Oh how I love me some bargain shopping!

If there's one thing I love, it's a great sale. Doesn't matter if it's shoes, clothing or groceries.....if I can score a good deal it makes me giddy!

Smith's, one of our local chain grocery stores was having a most incredible sale. I'd never do my regular shopping at Smiths, but I tell you what...I almost ALWAYS buy my meat there as well as their sale items, because if you stock up when the meats and other items are on sale, you can save soooooooooooooooooooooo much money, and with a family of 7 and only one real income, you gotta make that dollar stretch!

I was so excited about last nights scores that I had to actually take a photo of it. Here we have:

6 boxes of cereal - $1 each
15 Lean Cuisine Frozen Dinners - $1.50 each
1 big roll of Brawny paper towel $1.00 (I'd have definitely bought more but they were out!)
8 bottles of apple juice - $1.00 each
6 boxes of Betty Crocker fruit snacks $1.50 each
2 bottles of Cattleman's BBQ sauce - $1.00 each
6 tubs of Huggies baby wipes - $2.00 each
4 - 3 packs of Irish Spring soap - $1.00 each
2 bottles of Clorox Bleach - $1.00 each
5 bottles of Softsoap hand soap - $1.00 each
5 bottles of Clorox disenfecting wipes - $1.50 each
3 boxes of Ghiradelli Brownie mix - $1.50 each
4 bottles of Lysol all purpose cleaner - $1.50 each
5 bottles of Lysol Toilet Bowl Cleaner - $1.50 each
3 bottles of Welch's Squeezable Grape Jelly - $1.50 each
2 boxes of Sunshine Cheezit's - $1.50 each
6 - 12 pack boxes of Hunt's Pudding packs - $2.00 each
2 bottles of Softscrub sink cleaner - $2.00 each
5 bottles of Suavitel Fabric Softener (My favorite!) - $2.00 each
1 box of Hostess Cupcakes (Blech - Tess' treat for helping me shop)
6 - 8oz packages of shredded cheese - $1.50 each
Bananas & Apples - I can't remember how much they were.

In total guess how much I spent....

Take a wild, wild guess.....

For all of that I spent $157.22!

My savings were $152.52. Can you believe that! My savings were nearly 50%.

Gosh I love me a good bargain!

Lee Family Video Portrait

Picture {not so} Perfect!

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH! So I had this great time taking photos of the kids today, and for the millionth time, I've royally screwed up my settings and ended up with a bunch of so-so photos, a bunch of useless photos yet thankfully a handful of decent photos. You would think after time and time again of ending up with what could have been perfect photos, that I would think to check my settings. Well, ummmmm....nope, I don't. I must have had something jacked up from when I took some firework photos. Sheesh....I should just learn to shoot with auto! HA HA! I guess it's a good thing that nobody actually pays me to take photos, cause I think I'd have a lot of unhappy customers!

Anyhow, here are a few of my favorites from the day. I can't believe how big my kids are getting. I must be getting old!

Oh and for kicks, here is one of me and T that Bryan took for us. Again, jacked up settings, so Tracey is washed out, and I just love how I look about 5 mos. prego, but all in all....not a bad photo. Thanks Bryan!!!

Enjoy!

Random thoughts for today...

* I really hate mowing our lawn. Really. Our lawnmower sucks total shiz but I can't be bothered to spend money on a new one.
* I wonder how far I ran this morning. I'm kind of scared that I have my big run in 2 weeks.
* I love my husband, and I'm so grateful for all he does....including getting my fat hiney outta bed in the morning to go running.
* So much to do today....so much to do. Gotta finish putting the sexy in the house before David & Marcianne come over. I know it doesn't really matter, but it's kind of nice to have the push to get odds and ends finished up.
* Poor bubba...why does he have a cold. Oh yea...cause the girls'' friends came over with their nasty colds and couldn't keep their hands off of the baby.
* What kind of salad am I going to make?

Sometimes being a mom requires some creativity!

Wow...sometimes being a mom is challenging. Especially when it comes to fickle eaters. Some days Aaron loves a sandwich. Some days he does not. Some days it's the only choice for food cause I haven't been shopping in awhile, or I HAVE just been shopping and the vultures think that if they don't eat the good stuff right away, they aren't going to get any. Well, this just so happened to be one of those "you'd better eat a sandwich or you're going to be hungry" kind of days.

Boy oh boy was I met with some moans and groans.....UNTIL.....(insert little boy humor here)....we decided to make "Dinosaur Pee Poo sandwiches". That's right, peanut butter is a great substitute for dinosaur poo and honey surely makes a great substitute for dinosaur pee. What makes it even better is when you are making the sandwich and hold the honey behind the toy dinosaur when your squeezing it onto the bread and include really great sound effects as well!

Yeah....what I do to get a kid to eat! I just didn't bargain for having to eat the sandwich like a dog!

A funny little Aaron-ism...

I tell ya...this boy kills me. The things he comes up with just keep me giggling. I always thought he was going to be this totally serious and shy kid, but we can't go anywhere without him making conversation with someone walking down the street or a cashier or a kid at the park. Even at the movies yesterday he was all excited when some 13 year old ish boy sat next to him. Anyhow, here is a page about one of his funny little thought processes. I have to say...the kid is kinda clever! Click on the photo if you want to read the journaling!

Have a great day!

Dude...what happened to you?

Poor Aaron....he got bit by a mosquito on his face. Again. And again. And again. Well actually, the entire right side of his body was attacked for some odd reason. The poor kid honest to goodness looks like a dog with fleas, sitting there scratching away, from the top of his head clear down to his right foot. He thinks he looks funny. I think he looks like he got punched in the eye. Ahhhhhh.....the not so pleasant perks of summer.