Are you using Swagbucks yet?

Whats swagbucks? It's a FREE search engine that gives you points for using it. You can trade those points in for free gift cards and other stuff. I use it everyday, just this week I got over 400 points already!

Ya it takes a little time, and you have to actually use it to get the points, but it's free and you get free money essentially for using it that you can get fun stuff with. I trade most my points in for Amazon gift cards.

Some of you have been wondering how I get so many swagbucks, it takes a few tricks, but overall it's pretty easy and you don't have to spend hours online.

Here are some of the ways I get points

1 swagbuck --

First I downloaded the toolbar, that way I have a swagbucks search box right at the top of my screen so I can always use it for my search engine, plus you get 1 swagbuck everyday just for having it.

3 swagbucks -

Do the daily poll, it only takes a second, then click on the surveys, you don't actually have to do any, but you get 1 point just for clicking, and the NOSO's, same thing, just click through it all, takes just a minute and then you get a point.

With the surveys there are also profile questions you can do for points, then it helps send you surveys that you actually quailify for. I still rarely find a survey to take, but when you do they are usually pretty good points.

Coupons

Easy! Do you go grocery shopping? These are the same coupons as coupons.com, you can print them and take them to the grocery store. When they go through, takes a month or 2, you get 10 points for each one. Just this week I got 50 points for coupons I used back in december. Plus I know I used about 8 more after that so there are more points coming. I'm not a big couponer, but even I find a few on here to use for my regular groceries.

searches

ALWAYS uae the swagbucks search tool when you go to websites. This is when the toolbar comes in really handy so you don't ahve to keep going back to the main page. I don't use my bookmarks anymore, to get to facebook I put it in the search bar, same for my email and other regular sites. I've found that I can almost always get points when I search "KSL" to look at the news. I make sure to do that at least once a day because it's almost guaranteed points. I can usually get 10-20 points a day with searches, sometimes even more.

Referrels!

This is where you come in my friends. Add swagbucks and help me earn more points!:) Try to get a few people signed up from your own referral link. This helps a lot. I had aaron sign up and now I use his account to search from. Why? Because every time one of your referrals gets points from searching you get the points too! So I use aarons and we earn double points that way. Easy Easy! Then if you can get a few other people, even if they use it once it a while it still adds up.

Special offers

These I don't really do a lot of, but sometimes you find one that gives really high points just for signing up for a free trial of something. You sign up, then you can go in and cancel the trial and get the points! Some trials are more picky and you have to use whatever it is first so make sure you read the rules before you do this. And sometimes they have offers for things you buy. Like spend %40 at a store and get 300 points, I do this if it's something I was planning to get anyway, like I love it when they do it for old navy and stuff like that and I can get kids clothes.

Overall I think the searches pay off the most, and it's always fun to have the points come up when you don't expect it. After awhile you'll find there are certain things you search for that tend to give points more often and you can do those more. And sometimes on the swagbucks facebook page they announce free codes to get more points.

So what are you waiting for? It's free, and pretty easy. Takes a little time sometimes but your earning points that you can trade in for lots of different things, my favs are the Amazon gift cards. I started using the site in october and was able to get $70 in gift cards to use towards this last christmas. So if you haven't signed up already click here :

http://www.swagbucks.com/refer/karibryan

and get started :)

So you have lots of money and you don't care about free stuff? Then use it just to help me out :) Every time you win search points I can win them too. That means more points for me = more free gift cards = more saving for me when I need to get things.

Not so good at this blogging thing

So now that 3 more months have past without a post I think I'm about ready to give up on the blog. So many of you are so good at posting every few days with cute pics of your kids or stories about what's going on in your life. I'm afraid that's just not me. I rarely know where my camera is to even take pictures, and our day to day life is just not that exciting. Kids go to school, Clayton and I play and take naps, kids come home, we eat dinner and do chores. The end.
But while I try to decide if I want to try to make time to keep this updated or not here are a few pictures I did take over the last few months.
The boys are growing fast! Clayton is going to be 2 in just a few months, Parker will be 7 in a few weeks and KC seems bigger everyday. And in less than 2 months we'll add Baby Jack to the mix. Life with all these boys is non stop, but it's so much fun and we can't wait for our next little guy to be here.

Preschool Program

Our Halloween Highlights Part 1

Kc's Preschool Program--


Kc goes to this great little preschool. The best part is he gets to go with Kaylee, his very best friend. She's the cute Princess Tiana on the left. Kaylee lives next door to us and they play together almost everyday. When Kaylee isn't home Kc is watching out the window waiting to see her car pull up so he can go and get her. Kalyee has a big sister too that Parker really likes so together they all have a great time. KC and Kaylee have even been caught giving each other a smooch every once in a while. Good thing they're only 4 right?


Parker's Halloween Party at School --

I got to be a helper at Parker's school party and it was so much fun! I love being able to go and help in his class and get to know the kids he around and his teacher. I figure I need to take advantage of the opportunity now before the day comes when he's embarrassed to have me there. It's so fun to see how he interacts with everyone and you always feel bad for the kids that come and tell you that their mom's never come and that they wish they would.

We made cupcake spiders with hostess cupcakes and pull and peel twizzlers for legs. It was yummy :)

Then they got to wrap each other in toilet paper to make mummies, go pumpkin bowling, make a few other crafts and then that afternoon we came back for the classic costume parade.


There's more to come so be sure to come back later!

Grandpas are the Best

A few weeks ago the kids had a few days off school so we went and spent the night at my parent's house. I've decided that while I really enjoying being able to live close by and see my family whenever we want, it's not always as fun as when you live farther away and get to come and stay for a visit and really spend a lot of time together. So we we're excited to stay at Grandma and Grandpa's just like we were visiting from somewhere else.

The boys especially love it, they pretty much have the best grandpa there could ever be, and they love every minute that they get to spend with him. And even if sometimes he gets as excited as they do and wants to do things with them that make moms a little nervous, I wouldn't have it any other way. He's the best and we're praying every day that we get to make many many more fun memories with him.

So the boys got to go on a camp out with Grandpa. We made a fire and roasted marshmellows and then piled all the boys, well minus the littlest one, into the tent for a night of stories and fun. The boys lasted a little while and then came in to sleep in nice warm beds. Grandpa made it till early morning before he gave in and came inside.