Halloween 2011

Kevin's parents threw a Halloween party on Monday, October 24th.

Papa Jim got a bunch of pumpkins for the kids to decorate.

Kaylee was really careful to make sure she got one she liked.

She loves pumpkins and I love her!

Here is Kaylee working hard putting her stickers on.

And eating her cupcake, after we had some fun Halloween themed dinner items.

Yum!

Kev and I went away for the weekend. When we got back Sunday, and we carved our pumpkins with Kaylee. I always make this a tradition, Kevin fights it every year, and I tell him we are going to to do it every year so he better get use to it! He always does such a great job.

Kaylee lost interest soon after we cut the pumpkins open.

We got her to sit and color for a while.

Happy Halloween!

I thought about Kaylee eating Pop Its, "Pop Tarts" while we were on vacation.

So I made her some for breakfast.

I braided her hair, she needed it pulled back for her costume. So even though it turned out super cute, I knew it would be covered and messed up soon enough!

We went to Lee's Marketplace for trick or treating. Kaylee got candy, a cheese stick, strawberry milk, and a bag of carrots. We went to Macey's to see my mom and got more candy.



20 Week Ultrasound - Anatomy Scan

We've made it half way! I'm 20 weeks.

We had our 20 week ultrasound and the gender is revealed!!

This is cute baby #2's profile, on our dvd we were able to see the tongue making swallowing/sucking movements. Shortly after we saw our cute baby yawn! Oh my gosh it was the CUTEST thing!

Baby's little foot

Our baby's 5 little fingers... so cute!

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OKAY... So this is the photo from our 16 week elective ultrasound..

And 20 weeks.... We are definatly have a baby BOY!

Kaylee is going to have a baby BROTHER!! She is so excited. Kevin is pretty excited too!

Me, well I'm getting use to the idea. I'm glad he is healthy and doing great!

Shop of the Week - Week 40

I had such a great week! I really am so proud of this shop, by far the best one I've ever done!

$123.30 value. I can't imagine spending that much money on this stuff.

Walgreens- Spent a total of $3.52 on $36.39 worth of product.

Seriously a transaction of $1.24, $1.09, and one for $1.19.

I bought 2 boxes of Kleenex cool touch tissues $1.49- .50 coupon and received a .50 RR= .50 a box

2 boxes of Coldcalm tablets $6.99 and received a $7 RR = FREE

2 boxes of Nature Valley granola bars 2 for $4 - .75 coupon - $1.00 in store coupon = $1.12 a box

2 boxes of Cepacol throat losenges $2.99 receive $3 RR = FREE

2 tubes of Nivea lip balms 2 for $4 - $3.00/2 products coupon = $1 for both or .50 each

Filler Items

Reeses pumpkins (LOVE these!) and Halloween Kit Kats  39 cents each

Seasame Street Halloween coloring book 34 cents

I have $15 in RRs to use next time!

Rite Aid- Spent a total of $9.15 on $69.96 of product.

Scope Icy Mint Dual Blast Rinse $4 - $2.00 coupon and received $2.50 UP = .50 Moneymaker!

No Nonsense Nylons $2.99 - $1.00 coupon and received a $2.00 UP = FREE

Spend $30 on Covergirl/Pantene Receive $10 UP, Covergirl products Buy 1 get one 50% off

I bought 2 Covergirl foundations 1 for $7.99 and 1 for $3.99 - $8.00/2 Covergirl face product coupon

1 Cover girl blush for $4.39 and 1 bronzer for $2.19 - $8.00/2 Covergirl face product coupon

1 Nice N Easy hair dye $7.99 - $2.00 in ad coupon - $3.00 manuf. coupon

Pantene 1 shampoo and 1 conditioner 2 for $7 - $3.00/2 coupon

$33.55 - $24 in coupons = $9.55 for 7 items and Received $10 UP

Bought 2 boxes of Prevacid $12.49 each, receive $10 Up when you buy 2 boxes

 $24.98 - $4 manuf coupon -$4 manuf coupon - $4 store coupon - 10 UP =  $2.98 or $1.49 a box

Air wick cinnamon refil scent $2.00- $1.00 store coupon= $1.00

And I have $14.50 in UP rewards for next time!

Target- Spent a total of $2.50 on $16.95 of product.

Transformers Dark of the Moon toy $9.99 - $5.99 manuf coupon - $5 Target coupon sent via text message = FREE

Extra *New* dessert flavored Gum .99 - $1.00/2 packs manuf coupon and $1.00/2 packs Target coupon = FREE. I did this twice and got 4 packs FREE!

Snack Packs pudding on clearance for $2.19.

Basically paid for the pudding and tax of the other items!

Total spent $15.17, thats an 88% savings!

Elective Ultrasound 16 Weeks

Our baby 16 weeks and 3 days.

We got to see our little baby today! Because our doctor only provides two ultrasounds, I convinced Kevin to let us go to Accuscan, at the Gateway. I LOVED it there!

The Tech was so nice, she took her time, gave us a ton of pictures, she even asked us if we had seen everything we wanted.

She switched it over and we got to watch our baby in 4D for no extra charge. It was so amazing! We could see our little baby moving its arm around.

I love looking at the little hand, you can even see the thumb. Kinda creepy that you can see the brain but still so cute!

Love Love Accuscan!

This was the best profile we could get. Baby was sitting up :)

*We were able to find out our baby's sex as well. Both our babies like to spread their legs so we can get a good look. But we only paid for the elective ultrasound so we could find out. We hope to keep it a secret for another month. Until we have our 20 week anatomy scan with our family :) I love knowing and driving everyone crazy!

My growing Baby Bump

August 4th 2011

 8 Weeks

September 28th 2011

 16 Weeks Pregnant

Shop of the Week - Week 38

I haven't been grocery shopping for months and months! Seriously we have been eating our stockpile food and Kevin runs to Walmart to get a few things here and there.

We buy milk, eggs, and bread with the occasional things I've been craving. I have to admit I had so much fun getting out of the house this week and buying food! I bought a ton of produce. Got to have all that healthy stuff on hand! Sadly not so many coupons for it though.

Shop included price matched milk for $1.99 @ Walgreens, sour cream, cottage cheese, 4 cans of green beans I got for .25 cents each, eggs, bread, 2 bags of sugar, 2 rolls of biscuits, 2 rolls of pizza dough, pizza sauce, 2 jars of Pace salsa, 1 bag of tortilla chips, 6 boxes of Betty Crocker potatoes, 3 bags of Volia skillet meals, celery, 2 red peppers, broccoli, carrots, onions, garlic, 1 yellow squash, 1 zucchini, red potatoes, russet potatoes, tomatoes, lettuce, cilantro, limes, and jalapenos, (gonna make me some fresh salsa) might as well since it was all on sell! Also bought a bottle of prenatals, a travel size pillow, and pillow case for my toddler, and 4 Hasbro games!

I got $155 dollars of groceries for less then $70!

I saved $56 just from sales and price matching. It totally pays off.

Price matched each of these for $5 bucks from Big Lot's Ad.

Then I used $4 dollar coupons and got them each for $1! Awesome Christmas deals :)

Battleship priced at $14.97 and Operation priced at $12.97

Rite Aid and Walgreen's trip

3 Jumbo packs of Huggies Snugglers $4.90 each

2 Jumbo packs of Slip on Diapers $3.99 each

2 boxes of Crest toothpaste $2.99 - $2.00 coupon = .99

Received $2UP reward = $1.00 moneymaker on each

Triaminic Kids daytime cold and cough medicine $4.99

Triaminic Infant fever reducer $4.99 - $3.00/2 Triaminic products = $3.49 each

 plus a FREE redbox code.

Nyquil night time cold and cough syrup on clearence for $2.74 = $1.24

Dayquil cold and flu capsules on clearence for $5.29 used a $3.00/2 products coupon = $3.79

2 blistex cold and allergy lip balm $2.00 - $2.00 Register Reward = FREE

FILLER ITEMS

5 boxes of Gelatin .20 cents each

2 paper halloween bags .29 cents each

Rite Aid I got $43 dollars in product. I spent $25.44 and got $14 UPs to use next time.

@ Walgreens I got $52 dollars in product. I spent $16.37 and have $6 in RR to spend later.

Kaylee's 1st Fishing Trip

Finally bugged my dad enough to get him to take Kaylee fishing.

We bought her the cutest life jacket!

 

She had SO much fun riding in the boat and helping Grandpa drive!

Within a few minutes she was helping Grandpa reel in her first fish.

She was scared, but eventually started to pet it.

Riding home with Daddy :)

Overall it ended up being a great day. We had to wait out the ran and lightning before we could go out. The cooler weather was much appreciated by pregnant mommy! 

Shop of the Week - Week 33 Walgreens

I haven't been out shopping so much because of our new baby. This pregnancy is really kicking my butt. I've been more exhausted and had more nausea then I did with Kaylee.

But luckily this week Kevin got a bunch of stuff put on hold for me. (He delivers ice cream and other freezer products to Walgreens and Rite Aid)

So its always nice to have him check for things I really want!

Last night we went together and got over $147 worth of product for $43.93 thats a 70% SAVINGS

For fillers we got 2 pairs of scissors, 6 boxes of crayons, 2 notebooks,

2 candy bars, and a caramel candy.

This week I had $4 in RR to use so we just rolled each RR we received into another transaction the best we could to lower the out of pocket expense.

Revlon nail polish $3.99, Buy 1 Receive a $3 RR = $0.99

I used a $2.00 Walgreens coupon and a $1.00 MFG coupon.

Paid $0.99 for each one and Received $3 back = $2 MONEYMAKER for each one.

Lysol Automatic soap dispensers priced $11.99 (9.99 at Walmart)

Used a $3.00 MFG coupon and Received a $5 RR for each one = $3.99 each

Saved $6 on each one for a total of $18 saved.

 

Huggies Little Movers NEW Slip on diapers $9.49, $9.97 at Walmart.

Buy 1 Receive a $2 RR = $7.49

Used $3.00 off any Huggies Slip on diaper MFG coupon = $4.49 per package!

Saved $5 per package for a total of $20 saved!

 

Benefiber on sale $9.99, same price at Walmart. Received $2 RR

Used $3.00 MFG coupon for stick packs = $4.99

Saved $5!

 

Expo 6pk washable markers priced at $7.88 at Walmart - I tried to price match these at Walmart and they had a fit because it was such a great deal!

On sale at Walgreens for $3.99 - $3.00 Walgreens coupon = $.99 each

Then I used a $2.00/2 packages of Expo markers MFG coupon = FREE

Did this twice and got FOUR pkgs $31.52 value for FREE!

Yep we're expecting...

BABY #2!

Our little blob 8 weeks

Baby peanut 1.44 cm

We are now 10 weeks and 2 days pregnant :)

Expecting our little shamrock March 12th, 2012

Summer of 2011

Kaylee's swimsuit arrived in the mail. Cute sunglasses!

I love her so much!

Taking Kaylee to the park. She loves it there.

Her favorite part was the slide...

Watching the Syracuse Heritage day Parade  

Walking around Jensen with Grandma Susan

Kaylee coloring while waiting for the fireworks to start.

I love my best friend!