VOTE FOR CALEB!

Please go here and read the instructions on how to vote for my beautiful baby boy in a baby model contest. Silly of me to wait so long, but the contest ends on 2/23/2011 @ NOON eastern time. Please read ALL the rules, because you must "like" the photographers facebook page, which you can find here and follow her blog. My Caleb is picture 7 of 14, but he is the 6th child... you can pick him out easily, not only because he is SUPER cute, but he is SUPER excited in his picture, with his hands thrown up. This is a copy of his picture and Jackie, the wonderfully, amazingly talented photgrapher, took it herself..


THANKS and get voting (FOR CALEB!!)

Newness :)

Ive been having some serious issues with the ol' puter the last few months, but finally, one is totally fixed and ready to be used! Alot has happened since the last time I was here... ok, before that January post I mean, but I am still snapping up ridiculous deals anytime I can. Here are two of my latest STEALS!



So, Ive been wanting to read this book, Amish Peace, by Suzanne Woods Fisher for some time now, but at Family Christian Store where I shop, its $12.99. I would (or could) never, never in a box, never, never with a fox, pay $12.99for a book I dont truly need! Anywho, in January my patience paid off because the book went on sale for half price (6.49) AND, I had a $5.00 off any purchase coupon, so I got it for $1.49!! SCORE!

Now, I also happened across this cutie patootie Veggie Tale, George the Grape, at the same store. He was regularly $14.99, a big no-no, in my book. However, George was marked down 90%!!! Whooot! And, since he was in with another purchase that I had a 25% off my total order coupon, I got another percentage off of him and ending up paying a whopping $1.12 for a fifteen dollar toy!!

I SO love my productive shopping trips!

Ps - Yesterday I got 4 enormous rolls (these 4 rolls = 10 regular rolls) of Scott "green done right" toilet paper for .68 cents. Aaaah, such a tough job, but someone has to do it!!

Third Day - Blessed Assurance

My favorite band, singing my FAVORITE hymn!!

Helllooooo Blog!

WOW, I didnt realize it had been SUCH a long time since Id blogged! My computer's hard drive was killed, and I had to use my daughters little mini laptop, which is NOT an easy task! I couldnt upload pictures onto hers either, so it was no fun to use!

Anyway, some brilliant gentlemen resurrected my old hard drive and was able to restore it to factory settings! And, he did it for FREE!! It saved me and arm and a leg and now I can reconnect with the outside world!

So much has happened, and Ive had so many fabulous savings in the time since Ive been away! I will begin blogging about it all shortly.

Until then!! ♥

This weeks cool deals!

I took pictures, but they turned out badly, so anyway, lets talk DIAPERS!

Pampers brand diapers at Food Lion cost $10.99 a pack. Thats only 27 diapers, so I cant see how anyone in their right mind would EVER pay that. This past weekend our FL had a special 3 day sale and the diapers were on sale for &7.99 a pack. Still, not a great price. I had two coupons for $3.00 off one bag of Pampers, so I bought two bags. I also had a store coupon for $2.00 off a $15.00 baby purchase (7.99 x 2 = 15.98). So, our Pampers that should have cost $21.98, only cost me a total of $7.98. $14.00 in savings!

I scored a free tube of Colgate Toothpaste, a BIG one too! ADA approved, of course. At Walmart it was $1.50, on sale for $1.00 and I had a $1.00 off Q.

At Toys R Us, there was a big B1G1 half sale on some of my kids favorites, like Littlest Pet Shop and Zhu Zhu Pets. I got 2 Zhu Zhu pets, 2 Zhu Zhu carriers, and 2 Littlest Pet Shops (each with two toys in the pack). I also had a B1G1 Free LPS Q, so of course I got the 1/2 price one for free. All in all not bad, 8 toys for $21.03. {I put them away for Christmas} At regular price, these toys would have been $38.94. Not a super amazing deal, but still a nice savings. I absolutely refuse to pay ffull price for anything!!

All of this for ONE dollar!

As you know, I SO love a deal, so last week Food Lion was a good place for me to be! FL had a deal where if you bought 5 of a certain set of products (mix and match) that you'd save $5.00. Sooo, I looked around and the Bomb Pops (popsicles) caughy my eye! We LOVED these as kids! They were $2.99, but B1G1 free. Also, the Cool Whip, which I do use in recipes from time to time, was on sale for 2/$2.00 or $1.00 each. They are normally $1.89. I ended up buying 3 Bomb Pops and 2 Cool Whips. The normal price for these things would be $12.75. With the in-store savings, these things would be $6.50. With $5.00 off, they were down to $1.50, AND I had a save .50 cents off your next shopping order Q, so my grand total was a cool ONE dollar!! So cool was this deal that I went back the next day and replayed the entire scenario, minus the .50 cent Q so paid $1.50 for the same goods.

For two days of shopping, I could have (but would NEVER) spent $25.50, but I actually only spent $2.50. Thats a WHOPPING savings of 23 BUCKS! These things make me SO happy - like Ive achieved something grrrreat!

PS - I feel it necessary to mention that the Bomb Pops have 12 in each box! ;)

Happy 4th of July!

My newest cake... double layer white with homemade buttercream icing...mmmm... Im certianly not a great decorator, but Im pleased with it!