I love a good sale

For those that know my craziness and love of coupons you know that I seriously love a good sale. You may be thinking..who doesn't love to go shopping for clothes, shoes, etc...but I am talking food. A little over a year ago a good friend of mine introduced me to coupon shopping. I used to always shop with coupons when I could, but this was serious. A new concept to me...you don't use the coupon until the item is on a great sale. I have been known to get up and be at Albertson's at 6am to hit a good grocery sale. I have taken a break on and off from coupons, but baby I am back at it! Today is the start of the famous Quaker sale at Albertsons and I got 16 boxes of life, cinnamon life, and captin crunch cereal, 10 boxes of cereal bars, 3 canisters of oatmeal, and a box of granola bars for .....drumroll please.... $28!!! I saved $91!! It's a sickness, I will admit, but it felt so good. I seriously get so excited when I save a lot and pay so little. There have been times in the past when my savings have been over $200 (coupons and sales combined). I love stocking up my food storage for so little.

Because I haven't had a post in so long, you probably wonder what I have been up to-or maybe not. Well I'm still so busy with Super Saturday but we did get all our projects done, decided, and displayed. We seem to have a good response from the ladies in our ward, but frankly at this point I have put so much work into it and I really don't care if they like it or not. Rude don't you think? I'm to the point if someone thinks they can do a better job (and I'm sure they probably could) then I say go for it. In all honestly we really do have some cute projects and I think the whole she-bang will turn out great!

Laundry

So I have been doing a little laundry today. I opened the washer to find a batch that has been sitting for oh-a couple of day (ew) and please don't tell me that you each haven't dones this at least once. So anyway I re-wash it and I just went to change it into the dryer when gasp! I found a t-shirt from Gymboree with a new rust stain on it. Because I let the load sit (unintentionally) a buckle on some shorts was wet for too long and it actually rusted onto a new Gymboree t-shirt. grumble, grumble. I know I didn't pay a lot for the shirt as I am fairly certain I didn't pay full price for it. It still makes me cranky. So note to self : DON'T EVER LET THE CLOTHES SIT IN THE WASHER!!!!

MIA

Yes, it's been a little quite on my blog. We have spent the last two weeks sick, sick, sick. It looks like we are finally getting better, but believe me when I say it is after many trips to the bathroom. No-we don't have the pool sickness as we haven't been swimming in over a month, but we did get some stomach bug that has been through every member of our family.

Can you believe it's September? I LOVE FALL! It's probably one of my favortive seasons. I love the cooler air, leaves crunching, apple smells, wearing cozy sweaters and jackets-yum! Love it! Beginning with last year, there has been a little bit (ok a lot) of dread and worry when it comes to fall. Why? You ask. Two words. Super Saturday. Yes that's right-it's the time of year when every good and faithful enrichment leader comes up with fabulous and exciting projects to entice and woo the ladies in her ward. That's right, I'm the enrichment leader and I dread SS! It's not that I don't like the crafts (ok-I'd rather buy them already done), it's all the decisions, displaying, money collecting, calling to veryify orders, buying wood, paint, brushes, stain, food,....ahhh! Ok-I'm calm again. See I have a smile. Can't you see it? Remember soon this too shall pass.

I've been bitten..

Oh my! I just finished Eclipse and it was so good! I loved it! I am so sad that a new book won't be out for another year. I just read on www.stepheniemeyer.com that the next book will be coming sometime in Fall 2008 and will be called Breaking Dawn. For all you fans out there she also has the 1st chapter from Midnight Sun on her website that you can download in PDF format. It's the companion book to Twilight in which Edward is the narrator. I just read it and can't wait for that either-fun to read!
So now that I am out of vampire books to keep me up at night. I need some good suggestions for future reading material. I did start The Poisionwood Bible prior to starting Twilight. My neighbor suggested it. Anyone read that one? She said it's a slow start but gets really good.
Connor got sick on out way home from Shane's parents on Sunday night and oh my goodness-what a mess! We seriously had to pull off the side of a very busy road (highway) to clean up 3 bowls of cheerios! Yuck. It took me forever to get it out of the carpet under the seats. I finally got his booster seat cover all washed and dried and him packed up in the car to run an errand today when the thought popped into my head that I had better grab a bucket and a towel just in case. I no sooner got back out the to car when yep-Connor started to puke again. Luckily he grabbed the bucket. Poor buddy. I hope he gets over this yuckiness soon. No errands for us today. We are staying home.

I'm now 32....

Yesterday I turned 32. I seriously still feel like I'm 24 or thereabouts. I really am into the 30 something stage. I had a fantastic birthday thanks to my awesome husband, family, and great friends. Thanks everyone!
Shane took the day off work to spend it with me and I was greeted with breakfast in bed. S then took P to school and then took me and C to the running store where he bought me new running shoes. (I went to the gym the am and I loved them-so much more chusion than my last pair) He then took me to this great store on Highland called On Occaision. It's a darling home decor, jewlery, paper, gift store. Anyway- I told him about this bracelet I wanted-Pandora (so cute!!! you have to google this). So he set me up with a bracelet a one heart charm to start with. I seriously can't wait to start adding more charms. I just love these-they are so cute and creative without being too charmy.
After we got home Jenni and Hollie came by to wish me happy b-day. Jenni got me this really cute pink block that says " she must be something special. she is. celebrate her." Love it! It goes with the "She" book. So nice of Jenni! Holls got me two cute chunky earrings and a darling chucky brown bracelet. So cute!! Holls also brought me Chili's chips and salsa-yum!
S then took me to see the Bourne Ultimatium (got a babysitter on his own) and then took me to Red Robin for dinner.
My parents then stopped by to give me a really cute black linen skirt. I can't wait for Sunday!
Thanks to everyone for the gifts and calls-I had such a great birthday!!! Happy 32-not so bad after all!

twilight

A little over 36 hrs later and I'm done. I have to admit I was a little skeptical based on the premise of the story, but I LOVED it! I can't wait to go get New Moon and Eclipse. I may have to break my rule about buying books and run over to Barnes and Noble (gasp!). Seriously. I can't wait for the LONG hold list the library has. Such a good read!

Happy Birthday Peyton!!!

Happy Birthday Buddy! We celebrated Peyton's 6th birthday this past week and had a family party for him last night. He had so much fun for his b-day. On his acutal b-day he had to go to school, and I had been telling him all summer that we could go do something fun on his b-day. That was before we had to switch to A track and he had to go back to school before his birthday. So... to make a long story short we ended up going to Chuck-E-Cheese after school with his two friends. Needless to say they all had such a great time! Last time we went there I came home with a migraine, so I was hesitant to go, but in the end it was worth it and no headache this time around.

Yesterday we filled up a smallish pool and put it in front of the slide to have a make-shift water slide. I didn't know if it would work, but the kids had so much fun. I have to say thanks to everyone for helping with dinner and thanks so much for spoiling Peyton! He loved, loved, his presents. He takes after my Mom and said "it's just want I wanted" or "I've always wanted one of these" after every present. I especially got a kick out of the adding machine. Thanks Burton and Mel! He seriously loves it! How many 6 year olds want their own adding machine with a years worth of paper to go on it? That was a cool gift!!

(I'm still having a hard time getting my pictures where I want them. I used ctrl x to cut but can't get them to paste using ctrl v. What am I doing wrong-seriously leave me a comment so I can figure this out!!)