Weekly Shopping Trip

I decided to go shopping early for the new Publix ad since the beginning of next week is going to be busy for us. Can I just say that this sale ad is REALLY good!

Spent: $24.32  Saved: $88.53 or 78%

I was blessed to be able to use the rest of a gift card so I only had to pay $15 for $112 worth of groceries!

Completely free items with overage this week: Peter Pan peanut butter, Special K cereal, and Swiss Miss!
I always love my free stuff but I am super happy about the bogo turkey burger. We love turkey at our house and we were completely out so this was an extra special blessing.

 Josiah finished his lunch and decided to help out Thomas.

 T-man

The J-anator

I am looking forward to seeing my sister and new niece tomorrow!! I think I might have a few pictures to share when I get home. :)

Peace, Love, & Chicken Grease,
Joy

Cousins

My sister gave birth to beautiful baby girl yesterday. Emelyn weighs 8lbs 3oz and I think she was 21in but I am going off of my memory on that one. So for the next however many days we have a house guest.

The boys have been tearing the place apart and loving every minute of it. I won't even mention the screaming like wild hyenas- that just comes with the territory.
I am hoping to be able to go see my sister and new niece this weekend, but for now I am going to go crawl in bed and enjoy the peace and quiet.

Peace Out.

Weekly Shopping Trip... Sorta

Today I went into CVS to grab two deals that I was excited about.

First I did the Excedrin transaction. I had two free product coupons that I have been saving and I am SO glad I did! It worked beautifully with this deal, and as an added bonus one of the boxes had a free sample attached!

I paid $4.98 out of pocket and saved $16.98.

PLUS, I received $10 in ECB's!

Next I did the Wisk transaction. Using the $10 ecb's plus another $5 ecb from a previous week I paid $1.75 out of pocket and saved $43.95! PLUS, I received another $10 in ECB's!

Then I went to Walmart and found these two beauties for $2.50 each.

They have a lot of these dresses left if anyone is interested (Winter Haven WM -by the leftover Cmas decor). I always grab kids clothing when they are deeply discounted like this.

Then as I was opening my truck to load the groceries into it, one of the Wisk bottles fell out and broke. Laundry detergent went EVERYWHERE! One foot was COVERED in Wisk- please bear in mind that I had on flip flops. Eww! (My foot is still sticky)

Josiah kept saying "Aww, Man" over and over as he looked at the mess. I tried cleaning the bottle as best as I could and then put it inside a grocery bag and packed the groceries around it so it couldn't tip over and spill.

Well, I get home and guess what- as I unloaded those same groceries I knocked it over and spilled it again.

 I cleaned it up a little bit, but I gave up. There is still laundry detergent on the inside and outside of my truck.  I am hopeful that it will rain and wash it off.

Surprisingly enough there is still half a bottle left over.

With what spilled at Walmart and then what spilled when I got home I thought for sure it would be empty. So, to celebrate I did a load of laundry with it.

I am super excited that tomorrow my sister is having baby Emelyn! I REALLY wish I was over this flu thing so I could go cuddle her. But I don't want her to be exposed to my germs so I shall wait a few more days then go cuddle and spoil her extra!

Smelling wiskfully good,

Joy

Happy New Years Day!

I blew my nose rang in the new year with a cough from home this year. It has been a long time since I've had to miss our Church's Watch Night Service. My hubby was wonderful to fill me in on what happened though, especially the really good news that we made our Missions Goal for 2010!

Josiah has had this weird attachment to his hat the last few days.

It is hard not to laugh at him when its sitting on his head so awkward looking.

He had one of his 'I'm growing up' moments yesterday. He found a plastic grocery bag and gasped. Then he ran to my room and I could hear him making noise so I grabbed my camera and peeked to see what he was doing with that bag.

 His Daddy has trained him well! He took out the old bag which was full of trash and was replacing it with the new bag. I think at this point I did a little "one less chore for me" dance of joy.

He took about three minutes to get the bag in the trash can just the way he wanted it, and he kept moving the can around thinking it would help the bag go in, I guess. Either way, it was cute and we clapped our hands and shouted YAY! I think I was a little too excited because he looked at me and turned and walked away.

I love how he put the can right back where it was to begin with. Do you like the finished bag job? lol I had to modify it just a bit. 

Happy First Day of 2011!

Jr. Church Christmas Party

This past Sunday was our 2nd annual Christmas party for our 3rd-5th grade Jr. Church class. Our day consisted of a fun review game for the kids and then a small plate of goodies. The kids behaved really well and our workers were AWESOME in helping get things ready and bringing in the supplies needed. Here are a few pictures of the kids digging in.

I haven't quite figured out if in the picture above if that sweet little face is licking icing off her face or sticking her tongue out at me... I am choosing to say that she is enjoying her cupcake.

Next Sunday we will be kicking off a new program in Jr. Church and we are so excited to see what the Lord is going to do in our class. Please pray with us that all the 'wrinkles' will get ironed out quickly and that the kids and parents will get involved.

~ Joy

Straight No Chaser- In Concert

Last night a group of us went to a Christmas concert sung by an a capella group named...

While we can't endorse all their music their Christmas songs are AWESOME!

Oh, and did I mention that we were on the third row? THIRD ROW, people! Row THREE!!! Row #3! We were in the spitting section y'all and we loved it!

I know the place looks a bit empty but it was 30 minutes before it started and by the time those guys were on the stage the place was packed out!

There were so many songs that I loved 'Carol of the Bells' was amazing! So was the '12 days of Christmas' and Oh. My. 'Donde Esta Santa Claus?' was flat out hilarious! But the last song was my favorite. No microphones, just pure talent on a personal favorite Christmas song of mine... 'Oh, Holy Night'! 

For some reason Blogger is not allowing me to upload the video so I will post it on Facebook soon!

After the concert we went to Steak & Shake and laughed and had a good time.

That is until the food came, then silence reigned.  The only one disappointed was Michael P. because our waiter would not bring him one of those cool hats for him to wear. hehehe.

It was a great night with friends listening to some awesome harmony (with some killer high notes) topped off with a yummy milkshake. December 21st- you were awesome!

Weekly Shopping Trip

Publix

Spent: $20.53   Saved: $60.72

Savings: 75%

My favorite deal this week was the free Ocean Spray! It is on a bogo sale and there is a bogo q in the yellow Advantage Buy flier. You have to buy a blueberry kind, the only one at my store included in the sale was the Cranberry/Blueberry blend.

The butter turned out to be a good deal as well. I payed $.95 for 2 tubs of butter and a loaf of bread. I was also excited about the cake mixes seeing as how I need to make around 130+ cupcakes this weekend. I ended up paying $2.55 for 6 boxes.

I totally splurged and bought some Egg Nog!!! I am looking forward to that first glass.

My hubby came home yesterday with a surprise.

That my friends, is White Chocolate Hot Chocolate. Yummy!

Every year we've also put together a gingerbread house, but this year is just too crazy. So Michael came home with an alternative- A cookie kit! I am looking forward to taking pictures of Josiah making a mess and Michael eating all the candy.

I am also looking forward to listening to some wonderful Christmas music tonight with an awesome group of friends that also happens to be family! So excited!!!

-Joy