Just wanted to share....

My sister Amber and I had a great shopping trip the other day. I am so amazed at how much we were able to get for our $. Thanks Am for a great/crazy morning : )
I just wanted to share the great deal that I was able to get. Can I just tell you that I LOVE Pinching Your Pennies and the Grocery Smarts list. It has changed my way of shopping and has given me so much money in my pocket to use for fun/savings : )

5 jars of Ragu
5 bottles of vitamin water
10 jars of Skippy peanut butter
4 tubs of I Can't Believe It's Not Butter
2 Bryers Ice Creams
1 box of Q-tips
6 Vaseline lotions
4 bottles of Miracle Whip
5 bricks of Cream cheese
2 Parmesan cheese
4 boxes of Taco Bell shells
4 Lipton soups mixes
1 All detergent
1 Spiral ham @ $21.21
1 Spiral ham @ $ 13.67
1 Cure 81 Hormel ham @ $10.18

Minus coupons....(we even found coupons for the ham to take $3.oo off each one) Woo Hoo!!! At Albertson's if you bought $25 worth of certain items you would get $10 towards meat.

Total: $26.03 Then....I have a $10 rebate and a $20 rebate to turn in for ham so basically my total will change, and I will make $3.97 on the above transaction. I LOVE FREE FOOD!!!!

Easter

So, at 12:15 am and the again at 1:00 am Rick and I woke being startled by a little 4 year old that turned our bedroom light on and loudly said "I think the Easter Bunny came to our house!!!" Can I just tell you that even though it is exciting Mom and Dad are not happy to wake to something like that in the wee hours of the morning UGH!!!! So, maybe we are just not very nice but we made him go back to bed and talked to big bro. about sending little bro. upstairs to wake his parents. Then we said now you can't come out of your room until we are ready to wake up!!! Guess what.....they ended up sleeping in. Maybe they were tired or something?!? Gotta love em : ) This is what the Easter Bunny left for the 3 little cuties. Inside the eggs they had bubbles, a transformer, and treats. The Easter Bunny also left some hats for them to choose from : )

Keaton with his hat and transformer.

Keaton and Talon checking out their treats.

Carter had a mouth full of jelly beans........I sent him over to his Daddy and told him to give him a kiss. Oh don't ya just love a slobber kiss! He looks like he's on something LOL Maybe it's all the sugar? Silly boy : )

Then we ate breakfast. Then we had FHE (yep we do ours on Sunday/we are all home). Then we went to church. We enjoyed our meetings. I love how Easter brings out a "special" spirit in all of us. I wish I could keep that feeling with me at all times.

After church went to my parents house for a fun egg hunt and a great dinner. We had a nice time with everyone. The highlight of the night was playing soccer with Keaton, Rick, John, Amber, Mom, and the kiddo's that darted in and out of the game. Amber and I had frozen toes (we came with flip flops/had to take them off). On the drive home Keaton said "This was my favorite Easter I have ever had". I asked him why and he said "Because everyone played soccer with me". Sports really makes that kid tick : )

Cute little sick boys....

So, my 2 little guys have been sick. They are both on the up and up now, YEAH for me : )
They both had a nasty cold and then a few days into it Carter got a funky rash. I took him to the Dr. and he told me that he has seen so many kiddo's with the same thing this week. It is some virus that comes with the cold. It is contagious before the rash appears. Luckily we were home those days so he didn't spread the love to others.
They were so cute, they wanted to hang out and relax with each other a lot. I gave them a sucker and Carter thought he was so cool to be like his brother.

Just chillin' out watching a show enjoying their suckers.

Who needs toys!?!

Isn't it crazy how much fun a kid can have with a box. Wow! Carter entertained himself for quite awhile the other day playing in his little box : )

Who needs toys!?!

Time for end of month frees : )

What an great month this has been for free stuff!!! Gotta love free stuff right! My storage room is turning into a mini store. When I started couponing I thought I would save $ but I didn't realize how much I could really save and how much I could get each month for free besides!!! It has been so great on our food budget. It is so nice to be able to spend 1/2 the amount I used to but get so very much more for my $.

3 McCormick black pepper grinders
5 bags of Quaker Quakes
6 boxes for Post Trail mix cereal
5 bags of Halls cough drops
4 small bottles of Purell hand sanitizer
7 Johnson's body lotions
7 cans of Purina dog food
3 Buddie soap bars
2 large bottles of Pace salsa
4 4 packs of Activia yogurt
10 packs of Wrigley's 15 count gum
1 bracelet and ring set from Kohl's
1 Connoisseurs ring cleaner bottle from Kohl's
$4.24 rebate check ~ deoderant
$5.00 rebate check ~ fruit
$10.00 rebate check ~deli meat
$10.00 rebate check ~ bottled water
$25.00 for filling a prescription at Smith's (so, more groceries!!)
$20 gift card to Sonora Grill that I won from PYP

I also have 4 $6.00 off your next purchase at Walgreen's and 3 $5.00 off your next purchase at Albertson's to use. I will roll those into April for more frees's : )

Item's I got for dirt cheap in March

6 boxes of band aids for .10 each
6 184 count Huggies wipes for $1.69 each
6 4 pack rolls of Scott t.p. for .13 each
4 bottles of Tree Top juice for .50 each
6 large bags of Whopper eggs for .50 each
12 boxes of Post cereal (Grape Nuts, Shredded Wheat, and Selects)

Soccer boys

Well we are neck deep with soccer now that Talon is old enough to play too! The boys have been having so much fun on their teams. Keaton's team is called the Blue Ice Cubes and Talon's is called the Zebra's (he named the team). It is fun to see Keaton catch onto the game more and more and a crack up to see Talon and his team mates run in a pack and get distracted by everything in site. : ) You know, more and more I am seeing that my life is going to turn out to be the "sporty" kind even though I am not a sporty girl at the moment! I have sooooooooo much to learn.
Keaton grabbed Carter to be in the picture. He always looks after his brother and makes sure that he is included in everything. He is such a good big brother.

My hard workin' guys.....

On Saturday Rick decided to take advantage of a nice day and head out back to do some yard work. (Oh my sakes......I think the weeds are going to be the death of us). Talon wanted to help out his Daddy and he ran to his room to get his hat that looks like his Dad's. Cute!!! Talon was working so hard. He is getting so big!

Look at em' ~ Thanks guys!

Too cute! Talon wants to do what his Daddy does!