WINNER

Okay my friends, you crack me up.

I love all the funny comments on my guessing game below

...and Yes, just maybe I will use all my FREE Kotex as swiffers too.

Hilarious.

Who cares what I do with them...they were all FREE!

I'm sorry I am late in posting the winner today. I took a spontaneous trip to the pool.

Big Surf Waterpark

It was a fun day!

I started my day off really well too...I went to Walgreen's and got all of this for...guess!?

Okay, I will tell you this one.

$15.00.

It rocks!! The Dixie paper plate and bowl pkgs were normally $3.79 each.

I got them for $0.44 each.

YAHOO. Everything else was awesomely priced after the use of my coupons and rebates!

I love it. I'm hooked.

(You can't tell in the pix, but there are 6 boxes of cereal and 4 bags of both twizzlers and reeces. That alone would have regularly cost about $30. Oh, and I made $1 on the air wick freshener, and $1 on the vitamins! YES, I got paid for those!)

Here is a pix of another quick little Walmart trip...all of this was

FREE

except the "All You" magazine you can buy at WalMart for $1.77.

They are filled with cute idea's and COUPONS. I also bought the bandaids, but I had coupons for those...otherwise, all FREE!

Okay, are you ready for the price of the post below and how much I spent

...and more importantly the

WINNER!!??

It wasn't the best Walmart trip, like the one above that was almost FREE. But it was still a great deal. The total should have been over $45.00 but I only spent...

$0.56 more than what BECKY guessed!!

$20.81

BECKY YOU ARE THE WINNER!

Congrats!

If you look back at the picture, it was kind of divided into 2 sections. Everything on the left hand side I got FREE. I paid for the stuff on the other side, but had coupons for it ALL!

Some of you came pretty close. That was fun :)

Thanks for playing girlies!!!

Becky, you will be getting some

Yummy Dove Chocolates,

of course

some

Kotex panty liners

((lol) which you can use after you have your baby!)

and some more fun FREE stuff!!!!!!

I will try and get the pkg together and post a pix for yall.

THANKS again for playing...I hope you all start using coupons and rebates because it's so fun and worth it!! You can print coupons on-line, or get the Sunday paper for coupons.

Here are some links for YOU!

Have your printer ready...when you click on some of these they automatically start printing!

ZOUT try me free rebate form

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Click on this link, the bottom right hand corner has a coupon for $2 off a cereal box. At our Walmart this cereal is only $1.98. FREE stuff...you should be able to print it off at least twice.

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Print off this coupon for $1 off any kotex product. At Walmart they have little panty liner pkgs for $1. FREE stuff...print off the coupon twice (or more if it will let you!)

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coupons.com

boodle.com

eversave.com

coolsavings.com

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coupons.com and boodle.com have a coupon for $1 off windex...and right now at my Walmart, in one of the middle check out lines there are some yellow pkgs of windex wipes on clearance for only $1 (regularly $2.50), you can use this coupon and get them FREE!

I got several FREE pkgs!

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Print this coupon for $1 off any Johnsons's product...go to where all the different lotions are at Walmart and they have a little traveling size lotion for $.97, so you can get this for FREE with your coupon!!

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boodle.com has the DOVE chocolate, buy one get one FREE. Best stuff ever!!!!!!!

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This coupon is for $1 off a Johnson and Johnson buddy product. Go to the baby section and they have some soap bars for $.97, so you can get it FREE!!

just a few more...

I know, I know...I already posted some pix of my family, but I just saw some more that were done on Heather's blog. She does such a good job,

and it makes it alot easier when the people are as cute as these are...

Shauna's adorable boy! We love little Cade!

Jay's cute family again...I love the train setting. Awesome!

Brookie! She is so dang cute. We miss her so much.

She and Tanner are little buddies...can't wait to see you guys soon!

I love my family

all of the pictures on Heather's blog are soooo cute

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Okay, I'm done with sharing the love with my family...

On to more important things, like the winner of my post below!! I will announce it shortly :)

stay tuned

one of you got VERY close!

Walmart = family fun

I know a lot of you people hate Walmart. I for one, don't mind it. As I mentioned, we just bought a swing for our deck and I am lovin' it. I've wanted one for a long time!

It has forced me to be outside with the heat and the bugs,

which I hardly did any of last Summer

because it is now more bearable sitting on something comfortable and in the shade.

Thus, I love Walmart...my swing is bringing on the family fun.

I was outside almost all day.

We started the day with a little football fun!!

While I of course, sat on my swing in the shade.

Next, Tanner and I played on the deck,

had some lunch, and lounged on our swing in the shade!

Then we ran some errands. I went to Walmart and bought a few things.

STAY TUNED.

You will like what I share with you tomorrow about my trip to Walmart!!

And then it was back home for dinner,

on the swing,

in the shade,

and more playing around on the deck!

We had fun being silly, just relaxing, and having a good day on our swing!

(Tanner took this last picture of me. We never let him touch the camera, but I decided to let him try to see what kind of talent he had with it. I was laughing so hard...he did a pretty good job for his first time ever taking a picture!)

Conclusion:

Support Walmart, they will make your family happy!

buh bye weekend

After I got my fun pkg below (previous post) Friday afternoon...Landon's dad Kevin, and his wife Susan, came to visit for the weekend.

It was a short but sweet visit :)

It was a lot of fun being with them!

They only live 4 hrs from us, so we try to get together often.

We just bought a new swing for our deck and we thoroughly enjoyed using it!

Happy weekend...hope you all had a good one too!

No, I am not wearing pants.

I am wearing white capri's and YES those are my white legs

(the picture is accentuating their whiteness more than normal though!)

stop laughing

I know they are GHOSTLY!!!!!!

HELP

Here are the out-takes below...what it's like trying to take a pix with my family!

What is that smile Tanner? goof-ball

The sun was "too bright" for Tanner to look. Whatever.

I'm ready, what the heck are the boys doing?

fixin' the do

dang, wrong angle

"You've got mail"

I LOVE MAIL!

I love getting pkg's, cards, gifts, orders...anything in the mail (except bills). It makes me happy.

I purposely order things on-line so I can get something in the mail. I might not

particularly like a certain item I order, but I know I'll be able to return it, thus

I order it because I love getting a package! ha.

Tanner always gets so excited when "the box man" (UPS) comes and

always asks if it's for him. It's so sad, because it's always for me!

I need to order him something.

Anyways...today was a good mail day.

I GOT MAIL!

I did a favorite things swap with Ashley and her friends.

(thanks Ashley)

Ashley's "cool and hip mom, " which is so true, Marilyn, had me for the swap.

This is what she sent me:

Look at this adorable apron she made me! I love it.

It even matched my outfit today. How cute!

She also sent stuff for gardening, other things for the kitchen, crayons and a book...all her favorite things were awesome and I love it. THANK YOU TONS!

I will enjoy it all!!

And then Lindsey sent me a fun pkg below! I won the give-away she did on her blog, so I got this cute clock decorating kit and some US weekly magazines. I love to read the dirt on celebrities. THANK YOU!! That was so fun to get that surprise!!

Lindsey and Marilyn you're the best!

Thanks for making my day.

I LOVE MAIL!

I had Allie for the swap, this is what I sent her

(plus a bag of DOVE chocolate's, and an eye shield to sleep in peace and quiet!)

family pix

Both of my sister's and their families had their pictures recently done. I think they are sooooooooo cute! I love the colors they chose...color is always better!! They turned out adorable and Heather does an amazing job! If you live in Layton, Utah, or the surrounding area's you HAVE to call her. She does fabulous work. The best I've ever seen!

Check out here blog here.

Below is my other sister and her cute family...these were done last year!

Now I guess it's OUR turn!

Oh, and here is a pix of my adorable brother and his adorable wife.

I don't want them to feel left out!

The year is 1907, one hundred years ago......

(This has been circulating on-line and I thought it was really good and decided to post it).

Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants

and being an AMERICAN in 1907.

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people." Theodore Roosevelt 1907

Every American citizen needs to read this.

thank goodness for awesome dad's

Dad,

Thank you for choosing to be one!

Thank you for fulfilling your fatherly responsibilities.

Thank you for loving me, and teaching me how to love others.

Thank you for your undying support. You will never know the comfort and reassurance you have given me my entire life. Thanks for your guidance.

Thank you for your wisdom and experience.

Thank you for your smiles.

Thank you for your example.

Thank you for being YOU.

I LOVE YOU!

you are my hero

(My dad willingly babysits Tanner...*alone...when I come to visit, so the girls can hang out. How AWESOME is that. One amazing father and Gpa)

(he'll even take off work to do it)

double WOW

*Alone definition: without Grandma, help, or aid of anyone else!

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Landon,

Thank you for exceeding my expectations of what I thought my husband and father to my children would and should be.

I love you more than you will ever know.

Thank you for magnifying your duties and being the most amazing dad in the world! Tanner is the luckiest boy alive!!

Happy Father's day!