Grocery savings

Its been a while since I have posted about my grocery adventures. I am not able to spend a day going to all of the grocery stores very much. Last night, late last night, I was able to get to Smiths to take advantage of their sale. This is a sampling of what I was able to get.

Ziplock vacuum starter kit
2 Snuggle fabric softner
Downy ball
14 cans of Carnation evaporated milk .49 each
8 boxes of tylenol
4 coffee mate creamer--Its for hot chocolate..mmmm yummmy...
2 packages of Keebler Cookies
2 loaves of bread
5 packages of cream cheese

Before sales and coupons: $111.52
Actual amount paid: $35.70
It was a lot of fun and it was really fun to watch the numbers keep going down. With Christmas coming right around the corner, we need to save every penny we can!

Happy day after Halloween!

Ugh...no more candy! I'm not even eating it but I'm SO tired of it everywhere! Well..correction..I'm tired of the wrappers everywhere! Thankfully, my boys detected my disdain and they cleaned up those wrappers. It was a fun quiet evening. The boys and I hung out, had pizza, and watched movies. This was the first year that I let the older boys go out on their own.




Luke was..no not a character from Star Wars..but he was..Hamlet! Ok so we've been reading a lot of Shakespeare lately. When people asked him " So what are you suppose to be?" he would reply " To be or not to be...that is the question!"

James was the evil Darth Vader! Ok he wasn't very evil, he was probably the first sweet Vader, but he still had fun.


Ben was O-B-1-Kanobe...yeah I don't know how to spell that one..lol..



I made this robe for Cory 3 or 4 years ago. Every Halloween since the first thing he says when he wakes up on Halloween is" "Woo hoo! Today I get to dress up as a Jedi!" It makes my day every time!


Mark and myself didn't dress up. Normal was scary enough.

9 months old!!

Marky Mark is 9 months old!! He is already crawling around pretty fast and he really loving food. Cheerios seem to be his favorite.

Summitt

Another Summitt was last week. My boys had a great time! Luke has been practicing his sword fighting skills A LOT this last year.--Thanks Uncle James for those lessons! His practice paid off since he WON to be the Queen's Champion. They successfully defended the kingdom and were COMPLETELY worn out by the end of the day. I was even able to be involved and share a couple of storied from my family history--thanks Dad!






Rising of the flag in the morning. They also did a marching demonstration.


Luke in the championship showdown.

Yeah! He won!

Here he is being named Queen's champion!


And the battle ensues!!

It is up to the queen's champion to defeat the dark knight after he is captured by the other brave knights.



The victory parade!!

Sir James



Sir Luke


Love you boys!

Its a wedding!!

Last week a "friend" of mine asked me to help her out. She had been asked to decorate for a last minute wedding reception. And since I can never turn down a good adventure, we went at it!

This afternoon was the big day for Tana and Clint. Thank you everyone that helped out!!! We begged and borrowed a lot but it was the only way we could have done it. THANK YOU!

Here is what we finally came up with.



The happy couple!! Congratulations Tana and Clint!!

We attempted to do a music theme. After much trial and error this is the centerpiece. We rolled up music and tied them with ribbon. Then we placed some garland around them and the flowers that Tana made. SO inexpensive but the most talked about item of the day!!


A little closer view of the music.

This was obviously before we cleaned up...how embarrassing... a FABULOUS gal in the ward donated the wood for this sign and another FABULOUS gal made it so PERFECT! It fit right into the theme of music. THANKS KENDRA AND KERI!! They LOVED it!!

The quilt that Tana and her grandmother made. It was BEAUTIFUL!! On it was embroidered a picture of the St.George temple along with Tana and Clint's name.

Close up of the back drop.

Random

A few random happenings....




Mark is learning to pull himself onto furniture....



















...and fall down.
He is now 8 months old! Wowzers!





















Luke recieved his second class and a bunch of merit badges
























He then ran home from the church since he is working on his physical fitness merit badge.





















We went to the corn maze and got really really lost. After a couple of hours we finally emerged. We were the last ones out of the maze


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Mark chilled in the stroller.


The older boys were waiting at the farm for us. Ben found a cob of corn that became his best friend.



































He wouldn't put it down. And I'm to lazy to make the picture upright so just tilt your head.
Ahh he finally did put down the corn!! But he has it now on top of our piano with our pumpkin..he loves that sweet corn.

THEY SAY ITS YOUR BIRTHDAY!

Today is the birthday of my sweetie.
So, in honor of your birthday, Cory, I thought I'd share a few pictures of my cutie with the world. :-)

This will prove to everyone that, yes, he really is the cutest out there and that our kids really do look like him even though many people say that they look like me. :-) --ohh look two happy faces in one post. Happy day!
Happy birthday Cory!!
I love you more each day!






















This picture shows his happy self so well!! I love it!







This was Cory's 19th birthday just before his mission. I think he opened popcorn or something like that.






This one was just as he came off of the plane from his mission. Isn't that an AWESOME tie! hahahahah