Happy Birthday David!!!

Today is David's birthday!! Happy Birthday sweetie!! Today he is......29 years old! (little three amigos action going on LOL).

He said he just wanted a little birthday. Nothing super big. So that's what I did.

See....







Here is the cake. LOL the frosting recipe didn't make enough to cover the whole cake! I was pretty ticked off about it for a bit, but now, it's funny. And I can't show you the other side of it because a certain little blue eyed boy snatched a handful of the cake while momma wasn't looking.....


Here is the birthday boy opening his gifts. Jake and I went to Walmart yesterday so he could get a gift for Dave. LOL it was very cute. He even picked out the pumpkin bag.






It was one of those gifts with an alterior motive...it was a party bag full of bubbles. So Jake's idea was that they both could play together..






Steven gave daddy some nuts and dried mangos.



There is no explanation, all I can tell you is that he has made me laugh every single day for the past 5 years. So, carry on my crazy husband!




And now for my gift. It was something that has been on Daves Christmas and Birthday list for a long time. I got him direct TV With some NFL pkg thingy. It was such a great deal, I decided if it was going to happen it might as well be while this awesome promo was happening. I have been prolonging the cable TV for two reasons. The 1st reason is Because I don't like extra bills. I don't like the thought of paying for TV when you can get the local channels for free. But I figured with our energy bill now cut in half (was only $100 this month! Oh yay!), we could splurge a little.
And the 2nd reason, we have a small TV. And you just know, when he starts watching all that football on the small TV, he is going to start thinking about buying himself a new one. So I bet we will have a new one by the end of the year. Which I guess is a good thing because our old TV is starting to have those white lines when you watch tv....ok, fine. It's time for a new TV. There I said it.





Jake got a little excited and blew out the candles for daddy...





Let's try that again...



There we go!



The cake was great despite there being no frosting on the sides.


And the boys had fun playing with Dave's new toy...







The End.

In the mailbox!

We had a late start this morning. So we were just getting back from our morning walk/pretend run when George our friendly mailman was delivering our mail. And there were a bunch of goodies in there this morning!

See....




Two coupons for FREE M&M's from playing the sweeps game.
P&G back to school rebate $10.00
Ebates check for $6.30 (you REALLY should sign up for Ebates if you do a lot of online shopping!)

And 20 post it note coupons from Ebay. I'm going to try and grab a few more. I KNOW I already have like 30 of these, but free is free.

Well that's all for now. Tallie just left for Utah this morning, David's birthday is tomorrow so I better get busy!!

Tallie!!!

My cute little sister Tallie has been here visiting us!! It's been a lot of fun having her....

Here is the only picture I took with my camera






Tallie has lots more pictures on her camera, but she doesn't have a cord so we can't download them right now.

I had so many fun plans! We were going to go to the beach, the outlet malls, Mcallen. But of course she came down here the ONE week it has been raining nonstop. So we have just been doing a little shopping, catching up, cooking and enjoying each others company. Can I just tell you how nice it's been having help with the boys?! I may not let her go home tomorrow.

So here is a recap of the two trips I've made this week

First, Walmart


Sweet Tallie watched out crazy kids while Dave and I went out grocery shopping. It was VERY nice. I can't remeber the last time Dave and I went grocery shopping alone. Or anywhere alone for that matter...

The Seventh Gen wipes were on clearance for $2.50 ea and I had a B1G1 free coupon
The Burts Bees chapstick was on clearance for $0.25ea! Awesome!
The Febreze kits were on rollback for $6.00! These normally are $12.97! AND I had a $4.00 coupon so they were $2.00ea!

Then I ran to CVS with Tallie for some free lipstick



Tallie needed a curling iron for her hair, so with that purchase I was able to use a $5/25 coupon and get the cereal for free. Then the lipsticks went like this:
$6.99ea
-$5 RR
-$2 manu coupon
= FREE
Awesome!


Well that's all for now! Tallie is leaving tomorrow (sad!) so I'm going to get back to spending time with her.

Finishing the shopping

On Friday I got my post it and milano cookie coupons I have been waiting for! So I ran to the Harlingen Walmart really quick that night to grab the post its before they ran out. Walmart already has all their school supplies on clearance so it's a great time to stock up for next year!!

So here are the results of my trip....



Backing up for just one minute, I also received my rebate money for the Shick razor I purchased at CVS a few weeks ago! So I had $8.97 to use towards this cookie purchase.

This week at CVS the milano cookies are a buck each. So I went ahead and purchased 20 $0.60 off any pepperidge cookie coupon from Ebay. Then I just had Walmart price match the CVS ad, making the cookies $0.40ea!!

The post it notes are $1.00 ea and there is a $1.00 manu coupon (bought it from Ebay again) so they were FREE! We won't need post it notes again for a LONG time.

My total was $4.00 exactly.
Used rebate money = $0.00 OFP
Saved $38.80!! Awesome! Dave LOVES these cookies

Oh, and I also found this craft kit for $3.00! I thought that this would be great for school time projects!




Then we went back to Walmart again today. And I had to bring the kiddos with me because Dave is out of town this weekend. So it's just me and the kids. Which if you know my kids, they HATE to shop. Hate it. So I was prepared for a fight. But do you know what? My kids were great! "My" kids. I was shocked. There were no tantrums. No fighting. No begging for toys. They even let me look at the clearance section for a while! I can honestly say that was the best shopping experience I have EVER had with my boys.
Ok, back to the shopping part


I grabbed 10 more milano cookies total $4.00 used the rest of the rebate money so $0.00 OFP and saved $18.80!
The note pads were on clearance for $0.25ea!
The kid scissors were on clearance for $.023ea!
The glade candles were $2.33ea and I had a $1.50 coupon
The Wonka chocolate bag was $2.97 and I had a $1.50 coupon
The organic carrots are $0.88ea and I had a $2/2 coupon so I got 3 bags for $0.74! Nice!


Then I thought to myself: "Self, since the kids are being so great, why not run on over to Hobby Lobby and grab some fall decorations like you've been wanting to do". So I did. And you know what? The kids were great again! By this time I was ready to leave the store crying. Not because my kids were being awful (which is usually the reason I leave the store crying), but because I didn't know what the heck was going on and it was starting to freak me out!


So then we ran over to Walgreens because there was some vanilla NyQuill (doesn't sound very good I know) that you could get for free this week....



They were out of the NyQuil, but I did find these Ducolax Balance priced at $6.99 and I had 2 $8.00 coupons making $1.00 profit! Which I used towards the Lysol no touch soap refill. So my OFP was $1.97 and I saved $17.64!



Sigh! All that shopping made me tired. And made this boy thirsty apparently! The little stinker climbed onto the table to reach my soda. I figured he had worked pretty hard to get up there, so I let him have a sip...

Another random video

This one took all morning to upload! LOL Jake looks like an aerobic instructor.

Enjoy!

Random Videos

Here are some random videos of the boys I took and forgot to upload.

Enjoy!

Shopping this week

It has been an AWESOME WEEK for shopping! And I hope it gets even more AWESOMER (?) when I get my milano cookie coupons!

Here is a recap of the week so far....

First was CVS



Trans #1
$1 oreos x 4
$0.74 Vlasic pickles
$5.99 Tylenol precise pain
$9.99 Alive Vits
After $4/20 store coupon and manu coupons I paid $10.17 (I paid for the vits only) and received $12.00 RR back!
Saved $19.76

Trans #2
$22.99 Osteo Bi Flex B1G1 free sale
- 2 $5 manu coupons
- $12RR
= $1 OFP!
Saved $44.98!!
Woo Hoo! I was super pumped to get Daves Bi Flex for $0.50ea!!

Until.....I went to HEB that is...



Guess what I found in the clearance section? A 2 pk of Bi Flex on clearance for $5.00!!! Are you kidding me?! And guess what I had? A $5.00 manu coupon making them completely FREE! I am happy that we have Daves medicine for the next 6 months, but I'm so sad about using my hard earned RR at CVS. Oh well, live and learn.
Oh, and the sweedish fish was an awesome deal. They were on clearance for $1 ea and I had a $4.00 off when you buy 6 coupon so I got them for $0.25 a pack! I didn't have coupons for the salsa, but it's Daves favorite, so I got a couple.
Spent $4.34
Saved $44.32!!

And since I forgot to do Coupon Tuesday yesterday, I thought I'd share a tip with yall...you ready? Go for guy cashiers. Wait, that sounds funny. What I mean is, when you are getting ready to get in a checkout lane, get in one with a guy cashier. They are so easy to work with when you have a lot of coupons. I don't know why, they just are. Girls sometimes can get sassy and they tend to think that because you are paying $0.25 for your shampoo you are doing something wrong. Guys, they just don't care. So there you have it. Go for guy cashiers LOL.

I still have to run to Target and Walmart later this week. I'm trying to wait for my cookie coupons to get here so I can scoop up that deal along with my other shopping.

-Leah