What can you buy for $20?

At Safeway today my bill started at $98 but I paid only $21. Here's what I bought:

-6 Cheerios

-2 Smart Balance butter 2packs

-2 Whole wheat spagetti

-Velveeta cheese slices

-2 boxes whole wheat waffuls

- box of mandarins

- trash bags

- Green giant frozen veggies

- 2 cans olives

- 2 cans Progresso soup

- bag pancake mix

- Joshua picked some ice cream for his birthday - it wasn't on sale & I didn't have a coupon so it alone cost $4.99.

22 items for $21

Good Deal!

I am a fanatic about saving money & gettting things for free. I just came from Target & got 4 Glade apple cinnamon scented oil candles for free. So I'm passing this on to anyone who reads my blog before the sale is over. You should be able to print 2 B1G1 coupons here http://print.coupons.com/couponweb/Offers.aspx?pid=13927&zid=ym31&nid=10 and here http://www.glade.com/offers.aspx?offerId=102

Take these to Target and buy 4 of the holiday Glade scented oil candles on sale for $2.50 each so that's a total of $5 for the 4 candles. When you purchase them at the register they give you a $5 gift card for buying 4. So they pay for themselves. Actually they do more than that because each one also has a B1G1 & a $2 off coupon inside the box. I love to find deals like these & hope it works for someone else also. And they smell great too.

Haircuts!

The boys were getting very shaggy so they all got a "Dad's special" haircut.

Here's a glimpse at what the boys will look like in 60 years.

They seem pretty happy about it.

New Camera

The kids took turns taking pictures of each other with my camera.

I think the flash may be a bit brighter than the other because many pictures turned out like this...

All of the kids have colds right now so we have spent the majority of our time indoors this week.

Another Birthday

Another year, gone... We had a great time going back to Rifle Falls with Kelly. We brought a couple flashlights and really were able to explore some of the limestone caves. The pictures inside the caves didn't turn out but here's some that did. Also check out our online album for more pictures. It was nice to let Kelly take over for the day. He got me a new camera also, which I am very excited about. I'll try not to loose this one. Kelly, making me very thankful we have life insurance.

Grandpa & Grandma visit

We were able to do many fun things while Grandpa & Grandma where visiting. In 3 days we went to the park, the fish "patchery" (as Nathaniel calls it), a corn maze, Rifle Falls, a great pumpkin patch & Grizzly Creek - just to name a few. It was a challenge for Grandpa, as he would prefer outings to not be so spontaneous, but he did wonderfully. I only got pictures of Rifle Falls & the pumpkin patch.









There are great caves that the kids really would like to explore some more.











Which is the older brother?