Less Spend January: Week 3

So this is probably going to be a short post since not much exciting happened this week. We have totally stuck to our guns with the "no eating out" aspect of our challenge. The other part of our challenge was to only spend $200 this month on groceries. Well, I have already failed miserably. I believe we have already spent about $240 and we are only in Week 3. In my credit, we have had every single meal at home, not counting the free food I get at work. Also, I baked some yummy treats for people and that required extra baking goods. Normally our grocery budget is about $350, so I might be able to beat that!

Friday night was spent putting together a package for a friend which included baking and crafting. We also had a delicious salad with spinach, tomatoes, goat cheese, avocado and crushed pistachios. So good! Also, for those of you who don't know, yesterday was Tegan's 2nd birthday! We had a little Skype party with my parents' dogs and whipped cream was involved. The "party" itself was chaos so no pictures were taken, but here's a picture from last year's party.  We know that we are dorks for having a dog birthday party, but we are ok with that! We can already tell that our kids are going to be spoiled!

This morning we headed out to Manana Ridge Trail. We had already done part of this trail on the way to "Heart Attack Hill" on a previous hike, but this time we continued along the ridge-line instead of going down into the valley. It was a beautiful day here in Hawaii! 

Tonight we plan on booking everything for our Big Island trip that we are taking next month. We are going to be spending 4 or 5 nights there. We will fill you all in later on the details, but if anybody has any suggestions of what to do there let us know! We will be there Feb 8-12/13. 

Aloha

xoxoxo

-D