Wireless sensor networks are composed of a high number of very simple nodes where most of them have to perform the function of a router. Energy consumption of these nodes is important as the power supplies of the nodes is provided by limited batteries, which circumscribe the lifetime of the links as well as whole network. Some of the recent routing protocols are greedy on network lifetime by balancing the remaining energies among the nodes in the networks. Although, these algorithms help to maintain the stability of the network, they are not as much cost effective as traditional existing routing algorithms. Our proposed method considers both the routing cost and network lifetime issues in route selection, which is a good compromise between these two conflicting interests.