This one is a fun one for me!

Ok, so most of you know that i have been crazy ADDICTED to my couponing! I love it. I feel like its a game and a rush to stretch every penny that i can to help our food, personal items and everything else storage get a little bigger! And seeing how many items i can get for FREE or better, have the store PAY ME to buy the items! My favorite has to be buying a gillette fusion razor for $.99 and getting a FREE $6-$8 body wash... did that 3 times and i'm waiting to get my Olay rebate of $15 for "buying" 3 body washes! What a STEAL! The joy of coming home with hundreds of dollars worth of stuff for the change i found in the couch that morning is FANTASTIC!

I've been taking pictures and going through receipts after some shopping trips and i thought it would be fun to post a few of my favorites! As i was going through some of them and adding (okay mostly SUBTRACKING) totals, i was pretty amazed with myself, once again! I know Warren is sick of hearing all my crazy deals but i think he secretly likes it ;-)
I estimate that we have enough razors, deoderant, body wash and shampoos/conditioners to last Warren and i probably 2-3 years! Probably 4 years worth of all my free body washes!


This was my latest Albertsons deal. Not all the fruit treats are in the picture because i went later that evening to buy about 20 more. LOL. For about 55 boxes of fruit snacks, 11 lbs of chicken, 8 juices, 2 bagel bites, frozen mashed potatoes and 3 gums i spent a total of $23.35 saving $149.62!


Total spent: $3.27
Total saved: $56.29



Total spent: $4.57,
Total saved: $30.57


Total spent: $4.82
Total saved: $22.88


Total spent: $1.92
Total saved: $47.86


Total spent: $5.25
Toal saved: $36.52 + i got 2 free movie tickets!


Total spent: $39.20
Total saved: $134.84

Because of couponing we have gotten some SERIOUS stock piles! Here's a look at just a few area of our storage throughout the house!




Yes, the fruit snacks go all the way back to the wall! Remember, there are over 50 boxes!! LOL! For all the honey nut cheeries i paid roughly $20 for 12 boxes but i got 6 FREE MOVIE TICKETS! Now if only we had time to go see a movie! :-)




Soon we are going to have to move to a bigger house with a 3rd car garage so we can have one garage room JUST for storage items!! YAY! That would be FUN! :-)

Happy Bday to MMMuah

Grandpa Rich came out to visit us for a week for my birthday (i think my birthday was just an excuse to come see the kids though) :-)
We had a lot of fun with him and really enjoyed having the time off to spend with each other. Here's a few pictures from his visit.
(as i was uploading pictures from his visit, i realized we hardly took any pictures. So i am looking forward to seeing the pictures that he took, all 900 of them i'm sure!)

We spent one afternoon at Monkey Bizness which is ALWAYS a blast!



And another day at Chuck E Cheese.




We spent my birthday at Wahooz which was a blast! It was nice enough outside we were even able to take Landen on the go-carts for the first time. He LOVED them! No surprise! Kaylee giggled everytime Daddy and Landen turned around the corner on the go-cart!





Then we went out and did some shopping and Texas Roadhouse. YUM! Came home and enjoyed some cake and ice cream with family. It was a great day!

bows, bows, bows

After never finding the perfect bow for each outfit of Kaylee's i taught myself how to make them. It took quite a bit of convincing though because i never thought cost wise, it would be better that way. But i have learned how it is much cheaper and now i'm able to make a bow for every single outfit (AND THEN SOME!) It's wonderful to be able to put a new outfit on Kaylee as we are getting ready to leave and realize, crap, i don't have a matching bow. So i can make one really fast before we leave! It's a new hobby of mine and i'm really enjoying it! Susan and i have been making lots of home made things to hopefully be able to sell at a craft fair for our Christmas money this year so i'm excited to see how that will turn out!
Here's just a few of some bows i have made....

Think she has enough?? Sadly, this is only one hair bow hanger full of bows! :-)

The honeymoon is over once again....

This weekend Warren and I actually got to spend a couple days ALONE! Thursday evening i dropped the kids off at Grandma & Grandpa C's house and met Warren at Anniversary Inn. We stayed at the Hollywood Romance room which is a brand new room and absolutely gorgeous! It was even more enjoyable because we paid $22 for a $350/night room! YAY!! It was so much fun! Since we got kind of a late start to our evening we decided to do our big date night on Friday night instead of Thursday night so we went to Taco Bell for dinner and went back to enjoy our room. We snuggled on the couch, ate our dessert, sipped some mormon chapaign and watched Twilight, and even more surprisingly, it was WARREN'S choice... yes, Warren's choice! Friday morning we woke up to a gourmet breakfast in bed while watching Shrek 3 (lol) and spent the rest of the day shopping!!

Right under this sign was a coke machine, which i know is what sold Warren on the room! He thoroughly enjoyed all the free drinks!

Warren hates the showers at anniversary inn since they

never have curtains or are enclosed. He said he feels

"violated" to shower in the open!

The room was filled with old time movie classic actors/actresses

and movies. Audrey Hepburn, Madonna, Casablanca, It's A

Wonderful Life, John Wayne, etc. I was in HEAVEN!

After a fun filled day of shopping we went out to eat at

Carino's and then went to Gameworld. We hadn't been

to Gameworld since we were dating!! We played mini

bowling, yes, i played in heels and a skirt. And then we

went to see a movie and headed back to our 2nd Suite.

We had another Beautiful suite for 2 nights. Fireplace, full kitchen

with full fridge, steam shower, jacuzzi tub, the cutest little dishwasher

& our own private balcony with a view of......

....the mountains and temple! It was so pretty lit up

at night!!

Saturday morning we ended up picking up the kids to take

them back to our hotel to swim. Landen overheard me

tell Susan that we had a pool at our hotel so the next day

Landen sat in the chair in the window waiting for Daddy to

come get him to go swim! It was so sad! So we HAD to go

get them! We swam for about an hour and then had lunch

in our room, played with the kids for a little while and took

them back to G&G's house. It was great to have them for

a little while but still have our evening alone! What a RARE

treat!! That must be what it feels like to be a grandparent!

Then saturday night we did the Thunder Mountain Train Ride!

I must say, i was kinda disappointed with it though. It was a LONG

ride with nothing going on until on the way home. (We did get served

dinner and although i am by NO MEANS a picky eater, i didn't care

much for it) It would have been much nicer to go during the day to

be able to see outside. We enjoyed a magic/comedy show on the way

back though. That was pretty fun. Needless to say, to pay $75 for

one ticket was NOT WORTH IT, BUT, i got a great deal and only

paid $75 for 4 tickets!!!! So for $19/ticket, it was worth it! :-)

We are probably going to use the other 2 tickets to take the kids

on the Santa Train Ride where it will be all lit up with Christmas

lights and drive to the North Pole! Hopefully that'll be much nicer!

We had such an amazing time and this trip was MUCH needed! Between Warren's work schedule and mine, we rarely have time to see each other nonetheless go out on a date! It was probably the best vacation we've been on and we didn't even leave IDAHO!! LOL! It was fun to spend the time with my BFF and joke, and laugh, and play without the worry & stress of work, kids, bills and all that other fun stuff!! I am so fortunate to have such amazing in-laws who were so willing to take our kiddos! They are absolute life-savers!!!

It was a wonderful weekend and even after 5 years of marriage, i am so very much in love with my husband and am looking forward to many, MANY more years with him!

I love you Warren, Happy Anniversary!!

Today is THE day!

Today is the day folks! Kuna City Council elections are going on NOW! Last year only 1,500 people voted out of 15,000+ people, that is pretty sad. We are hoping that this year since there are 10 candidates for only 2 seats, we will get more voters out! Warren and I made our votes early this morning and now we are just anxiously awaiting for the results tonight! I am very proud of my mr. christensen, even if he doesn't win! He has learned so much and i have seen the enjoyment he has in politics (darn!) He has a passion in making a difference for his community. So now i am just going to watch the news all evening and watch the counting! I am excited to see how it turns out! If you are a Kuna Kaveman and you haven't yet voted.... PLEASE get out and do it today!! Polls are open til 8pm this evening (tuesday).

GOOD LUCK WARREN!!