Coupon Deals!!

As a family of 6 you can imagine our grocery bill & regular household items can add up! I have gone back & forth with the idea of coupons. I think I have used them a handful of times if that my entire life. Bens cousins wife had sent me a link to a blog about coupons a few weeks ago, I looked at it once and hadn't returned to it till yesterday! I found out that it was HER blog and she gets help from friends & other bloggers as well. Glad I decided to take the time and check it out when I did. Kmart was having double coupons till today! I decided to do a little looking around and printing of coupons etc. We had to drive to South Lake Tahoe as that is the closest Kmart! Really miss the one I used to work at in Carson! The drive was worth it!! Here is a picture of what I got, I know it doesn't look like much BUT... I should have paid (that is with the sale price, not original prices.. the cost would have been higher) $103!!!!

A quick little run down...

Edge... Reg. price $3.99.. On Sale for $1.99 Coupon for $1 then doubled...

Makes it FREE!!! So we got 4! lol

Natures Source Cleaner .. On Sale for $2.50 .. $1 coupon then doubled...

I paid .50 Cents a bottle!

Fathers Day Gift for Ben.. Norelco Electric Shaver... Reg. Price $64.99 Sale $29.99

All You magazine coupon.. $20! My final Price $9.99!!!

Cutter Mosquito wipes Reg. price $5.27 ... $2 coupon then doubled..

I paid $1.27!

Aveeno face scrub Reg. price $6.50 .. $2 coupon then doubled..

I paid $2.50

Those were my best deals, everything pictured I did have a coupon for. The double coupon only worked for coupons up to $2. Which all my coupons were except the electric razor (can't beat that deal!!)

So my final price for everything pictured was $45!!!! That may seem like still a bit of cash but considering the razor alone would have cost me $20 over my final price I think it was well worth the try & drive to see how this coupon stuff works! :o)

If you would like to check her blog out, she does coupon deals for Kmart, Target & some of the drugstores here is her link!

www.couponclippinmama.com

Birds..

A few weeks ago these 2 little birds decided to make a nest on the eve of our house right in front of the door! They went to the extreme of killing another bird, so we found that poor little guy one morning on our porch with blood splatters. ( I did take a picture but I'll spare you looking at it!) Anyhow.. Ben decided to get a ladder & check the nest out.. 2 eggs!

Birthday Parties.. End of school...

Kelsi had a slumber party on the last day of school, which was last thurs. That was a little tricky getting her there & picked up but she got to go so that was good. She had a good time.

McKena had a water party Saturday afternoon and it rained the whole time. Since it wasn't real cold, they decided the kids were going to be wet anyhow.. so let them still go out & play. They were in the hot tub, on the water slide, had squirt guns, water balloon fights. Was a fun wet party for sure!

Thursday was the last day of school! The girls are officially on summer break. When it starts back up Kaitlyn will be in Kindergarten! We are hoping for the AM class. McKena has the same teacher next year, she is moving up to 2nd grade so all the kids will be staying in the class. She finished with all A's & her reading scores are at a end of second grade level so she is basically a year ahead. Kelsi got all A's & 1 B. she found out her teacher as well, which she thinks is a hard teacher. Kati's teacher will be the same Kindergarten teacher as McKena had, she was great and Kati just loves her.

I uploaded more pictures finally to the fotki site.. www.public.fotki.com/karibird28

Fishing Derby

Saturday was the Annual Fishing Derby, the girls had a great time. Last year we were on the second day, first shift and they took a little while to catch their fish & McKena didn't get her 2 fish limit. So this year we signed up early and chose the first day, first shift. We had to be there at 8 am! I wasn't thinking it was so great when I was getting up at 6 am.. but it turned out to be a good time. The girls all had friends there as well. It started at 8 & we were walking back to the car at 8:45. Kaitlyn once again caught her fish first & also had the biggest fish. Her biggest was 1 lb. 4 oz. McKena had a 1 lb 2 oz as her biggest & poor Kelsi had the smallest 2 fish weighing in at 10 & 14 oz. Sunday we BBQ the fish for dinner, was pretty good for our first time cooking up a fresh catch. :o)

A Month in Review...

Wow.. I can't believe I skipped the whole month of May without a single blog entry! That has never happened in the 2.5 yrs since I started this blog. Here is a quick update to get me back into blogging, since I know summer will bring tons of photo/blog entry opportunities!

Victim Alliance Vigil

Quilt from different victims

Blake BBQ (Kevins house) Terri, Me & Amber

Jim & Sue come up to visit & go to McKena's softball game

Had to share this, my boss made this cake for our Office managers birthday.

I decided to attempt spaghetti noodles from scratch! They were good! Also realized after making the dough that I didn't have a rolling pin! Couldn't find one at the stores here in town so ended up using saran wrap over a baseball bat!! :o)

Our cat had 5 kittens! This was also the morning we headed to CA. to Kevin's BBQ.

The Riggans visit Memorial Day weekend!! They were our neighbors for 3.5 yrs in Germany! They are now stationed in WA, we def. miss them!

The girls have end of year school concerts, I missed McKena's as it was in mid afternoon. Kelsi is bottom row.

I'm sure that May brought tons of more things, but for now.. that is what you get! :o) I plan on uploading more pictures from these events on Fotki at some point & will let you know when so you can have fun wasting time browsing my pictures! hehe