A Great Day!

I hope everyone a great Mothers Day yesterday, I sure did! It was a little sad because it was my first Mothers Day that I haven't been with my mom, but as usual we talked on the phone! Chris and the kiddos got me a new Blackberry which I LOVE but would probably love more if I could figure the dang thing out,lol and some scrapbook stuff! It was a nice relaxing day, Chris made breakfast then he took all the kids outside and worked in the yard and garage all morning while I watched a lifetime movie, then when Lilly and Preston went down for a nap I decided take Lexi and do a little clothes shopping! We made our way through Kohls, Target and Ross and found us some cute new outfits for our trip to Utah this weekend! I must have wore her out, cause one minute we were jammin out to Hannah Montana and the next she left me hangin as she snoozed the ride home away! Then I came home to a steak dinner,yum! What a great day!

My new pink phone!

Shopping!

Here's a canvas that I made for my mom to go with her Mothers Day present, she's lucky it made it to her house because I wanted to keep it!

My Crazy Bargain Week!

Wow! What a bargain week! I can honestly say that I'm almost sick of Walgreens, but in all reality I'll be back there tonight rolling my Register Rewards into more gas gift cards! So the basics of my deals this week are: cereal at Albertsons which are on sale for 10 for $10.00, well there's handful of places on the web to print coupons to go with this deal, also in last weeks Sunday paper (which is available at walmart all week!) there's a $1.00 off to General mills coupon! So my total for Albertsons this week is right at $16.00 and that got me 30 boxes of cereal, 4 boxes of fruit by the foot, 2 boxes of popcorn and 4 boxes of Nature Valley granola bars!!

So an average of .40 a box! Not bad considering they're usually around the 3.00-4.00+ range!

Now on to the what seems like the never ending Walgreens trips! They are having a buy 9 P&G items and get a 20.00 Register Reward (like cash at walgreens!) So of course theres plenty of coupons to go with all the products that qualify for this deal! So this was my first trip and my out of pocket was a little more than usual to get me started but I've already made hundreds off the deal so definitely worth it! So I paid 20.00 for this trip but I left with all this and 80.00 in register rewards so basically profited 60.00, WooHoo! Now let the rolling of rewards begin!

So with my P&G rewards I would roll 10.00 at a time to get this below for free and then the Venus razor would spit out a 6.00 register reward, I guess I'm technically loosing 4.00 in rewards but seriously 4.00 for all this stuff....

then roll that 6.00 reward plus all my cover girl coupons and pay .51 out of pocket for tax and then the register spits out another 20.00 reward!!!

Then I just "rinse and repeat" that same deal over and over... I now have over 60 pieces of Cover Girl make-up, had 130.00 in rewards in which I have bought 100.00 worth of gas cards (for our trip next week to Lagoon!!) about 4 Tides, 5 razors and 6 packages of Oreos (buy 2 oreos for 5.00 and a 3.00 reward prints!)

Then I got a little tip off from the Internet that if you bought one of these new mens body wash that a coupon will print for a free one, so I bought 1 at 3.49, my coupon printed so then I got my free one paid .21 tax and then another free coupon prints so I did the deal six times and I have my free coupon for the next one burning a whole in my wallet so I'm sure you know where I'll be as soon as Chris gets home...

So there you have it, yes it takes time but hey it's so worth it!

Thanks Mom!!

I had a very unexpected knock at my door this afternoon and this is what I got!

I love them, so beautiful!

If your in the need...

of a real good cry your eyes out movie, go rent "P.S. I Love You"!! I bawled (literally) through the entire movie. I have been wanting to see this movie so bad since it was in theaters, never made it there while it was playing so I was at the "Red Box" at 7:00am yesterday so I could make sure I got it when it was released! I'm definitely a girl who gets teary eyes through a lot of movies, but man I've never seen a movie where I cried through the whole thing!

Bunnies, pic overload, garden and bargain highs!!

This last weekend was pretty eventful here at the home front! Saturday morning I was up and out the door to pick up Melanie at 8:30 so we could hit "Craft Warehouse" bright and early for their National scrapbooking sale! This store is so awesome, they have the best home decor section ever! So we "slowly rushed" through there, I was trying to get home by 10:00 so Chris could go to work! We ended up running into Walmart to check out the garden section and I personally think we hit the jackpot! They had these huge palm treeish plants on clearance for 5.00, score!, grabbed 3 of those and then loaded the cart full of vegis to plant in my garden area that Chris tilled for me Friday night! Just in case your wondering what time I came wondering home, 12:30, ooops! Chris just knows by now 12:30 is the new 10:00 for me,lol, I couldn't ask for a better husband that NEVER complains about my running here and there, shopping all over Idaho! I'm pretty sure we could have 5 bucks to our name and I could walk in the door with arms full of bags from the mall and he wouldn't say a thing, he's definitely a keeper to me :) Anyway back on subject, so Chris heads to work or so I thought... I get a call about an hour later asking if the kids are outside, I say no, he says bring them outback he has a surprise for them! Well 5 minutes later we now have a new addition to the family, "Snow White" the bunny! He obviously by passed work and thought a trip to the feed store was more fun!

Snow White!

Poor Bunny!

Yes I even held her, she better feel dang special,lol!

So the rest of the day consisted of a trip to Home Depot to buy everything to make a bunny hutch (who buys a bunny before actually having a place to put it??? US!!), plant all my vegis and try not to let the kids kill the poor bunny on the first day!! Fun, Fun!

Sunday was another day spent out back finishing the hutch and putting together a gazebo thing! It was such a nice day and the kids literally played til they passed out that night, days like that are the best!

The end result! We can't decide if we'll do a table or a couch set to put in it, so for now you can just have a seat on the 1 ottoman that's in there,lol!!

Yesterday Lexi and Preston had shots and I bribed Lexi with another Bunny is she didn't scream bloody murder like the last time! Lets just say the shots went perfect and we stopped by and picked out another bunny on the way home! Good thing she's done with shots, I'd hate for her to think she getting bunnies every time she gets a shot, but I'm sure she'll now try to use that bribe to her advantage every chance she can! So now here's our 2nd new addition, Geselle!

Now let me just add we have no idea the sexes of these bunnies, so time will tell in a few month if we have babies coming out of our ears, then I'll be explaining to the girls how 2 princesses had babies!
OK this post is getting way to long so I'll be back later to post my crazy good deals for the week!!

What a great weekend...

TAGGED!

5 Things on my to do list.

1. Take Lexi and Preston to get shots at 1:30
2. Take Lexi to pick out another Bunny after getting shots!
3. Go grocery shopping at some point!
4. Rent a movie at the Red Box!
5. Paint the hall way down to the basement!

5 places I've worked.

1. Pizza Time (when I was like 15)
2. Ronna Leas Country (Bison Ranch)
3.
4.
5. Guess I've been lucky!

5 favorite foods.

1. Mexican
2. Italian
3. Hamburgers off the BBQ
4. Pizza
5. Shrimp

5 places I've lived.

1. PHX.
2. Heber
3. Snowflake
4. Show Low
5. Idaho

5 Things you may not know about me!

1. I HATE feet!!
2. I have my eyebrows and eye liner tattooed on!
3. I'm a crazy coupon girl, just for the fun of it! (dorky I know)
4. I love to plan parties, get togethers, anything that involves decorating for the occasion!
5. I love to indulge in celebrity gossip magazines!

5 things Id do if I were a billionaire

1.The obvious pay off all debt and any close family debt!
2. Get our kids the best education money can buy!
3. Travel the world with my family(mom,siblings ect..)!
4. Invest for stability for my family and future family!
5. Build a simple ranch/farm house close to the city but enough room so our kids could have horses and such! Also a few vacation homes!
(6.) Open a decorating boutique!

Everyone I know has already been tagged except Melanie, so I tag you Melanie :)

Reddi Whip

I love it when I least expect it, I come across a smell, a taste or just a general action that reminds me of something from my childhood! Like the smell of Salon Selective shampoo, it takes me right back to my preteens, Winterfresh gum zaps me right back to the 8th grade, Tide detergent = Nicole Porters house, anyway I could just go on and on, but I finally had my first moment with Lexi last night! She saw some Reddi whip in the fridge and said she wanted some, so I took the can right out and told her to open her mouth. She hesitated but opened her mouth and I overflowed it with Reddi Whip! She totally didn't expect it, giggled and I'm pretty sure she thought I was awesome! My mom used to do that all the time to my brothers, sister and I and I remember just thinking she was so fun! So anyway it was fun to just not be so serious and have a little fun eating Reddi whip from the can, like when I was a kid !