Couponing and Easter

Happy Monday my peeps.  It is a warm and muggy day today and is supposed to be this way all week.  I am SO happy about that (not the mugginess but the warm part - hee hee hee)   How was your weekend?  I hope that you had a wonderful and very blessed Easter Sunday and weekend.  Ours was very nice and relaxing.  On Saturday we did some running around getting supplies to work in our basement and did some grocery shopping, etc.  (in the pouring down rain)  Before we began the grocery shopping I started to go through collecting all of my coupons in order to save some money - even if it was just a little.  Well, here is what I got and how much I spent (after coupons):

Walgreens ($10 after coupons):

CVS:

Apparently I forgot to take a picture of the loot I scored at CVS - but I only spent $14 in total there after coupons and was able to get 3 Large jars of Ragu Spaghetti Sauce, and even 3 Large Jars of Skippy Peanut Butter as well in that total price.

Wal-Mart Trip ($20.25 after coupons):

This isn't even all of the groceries as my husband put some stuff downstairs in the garage refrigerator (yes we have 2 refrigerators - (one is a side by side)

This is 2 boxes of Velveeta, 3 boxes of Pop Tarts, one large Sugar, scented oil, Bleach, Hot Dog buns, rotel, snack cakes, Bratwurst, Computer paper, bag of chicken and pizza rolls.  Like I said, that doesn't even include the other package of hot dog buns, 3 loaves of bread or the other stuff he had already put away. Not bad for $20 huh? :)

So thanks to the economy AND the price of gas skyrocketing yet again - I think I am going to start doing the "extreme couponing" thing once I get it all figured out.  Have you seen that show on TLC?  All I can say is WOW - absolutely amazing!  One of the episodes I've seen showed a total grocery bill for $1,906.47 and she walks away spending ONLY $103!!!!  Now THAT'S my kind of couponing! :)  Do any of you coupon - what about to that kind of "extreme" couponing?  I would love any and all tips if you would love to share!

Now, here are a few pictures from our Easter celebration from yesterday.  It was actually a very beautiful and gorgeous day yesterday - sunny and 75 degrees.  It was the perfect day!  I made enough food to feed an army but there were only 5 of us! HA!

My girl and her boyfriend, D:

 My baby boy, M:

 Some of the grub:

 Yummy desserts:

 Then we had these cute little babies show up to visit us after dinner looking for their treats:

 Fighting over bread:

 Then one of THESE ugly things showed up and started stealing the babies food:

And this Mallard had the BRIGHTEST ORANGE feet I had ever seen before -

you can't really tell it in this picture but they were BRIGHT BRIGHT ORANGE!

Well, that's how we spent our weekend - hope that you and yours had a wonderful and blessed one as well.  Thanks for stopping by and please let me know you were here! :)

 Lots of love and hugs,

Weekend Recap - Painting and Easter Edition

Happy Monday my friends! How are you?  I am worn out to say the least - it was an extremely busy weekend for us and couple that with the time change where we lost an hour of sleep and you get the idea.  Friday night we just relaxed and watched tv until about midnight (trying to catch up on our dvr'd shows).  Saturday morning we woke up to pouring down rain and extreme wind and I did NOT want to get out of bed.  However, I had to get up early and take my daughter to the Orthodontist (who is about 30 minutes away) and we found out that she will FINALLY get her braces off on May 24th - YAY!  She's so excited, as you can imagine!  Then she and I did some shopping afterwards before returning home.  My husband had to go into work to take care of some business that had transpired that morning so he was gone for most of the day.  I did a little touchup painting in the living room and then mainly laid around watching more of my dvr'd shows as I had done something to my shoulder and was in a lot of pain.  Saturday night we just all hung out again and then went to bed.  Sunday morning I had told my hubby that I wanted to sleep late and not wake me up - but.... it never fails - the one day a weekend I could sleep in I am always up with the birds - *sigh* 

So, I got up and began painting one of the walls in our dining room and did some decorating for Easter afterwards.  Then I took a break and went to the mall to do some shopping for work clothes.  When I returned home (5 hours later) I went back to painting my dining room wall.  After painting, I then made homemade banana bread (in the crockpot), cleaned up my paint mess and put away extra decorations, vacummed, did a load of laundry, showered and finally laid down beside my husband around 9:30 to get ready for bed.  WHEW!  Fast forward to this morning and I am worn out and really looking forward to my morning nap on the bus this morning. hee hee hee  Sooo... what did you do this weekend? Fill me in - I can't wait to catch up with all of you!

As promised, I have finally finished the living room and taken a few pictures to show you.  This is the color of our living room the day we bought the house (ignore the man in the photo - he is our realtor) - they had the entire downstairs and hallway painted this very light light yellow and it just looked so dirty.  We however, prefer dark taupe colors and are loving our new walls/living room (which, by the way, we love this color so much that we always paint our house these taupe colors wherever we move) By the way - the paint color is Mocha Latte from Lowes) The White trim paint is just extra white primer from Home Depot - I found white primer is so much prettier and white for trim and anything else that you want to paint white. :o)

Same view of living room after being painted (it kind of looks like a Sage green here but it's not - though I love Sage green paint colors too and may paint my kitchen that color next)

Other side of living room

looking into dining room from living room (ignore the stairs - I want to take out that ugly carpet and replace it with hardwood (just another project on my to do list)

dining room wall (1 down and 3 more to go)

Other part of dining room (sorry for the glare of the lights - will be changing that out too eventually)

Easter tablescape

Did I ever mention my lurve for polka dots? - they make me smile - I heart them so much! :o)

I love my apothecary jar

Easter tree

Easter sign

Well, that's all - thanks for stopping by this morning to say hello and checking out the progress we've made so far in updating and modernizing (sp?) our home.  I hope that you have a wonderful and blessed day today.  I am off to get my daughter out of bed and get myself ready so I can catch the bus and head to work.

Lots of love and kisses,

 

Weekend Recap - Painting and Easter Edition

Happy Monday my friends! How are you?  I am worn out to say the least - it was an extremely busy weekend for us and couple that with the time change where we lost an hour of sleep and you get the idea.  Friday night we just relaxed and watched tv until about midnight (trying to catch up on our dvr'd shows).  Saturday morning we woke up to pouring down rain and extreme wind and I did NOT want to get out of bed.  However, I had to get up early and take my daughter to the Orthodontist (who is about 30 minutes away) and we found out that she will FINALLY get her braces off on May 24th - YAY!  She's so excited, as you can imagine!  Then she and I did some shopping afterwards before returning home.  My husband had to go into work to take care of some business that had transpired that morning so he was gone for most of the day.  I did a little touchup painting in the living room and then mainly laid around watching more of my dvr'd shows as I had done something to my shoulder and was in a lot of pain.  Saturday night we just all hung out again and then went to bed.  Sunday morning I had told my hubby that I wanted to sleep late and not wake me up - but.... it never fails - the one day a weekend I could sleep in I am always up with the birds - *sigh* 

So, I got up and began painting one of the walls in our dining room and did some decorating for Easter afterwards.  Then I took a break and went to the mall to do some shopping for work clothes.  When I returned home (5 hours later) I went back to painting my dining room wall.  After painting, I then made homemade banana bread (in the crockpot), cleaned up my paint mess and put away extra decorations, vacummed, did a load of laundry, showered and finally laid down beside my husband around 9:30 to get ready for bed.  WHEW!  Fast forward to this morning and I am worn out and really looking forward to my morning nap on the bus this morning. hee hee hee  Sooo... what did you do this weekend? Fill me in - I can't wait to catch up with all of you!

As promised, I have finally finished the living room and taken a few pictures to show you.  This is the color of our living room the day we bought the house (ignore the man in the photo - he is our realtor) - they had the entire downstairs and hallway painted this very light light yellow and it just looked so dirty.  We however, prefer dark taupe colors and are loving our new walls/living room (which, by the way, we love this color so much that we always paint our house these taupe colors wherever we move) By the way - the paint color is Mocha Latte from Lowes) The White trim paint is just extra white primer from Home Depot - I found white primer is so much prettier and white for trim and anything else that you want to paint white. :o)

Same view of living room after being painted (it kind of looks like a Sage green here but it's not - though I love Sage green paint colors too and may paint my kitchen that color next)

Other side of living room

looking into dining room from living room (ignore the stairs - I want to take out that ugly carpet and replace it with hardwood (just another project on my to do list)

dining room wall (1 down and 3 more to go)

Other part of dining room (sorry for the glare of the lights - will be changing that out too eventually)

Easter tablescape

Did I ever mention my lurve for polka dots? - they make me smile - I heart them so much! :o)

I love my apothecary jar

Easter tree

Easter sign

Well, that's all - thanks for stopping by this morning to say hello and checking out the progress we've made so far in updating and modernizing (sp?) our home.  I hope that you have a wonderful and blessed day today.  I am off to get my daughter out of bed and get myself ready so I can catch the bus and head to work.

Lots of love and kisses,