Funny Stuff Here

So the Man has dabbled with blogging before and I actually really enjoy reading his blog posts.  He is great at writing! way better than I will ever be  But he has never really stuck with it.  Well recently he has decided that he is going to start another blog in an attempt to actually continue blogging and maybe even get paid to do it.

Here is his first entry and I find it quite funny!!  I hope you all enjoy it as well :)

Im Living With An Alien: History:

Photos: Jackson, Jackson & more Jackson

 He LOVES picking out books for us to read to him!

He gets so excited when he stands up and gets something by himself!

 He loves to climb over our legs!

I can't believe this little guy will be 8 months in 2 days!! 

I was trying to get a video of him laughing while we were playing peek-a-boo but as soon as he saw my phone he stopped...I will have to try again when Josiah is around.

Black Friday, Cyber Monday Addiction

This is only the 2nd or 3rd year that I have ever shopped Black Friday & Cyber Monday sales but let me tell you so far this year has done the most damage!!  First of all Amazon and its Black Friday, Cyber Monday & Top Holiday Deals are like crack...everyday the Man and I check out what deals are going on and then we check back multiple times a day to see if they added anything good and check the prices on things that caught our eye.

Only 2 of Jackson's gifts were not purchased on any of the deals mentioned above.  And 2 of his gifts combined costed us a whole whopping $1.00 because of the $30 in Kohls cash we received for ordering another Christmas gift that was super cheap! So needless to say Jackson is getting way more gifts than we planned on giving him and we still are way under our budget we set!!  I actually just purchased what I think is his finally gift from an Amazon Top Holiday Deal: its a Melissa & Doug Deluxe Chomp & Clack Alligator Push Toy, regular price $49.99 it was on sale for $35.87 and the Amazon Top Holiday Deal was $26.99. That's 46% off from the regular price!!

the Man and I also came across other deals that we didn't need but totally wanted: Clothes from Express, Victoria Secret & Kohls; Le Creuset 8-piece set from Amazon; a variety of Blu-Rays from Target & Amazon and a few other things that I know I am forgetting about.

Needless to say Amazon really needs to stop with all of these deals!!!

On the Hunt

Last week I think sometime we received a letter from our apartment complex about resigning our lease. At first I thought it was crazy to get something already since our lease isn't up until March 1st but after reading the letter it states you must give them 60 day written notice if you are not resigning which would be December 31st...holy crap that's just around the corner!!

Back to the point of this letter, it also informed us that our rent would be increasing a minimum of almost 8.5% we would have to sign a 12 month lease for that increase, any other lease agreement would result in a higher increase.  When I first read this I was floored....almost 8.5% increase, thats f'in insane!!  I know that the area we live in is extremely expensive compared to other areas we have lived but that is a huge increase.  As it is we probably already pay more in rent than most of you pay for your mortgage...typing that made me a little sick.

Bottom line, the hunt is on for a new apartment.  We are hoping to get something in a safe neighborhood with a yard or at least a park for Jackson to play at and if we are lucky a place that has storage!  Storage may seem a little odd to want but currently we have totes filling every closet and also sitting randomly throughout our house it's annoying!

Hopefully I will be able to post soon about a new place but if not I guess we will just suck it up and pay the 8.5% increase.