Monday, June 29, 2009

Menu for this week!


Monday - Hubs is fending for himself - My baby shower!
Tuesday - Out to eat for Stef's b-day!
Wednesday - BLT's w/ Fruit Salad
Thursday - Gumbo over Rice
Friday - Beef Taco's w/Fixings
Saturday - B-day thing at my Parents for a Sibling and I
Sunday - Eat Out
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Friday, June 26, 2009

Love Free Stuff Coupons!


I got in the mail today 4 free coupons for the KFC meals that I had gotten way back but they couldn't take them then cause of the overload of meals being given out.
Also got a free Digiorno Flat bread melt coupon!
And a $5.00 off any Jennie-O coupon!
Love it!
It sure pays to sign up for a free item or fill out a form for something! :-D
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Shopping deals this week!

Bread Store $10.64

Whole Foods $5.72

Produce Co-op $27.50
(not pictured)

Heb Retail $49.66
After sales and Coupons $35.09


CVS
Retail $81.13
After sales and coupons $15.70
Used $12.00 in ECB's
Total OOP $3.70
Got back $28.49 in ECB's
I have now $38.49 in ECB's! I am finaly getting back up
to where I was months ago with CVS! (I might end up hitting
CVS for my free sobe drinks and a few more ECB deals this weekend
to!)


Walgreens
Retail $60.12
After Sales and Coupons $30.34
Used $29 in RR
OOP $1.34
Got back a total of $14.00 RR
Had $20 RR to start out so I lost $4.00 in RR
(2 of the shampoos are missing from pic cuase I had already given them to someone)
Total Retail for all above was $$234.77
After sales and coupons total OOP was $83.99!
Saving of 73%!
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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Fun at the Zoo with my twin neices!

Hippo Tank


Scary snake!


Pretty girls!


Someone gave both the girls cups of juice to feed the birds!


Watch me!!!!


To cool!


Um can we have some of that water this way please!!!!

Looked nice and cool!


Leaving the zoo.


We were just a tad bit wore out... I put on a movie and I layed on the couch and
told them just to be quite and to not go outside if I feel alseep... I woke up to this!
:-D
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Monday, June 22, 2009

Baby stuff...


Isn't this highchair the cutest! I love it! My husbands Aunt got it for us off our registry and I love it!!! I finally had the energy to get it out and put it together with my dear sweet husbands help. :-) The baby won't use it for a good while but its fun to put up and have baby stuff around the house! :-D
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Menu



Monday - Baked Potato's

Tuesday - Chicken Pasta Salad

Wednesday - Leftovers

Thursday - Greek Pita's

Friday - Baked Chicken w/ Pasta and Veggies

Saturday - Eating out 2 weddings to go to!!!

Sunday - In town Eat Out

Check out more menus at I'm an Organizing Junkie!
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Sunday, June 21, 2009

36 weeks along!

I'm so ready to have this kid....






Can you tell?
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Saturday, June 20, 2009

CVS Deals 6/21 - 6/27

ECB Deals

Buy 4 SoyJoy Bars $1 each get $4Ecb (limit 5)
-buy one get one free 5/31SS
-$2.00/10 5/31SS
-$1.00/5 here
=4 for FREE + a $2 moneymaker!
=20 for Free + a $5.00 moneymaker!

Creat, Fixodent or Oral B Multipacks $4.99=$3Ecb (limit 1)
-$0.50 6/7 PG
=$1.49 after coupon and ECB

Mitchum Deodorant $1.99=$1Ecb (limit 1)
-$0.75 6/21 SS
-$0.24 after coupon and ECB

Almay Pure Blends Foundation or Face Powder $13.99=$10Ecb (limit 3)
-$1.00 5/17SS (exp. 6/21)
-$3.00 CVS Almay CRT coupon
-$2.00 CVS Almay CRT coup0n
=Free after Coupons and ECB

Physicians Formula Shimmer Strip Eye Shadows $10.99=$5Ecb (limit 1)
-$1.00 4/19 SS
-$1.00 5/31 SS
=$4.99 after Coupons and ECB

Coppertone Suncare $8.99=$2Ecb (limit 2)
-$1.50 5/10 SS
(If the NutraShield is included, use the $5.00 coupon from here )
=$5.49 to 1.99 after coupon and ECB

Spend $20 on Aveeno Sunblock (3-4 oz. lotion or 5 oz. spray)=$10Ecb (limit 1)
-$1.50 5/17 RP
-$2.00 IE or Firefox

Buy $10 worth of Nexxus=$5Ecb (limit 1)
Prices starting at $3.99

Buy $10 worth of Tresemme=$5Ecb (limit 1)
Prices starting at $4.28

Clearcare Contact Solution $8.99=$2Ecb (limit 2)
-$3.00 5/10 SS
=$3.99 after coupon and ECB

Tylenol (20-24 ct) $4.99=$2Ecb (limit 3)
-$3.00/2 4/5 RP
=$1.49 after Coupon and ECB

Thermacare Neck or Arm Wrap (1 ct) $2.49=$2.49Ecb (limit 2)
-$1.00 3/29 RP
-$1.00 4/19 RP
-$1.00 here
=FREE + a $1 moneymaker!


Other Great Deals

Kraft BBQ Sauce $1
-$0.50 6/14 SS
=$0.50

French's Mustard $1
-$0.75 5/10SS
-$0.50 here
=$0.25

SoBe buy one get one free
-buy one get one free IE or Firefox
=2 for FREE

FreeStyle Glucose Monitor $9.99
-$9.99 5/17 SS
=FREE Share

Walgreens Deals 6/21 - 6/27

This Weeks RR Deals

$3 RR wyb Aquafresh toothpaste ($3), Free after RR
-$1.00 printable coupon
-0.75 6/21 SS

$2 RR wyb Spped stick or Lady Speed stick ($2.99)

$1 RR wyb 2/$3 Planters trail mix 6 oz

Buy 2 Lysol Disinfectant Sprays at $3.50 each, Get $2 Register Rewards
-$2.00 6/7 SS
=$0.50 each after coupons and Register Rewards

Buy 3 Kotex Products at $2.99 each, Get $3 Register Rewards
-$1.00 printable coupons
-$1.00 6/14 SS
-$0.75 6/14 SS
=$0.99 to $1.24 each after coupons and Register Rewards

Buy 1 Accu-Check Blood Glucose Meter at $14.99, Get $5 Register Rewards
Submit for mail-in rebate offer found on the box (check to make sure you buy a box with with a rebate)


Monthly RR Deals

Buy 2 Johnson’s and Johnson’s Baby Powder (1.5 oz) at $1 each, Get $1 Register Rewards
-$1.00 3/8 RP
-$1.00 4/26 RR
=Free plus $1 in overage after coupons and Register Rewards

Buy 2 Oreo Cakesters at $2.50 each, Get $3 Register Rewards
-$1.00 6/14 SS
=Free after coupons and Register Rewards

Buy 3 John Frieda Root Awakening Hair Care Products at $5 each, Get $5 Register Rewards
-$3.00 6/14 SS
=$0.33 each after coupons and Register Rewards

Buy 2 Ban Deodorants at $1.50 each, Get $1 Register Rewards
=$0.40 6/7 SS
=$0.60 each after coupons and Register Rewards

Buy 1 Carmex at $2.99, Get $2 Register Rewards
=$0.99 each after Register Rewards

Buy 1 Purex 3-in-1 at $5.99, Get $2 Register Rewards
-$2.00 6/14 SS
-$1.00 printable coupon
=$1.99 to $2.99 after coupon and Register Reward


Other Deals

Organix Shampoo or Conditioner--on sale Buy One, Get One Free
Find bottles with "Try Me Free" mail-in rebate offer on the bottle and buy 2
=Two free after the sale and mail-in rebate

Chips Ahoy Cookies 4-8 oz. on sale for $1
-$0.55 5/17 SS
=$0.45 each after coupon

Band-Aids 2 for $3
-$1.00 3/15 RP
-$1.00 4/26 RP
=$0.50 each after coupon

Splenda $2.99
-$4.00/2 3/39 SS
-$3.00/2 coupon from the April All You magazine
=$0.99 -$1.99 each after coupon

Skintimate or Edge Shave gel or cream $1.99 after in-ad coupon
-$1.00 Edge printable coupon
-$1.00 Skintimate printable coupon
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ANOTHER Free drink at Borders!


Oh my, I LOVE Borders as of late! Another coupon for free beverage!
Go here to print a coupon for a free 12 oz. beverage at Border's/Seattle's Best Coffee good through June 25, 2009!!!!
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

My Blue Overfloweth!

Our little guy has been blessed by lots of totaly cute baby boy clothes from several
different people and shower gifts!
I love it!



I even bought totes to put up bigger sizes! Now thats a blessing!


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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

My sweet Huggies Snag!



This week at Target they have a Huggies sale that was to good to pass up!
It's buy 3 Huggies products (not all qualify) @ $8.99 and get a $5.00 gift card back.

I had a few $3, $2, and $1.50 coupons to use and a gift card for $15.00 that I had
received as a gift so I stopped today to pick them up!

I ended up buying 9 packages (3 separate transactions) and spent a grand total of OOP $39.52!
I also ended up with the last $5.00 gift card and will get $6.75 back from the Caregivers Rebate Club making it a grand total of $$27.77 for 9 packages of baby diapers!

That comes out to about $3.09 a package!!!!
Original price for 9 packs would of been $97.33!!!
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Monday, June 15, 2009

5 weeks left...

No I have no pic...

I can hardly beleive I have 5 weeks give or take before we meet out Son. It's just crazy! On one hand seems like yesterday we discovered we were expecting again, on the other it seems like forevvveerrrrr! :-) Nine month is a LONG TIME... but as I was telling someone at church, atleast we aren't elephants and have what a 2 year pregnancy? Oye!

I'm starting to feel more and more like I am READY to get this child out of here already! :-D The only time I don't feel gynormus is in the pool. (I could live in the pool because of the way it makes you feel like you don't weight anything from baby! Its awesome!)

I've got the babies room done and ready for the most part. A few things I would LIKE to get but for all purposes its ready! I'm hoping to get a few more diapers before hes born if they go on sale otherwise for the most part I have quite a bit stocked up that should last quite awhile. I have another baby shower coming up that all the sweet ladies at church are throwing me and super excited about it! So fun! Can't wait!

Several people have given me lots of baby boy items and baby toys which I'm loving! Soooo fun! In fact I just got a ton of stuff Sunday that I need to go thru and put away! Love baby boy clothes! Love handmedowns! :-D Out house is starting to look like a baby is on the way! :-D

Tuesday I have my last 2 week doctor apt. now I go to one week apts! Not to fun sounding...

This last Saturday my husband and I took the drive up the the hospital where he will be born and paid in full the cost for the hospital! Now baby's delivery is completely paid for unless something unexpected happens. Which I am praying not as I hope to have a safe natural delivery with no drugs or intervention! Pray that happens!
The drive up was not TO bad just hoping I don't go into labor during rush hour! The middle of the night would be nice... lol But the hospital is very nice and has LOTS of cool things! A Starbucks! A postpartum massage they offer! Now I could go for a prenatal massage right now!!! :-D

Well here's what BabyCenter has to say about week 35!

Your baby doesn't have much room to maneuver now that he's over 18 inches long and tips the scales at 5 1/4 pounds. Because it's so snug in your womb, he isn't likely to be doing somersaults anymore, but the number of times he kicks should remain about the same. (Um or more????? LOL) His kidneys are fully developed now, and his liver can process some waste products. Most of his basic physical development is now complete — he'll spend the next few weeks putting on weight. Share

Kraft First Taste = Free Products and Coupons!





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I LOVE to try new products for FREE!! DO you????
You'll definitely want to sign up to be part of the Kraft First Taste community! You will be first to try exciting new Kraft products and give any feedback you may have.
Just go over here to sign up as a member.
Log on and check your email daily to see if there are any new free products or high value coupons!!! Share

Menu for this week


Monday - Chinese Food- Chicken, Broccoli Stir Fry, w/ Rice (We didn't have this last week!)
Tuesday - Hot Dogs w/ Chili toppings (Got to love my husbands easy tastes!)
Wednesday - Eat Out - Wedding to go to
Thursday - Hamburger Meat with Mushrooms over Rice w/Salad and Fruit
Friday - Taco Soup in crock pot w/ Tort Chips
Saturday - Leftovers
Sunday - In Town
Check out more menus at I'm an Organiing Junkie!
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Friday, June 12, 2009

Another Free Beverage at Borders!


WoW!
I am loving the free drinks at Borders for SURE!
Go here to get your coupon for a free 12-oz. beverage at Border's/Seattle's Best Coffee.
No purchase necessary.
Good through June 18, 2009.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

34.3 Weeks along

Mom can you please make more room in here???? It's getting kinda cramped!
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Java Deal: Boca Java

Boca Java's Best

Awhile back I mentioned a great deal on coffee and another one has come up that I thought I would pass on to you!

Right now you can get a shipment of 4 - 1/2 pound bags of coffee shipped to your door for $11.95 and no shipping costs!!!

I ordered some last month and LOVE the coffee's I got!

Go here to put your order in to get this awesome deal!

You can cancel your subscription anytime online if your not intrested in ordering each month. Share

Challah Bread Remake

After my disaster of making this bread last Friday I am yet attempting to make it again! Last week it smelt sooo good, looked awesome, and I got ready to take it to Bible Study dinner and Eck it was RAW in the middle! Not cool at all! This time I plan to make MUCH smaller loafs and hopefully we will have bread that turns out good instead of GOO!

Rolled out ready to braid!


Pretty Loafs


And a wreaf cuase its just pretty that way!


All done and smelling GOOD!


Numo!


The bread turned out SO GOOD! Can't wait to make it again!
A very rich tasting bread that was prefectly done! :-D

Here is the recipe I am going to use:

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups warm water
1/2 cup honey
1 tablespoon oil
4 eggs
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon sugar
2 tablespoons dry yeast
5 cups flour, plus additional flour (may take 8 or 9 cups of flour total)

Instructions:
1. Combine ingredients in a large bowl in order listed. Add enough flour and knead to make a smooth dough. Knead for approximately 10 minutes.

2. Oil top of bread and cover. Let rise in a warm place until almost doubled, about 1 1/2 hours. Punch down.

3. And braiding it into 4 small 6-strand challah loafs. I found a few vidoes on youtube.com showing how to do it.
4. Let rise for about 30-45 mins till double, wash with a beaten egg and cook at 325 for 20-30 mins or untill golden brown.
Eat hot with butter!!! :-D
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Free sample of Medical-Grade Socks



Free Sample of Ultra Comfort High-Performance Medical-Grade Socks.
There is a $4.77 s&h fee but if you are looking for these its a great deal. Share

JCPenneys and Ebates


Use the coupon code: GR8DAD at JCPenney to get $10 of your purchase of $10 or more at checkout.

Plus, use your Ebates account and you will get 4% cash back when going through Ebates and a $5 sign up bonus right now!!

Don't have an Ebates account??? Sign up now and get a Instant $5.00 signup bonus plus if you refer 3 friends you can get a double bonus of $10 each for signing them up instead of the normal $5!
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Walgreens $5/$25 coupon



Check out this hot new $5 off $25 in-store coupon from Walgreens!!!!

This coupon is valid June 10th and 11th ONLY!
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Free CVS Photo Enlargement



CVS Photo center has a FREE 8X10 print for Fathers Day, a $3.99 value.

Just go to the CVS Photo site and upload the photo you want.
At checkout type in coupon code: FREE8x10.
Don't forget to choose in-store pick up and you won't have to pay a shipping fee either!

This offer is valid through June 21st.

Don't forget your Free 50 prints to at CVS!
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Monday, June 8, 2009

Great SwagCode for Signing up!

Search & Win

Swagbucks.com is launching a few very exciting features / components this week, and to celebrate these releases on Tuesday, they have offered to le me give you a 6 Swag Buck registration code (3 for signing up, 3 from the code) for those of you who have not yet to come on board!!!! So exciting! I can't wait for some of the things they are doing!

To get your 6 Swagbucks to start you off go here and enter the code: SAVINGMONEYCODE (case sensitive). It will become active at 12:01am PST on TUESDAY 6/9, and expire the 16th at 11:59pm PST.

To redeem this code, you will have to sign up and get a Swag Bucks account. And then all you need to do is log in to your account, click on the black box on the right of your screen which posts your current Swag Bucks, and redeem the code by typing it into the SwagCode box on the left side of your screen.

Below is a sneak peak of whats to come and in addition to these things they will be running a number of "Swag Code" hunts on the Facebook, Blog and Twitter pages, and offering a limited time, special gift with every purchase of selected items in the Swag Store.

Spread the word!

Tuesday:

Video Game Section Expansion:
We will be adding 1000's of new and used titles to the video game section of the Swag Store, and offering a special sale on many of these titles!

Wednesday:

Shop&Earn Favorites: This great new feature gives you the ability to choose your 'Favorite' stores in our shop&earn mall, and receive updates on new coupons that originate from these retailers. So not only will you get Swag Bucks for your purchases, you will be notified immediately when a great deals becomes available!

Thursday:

Swagbucks.com 2.5 Launch: Swagbucks.com 2.5 is the next evolution of the Swag Bucks homepage. It will feature a new cleaner look, with easier navigation & quick links and a few new special elements - we think its pretty snazzy :)

Swag Bucks Widget: The ultimate referral / promotional tool. The widget will be 300px by 301px, and will feature a search box, prize images, swag code alerts, and a referral tab The widget allows you to generate referrals through the registration tab, and through those who do a search & win through the widget on your page. The widget is simple html code that you copy and paste on your blog or social network profile! If you ever wanted a search box that generates referrals on your blog, this is how you get it!



For those of you who don't know what Swagbucks.com is here is a short write up on it!

Swag Bucks is a search engine that randomly rewards you with points just for doing searches on their search engine. It's SO EASY!

The average person gets between 1-3 points per day just for doing searches.
What's so great about that you ask? When you have scored 45 points, you can cash in for a $5.00 Amazon gift card!!! Or a $10.00 Barnes & Noble e-Gift Card for just 115 Swagbucks! Just for using their search engine! They have a tool bar that makes it EASY to search from your browser so you don't have to long into their site every time you want to search for something. And there are dozens of other great prizes to choose from also.

And what makes this program even SWEETER if you have a blog or who have lots of friends who use the Internet, you will also want to check out their referral program. For every person who signs up with your referral code you can earn up to 100 matching Swag Bucks! Did you hear that! 100 FREE Swabucks that you didn't have to do anything but refer your friend to get!!! I LOVE THAT! (That alone is worth over 2 $5.00 Amazon.com gift cards!!!)

Since I've have been using Swag Bucks the last few months and having GREAT success with it! I have earned $90 in gift cards and am on my way to more!!! How cool is that! Share

This weeks Menu


Monday - Beef Stew in Crock Pot
Tuesday - Taco Salad w/ Tortilla Chips
Wednesday - Spaghetti w/ Homemade Challah Bread
Thursday - Pigs'n Blanket
Friday - Leftovers
Saturday - Grilling Hamburgers w/ Fixings and Fruit Salad
Sunday - In town
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Friday, June 5, 2009

PineCone Research Panel

PineCone Research

I have been a member of the PineCone Research Panel for quite some time now and
love the ease of it! Its a great way to get paid a few dollars to state your opinion! I have
made a few dollars off it and love it! Right now if your a male they have openings for you
to join! These spots go fast and are not always available to join so take advantage of it now
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Thursday, June 4, 2009

33.4 weeks along Prego Update!

May 30th my sister and best friend thru me a family baby shower!
I got such cute baby boy clothes, my stroller, a sweet baby boy charm,
and much much more! It was a blast!
My sisters husband carved out this totally cute baby stroller out of a watermelon!
It was awesome! And numo cupcakes!
Opening cute baby gifts!
A Red little wagon filled with baby diapers and cute stuff!
Was so cute!
Joining in the games!
A prego picture at 33 weeks along. My hand kept shaking
so they all came out blurry! Oh Well!

Close up of 33 weeks!
And newest pictures of the Babies room!
I had a doctor appt on Tuesday and everything is going great with baby and me! Hes measuring right on and heart beat was strong. He even kicked my Dr. several times as she was getting his heart beat. lol It was funny.
One more 2 week apt then I'm down to every week! Not looking forward to sitting in waiting rooms every week. Usually I am in and out within 45 min but this last apt I was there for way to long just waiting to get in. sigh..
I also found out that this last week they closed down the labour and delivery section of the hospital I was going to deliver at! What! So I now am switching over to the other place my Dr. uses which is a NICE hospital just about 55 mins away! Hopefully everything will be fine when it comes time to get there! Just makes me alittle nervous... lol Guess I need to make sure I don't wait till the LAST moment to go in.. hehe
I'm getting ready finally I think for him to be here. Not that I am so tired of being pregnant I just am so ready to finally meet him! He can come any time after the 12th of July! :-D LOL
Only 6 weeks and 3 days till my due date! Crazy!
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