Quick update....

So, having your wisdom teeth removed SUCKS! Like more than I thought it would. Like I'm not going to eat soup again for the rest of the year!

I'm still tired and my teeth still hurt, but we are super busy and there are a TON of awesome sales this week, so I'm just trying to suck it up and get moving on with life.

I have a lot of trips/deals to share with ya, but I promised Dave I would take a nap today, so I'm just going to show you my CVS trip, ok? Ok.

Backing up a bit, I will totally admit that I revolved my wisdom teeth being removed around what pharmacy gift card coupons were available. So I choose to go with the Kmart $10 gift card with any new prescription. But, THEN I found out that CVS will match ANY competitors prescription ads! I'd much rather have money at CVS than Kmart.

So after my surgery I went into CVS with Dave to drop off my prescriptions/make sure they were going to honor the Kmart ads. It took a few hundred phone calls, but finally, the lady at the counter verified they would match the ad!

David used some of the gift card money to pay for my prescriptions (guess I forgot to mention the money was for ME to use), so that left me with around $16 bucks. Still not bad!

So lets break this shopping trip down




Trans #1

Mentos gum is on sale for $0.99ea! I had 20 $1/1 coupons making them FREE (I ordered 20 more for Ebay too! I LOVE free gum)
M&M's were 4/10 and 3RR back. Had 2 $1/2 coupons making them =$1.25ea!

HE hair conditioner $2.99 and 2RR back with a $.50 manu coupon = $.049!

Fiber One bars $3.99 with 3RR back and a $0.50 manu coupon = $0.49!

Total before all my coupons was over $20 bucks so I used the Spend $20 get $4RR coupon in the CVS Christmas catalog!

Total = $15.72

Used gift cards

= $0.00 OFP!
Saved $59.38!!
AND I got $9.00 RR back! So I made a PROFIT of $9 bucks for buying all that! Woo Hoo!

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Huggies Diapers $9.49

Had $5.50 in CVS and manu coupons

Used $4RR
= FREE!
Saved $12.00!!

This was the BEST trip I have had in a long time! And I'm excited to still have 5RR! That will help next week for the Black Friday deals!! Who else is PUMPED about the Black Friday deals?? Did yall see the $7 Wii games at Walmart?!?!

Ok, so I gotta go take my nap now so my husband doesn't get mad at me!

-Leah

Facelift

My good buddy Miss Deb helped me make my blog all festive for fall!!! Whatcha think? I like it! I'm still learning all about this blogging thing, lucky for me I have a smart friend!

So that's it.

-Leah

FHE

For FHE tonight we decided to bake some pumpkin cookies and talk to the boys about being "Thankful". I have been hearing the words "I want" from Jake a lot lately, and I just wanted to remind him that he has an entire room full of toys and doesn't need every toy in the world. That he needs to be thankful for the things he already has.

So anyways, here are some pictures of the boys baking the cookies! Enjoy!

Jake was upset with me, so he didn't want to smile...

But not Steven! That boy LIVES for cookies!

My cutie pie!

Can you tell he was excited about the cookies? He kept swiping handfuls of the cookie dough! Little stinka!

The boys have been fighting A LOT lately, so it was REALLY nice to see them working together. And not punching each other. Or drawing each others blood .....

This is Steven screaming, Cookies! Cookies bubba! Cookies!

Hope you had a great Monday!

-Leah

This week....

Wow! We have had a pretty busy week! I wouldn't remember half of what we did if it weren't written down on my calendar. And the weeks to come are only going to be more hectic!


Shopping was pretty great this week, I couldn't hit all the sales, but I got a few great things!

Lets start with CVS



Spent $28.49 (ouch!)
Saved $182.41!!! (the bayer contour alone was $74.99)

I did a total of 3 transactions, I'm not going to break them down right now, but the highlight was getting Toy Story 3 for $3.99! Another great Christmas gift to cross off my list!

Then I went to Target twice this week

The olay face wash was free
The candles were $0.41ea
The Tide Stain Release were $1.99ea
Spent $6.44
Saved $41.85!

Then I was totally kicking myself for not buying MORE olay. So I went back. But, someone else realized what a good deal it was and took the rest!! Oh well, there will be another sale soon I'm sure.

I did take advantage of this lotion deal while I was there
It was buy any 2 get a $5 gift card! And I had $4 in coupons
The tide and olay soap was free
So I paid $4.67 total (with another target gift card I had) and got a $5 gift card back! A profit of $.33 for buying lotion! Better than paying for it!

But the thing I was most focused on this week was this......




That would be 120 cans of vegetables!!



This week Dollar General has their Libbys veggie cans for $0.45ea! AND there is a $1/3 coupon! So this made them out to be $0.12ea! Can we say stock up price!! I hurried quick like a bunny and ordered 40 coupons from Ebay and just crossed my fingers they would make it here by the end of the week! Lucky for me, they did! I didn't want the hassle of trying to do this deal at Dollar General, they are VERY difficult when it comes to using coupons, and I didn't want to empty their shelves. So what did I do? Why I took their ad over to the store that claims time and time again that they will match ANY competitors price. Walmart. At first the manager didn't want to do it, but I talked him into it, cause I'm just that good!
So all in all I paid $14.00 for 120 cans that would normally cost $81.60!!
Half of this will go to our food storage (that is EVER growing! I'm so excited!) and the other half will go to my Women's Shelter donation. I think we are going to drop everything off at the end of this month. I still have a few more deals I'm waiting on. Here is a picture of what I have so far...

I need to drop all this off so I can get my sewing room back!

And here are some random pics of the boys! Cause I just know you love to look at pictures of them! Can't say I can blame ya, they are super cute kiddos!



This would be marker (not candy like you were thinking) on Stevens face.


Steven couldn't get his jammie top off! So instead of helping him,I just took pictures. Cause I'm nice like that.

Here are the boy coloring some Turkey pictures!





And here are the kiddos enjoying some ice cream! They were even kind enough to share some with the walls and floor! Such sweet boys.




-Leah

Halloween!!!

This weekend was go go go for us!! We had a lot of fun!

Here are some Halloween pictures. Enjoy!