Happy Memorial Day

In memory of a husband, friend, brother, & son who is depolyed across the veil.
...We Love You Jamie...

Graduation

My lil sissy graduated. 2010. Me. Cass. MomFriends in front of Red Mountain
Mom. Me. Cass. Dad
James was there too. Mocking Cass for trying to find her friends.

Happy Birthday

Once upon a time there was a mommy and a daddy who had a little baby named Sadie......then she turned 2!...
...cake...
...new kitchen...
...homemade banner...
it was a perfect birthday

Gila Valley Temple

Tania, Lashley, Sadie, and I drove to the Gila Valley Temple last week. It was a lot of fun to hang out with them (my hubby had to study so couldn't come with us).
The inside of the temple was so beautiful. Tania and I were impressed with how modern the interior design was. The fabrics were so pretty.

As we were driving home, Tania and I spotted this neat rustic spot. We stopped to take pictures.


Love you guys. Thanks for being so understanding of my "issues," hehe.

Photo{graphy}-practice-

My best friend Tania (visit her blog) invited me to tag along to her photo shoots with her so I could get some practice in, which I needed!


I got a lot of good pictures.
These are just some of my favorites


This first set is of Elna and Michael

Second. The Tidwell family.

...That's All For Now...

onesie and booties

My friend Heather had her baby shower this past weekend and before I even received the invitation in the mail I was already working on her little gift. The onesie turned out adorable! I'm in love with it. The crocheted booties on the other hand were a nightmare. Easy to do, but hard to get two of them to match! However, I finally ended up with two little booties cute enough to wrap.



Isn't my gift box so cute? I wrapped it with scrapbook paper and jute. Awww..

I'll be taking orders for booties....(in the future)....

Another Round of Deals

James and I shopped for 5 hours today. 6 grocery stores and a few other stops. Crazy right?

1st: Sams club (no special deals)

2nd: Sunflower only got three things, but the artichokes were $0.97, good deal.

3rd: Frys (this could potentially be a long story, but I'll spare you) Strawberries $0.88, and a few other things

4th: Safeway (and the deals begin....)
-Delimex Taquitos (Safeway coupon - manufacture coupon=$3.99, originally$9.99)
-buy 5 kraft cheese products get $5 off...so I bought 5 of the new cream cheese mini's and used 5 $0.55 blinky coupons so Safeway actually owed be $0.30 for that purchase
-4 Windex bottles for FREE. Buy 4 at $1.99 each, had a $1.00 of coupon for each, received $4 in Catalina (the coupons that print out by the register for me to use on the next purchase)
-Also got grapes $0.99
-lunch meat (on sale-coupon)
-2 bags of salad $0.99each

So in the end I paid $13.20 for all this then I got the $4 to use next purchase. I saved 76%!!!

--bored yet?--

5th: Albertsons
-Lays potato chip ($2.88 each - B1G1 coupon)
-4 boxes of mini wheats (2/$6, coupon on box for $1 off, plus manufacture coupons for $1 and $1.50 0ff. They ended up being less than $1 a box!)
-Albertson's 10items for $10 on everything else you see in the picture below but let me tell you about that simply lemonade. The 10 for 10 was on Simply OJ, but they were all out so I asked some random stocking guy if they are going to stock anymore and he said no they are all out. So I asked, "does Albertson's trade similar products for ones that are out" and the man responded "yeah I can do that for you. If they give you any problems tell them Rob said it was okay." (Rob ended up checking us out anyways, but I sure asked the right person. AND the lemonade was more expensive than the OJ, woop woop!)
-Then the Sara Lee pound cake I wouldn't have gotten, but that too is a long story.
#6: Walgreens
-wax paper and foil for $0.88 each
-gummy bears $0.12 each ($0.39each-coupon)
-Men's razors ($3.99-$3.00 coupon)
-Kotex U tampons ($3.49-$3.00 coupon+ Register Rewards)
I used a previous $2.50 register rewards on this order hoping for another one to print out, but it didn't. The lady wasn't sure if it could be fixed so I asked to speak to a manager (hehe) he did what managers do and I got my register reward for $2.50. On my second order I got tampons that were on sale for $1 for 18ct (I usually spend $4 on that many!!) and a few other things then used my RR that was just printed.

PHEW I seriously have a migraine. I don't know if I'll blog about my deals anymore, but they do many me excited so hope you enjoy reading about all the savings. Some of these deals are still going on so take advantage of them!