My crazy life!

I had to laugh at myself- I had already put most of my "great deals" away yesterday when I though-- hey I should take a picture & put it on my blog of what I have been doing with my "spare" time lately. Well here it is: COUPONSENSE!!!!!!! I love coupons! I love FREE stuff! But, most of all, I love VONDA GUTTERY!!! She is my instructor & she is the best. Call her 480-497-1214. We are all going through times where we need to cut back, tighten our belts-- right? I know I am not the only one! So, give her a call- for as little as $30.00 a month- you can save tons of money- get your year supply started- not only on food- but personal hygene, toiletries, cleaning supplies. It is a little time consuming & in the beginning you will spend a little more than usual, but it is worth it. My February total's were crazy- I spent about $900.00 for $2200.00 worth of product. The program is awesome-- CALL HER!

I know this isn't a great picture- but- I am stocked up on cereal (.50 a box or less), fruit snacks, granola bars, salad dressing & many other items. Last night I went to Fry's and seriously- got $60.00 worth of groceries for $12.00.

dish soap :)

This shelf is FULL of shampoo/conditioner & lotion. Yesterday at Bashas I got 9 bottles of Suave conditioner or shampoo for .19 ea & 6 bottles for .27 ea. A few weeks ago @ Wallgreens, I was able to stock up on Garnier products- shampoo/conditioner & hairspray- for FREE. All NAME Brands-- pantene, herbal essence, loreal, dove etc.

Deodorant- (women & men) toothepaste, toothebrushes, floss & mouthwash. When times are tough-- do we want to compromise our hygene? NO. One of my favorite deals: Walgreens was offering a $6.00 register reward if you purchased 3- participating Listerene/Reach products, in the paper that week was a coupon from the manufacturer for $3.00 off 3 items. So, that week I got 3 big bottles of mouthwash, 3 packages of floss (their expensive brand) & 6 toothebrushes (2 pack) FREE.

having 3 girls in the house "shaving"--don't want to run out do we? Most of these razors were 8.99 or less on sale- "stacking" coupons w/store sales- I was able to get these for 1.00 or less.

Foundation, concealor, lipstick, lipgloss, eyeshadow, mascara----just a few "pretties" that we are stocked up on.

Lost & Found

Tennis anyone? Here is Kenz & Jessica Golightly (she is a Laurel in our ward) at their tennis match against Arcadia. Kenzie tried out for J.V. tennis & made it. They have been practicing hard & started their matches against other schools last week. She played doubles with Jessica and they lost 8 to 5, the crazy thing is-- they lost to 2 seniors (jess -10th grade, kenz 9th) they did so good, we were proud of them. Of course the parents always have fun on the sidelines visiting. I miss serving with Kristina (jess's mom) in young women's, it was fun chatting with her. (even though we kept getting the LOOK from the girls- like we were too loud or something.) Can you imagine ME TOO LOUD????

Dad, C.J., Kenz & Ry dog. (that's what I call her- notice her "stormtrooper" boot that she is trying to hide behind Kenz-- she hurt her foot/ankle- so she has to wear this boot & it looks like something that would be part of a stormtrooper costume-from Star Wars.)

Smoocheroonies. Haha. Val & I used to play this game, it's kind of sad that we don't play it anymore. Maybe because our children think it is so gross when we kiss in front of them. Anyway, one of us would say "smoocheroonies" & the other would have to kiss the one who said it. The game was, sometimes we would say it in a different room- so you would have to find them before you counted to 10 or else they would be in trouble-- I don't remember what kind of trouble- but it was fun.

Valentine's Day 2009. Val & I were asked to speak in church the following Sunday on the Blessings of Attending the Temple. So, our plan was to attend the temple sometime that week, well it didn't happen. So, for Valentines- we took Kenz, C.J. & Rylee- (kenz's best friend) to the temple. We took some pictures & walked around the visitors center. Than we went to Ned's for dinner. Do you know Ned?

Val, me & our Eagle Scout. Yea!!!! The end of January our ward had 7 boys receive their eagle. Our Bishop wanted to do something special, so the Schafer's in our ward own a wedding/reception hall in Gilbert. They had a catered dinner & a really nice program full of awards and all kinds of fun goodies for the boys. I will do a different post later, with better pictures.