Shopping this week & our Christmas Tree

Shopping this week was pretty good. I had to make a few trips to Target, but that's ok because I LOVE Target!

First trip to Target

The jammies are on clearance $6.48ea! AND I have a $10/3 coupon which makes them out to be $3.14 ea! Awesome!
The candles were free with the $3 any airwick coupon
The dog food was free
The wipes were $0.65ea
The tide stain release were $1.99ea which is pretty good. I LOVE these little babies. They get out all the dirt and food stains the boys get on their shirts.

I also grabbed a couple bags of mint M&Ms because they were on sale for $4.49ea. If you haven't tried these, you need to. They are SO good! I had a $5 off $50 coupon so since my total was over $50 before coupons I was able to apply the $5 towards a bag of M&Ms. So it was "like" I paid for 1 bag!
Spent a little over $20 (I also got some Christmas gifts I can't show ya)
Saved $91.63!

My 2nd Target trip

I got more Airwick candles for free
The cat snacks are on sale for $0.89ea and I had a $2/2 coupon so I actually made a "profit" of $0.11 per bag! for a total profit of $2.20!
I also received another $5 off $50 coupon so since my total was going to be over $50 before coupons I got the movie for FREE! Yay!
Spent $1.74 (I got a toilet cleaner to cover the coupon overage)
Saved $56.00!!

Then I ran to CVS


Not a super hot week at CVS. I just grabbed some paper towels for a couple bucks.

Then I went to Walgreens

Their Ricola cough drops were on sale B1G1 Free! And I had a $.50 wag and a $1/2 coupon making them $0.29 for 2 bags!
Spent a little over $2.76
Saved $43.90! So I got 18 bags of cough drops for a little over the price of one! Sweet!

Then yesterday I had to run back to Target because I got my lysol coupons and it was the last day of the sale.

The lysol wipes were on sale for $1.99ea and I had a $1 manu coupons. So $0.99ea is a great price!
Spent $19.87 (got another Christmas gift I cant show you)
Saved $18.49!

This week we also got out Christmas tree!


Doesn't it look pretty?!

"Christmas Tree Jacket"

Earlier this evening I was putting the tree skirt on the Christmas tree when Jake walked up and said: Oh, I get it. It's like a jacket to keep the tree warm....right?
Me: LOL Jake, don't ever change!
Jake: Thanks, mom. Right back at'cha.
Then he gave me a wink and walked off.......


The End.

Thanksgiving and Black Friday

We postponed Thanksgiving to Saturday for a couple of reasons, because Dave had to work and I figured I'd be running around snatching up black Friday deals. But the real reason I postponed? Because I was waiting for a package. A package my friends, that contained the number one thing I HAVE TO HAVE on Thanksgiving. Green Olives.

They are as much a part of Thanksgiving as the turkey. So when my package arrived on Friday morning I was MORE than thrilled! We had a green light for Turkey celebration!

Green Olives, the world may never understand the relationship Johnson children have with them. But that's ok. I don't need the world to understand. I just need my green olives. Period.


So, we started the day with donuts. Because that's how any good day starts. With a sugar crash....

(1 donut in and Steven is already crashing. Lightweight.)

Then we made these cute little turkeys for the kids

Then we cooked this....

The turkey was especially good this year. Not that I'm bragging or anything. Maybe a little....


I took this picture because I though it looked pretty..or maybe it reminded me of snow....

I LOVE this cranberry sauce. It is the perfect complement to turkey

Then we stuffed our faces!

Here are me and the kiddos post-Thanksgiving
(daddy isn't in the picture because he was asleep on the floor)

After daddy woke up we went SHOPPING!

I got this Thomas train set for $2.50! Originally $25.00! Great price!

I got this AWESOME Yo Gabba Gabba dance party DVD for $5 bucks at Target!

Then we went to Michaels because their ribbon was 70% off! I have to say I was disappointed. I was hoping to stock up big time. But I found only a few that I liked. The basket was 40% off and is perfect for our donation of pet food to the humane society.

While we were in Mcallen we stopped at a furniture outlet and found this...

A TV stand! Woo Hoo! Now Dave could FINALLY put up his new TV. It took us 2.5 hours to put together, but it was worth it.

Oh, and while we were putting together the TV stand we had some pie!

The cheesecake turned out great!

I LOVED the cheesecake! and Dave LOVED the pumpkin pie! So there ya go.

Hope yall had a good turkey day too!!

-Leah

The last of the shopping...until "Black Friday"

There were some pretty great sales this week!! I didn't have time to take advantage of all em' since my teeth were still causing me pain. But I did pretty good!


Here is my Target trip



I had 5 olay coupons left, so I got those

The Leap Tag books were on sale B1G1 FREE! (we decided to get Jake a LeapFrog Tag reading system for Christmas)

The Gerber formula was FREE PLUS $1.65 in overage each! I guess a lot of people have been complaining about Targets registers, so they just allow every coupon to go through without adjusting down! Cool!


My total after coupons was $1.28
Paid with gift card
$0.00 OFP
Saved $78.69!! How awesome is that?!


I'm VERY excited about my donations! I'm just waiting on 2 more things to go on sale, then I will drop it all off.



Today I ran to Walmart for a few last minute turkey items and to get these....

That would be 30 cans of broth! For FREE!!! I LOVE FREE!! FREE FREE FREE! I LOVE the FREE!

Then we had a fun surprise delivered to us!!

OUR NEW TV!!!
We wern't expecting it to be delivered for another two weeks, so we don't have a stand yet. Looks like we will go shopping for one this weekend!
Its a 46" Sony Bravia. I don't know much more than that. Dave could tell ya all about it I'm sure, but not me.
This TV couldn't come at a better time, our old TV (which is 10 years old BTW) is starting to go all these crazy neon colors. So yeah, it was time.

Merry early Christmas to us!!!

Who else is SUPER EXCITED for Thanksgiving?!?!?
We won't be celebrating until Saturday. Dave has to workon Thursday, and I figured I'd be running around like a chicken with my head cut off on Friday, so we postponed until Saturday.

I decided to make two desserts. Both are new recipes and look FABULOUS!

This is a Cranberry Cheesecake! Doesn't it look beautiful?


Second is a pumpkin pie



I already have three frozen homemade pie crusts thanks to Miss Tallie, so these will be pretty easy to make!

I got the fuzzy Holiday feeling in my tummy! Gobble Gobble and Ho Ho Ho!

-Leah

Yard Sale, Shopping, Gerber Party and a Date!!

It was another super busy weekend at the Trowbridge house!! We had a yard sale on Friday and Saturday (made a little over $200!), I had my Gerber party Saturday afternoon, THEN Dave and I went on a DATE! Like without the kids. Like we cut our own food up and not anyone else's! We went to Texas Roadhouse and then we went Christmas shopping. Kind of boring I know, but it was really nice spend time together.

I also managed to get a few shopping trips in all this craziness!



I went to CVS for the THIRD time this week!

I got 14 more Mentos gums (a few were swiped by Jakers)
And I got a few more Loreal lipsticks that were on 75%off!
Spent $0.35!!
Saved $53.74!!

So all in all this week at CVS I spent $0.61 for $194.00 worth of products! BEST.WEEK.AT.CVS.EVER!

Then I ran to Target


The campbells soup was on sale for $0.50ea and I ordered 15 $1/4 coupons from Ebay! So I was going to get 60 cans @ $0.25ea! But, I decided to only use 4 coupons and leave the other 11 on the shelf next to the soup so other families could take advantage of the deal.
The Airwick candles were free
The Kandoo wipes were $0.15
The floss was free
The body wash and secret D.O. were $0.50ea with the $5/1 olay coupon
The glade candles were $1.50ea AND I got a $5 gift card for buying them
The receipt for this trip is in the truck right now, so I cant tell ya how much I spent or saved, but it was a good trip!


THEN on Saturday, I woke up @ 5:30AM to go grocery shopping! It sucked waking up that early, but there was NO ONE at Walmart, so that was nice.


Ok, let me tell ya about this trip
Part of the reason I saved some of the Olay coupons for Walmart is because they will let you keep coupon overage. Which the Gerber formula is $6.24 at Walmart and I have $7 coupons. So $0.76 in overage towards the $0.97 D.O. from buying the Olay body wash is awesome!
So the 6 formulas were FREE (going to my donation)
The Swanson broth is on rollback for $0.50 and I have 15 $1/2 coupons! (still need to get 30 more but I was tired and didn't want to deal with 30 cans of broth. Due to the fact I was shopping @ 5:30AM!)
So after all my coupons I paid $0.74!!
Saved $75.29! Woo Hoo!

I just have a couple of places to go to this week. There aren't a whole lot of deals before "Black Friday".



And here are some pictures of the Gerber Party!




Silly Guy!

This is Miss Lil and her momma Laura



Miss Sofie!

And y'all know this guy!

-Leah