What am I doing still up?

I know it may not be late to most of you but since getting married and having two kiddos this has became my late time on a Friday night. =) Since I am still up and everyone is sleeping I should be at least sewing or couponing. I bought some oh so cute fabric like a month ago that I haven't even touched ehh ... I had a plan for it then decided well that might be hard to pull off without a pattern so I think I may just do something easy with it just not sure what at the moment. Oh and I started working on such a cute little dress (remember me telling ya about the man dress shirt I got at the thrift store that I had plans of making something cute with?) I am almost done with just need to fix the bottom and make the "belt" for the waistband. I can't wait to see it finished. I also need to start making some new hair bows it's been a long while since I have made any. Well actually I made the girls both one for valentines day and then didn't even remember to let them wear on that day. ha....

So anyways.... So today A and I went and picked LL up from school and then headed over to Gigi's Cupcakes to have a try at some of those yummy looking cupcakes. YUM it was good and I was glad to see they were busy but not too busy. We were in and out in about 5-10 minutes. LL decided she wanted the "Miss Princess" cupcake and after seeing how huge they were I decided one will be enough for all three of us.. and boy was it. We didn't even eat half of it and we all had a sugar high =) After that we walked (or well drove) over to Justice for girls to see what all they had. I had a coupon for 40% off entire purchase so I thought I would let LL get something. Well then I see their sizes started at 6 and LL is only in a four so I was going to let her pick something out and of course she wanted stuff she would mess with once and then never again. So I just got her some pretty HOTTT pink nail polish that smells like strawberry's YUM. After shopping around a little we headed over... wait let me say this first I sat in the parking lot a good 20-30 minutes trying to get my 3G to work first time have problems with it. I wanted to try UCP park bc I have always heard about it and also the fenced in sounds good when it comes to A. Any who I finally found the address and put it in my GPS and found the park. I was impressed. I liked the fence and it was clean. Now I know where it is so when there is play date there. =) Oh and Monte met us there and after leaving the girls (well of course LL bc she had her nap at school) stayed awake until we got home. A was so tired poor baby (she is still a two naps a day and at the same times everyday) that she went to bed at 7. Good day for us!

So for those of you still here through all of my rambling =) I think maybe it's time to get off and head to bed. I will post some pictures of the cupcakes and park sometime maybe tomorrow. Hope everyone has had a good day and night. Until next time.....

Coupons & Random

Publix

Ok people this was my best trip yet!! =) I was so excited when I was checking out. I always go to the same lady when I go, she's so easy and nice. Ok so I paid $57.51 and saved $114.10 AWESOME! So my total would have been $178.52 and I only paid $57.51 ohhh I LOVE saving money. The lady (Tonya lol) checking me out was like "you go girl I'm proud of you". I immediately called Missy (basically my god mother as I call her) she is the one that, other then the class I took, taught me how to do this all. I call her every time I have a question about my coupons, usually Monday and when I am at Publix Wednesday! =) So anyways another week couponing another happy Mama!

Riteaid

I also went to Riteaid really my first time with the whole couponing. I went once before a couple weeks ago but I only bought deo for the hubs to kinda get me started bc it had a $3 up. So I had the $3 up and I ended up doing two transactions. On the first one I did the 2 Johnson shampoos and 2 Johnson lotions they were 2.99 I had a $1 off and $2 up, Always pantyliner .99 and I had a $1 off Q, and LL a bag of Cheetos (which I will later see I should have put with second transaction) anyways total after taxes was plus I had used the $3 ups I had $7.19 and I got back $8 up (so really made .81 cents) Second transaction Pampers 72 ct wipes $3.49 had a Q $1 off, 2 bags of Oreos had a Q $1/2 and they had $3 up, and I had to get 2 Reese bc I had too much ups I was going to use so my total was- $1.43 (bc I used the $8 ups I had) and got back $3 up... So in all I pd oop (out of pocket) $8.62 and got back $3 up so really it was $5.62 if you look at it that way =) So I guess not too bad for my first time!

What I Wore Wednesday

Ok I have never done one of these but have seen friends do it like Melanie =)

This is "What I Wore Wednesday"

Top-target

Scarf-somewhere in the mall can't remember the name

pants-JC Pennys

Shoes-Target

Prop-Camera

More savings!!!

Yes it is safe to say I am addicted to couponing!! LOL I am loving it. I went back to publix again tonight bc I found some really good deals. I spent $23.70 and saved $44.75...15.41 in store, 9.30 in vendor and 20.04 in special price savings. I also got a whole chicken, organic carrots and potato salad for FREE yes you read right FREE!! Then on my wy home I stopped by dollar general bc I had two $3 off gain fabric softener and they had theirs for 3.50 so I got 2 of them for 1.70 and saved $6!!! This is just awesome and I am saving us so much money, money that will go towards a couple vacations. =)

Savings Again!!!

I am so excited to say that I actually saved more then I spent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =))))) I paid $41.52 and saved $58.86.... $19.97 in store coupon, $10.75 in Vendor coupons and $28.14 in Special price savings. As you can see in the picture some of the things I got are...20 cups of yogurt, 8 boxes of pasta, 4 jars of pasta sauce, 8 things of dinner rolls and lots of other things. I got 60 items in all which means I spent about .69 cents an item. I am just so excited about this and very glad I went to a class to learn how. Now I just have to learn how to do riteaid and cvs! =)

Beautiful Day

Yes you heard right, a few days after the snow day it is absolutely beautiful out. I think it was like 60-65 out this day. Amazing day!! Monte went golfing that morning and once he got back we spent most the day outside. We love to walk around our subdivision and there are also horses we like to go see. I wish it could stay like this year round it is the perfect weather! Once summer gets here I am not going to be able to walk outside without sweat dripping off me it gets so dang hot here! ugh oh well at least we will get to be outside anyways. Spring and fall are my favorite seasons though. =) Here are few photos of the day...

Here comes one of the horses.

Miss priss being girly =)

and here is the sweet stink pot =) looking for something to get into.

Snow Day

Well.... it finally snowed here! yayyyy I was so excited (I think more then LL) about the snow. ha Actually that night that it started snowing after everyone went to bed I bundled up and went out and built a snowman (bc I knew that it would melt before the morning, which it actually didn't) and got snow to make snow cream. The next morning the girls and I went out and played and then came in and enjoyed some snow cream which might I add was a huge hit in the Petersen homestead!! Anyways here are a few pictures from the snow...

This sweet thing just wanted to walk lol

She wa telling Adi to have a snow ball fight with her haha

Yessssss SNOWCREAM!!!!!!!!

The snowman I made for the girls that actually fell before they got up to see it!

This is when it started snowing. She loved it.

Coupons!!

Yesterday was my birthday and M asked if I wanted to go out and eat and I told him no that I had some coupons and wanted to put what I learned from my coupon class to test. So after LL's dance they all headed home and I went to Publix. =) I think I did ok for my first time. I am hoping I do get better, as I was standing in line to check out the checkout girl told me that they have a couple women come in and have $700 worth of stuff and then $650 worth of coupons!!! GEESHH that's what I want to get to!! ;) I just want to start spending less then I save. So anyways I ended up spending and saving the same amount ... $47. I am good on butter for a while though I got 4 tubs of it for like $1. and 6 things of G2 for like $1. I also got what should have been $18 worth of Healthy Choice fresh mixers for $5 (and btw they are GOOD) anyways that was just a few of the deals I got. Here is a picture of everything!!

Thrift Store

Ok so I had never been to a thrift store, I want to be thrifty but am just slowly learning how. So anyways I was looking around at people's blogs and thought ok I am going to try the one in town the only one that I know where it is. So A and I left early before going to pick LL up and headed to one. OK let me say I love it! Everything is so cheap haha hint thrift store ;) I only got a few things bc I was only able to stay in there about 20 minutes bc Monte forgot to leave LL's car seat at school so I had to go by his work to pick it up... but I do plan to go back maybe tomorrow. Here are the things I got...

I thought this necklace was cute. It was $1.48... I also got LL a princess necklace that was .79$

I got this backpack for A! It was $1.48

I got this mans collar shirt bc I have a project I am going to try, we will see.... it was $2.98

I do not know how to work this thing!! ugh

Here is the picture that was supposed to add to the other post! This is a front picture of the pants.

Crafts

Ok I always get ideas off other blogs from there tutorials and what not, so I thought I would share an idea of mine. Well I have seen this type of pant before but just not my idea!! =)

First off I took a regular pair of pants that Lynnlee had that fit around the waist but were to short.

And I had some fabric left over from another cute outfit I had made her but it was more summer like but I knew I could take the top and put a long sleeve under it and prestooo a winter outfit!!

So anyways I put the pants on LL and measured from the bottom of the pant leg to the ground (I think 3 inches) then I cut the pant about 4 inches off the bottom. So 7 inches in all.

I then cut that out of fabric and then guesstimated the length (just made sure I could ruffle it and it would fit with the pants)

Sewed the bottom then done a running stitch and ruffled and sewed it to the pants.

After that I remembered that I had some felt with some polka-dots. so I cut out the polka dots and then used the iron on stuff and put them on the pants!

Ok I know this was the worst description ever... sorry this is my first time and I am already horrible and trying to explain anything as it is!! LOL but that is how I made these cute little pants...

More Pictures...

Here are some pictures that I took the other day at the river.

This little stinker is such a sweet thing!

I thought this was so sweet. Lynnlee said they were fishing. LOL

She is such a good model. Although, man she didn't want to pose. ha

This was one of my favorites. I am so glad I got this picture!!