Couponing...

It's pretty fun stuff, especially when you have a Sister in law who's really good at it and clues you in on all the great deals!! Thank you Coca!

Today we ran around and got these great deals:

3lb.s of Turkey breast meat $5 @ Safeway.
Edit: It gets even better, with a -$1 coupon we found tonight we can get it for $4 per 3lb.s!

Sour cream .69 each


Tostitos Chips .99 per bag.
Those were all Safeway deals and a real couponer would probably barely call them deals. But they were savings for us, on things we were already buying so that worked for me.
My favorite of the day tho' was Walgreens,

6 bottles of shampoo (that I love)
2 - 6 pks of Dove bar soap for $2.25
+ $5 to spend in store on something else another time!
That's more like a couponers deal! ;)

These were a decent deal at Freddy's, Organic Blue Corn Chips for 2.99. Better than the 4.99 per bag they were asking.

Dole canned Pinapple for .70 a can, worked for me @ Winco.

But here's another true couponers deal. We went into Albertsons last night with coupons and double coupons and walked out with 4 boxes of WW pasta and 2 - 3pks of juice for FREE! This is not stealing, it's called couponing! And it's still a little crazy for me that you can actually do this!

This was tonight's steal of a deal, Hershey's Dark chocolate chips for $1.10 per bag since we had some Catalina's (in store credit) to use up. If you want to learn more about it check out this site.

There's many more like it around the NW if you do some snooping. It takes time but they do half the work of matching deals and telling you were to find them! Pretty crazy stuff, but it's sure fun to watch the register numbers turn from XXX amount of dollars to 000's or close!!

Week S

We have been taking it a little slower the last two weeks and sort of meandering through S and T. The week of S we found out this in the basement:

The tile shower was never sealed properly so the entire frame and walls surrounding are rotted out. Blah, so that's our newest project. But, we did do and see some S things that week.

Mr Squirrel who is a regular visitor to our back yard,

And our roof top.

It also was Grandpa and Mr. Tech's birthday so we got to go to The Outback Steakhouse for birthdays. Phi got his own Steak since we got free kids meals for any adult entree. Phi loves his Steak and actually ate this entire thing...of course it could also be that it's the A1 sauce that he's addicted to, I'm not sure. :)

Sillyness..

in Suits,

for a Sertain wedding.. ;P
(we found them all on sale at the Burlington Factory Store. Yahoo!)

Aunt Susie was a great S person.

For some silly times as well.

The weather was once again helpful as we had Sunshine!

For a few days anyway, on one of them we headed out on a walk,

Where we Saw Some S's.

And some Spring time!!!

And raided a Squirrels hidy hole.

Incidentally, the Mr. and Chatty came down that weekend and we went up to Timberline for some Snowboarding! We haven't been in 3 yrs, me since our honeymoon and Mr . Tech since just before Phi was born. It was a blast and the weather was perfect!! Phi didn't get to go along but he did get to see the Snowboards and pictures of the Snow.

Our beautiful day.

And we got some Seeds to play with. It amazes me how long these will entertain them for.

It does require a good sweep of the kitchen once they are done as the seeds tend to bounce around on our counter. But the entertainment it affords is worth it.

Our verse was: Fear ye not, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord... Exodus 14:13

Animals: Seals, Sea lions, Seagulls.

Songs: "Safe am I", and "Salvation is a big word".

Bible stories: Saul whose name was changed to Paul. And Phi became fascinated with Solomon and wanted to read about him every day.

So that was a little of our S week See ya next Time. :)

Week Rrrrrr..

So it was actually two weeks ago we encountered this letter in R trek along the alphabet. At that point the house looked something like this, therefore so did my mind, but we still managed to get R into our lives.

The weather helped, it Rained most the week

So we Ran in the Rain. (which happened to be after dark, sorry.)

We made Rice.

In our Rice cooker.

We saw a River.

And found R's wherever we could. This one's from the Old Spaghetti Factory where we went to find...

Salad, not really that just came with their meal. The waitress offered salad or applesauce for them and when I said salad she looked very skeptical, which is understandable. For whatever reason these little men love salad, don't ask me why.

So the Real Reason for coming here was Ravioli.

It was spinach and cheese but he actually liked it.

We wanted to Ride bikes. (but it Rained)

We had Raisins, Rice Krispies, and Rice.

We read about Ruth. Which Phi enjoyed very much and kept wanting to read more once we'd finished the book.

Our verse was: Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth. Eccl. 12:1

We found a very cool rooster crow on youtube. Also checked out Rattlesnake and Rat.

We Rocked in our Rocking Chair.

Played with our Race Cars, and Rocks.

Drove on the Road.

Played with Grandpa's Rope.

Phi thought it was cool that it was A. Ruth's letter. He also enjoyed writing it since it's so close to his P. I told him to make a P and then give it a leg in the front so it could walk. :)

So we Ran through week R and Slid in to week S.