Bandon Animal Safari

We decided to take the family on one last trip before the summer was over. We went down to Bandon Animal safari. It is about 5 hours away quite a drive but well worth it. We had such a good time playing with animals we would normally never get to touch. We got to play with a 9 week lion cub, a 10 week black leapard cub and a 4 week siberian lynx. We got to hold /play with a few other you can see from the pictures.

Coupons, Coupons, Coupons

For the past 2 1/2 weeks I have been a coupon clipper. I have never really go out of my way to clip coupons, but with our grocery bill of $350 every 2 weeks it was getting out of control. I found this site www.thegrocerygame.com and have started stockpiling a 3 month supply of food. There is a fee but it has paid for itself already. We almost have our stockpile good for 3 months. My freezer if full which it has never been. The kids are doing cold lunch this year. So with all the sales on snacks, juice boxes, peanut butter I am stocked up for almost the whole school year. My goal is to get our grocery bill down to $70-80 dollars a week. Boy I wish I had found this site years ago. Check it out you migh find it useful too.

Silver Falls State Park hike

Today we decided to go for hike at Silver Falls State park. It is a 7 mile hike with 25 waterfalls along the path. When we got there it was slightly misting, typical day in Oregon. We started out our hike. By the time we hit the 1st mile into it, it was raining quite hard. We all looked like drowned rats. It took us a hour to hit the first mile mark, we made stops along the way to look at the waterfalls and take pictures. We were so wet that we decided to call it a day. Unfortunetly we had to hike back. I got a few good pictures. Will definetly have to go back on a dry day and finish the whole hike. I could have spent hours there taking pictures.

South Falls

It was raining so hard by the time we got to the North Falls

that it looked like it was foggy.

Lower south falls