Christmas Decorations

Albie's Deals

I ran to Albertson's on Saturday night to pick up a few deals.

The Progresso soup was on sale for $1.39 each. I bought 12 and it totaled $16.68. Then I used four $1.10/4 coupons bringing the total down to $12.28. Because my before coupon total was over $15 I received a $5 catalina towards my next purchase and also 3 double coupons due to the promo sale Albertson's is having this week. If you subtract the $5 off of my soup purchase it would make my soup total only $7.28. And to make this deal even sweeter I got another $4.98 off the total. For every 6 cans of soup you buy you get 1 free broth or $2.49 taken off your total whether you get the broth or not! So my total price was $2.30 for 12 cans of soup...that's only a little over 19 cents a can. That is a great price!!!

The Dannon Light and Fit are on sale for 49 cents each. I purchased 8 which totaled $3.92. I then used two 75 cents/4 coupons I found on coupons.com and then doubled each of those for a total of $3.00 off. That equals 92 cents for 8 yogurts!!!

These Progresso Bread Crumbs were on sale for $1.00. I printed off two coupons for $1.10 off each one. Equals = FREE!

What deals have you gotten lately? I would love to hear!

Girl Time

Saturday afternoon I got to go to the mall! If that doesn't sound exciting or unusual to you, I can understand. Going to the mall isn't usually one of my favorite things. But that's probably because I am living in a houseful of boys! Well, today I got to "borrow" my dear friend Marty's little girl for an afternoon of shopping. Natalia needed a dress for an upcoming orchestra concert and she asked me to take her. ME!!! I felt so honored! So off we went for a little "girl time"...

We had so much fun! Isn't she just the most beautiful thing you've ever seen!

Not only is she beautiful, she's well spoken, intelligent, athletic and the sweetest thing you've ever met!


These are the two dresses she was debating on. She chose the pink. LOVE IT!

Thank you Natty for a wonderful afternoon!

Traditions

We have many traditions during the holidays that we enjoy.

#1 Decorating the Christmas Tree
and talking about each ornament as it is put on the tree...



#2 Baking
Here are some Russian Tea Cookies that I baked today for a cookie exchange I went to tonight. I have another exchange to go to on Sunday so I need to come up with a recipe. Maybe peppermint bark? I LOVE cookie exchanges and coming home with all kinds of yummy treats!

#3 Time Spent with friends
About 20 of us girls got together last night at Gino's for an earring exchange. We had such a great time! How can you top great food and fabulous ladies!!!


Our annual Christmas Bunco at Judy's house! Again...lots of laughter and great food!

#4 Tree Lightings
Enjoying hot cocoa at the Meridian Christmas tree lighting

#5 Parades
Watching the Meridian Christmas parade

Those are a few of our favorite things this time of year. And that was only THIS week....we have lots more planned in the upcoming weeks!

Baby It's Cold Outside

Monday morning driving down our street on the way to school...


My friend Elaine and I decided to take the dogs over to the park...


Last night, on the way home from a ladies Christmas tea with my friend Mary, I noticed the outside temp on the car said it was 5 degrees! When I woke up this morning the newscaster on the clock radio was letting us all know that it was now -5 degrees at 6:30am. That's right folks...NEGATIVE 5 degrees!!!!

Mary and I at her church for the Ladies Christmas Tea. What a fun night!

Thankful...

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends in California. We ate too much, watched lots of football and enjoyed catching up with one another. It was our first Thanksgiving at home since moving to Idaho....and it was WONDERFUL having my mom's cooking again!!! The boys spent the rest of the weekend playing with their cousin, Lani, and visiting friends. My parents took the boys to see Christmas Carol 3D at the movies and they ate at In -N-Out more than once! Troy and I celebrated our 17th wedding anniversary on Saturday with dinner,a movie and visiting with our dear friends, The Espinosa's. We are truly blessed...
Here are a few snaps of our weekend.
We hope you all enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving!