Couponing saved me $180 last week

Last week my friend Monica came to dance class and was talking about all of the deals she had gotten with coupons and she gave me a box of zantac that she had gotten for free! I decided to look into couponing and she told me about 918couponqueen.com and she went over some of the deals with me and I ended up getting 8 tubes of Almay mascara and 8 boxes of diet Snapple singles to go for only $6 it saved me $76 at WalGreens, then on to Target buy 2 Wii games get 1 free and also a $10 off coupon so I saved $60 on Wii games for Christmas plus some coupons at Target for cereal saved $19, and finally at WalMart we saved exactly $25 just by using some coupons. If you want to get some great deals and live in the 918 area code head on over to the 918couponqueen website and see what she is recommending for this week! Total money saved from using coupons just last week $180. Thanks Monica and 918couponqueen!!!

BA nature center

Check out that giant leaf

We had so much fun exploring the BA nature park and center and collecting "fall" items on our nature walk! While we were there we found some GIANT leaves and the kids loved them, we also found some Osage Oranges which are beautiful for fall decorating!

New Moon Countdown Official Poster

Another snake in the house...eeek!

I am TOTALLY freaked out by snakes and we have had 2 in our house this year! FREAKS me out, how do they get inside of your house???? I do know that they are little tiny snakes and will not hurt me but they still freak me out! One of was upstairs in the hallway, how did it get upstairs??? Does anyone know??? We have lived in this house for 10 years and never had a snake in the house before and then this year 2 in the past 3 months....what's up with that????

Zombie dancers

Kenzie getting her zombie makeup
Do they look scarey???

Kelsey looks freaky...her hair was AWESOME!

It doesn't even look like Kenzie does it??? What have they done to my sweet little princess???

Nice hair!

Makenzie has been dancing with a dance team for 1 yr and today was their first performance with their new dance that they are going to do for competition this year. Shayna (thier dance instructor) has them dancing as Zombies and they looked really good! Well my camera wouldn't record during the dance so I didn't get video of it but I got video of the breakdancers and Shayna and Adam dancing and I will add those videos later on.

Trick or treat!

Kylan loved the popcorn balls

They hauled in the candy

Trick or treating at Grandma's

Kevin trick or treating

We dressed up as "parents"

Laura Ingalls

R2D2 costume

Branson, MO and the waterpark

Kevin has been working so many long hours at UPS that we decided we needed a weekend getaway with just the kids. Some place where we wouldn't be bothered by the phone or TV or GASP...the computer. We decided on Branson, MO since it's so close and we thought that the drive might be beautiful this time of year with all of the leaves changing color, and it was GORGEOUS with all of the fiery reds, blazing oranges, vibrant yellows and the array of greens. This weekend was just what we needed we had such a great time playing at the indoor waterpark, shopping at the outlet malls and lounging over meals until our drive home....when I started feeling a tad bit whoozy and I thought it might just be motion sickness because i have been known to have it in the past. NO, it was the darn flu!!!! I talked all weekend about how we need to wash our hands all the time and I had gone to Bath and Body Works and bought some yummy smelling hand sanitizer and used it all weekend, what I didn't bring was Lysol for the hotel room....what was I thinking????