Down and Derby

The car!!!
If you can't tell it's supposed to look like a football....of course it would be a ball!!

So in the last post I put that I hope that the wheels will stay on and he'll win at least a couple of races...well only one of those came true. The wheels stayed on but sadly we built the slowest car. I think that he had the coolest looking car, if only they took into account style points! He seemed a little bummed out but after the boy scout derby they did a lot of racing for fun and he did win a few races so that helped bring his spirits back up! He had a fun time and maybe next year we'll learn the secret to a fast car!

This week hasn't been that fun. Jordan woke up monday feeling sick and even came home from class. And of course he had a busy week full of tests and group projects, it seems to always happen that way. On Wednesday Jayla was complaining that her tummy hurt, but I just thought it was because she was hungry. She proved me wrong when she threw up all over in the car. She slept the rest of the day. Nothing is worse than sick kids!! I hope that our family is done with colds and flus!!

Even though she was sick she still wanted me to take her picture! Poor little girl!

Weekend Fun!

What a weekend! Between a birthday party, baby shower, service project, ward party and other activities we aren't feeling very rested to start the week...but it was fun!!
My friends through me a baby shower and it was so nice to get together with the girls and go out to dinner. It seems like it's been a long time!! And you just need some girl time every so often! I'm so lucky to have such great friends here!

So since I had my shower I kind of got in a "nesting" mood. I spent saturday cleaning out Jayla's room. I don't know how to fit another person in that room but I guess we have to make it work. I know I still have 10 weeks but I'm getting anxious and excited! Now we just need to decide on a name...hmmm

Jayla had a good weekend potty training. She did 2 days without any accidents...even when we out for a few hours. I've decided that it's not the kids that get potty trained...it's the parents!

Little Jordan has his pinewood derby this week. This year I've tried not to stressed out about it as much as I did last year. He thought of the idea, we (and by we I mostly mean some friends in our ward with power tools!) cut it out, he sanded it and he is finishing painting it. So he has done a lot of the work! I just hope it makes it down the track and hopefully wins a few races! I know you all are dying to see what it looks like but you are just going to have to wait to see the final product!!

So Valentine's day is kind of a silly holiday, but what girl doesn't love getting a little something special from the one theyqa love?! Jordan had some very pretty flowers delivered to me today and I love them! Jayla loves them too, she thinks that they are for her. She is really loving Valentine's day. She was to give surprises to everyone, such a sweet girl! I had fun trying to take some pretty pictures, it was hard to get some with out Jayla's little hands in them. What am I going to do when I have another one!!
Happy Valentine's Day to everyone!

Jayla's Scam

Now that Jordan is off internship and back in class we try to go out to lunch once a week. He's been very busy and we don't get to see him that much so this a time when Jayla and I can spend a little time with him. At lunch our sandwiches came with toothpicks in them. Jayla thought they were fun to play with and kept pretending they were birthday candles and singing happy birthday to herself. A nice older lady came up when she was leaving and handed Jayla a dollar and said happy birthday. I tried to tell her that it wasn't Jayla's birthday she just liked to sing but she wouldn't take the dollar back. It was a little embarrassing but funny at the same time.
We are so proud of our little con-artist!

I Heart CVS

I was so excited about my last deal that I couldn't wait for my next. This week was a pretty good week at CVS. By looking at how many diapers I've been buying lately you would think I had more kids!!
The deals:
Dove men's body was: $5.49 and then you get 5.49 extra bucks back. The limit is 2...so buy one print out the extra bucks and use that to buy the next one!
Huggies and pullups: $10 and you get 5 extra bucks back when you spend $20.
Colgate: 2.99 and get back 2 extra bucks

Transaction 1:
colgate, 2 huggies =22.99
I used 2 $2 pullup coupons
and .50 colgate coupons
=$18.49
Then I paid 18 with extra bucks (I got $5 eb for taking a survey and I've made alot lately on deals)
So I paid .49 plus tax and got back 5 extrabuck for pullups and 2 for colgate.

transaction 2:
Dove= 5.49
Paid with $5 extra buck
and paid $.49 plus tax and got back 5.49 extra buck

transaction 3:
Dove= 5.49
paid with 5.49
only had to pay tax and got back a 5.49 extra buck!

I have a second card that I only use occasionally when there are good deals, I've let my mother in law use it to "learn on"! I got the candy bar because on my receipt there was a print out for a survey and the cashier said please give us 5's and handed me the candy bar! Of course I will, CVS practically lets me steal from them!

GRAND TOTAL!!
TODAY out of Pocket I paid .98 cents out of pocket and saved 37.27
YEAR-TO-DATE out of pocket 6.05 and saved 170.37
Did I mention I love CVS?!

The total above is for the transactions with my main card, With my second card I bought the other 2 bags of diapers and 2 body washes. I don't use the card that often so I only had 6 eb to it. So I had to pay around 12 out of pocket for everything, still not too bad!

Jayla is my little shopper now! When the cashier handed me the receipt and I was putting the extra bucks away she said, "yay! you got coupons!!" I'm teaching her well!

Hope this helps some of my family with how to "CVS"

My latest deal!!

It's been a long time since I've posted a great deal that I got, probably because around Christmas all the deals I got were for presents! This isn't for my friends here in Florida, they are all fellow couponers and probably think that I'm a dork for even posting my deals. But since we don't have much money when I can save some and grab a great deal it makes me feel good, a guess it's how I get my rush! This post is for my family members that keep asking me how I get things for so cheap. Here is a great example of how to really make coupons work for you!


Above is a picture of what I got at publix yesterday. I know that it's nothing exciting (kotex and breat pads!!) but these are things that I'm going to be needing. Nothing that I purchased was on sale, all of the savings that I got what from coupons!!
I was able to save a lot of money by using a coupon for Knox gelatin. It was in this sunday's paper. The coupon was for $4 off any one Knox products. They make other products but the gelatin is only $1.39 at publix. So that means for every one that I bought I got $2.61 in overage that went towards my bill!! So since I knew about this great deal I bought some extra coupons online from a coupon clipping website. Sounds silly but you will see how much money it saved me! Ibought 8 coupons for $.15 each and shipping is the price of a stamp...so less than $2.

What I bought: (some prices are approximate)
8 Boxes of knox- $1.39 each
2 Boxes of Huggies-$19.99 each
1 bag of pull-ups-$16
2 playtex pads- $4.50
2 kotex- $3.50
1 princess wipes- $2
1 bottle lotion- $3
1 hand sanitizer- $1

My total was a little over $90

Coupons:
8 $4 knox coupons
1 $10 off when you buy 2 boxes of huggies publix coupon
2 $1.50 off huggies coupon
1 $3 pullup publix coupon
1 $2 pullup coupon
1 bogo(buy one get one free) playtex publix coupon
1 bogo kotex publix coupon
1 $2 off 2 kotex coupon
1 $1.50 off wipes
1 free lotion publix coupon
1 free hand sanitizer publix coupon

After coupons were subtracted total was alittle over $17 plus $5 in tax...so I payed $22 for over $90 worth of stuff, that's the same price as one box of diapers!! And then to sweeten the deal I am sending in the receipt for a $10 rebate!! So only $12 when after I get that back!!

Great deal! You can see how much coupons saved me! At Publix and many other stores you can use a manufacture coupon and a store coupon for each product.

My good friend Tabitha told me about a website for some fun (and free!) photo editing. Look what I did on my first try! So much fun...and easy too!

Here's the link if you are interested!
http://www.picnik.com/app#/home/welcome