The Pickle Experiment

The kids and Sean have been waiting to do this pickle experiment for awhile and last night, they finally got it done. The things they come up with....of course, Sean is just a big kid too (as you will see from the pictures)! First off, the pickle...



Next, the troops getting ready to see if it is going to explode (YIKES!) or glow...







Now, to connect with power...(at least that $30 helmet is useful for something)!



The smoking pickle...



And the glowing pickle....



We had to do it again after the sun went down a bit to actually see the pickle glowing....interesting, huh?

My Coupon Binder and Stuff

Many people have been asking me how I organize all my coupons. It has been a process, but I have found that keeping all my coupons in a binder inside of baseball card holders works nicely. It takes a little more time organizing after I cut the coupons, but it is so fast to look for a coupon now, instead of sifting through an entire category stack each time I'm looking for a particular coupon.

I have color coded inserts inbetween each category that I can stick special coupons in if I know I will be using them soon. I think my new binder looks much nicer than the older one.



Meijer has some fantastic deals this week. I got Chex Mix, Bagel Bites, Land O Lakes butter, frozen veggies, and baby soap for FREE. My favorite find of the week though, has to be the Fruit Chillers for .49 cents each! Yay...these will be awesome for this summer and another positive....you don't have to store them in the freezer until right before you want to eat them! These will be good for the hot baseball games coming soon!

When I dropped the kid's off at school this morning, I thought I would take a picture of the girls walking to the building. I have a picture of Justin running into the school when he was in kindergarten or first grade and I love it! I caught him in mid air! The girls weren't running, but they were holding hands, which is very unusual for them. What a sweet memory this will be for them one day!





And yesterday, when I went into Evan's room to get him up, this is what I found!!



He was quite proud of himself too!

Before I sign off for the day, I wanted to leave you with a picture of my stack of coupons that I used at Meijer this week. They has so many good sales....it was incredible....I saved between 75% and 85%!! If you are wondering why I can't give you an exact number....well...my order froze the computer, so they couldn't give me my original receipt with all my savings numbers on it. But hey, at least we didn't have to ring it all up again and scan all the coupons twice. I'm thinking that would have been a nightmare. And this is for the record, that the people at Meijer are awesome!! They treated me like a queen and got everything figured out quickly. I LOVE Meijer...I just hope they love me too!





Now, that's a lot of trees!

Fun Pictures Friday

Picture with Nena and Poppy...



In the big boy room...



Enjoying scrambled eggs and cinnamon rolls..."mmm" he says...



Playing with Caleb after dinner...







Evan has really started to "get around" the last few weeks. I think he may be crawling in just a few days...."HELP"!!





I decided to spare you the details of all my fabulous finds this week, but I'll be sure to share next week! Have a great weekend!

One of These Things is Not Like the Others

Can you guess who wasn't home??

Friday Finds

Evan and I found some time to do some bargain shopping after his Dr. appointment today. We decided to stop in three places.

MEIJER: $1.45 for 5 boxes!!



TARGET: All this for $8.25, plus I have a $5.00 rebate, so $3.25 plus the cost of a stamp...not bad!



And....the best goldmine of the week.....

We were in Walgreen picking up some Huggie diapers for Evan, and look what I found right next to them??

Jumbo pack of Walgreens diapers size 1 and 2.....) ONLY $2.19 a pack!! Can you say...YIPEE?!?! Evan is out of these diapers, but these make great baby shower gifts, so I was VERY HAPPY!! I even had my mom scout some down in Logansport....thanks, Mom!!



These are my Friday Finds....and it was a very good day! The girls love going shopping with me because, I'm telling you, they ALWAYS find money on the ground!! Today I was so proud of them. They found a nickel and donated it to the Muscular Dystrophy can by the register. They were gleaming from ear to ear. That was the icing on the cake!

Have a great weekend.....and let me know if you are curious about how I did these deals. In a nutshell, I use a lot of printables from the Hip2Save website, but I would be more than happy to talk you through what I did. Cheers!! -

Maybe He Will Play the Piano

**Please note.....some pictures will only load sideways, but I think you will get the picture ;)

Evan tried his hand at playing the piano last night. I have to say that he had a lot of fun and it kept him busy for awhile.









Here are some of the deals I have scored this week at our local Meijer. I love Meijer and here are some of the reasons why...

These boxes of cereal were 50 cents and 1.10 cents each!! The All Bran was more....but it was on sale for $3.50, so I'll take $1.10 anyday! Of course, I got more than then just these two boxes. Many only cost 75 cents a box. It was so easy....all I used was printable coupons for $1 off each box and Meijer was giving you $5 instantly at the register when you buy 5.....$2-$5ish for 5 boxes of cereal.....CRAZY!!




Then I had this really cool coupon for free Oreos when you buy a milk and a cookie. I got two cookies and a milk for $3.79....not bad, especially for Cakesters!



Mac n' Cheese was only 25 cents a box with my printable coupons...yay...



And Kleenex was $2.50 for 6 boxes after coupons and Kleenex catalinas!! Stock up time is now!!



I also found some good deals at other places too...
Lunchables for 25 cents at Payless....



and Goldfish for only 25 cents a bag too!!



I got these deals at Kroger and Walgreens this week. The Blistex was 30 cents and the Tylenol was 99 cents. I was able to get 4 of each.



I have always been a coupon user, but now I think I am an addict now that I have been introduced to printable coupons!! And if you don't live near a Meijer, you need to move...NOW!! And....don't ever lose your coupon envelope....talk about HORROR!! We had not been Meijer long, so I found it - on the floor....yay! I will show you in a later post why I wanted to find that envelope!

Flour

So, this week, I decided it is cheaper to buy my bread flour at Sam's. So instead of paying anywhere from $15 - $18 dollars for 5/5lb. bags, I bought a 25 lb. bag for under $7!!



I also decided to get a 25 lb. bag of all-purpose flour too. I haven't seen any good sales lately on flour and this seemed like a good deal....under $7.



I decided to bag the flour in my Ziplock gallon bags that I got on sale at Target last week for 35 cents a box :). When I was done, I had a lot of flour...



And now it is all put away in the freezer. Now that I am making all these yummy cinnamon rolls and bread all the time, I just had to find a way to have flour on hand at all times!! And, don't tell anyone, but I just ate one and it's after 9:00 p.m.!!!! It was totally worth it, by the way!

Before I finish this post, I want to leave you with a picture of Evan and his efforts to help me in my couponing....He just LOVES to play with all the inserts after I have clipped all the coupons. I also let him have all the expired coupons to play with...fun!