Cool Scout tote giveaway!

Isn't this tote the cutest! Well, this is a giveaway over at Whitney Caroline Design's blog.

You can enter to win a SCOUT Deano Tote Bag! The winner gets to choose between two styles: Black and Pink Damask or my personal favorite, Pink and Green Damask!

Jack Frost in Florida!

Brrr! When I woke up a little before 6 a.m. this morning the thermometer read 28 degrees! Yep, that's right 28 degrees! My peeps were all bundled in hats, gloves, and scarves this morning as they went to school. They had on their jeans, long sleeve polos, and long socks with boots!

This is what we saw when we headed out to school. Hubby's truck with ice on it!

The grass with frost and ice!

So I decided to make a recipe from Mer's blog, Life at 7000 feet. A yummy sounding pulled pork sandwich. I gathered all the ingredients

I just started the crock pot and will be heading out to Sam's club so I can get some hot dogs and buns for my son's birthday on Saturday.

Walgreen's & CVS Deals!

Sorry for the second post in a row about the deals but I can't help myself! After checking out the deals in the flyers and checking the coupons that I had, I took my middle son out with me to run some errands. They were out of school today and I thought this would be a great math lesson.

First, we went to Walgreen's. I didn't go to our normal one because I had 'grand opening store coupons' and that allowed me to save an additional $3. I have several of them so I wanted to be sure to use them, especially since I was going anyway.

Walgreen’s Shopping List

Transaction 1:

Buy 5 8-packs of Pepsi Products $13.50

Buy 3 Frito Lay Products $7.50

Buy 1 Gatorade $1.00

Total $22.00

Receive $10 in RR

$22.00
-$3.00 Canoe Creek coupon
$19.00

Transaction 2:

Huggies Diapers $9.99 - -Used a $2.00 coupon Receive $1 RR
Orville Redenbacher popcorn 2/$3- used two $1.00 off coupons $.50 each
Mauna Loa Macadamias 2/$4-$3.00 off from Walgreen’s coupon book $1.00
Novelty candy lollypop$.39

$10.38
- $3.00 Canoe Creek coupon
$ 7.38

$11.00 Walgreen’s Rapid Reward Dollars which I can use at a later date!

Then off I went to CVS. I had to go to two different CVS stores because I was looking for the cold pops for my daughter. Neither store had them. :( But it worked out because in my haste, I forgot to get the rest of the pepsi products for the coupon deal!

CVS Shopping List:

Cottonelle 12 pack of double toilet paper $6.99

*they ran out of the one on sale and did a substitute but no bonus bucks though

Buy $20 worth of Pepsi products, Get $10 ECBs (Limit 1) ***see below for story on this!

Buy 5 8-packs of Pepsi Products $10.00
Total $10.00

St. Ives body Wash $2.99 each –buy 2
$2.00 off coupons per = $.99 each
Total $1.98

Buy 1 Nasogel Drip Free Gel Spray 1.52 oz. at $7.99, Get $7.99 ECBs

Total $5.99

CVS Brand Allergy Relief $3.79 (limit 2)
Total $7.98

CVS Brand ladies shavers $3.99
Use $3 off CVS brand item coupon
Total $.99

Hallmark cards 3 @ $.99 each

*receive $3 in ECB's

Milk $3.59

Deduct $4.00 extra bucks
Deduct $1.00 extra bucks
Deduct $10 off of $50 purchase
Deduct $2 Nasalgel coupon

Deduct $2 St. Ives coupon

Deduct $2 St. Ives coupon

Deduct $3 CVS brand item coupon

$18.10 OOP

$26.96 CVS ECB’s earned

Then I went to another CVS and bought these items:

Buy 5 Pepsi 8-packs $10

Buy 3 Lay's Potato Chips $9.00

Buy 1 Gatorade $1.25

Total $20.25

Buy one 24 pack of Gold Emblem water bottles $3.99

Buy one box of Divine cookies (CVS brand) $3.19

Deduct $1.00 for water bottles

Deduct $1.00 for cookies

Deduct $5 off $25 purchase coupon

Used $15.98 in ECB's

Used $3.00 in ECB's

Out of pocket $1.75

Woo Hoo!

Plus I received a $10 ECB~

I know it seems like a lot of soda but my son's birthday party is Saturday so I'm able to use these for his party! Love it!!!

Now off to Gymnastics! Thanks for letting me share!

Deals at CVS!

Today while checking out Swaggrabbers blog, I saw that there were some online coupons that expired today. I had 5 of them so I went to CVS with my hubby and son. We all did some shopping...........actually I shopped and gave them the coupon and the item to buy! I did end up spending some money but everything that I bought I needed, so that's a good thing! Here's the breakdown:

• Transaction 1:
• Gold Emblem 24 pack of bottled water $5.99
• minus CVS $3 coupon
• Out of pocket $2.99

• Transaction 2:
• CVS 64 oz. fabric softner $3.99
• minus CVS $3 coupon
• Out of pocket $.99

• Transaction 3:
• CVS pack of napkins (count of 250) $3.49
• minus CVS $3 coupon
• Out of pocket $.49

• Transaction 4:
• CVS 50 oz. HE laundry detergent BOGO $5.49
• minus CVS $3 coupon
• Out of pocket $2.49

• Transaction 5:
• CVS cotton sponges (bonus pack of 3 with 100 each) $3.49
• minus CVS $3 coupon
• Received $1 extra buck
• Made money of 51 cents~

Total spent: $8.45

Total saved: $20.49

Yippee!

Say a prayer for Harper!

Update: Harper was instead flown to Tulsa, OK where they are placing her on a heart/lung bypass machine for several days. Scott and his parents are there and Kelly and her parents will hopefully be there sometime today. God is answering our prayers and Harper's condition is improving so DON'T STOP PRAYING!!!

Harper Brown Stamps was born at 7:03 PM. She weighed 9lb and 12oz.She is having some trouble breathing, so they have taken her to the NICU to check her heart. They have had to incubate her - they are doing tests to see what's going on.Also, Kelly lost a lot of blood in delivery and has really low blood pressure. We would really appreciate your prayers for both mother and daughter.

You can visit Kelly's blog at: http://www.kellyskornerblog.com/

Please lift both Harper and her mommy, Kelly up with your prayers.

"Love" Blog Award!!

I have been blogging for a little over a year now. I have enjoyed reading other blogs and learning about different products. From the blogs I've learned more about menu planning, using coupons, trying different products, and different stores! It's all good! I have also been able to be 'in on' some of the blog writer's most treasured moments.........marriage, engagement, babies, graduation, etc.

So today, I received a really cool blog award from one of my favorite blog's, Pink, Green & Southern! How cool is that!

The award states: "These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award."

So without further adu........

1. Zawisza Tribute
2. 40 Pink Piggies
3. Ansbaugh Family
4. A Box of Chocolates
5. Elmore Family
6. Life at 7000 Feet
7. Steel Magnolia
8. A Walk in My Shoes

These are all blogs that I visit as often as possible. When I get a little down time and the peeps are asleep, you'll find me checking in on my blog friends. I would also include Pink, Green & Southern on my list too, but I wasn't sure if I could gift this award back to her. But she is one of my fave's too!

Thanks for making blogging so much fun!!!

Fruit Roll-ups winner announced!!

We have a winner!!! Thanks for visiting my little blog and entering the contest. Please come back and visit often. I love to do giveaways! :)



So I first went to the custom random number generator so that I could have the generator pick the winner..................here is the winning number shown:




Enter a lower limit: 1
Enter an upper limit: 14

Random Number: 11



The winner is Danielle~

http://homeschoolunitstudies.blogspot.com

Thanks so very much for visiting!!! Please visit again!

Personalize Fruit Roll ups GiveAway~

I don't know about your kids, but my kids love these fruit roll-ups! We try to keep some in the pantry for snacks and I usually will get them for Halloween or cheerleading snacks. Well, a few weeks ago I was given the awesome opportunity to try out personalized fruit roll ups! I was pretty excited, but I think my kids were even more excited! My son's birthday is coming up the end of January and he asked if we could personalize the roll ups with info for his birthday, so I said sure!

The ordering process was so easy! You can upload a picture to the roll up and change the wording on it. They come in a box of 30 and are so adorable! I love them! We are going to be using them for snacks at my son's birthday party in two weeks. He's pretty excited and has made me promise not to tell anyone what is on 'his special treats'!

The best thing is My Fruit Roll-Ups is offering a FREE box to one of you! All you have to do is just reply and leave me a comment. I will close the contest on Friday at 9:00 a.m. and will announce the winner shortly thereafter.

Basics of the giveaway---US mailing address, must leave me your email if you don't have a blog so I can't ahold of you. Please refer people to this great giveaway. If you do, then reply back again telling me that you did, so that you get an extra entry in the giveaway!

Have a great Monday!

Savings galore!

One of my goals this year is to save money while shopping. I found two blogs/sites that I think are fabulous! They not only share the specials BUT they give links for the online coupons and list what dates the other coupons were in the circulars! One is Swaggrabbers and the other is Money Saving Mom!

So on Tuesday I ventured out to Walgreen's and Publix. I armed myself with $20 and figured I'd see what I could buy for $20 or less using the coupons and strategies on these sites. I couldn't believe it when I came home with $2 still in my pocket and ALL of these items too!

My first stop was Walgreen's. This week's ad is awesome. There are a lot of great deals with their store coupons alone. But adding the other coupons made it even better! I bought all of these items below and walked out only paying $17.55. Can you believe it? Seventh Generation is my new find. I have always been a fan of natural type cleaners and usually use either Melaleuca or Shaklee. But they are costly and I decided to try the other products in the Seventh Generation lineup. I have to say I was not disappointed!

Then I headed next door to Publix (our grocery store) and picked up these items for only.........are you ready for this? 34 cents! Yep...........that's right!!!

I am having fun saving money! I have also started to read this book by Dave Ramsey........

Well, off to boil some chicken. The peeps want poppyseed chicken for dinner!

The Bachelor

So who watched the Bachelor last night? I have to admit that I liked Jason last year when he was on the Bachelorette. I couldn't believe that Deanna picked Jesse. Nothing wrong with Jesse, he just didn't seem 'her type'. Now that they are broken up, I see on the previews that she is on the Bachelor apparently trying to woo Jason back. I hope not!

Did you have any favorites from the girls? I liked a few of the girls............

Stephanie.............I think she's a good match with Jason. Her little girl would be cute playing with Ty.

Melissa is another good choice. She seems down to earth, fun.

Any choices that you liked?

I can see the floor!

The peeps went to school yesterday for the first time in two weeks and I spent the day cleaning. Dusting, mopping, and washing..........now today I just have a few loads of laundry to do and then off to finish some work on Quickbooks.

Have a great day!