we were the only ones who wanted to eat next to a tree grinder. We had to shout the whole time but we had 3 preschool boys... shouting comes naturally!

Then we went to the zoo. We went to see the Rhinos first because they look the most like dinosaurs to Nick. (His favorite animal!)

We also saw the Elephants and Alex was really good at saying "Elephant."

Then we saw the Baby Elephant and Alex could say, "Baby and Momma". He is also good at saying, "Chill out, Dude." Here is the chilled out Dude.

We saw a few other animals too and then the boys rode the carousel with Grandma and Grandpa.

After the carousel ride, we all had giant snowcones to cool us down.

All three boys fell asleep in the car on the way home, so I'd say it was a sucessful trip!!

July

I haven't blogged much in July and when I look at my pictures from July I don't get much inspiration but my little guy is growing up so fast and changing so fast that I thought I'd better post some pictures. We're spending Thursday with Nick and Alex and I WILL remember my camera so I'll post again after that. Here are some pics of my growing boy along with some random thoughts.

Logan 14 months old

He loves water.

He's getting really good at walking. He likes to carry things all over the house now. Like mommy's shoes and keys and it's getting harder to find those things :) He also moved up to the walkers class in Sunday School. He has to wear SHOES!!

He's not that in to coloring yet but he'll do it for short periods of time. I noticed in VBS that generally the girls were much more in to coloring than the boys.

Logan is really into this book called, "What God made." Sometimes we hide it under the couch so we can get a break from reading it. ha, ha. I LOVE that he loves books but he wants to read about 11 1/2 hours a day!!

Right now he's reading "Brown Bear" to himself. (OK, maybe he really is reading it. He just opened it to the page with the teacher and said, "Te-sure, Te-sure." I don't think so but I'm glad he's trying :) Apparently blogging time is over....

Logan meets his new cousin

Monday night we got to meet Logan's new cousin and my adorable nephew, Alex. And I forgot my camera!! It was all crazy because we were at the hospital visiting my sister who had just returned from adopting Alex in China. While there she got a infected salivary gland and had to have surgery. It was so good that she got to come back to the states to have medical attention and it was great to see her.
Logan was so excited. He seemed so happy to see Aunt Julie and Uncle Ryan. He even tried to say "Julie" several times on Monday night.Then my parents came over to the hospital with Nick and Alex. Nick had fallen asleep but they were trying to get him to wake up and adjust to the new time zone. Poor boy. He was seriously like in a coma. I've never seen a kid sleep this soundly. He slept while my dad hauled him in and out of the car. He slept while they rode up the elevator. He slept in the chair in the hospital room. He slept while his cousin Logan crawled on top of him and kicked him. This was one tired kiddo. So needless to say, we were not able to wake Nick up and say hello.
We did get to say hello to Alex. He is so cute. He's much smaller than Nick but he's strangely heavy. He came in carrying his tool box and did really good at entertaining himself with screwdrivers and wrenches, etc. He seemed a little confused about everything. Of course, Julie and Ryan brought him home from China and then he went to stay with my parents while Julie is in the hospital so confusion is probably a legit emotion.
Logan loved him. They sat on the floor together and Logan kicked his feet and laughed at Alex. Alex seemed ok as long as Logan kept his distance and didn't try to take his toys or touch his necklace. I think the boys are all going to have a lot of fun together. I'll try to get some pictures when we see them next and add them to this post.