Zach, etc

Meet Zach.

We walk Zach every Tuesday for his owner. She has been sick and the entire neighborhood pitches in and takes a day to walk Zach. Zach is that lovely of a dog.

When we first moved here, Maddie and Steitler introduced themselves to each animal that walked by our house. We were confused at first about Zach; he had a different human with him each time we saw him. After sleuthing around and filtering through neighborly gossip, we discovered that there was a schedule for Zach-walking. We contacted the schedule-maker and she kindly added us, first as emergency back-up walkers and then we got a day. Maddie and Steitler were thrilled! So, Tuesdays we walk Zach, morning and afternoon. He is just as cute in person, I promise.

I added this picture just because. It is my new favorite picture of Maddie.

Tigerville, SC

Kds with El and Esh at the Tingle's house in Tigerville

Lovely view, lovely children

Coupon Fun

A. Publix: $9.30 for everything pictured - total savings of $37.23

7 boxes of Luigi's Italian Ice Cups:
reg. price: $2.99
B1G1 free this week
coupon for $0.50 each box
Since the boxes were B1G1 free, each box was $1.49.
Publix doubles coupons up to $0.50, so my coupon was good for $1 off
I paid $0.49 for each box.

2 boxes of Captain Crunch:
reg. price: $4.49
B1G1 free this week
coupon for $0.50 off each box
I paid $1.24 for each box

3 Heluva Good dips:
reg. price: $2.00
B1G1 free this week
coupon for $1.00 off each dip
These were free!

1 bag of Bagel Crisps:
reg. price: $2.69
B1G1 free this week
coupon for $0.50 off one bag
I paid $0.35 for one bag

2 packages of Oscar Mayer beef hotdogs:
reg. price: $3.99
B1G1 free this week
coupon for $1.00 off 2
I paid $1.50 for each one

B. The next pictures show my Ingles finds for this week.

I purchased:

12 Lipton Family Tea Bags (24 pack) for $0.44 each
4 Wacky Mac pasta bags for $0.18 each
12 Weber Marinade packets for FREE
8 Ken's Steakhouse 8oz. salad dressing for $0.47 each
18 cans of Texas Pete hotdog chili for $0.16 each

My total was: $17.00
My savings were: $53.38

C. Publix

12 bottles of Sweet Bay Ray's BBQ Sauce for $0.70 each

6 boxes of Lipton To Go for $1.00 each

3 bags of Chex Mix (not pictured) for $0.70 each

D. Bilo and Target:

French's Mstard and Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce: $1.39

I had a $1.00 off coupon

paid $0.39 for both mustards!

Gulden's Spicy Mustard: $2.59

on sale for $1.25

B1G1 free coupon

paid $1.25 for both

Previously I never saved enough with coupons to bother with the hassle of coupons. I could buy the generic at Wal-Mart and still come out cheaper than I would at Kroger with a coupon.

As it turns out, I was missing 2 key components to the coupon game:

1. Store sales

2. Double coupons

We now have several grocery store choices in just a few miles so I decided I would try out couponing. I have been slowly stocking up on coupons and getting tips from friends and this week I tried out extreme couponing.

I spend around an hour on Sundays clipping coupons from 6 newspapers. I spend around 20 minutes reading the sale ads on Sundays and Wednesdays.

Pictures

Pictures I found on my phone today.

We saw this car in the parking lot the other day. It is not ours. How funny is the "Granny?!"

Alvin and the Chipmunks (or as the kids say "Chick-munks" - the Squeak-el

Check it

A new project : Everyday Blink

Star Wars, of course

Spring Break 2010

July 09

Heart. Break. (x2)

Weekend

Six

FYI

If you are looking for a fun weekend away in the Florida sun, check this out.

8 - 9

Back

2010.
It has officially been over a year since I last posted anything here. Life was busy, hectic, crazy last spring. According to the last post, the kids were playing intermural basketball (and Steitler's hair was floppy) a year ago this month. Just a year ago, feels like another life, another lifetime.

I miss keeping a journal of our days here and I find myself with the time to catch up on the memory keeping. So, here we go. 2010.

February - March

End of the basketball season...

Dr.Seuss Day at school - Kevin, Katie, Steitler, Mr Martin, and Maddie

We have had a busy few weeks. Basketball is over and we are heading into soccer season. The weather was wretched the last part of Feb into the beginning of March but this week has brought 60 degree temperatures and signs of Spring!

Hey Jude

2700

We currently live at an elevation of approx. 2700 feet which explains why we are home today for yet another snow day. Due to holidays and snow days, the last full (5 days) week of school for the kids was the week before Thanksgiving. In November. On the plus side, the ski resorts are having a great year!

The school book fair was last week and we had the most sales of any WV school. It was a long week - even with MLK Day on Mon. and 2hr delays on Tuesday and Wednesday. Maddie and Steitler wrapped up basketball practice and their games would have started today.

On a hilarious note...Maddie's Girl Scout troop has a new leader. Guess who?! Yes, I officially registered as a Girl Scout(at 30) and started my leader training yesterday. I know, laugh it up.

Getcha' Head In The Game

Okay, I have heard you! Here's to a new year of blogging.

Our new year has started off busy as usual. The kids started school on Monday the 5th and promptly had a snow day on Thursday, Jan 8th. And today, we have a 2hr delay beacuse of the snow that fell last night. I had to drive home from work last night while it was snowing and it was 15 degrees outside which also made the roads a bit slick but I managed to make it home in 50 minutes (usually takes 15) with no problems...until I turned on our street and the deer (4 - one with antlers and 3 whom I can only assume are his harem) who wait patiently in the cold for me to come home darted out across the road and startled me so that I almost ran in to the ditch. I should have seen it coming, they are waiting for me nearly every night.

Maddie and Steitler started basketball yesterday. They are both excited about the season.

My computer is having some technical problems so I will try to upload some pictures this weekend. Thanks for asking about us and wanting updates!

Away

We are busy this fall! The kids are doing great in school and have adjusted well to 2nd and 1st grade. Maddie enjoys "mountain language arts" and Steitler enjoys "music and recess." They started Awanas in September and are doing a great job memorizing their verses. Maddie started Girl Scouts -Brownies- last week and is very excited about that adventure.

Posting takes so long here on Blogger so please join Facebook to catch up on us weekly. I will try to link to pictures from here more routinely!

October Fun can be found here. And here.

September can be reviewed here.

Some more from August can be found here.

NY Trip

We had a fabulous time in New York!

Click herefor the first set of NY pictures.

Click here for the second set of NY pictures.

Click here for the third set of NY pictures.

Dog Days