Fun Weekend!

This weekend our ward had a pioneer day party. It was fun. We ate a pot-luck dinner while sitting on blankets on the floor, played games, and ate smoores by the fake fire. The kids had a lot of fun. Jayla even played some of the pioneer games..she's getting so big! On saturday we went to the beach with some friends. We got a little sunburned but had a lot of fun. Jayla loves the beach...mostly the sand! She could play in it all day. She loves to be buried in a hole

Sunday was relaxing. Jordan and Jayla love to play together. Jayla chases him around and tries to do everything he does. Jayla is starting to get a little imagination. It's cute!

Little Jordan has football camp this week! I'm hoping this will help toughen him up for football season. Since I was out early I did my cvs trip early! It was a good sale week!

Let's see this week I got 4 mini staplers, 4 composition notebooks, 2 index card cases, 2 packages binder clips, 2 boxes of tampons, 2 packages easy touch pens, and 2 packages of pencils (from a raincheck.)These were all the sale items from the week that printed out register rewards to make them free. I made money on the toothpaste because of a coupon. And the BIC triumph pens were BOGO at $3.99 and I printed out 2 $2.00 coupons so they were free!! Jordan likes nice pens for church. The manager rang me up and after I used my register rewards and coupons he was confused because the balance was $-.26. So I bought some gum that was on sale and ended up owing 5 cents! I did a few transactions and all together I spend around 80 cents and I have alittle less than $14 in register rewards. Next week more school supplies and dish detergent.

Just in case your wondering what I'm going to do with 4 mini staplers...the school supplies that I get for free that we don't need are going to be donated to someone who does need them!

Free Picture Package

I took Jalya today to get the free picture package at the Picture People. She did pretty good. It's hard not to want to buy all of them! Here's a picture of the picture I picked. It's probably not that clear but I'm too lazy to scan it!

A special thanks to Aunt Kirsten for the flower clip....she does wear them!

CVS Trip

More free school supplies this week! I got 2 binders, 2 packages of pen, 2 packages or filler paper, and 2 memo books. They were out of the pencils so I got a rain check, Jordan needs like 5 packages for school. I bought 2 speed sticks. I gave one to Katie, who went with me. She's learning how to CVS! I actually made a dollar from the deodorant because it was on sale for $3 and you got $2 extra bucks back but there was a coupon you could print for $1.50 off. That means I made .50 cents each! And then 8 packages of nuts. You can scan your CVS card at the price check machine and it prints coupons. One of the coupons I keep getting is $2 off 2 packages of nuts...well these are only $.99 each so that makes them free!
To wrap it up I went in with $10 extra bucks, spent around $.30 out of pocket (I just read you have to pay tax on extra bucks now!) bought everything above and I got back $11 in extra bucks!! Yay a profit of .70!

I also did something today and I've never done before....I bought coupons on eBay! I know what you are thinking, I'm starting to go crazy! I saw than the first week of August at CVS Electrasol is going to be on sale where when you spend $20 you get back $10 in extra bucks. Last week there was a $2.50 coupon in one of the newspaper inserts. In order to get them for free I needed 5 coupons. So I bought 10 off eBay for less than $2.It's illegal so sell coupons so you are basically paying for their service of clipping and sending the coupons to you. I can never find dishwashing detergent on a good sale so I guess I'm going to be stocking up! No more hand washing the dishes for me!!

Next week more school supplies and even tampons for free!! I look ahead at http://www.iheartcvs.com/ it's a great site and explains cvs and walgreens for newbies!

Locks of Love

BEFORE.....

AFTER.....

Today was a big day for me. After years of growing my hair out I finally cut it!! As I look back at some of my high school pictures I realize that I do NOT look good with short hair. So it's hard for me to make a big change. I had to stop the stylist a few times before I actually went through with it. But I have always wanted to donate my hair to Locks of Love and I decided this was my chance. I Love my long hair but I was ready for a change, plus it's really hot here in Florida!

Beach Trip & CVS Trip

We went to the beach last night to watch the shuttle take off, but it got delayed...again! We just love the beach. We feel so blessed to be able to live to close. It's so relaxing to be able to drive on the beach and get out to take a walk in the sunset. We are going to miss it when we move.

On a funny note...Little Miss Jayla has a new name for her Daddy. She chases him around the house yelling "Honey!!! Honey!!" Since we have two Jordan's in the house I normally call big Jordan Honey or Dad around the kids to try to cut back on the confusion. I guess Jayla has picked up on this and now thinks she can call him that. It's quite cute. Now Jordan has two girls nagging at him.

Now onto my CVS trip....

So last week I had $10 in extra bucks. This week more school supplies were on sale. I got 2 notebooks, 2 scissors, 2 glue and 2 folders. I paid with the $10 extra bucks and owed $.06. And I got back $10. And I used some of those extra bucks to pay for the photo book that I made which was $8 and I got $8 extra bucks back. These make a great christmas present! The limit in the ad said 1 but I've read online it's 5 but I haven't personally confirmed that yet. The store was out of the pens and rulers that were on sale so I got a raincheck! I'm determined to spend less than $5 on Jordan's school supplies for the year. I don't know what it is about school supplies, but I love buying them. As a kid I just loved a new box of crayons (I still do!) and now as a Mom school supplies means summer is coming to an end and school will start again!! Horray!

So to wrap it up I got everything picture above for 9 cents and I still have $10 extra bucks.

Cow Appreciation Day

Today was cow appreciation day at Chick-Fil-A. If you dressed like a cow you got free food!! Last night we made cow masks and cut out spots. Driving over to Chick-Fil-A we were wondering if we would feel embaressed, but as we drove up and saw everyone else and we weren't embaressed at all! Some people went allll out! Painted faces, tails, and even utters! Is there any thing our family won't do for free food?!

My CVS Trip for the week!

This week I got school supplies and Febreeze, so that means my house should be smelling good! I got 2 tapes, 1 package of pencils, 1 pencil sharpener, 1 febreeze noticable, 2 febreezes, and 2 febreeze air effects. The total would have been $27.50 but after coupons and $6 in extra bucks from the items I bought last week I paid $1.99 and the best part....I got $10 in extra bucks back!! yay! Next week photo books are on sale for free, meaning they are 7.99 and you get 7.99 extra bucks back.

This week was also double coupon days are Kmart. My total was over $80 and I only spent $15. We are stocked up on axe shampoo, dove deodorant, floss, toothpaste, and visine...just in case anybody needs some let us know!

What's this? Lacey's actually posting!

Wow! It's been a long time since I've posted anything. A lot has happened! Little Jordan played baseball, he went to scout camp and he's going to be going to football camp soon. Jayla is becoming a big girl! She's starting to talk and tries to say everything that we do. Jordan started is internship. Right now he is in a hand clinic in Daytona and then a hospitol close to daytona and then in December GRADUATION!!! I've started a new hobby. I see how much I cen get for free or very little $$! Maybe I'll start posting my deals of the week!