Lily Bug is "3"

Lily has talked about and anticipated her birthday since early this year (yes, that's about seven months now)! She celebrated and enjoyed six other parties while waiting for hers:) In our "full house" with lots of hustle and bustle, birthdays are pretty special. Not because we spend a lot of money or even have a big party, but because we try to make the birthday boy or girl feel special. We are celebrating the blessing of that son or daughter, brother or sister in our family. They get to choose their birthday dinner and cake and ice cream or desert. We sing, take pictures, and video and enjoy a few simple gifts, usually yard sale finds and hand me downs and homemade cards and letters. It's just plain fun!
Lily was patient for a couple of "cheese" shots, they had to have a star sprinkle!
One of her favorite gifts....pink heart shoes with lights from Nana:)
This is Lily with her favorite binky and blankey putting her baby in the "applesaucer".
Lily helping in the kitchen, washing grapes.

Happy Birthday Lils...We love you very much!!!

Snacking, "Wendy Style"

Yes, that is peanut butter and chocolate chips on whole wheat bread;) Wendy's own creation and she prepared it herself! That's my girl!

Menu Plan

Monday-
B-bacon, egg, and cheese biscuits
L-grilled cheese, apples
D-taco salad, cucumbers and tomatoes from our garden

Tuesday-
B-waffles, fruit
L- macaroni and cheese, apples, garden veggies
D- chicken, mashed potatoes, carrots and peas

Wednesday-
B-cereal
L-muffins, boiled eggs
D-chicken noodle soup, cornbread

Thursday-
B-waffles, fruit
L-leftovers, apples with peanut butter and chocolate chips
D-grilled burgers, tater tots, brussell sprouts

Friday-
B-oatmeal
L-egg salad sandwiches, carrots, garden vegetables
D-lasagna, salad, bread,
desert- eclair cake

My Barking Fat Baby With One Tooth!

Yes, you read that right. Rose has a tooth and can bark!! Hey, when your this adorable, any trick is cute. A couple of weeks ago she could say Ma Ma and Da Da. This was soon to be replaced with barking, something Daddy likes to teach all the babies. I always think its going to scare them, but they LOVE it! She loves her Daddy and barks to get his attention...their love language, I guess:)

Super Saving Saturday-Abigail's deals

We went to wal-mart to get some of the good deals this week! It was going to be where we spent around 3.00 but the lady didn't ring up one of the coupons for three dollars!! We could hardly stand that we didn't catch it while in line!

2 Bic pens 1.79

1 pack print paper 3.97

1 A&d ointment 3.34

2 kotex 2.00.

4 clean team wipes 6.96

4 relish 4.20

total: around 22.00

coupons

-6.00 clean team

-4.00 relish

-3.00 paper

-3.00 She didn't ring this one up!

-1.00 Bic pens

-2.00 kotex

spent 6.00 plus tax.

We had a pretty good week at cvs. Are grumpy manager seemed in a better mood! We did two transactions this week.

Transaction 1

4 Wrigley's gum $4.00
1 Cvs sunscreen $0.19

2 m&m's $4.00

1 Avalart $5.99

1 cvs aspirin $1.99

Total: Around $15.00

Coupons

-4.00 Avalart

-4.00 Wrigley's gum

-1.99 Free aspirin

-3.00 3 off 15.00 coupon

Spend around 2.00 or 3.00 in ECB'S

get back 3.00 from the avalart.

Transaction 2

2 Wrigley's gum $2.00

1 infant Advil $5.79

4 peak teas $6.76

2 Light bulbs $2.10
2 light bulbs $4.20
1 light bulbs $0.75
5 cvs sunscreen $0.95
Total: Around $22.00
Coupons
-3.38 2 B1g1 for teas
-2.00 off any skin care purchase
-1.00 off Advil
-2.00 Wrigley's gum
-4.00 4 off 20.00 coupon
Spend 9.00 in ecb's
Got 5 for candy, 5.79 for Advil, 2 for tea.
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Another Teenager in the House!

Jacob and Samuel on the trampoline ( I usually just don't watch unless they ask, they scare me!)
Happy 13th Birthday Samuel!!
Thank you for keeping it noisy and exciting around the house, not to mention hilarious. You are a blessing and we love you very much!

CVS and The Grumpy Manager

Once upon a time, there was a CVS with a manager who loved customers with coupons. The more, the better. He would even point out good "free after extra care buck" items and give me the next weeks sale fliers to plan deals from.

But one day, I went to CVS and the manager was no where to be found. He had disappeared, I was told, "He no longer works for CVS". NOOOOOOOOOOOOO, how can this be, I thought, fighting back tears.(almost)

Ok, we can do this , I thought, everything will be fine, but alas the new manager commenced to hand me my precious coupons back saying "You can't use this one...., You can't use this internet printable more than once...." I introduced myself and Abby as "regular shoppers" and said it was nice to meet her. No response, not even a polite hello.

Abby and I combined our previously planned three separate transactions into one, spent over half of our extra care bucks, and told the other sweet cashiers that were printing photos good bye and thank you to the NEW MANAGER and promptly left. The END.

Well, not quite the end, hopefully. How do all you CVS shoppers deal with a grumpy store manager? She would only let me use one of the most recent 2 off 10 coupons on one order. Shouldn't she have at least let us use one each, meaning one from me and one from Abby? The coupon reads one per customer. It does not read one per CVS card or one per visit.

I am happy to say that we ended up with a lot of great products in spite of our new manager. I will seriously miss the old manager. He was nice and was liked by his customers and employees.

Read more (hopefully happily ever after) CVS stories at The Centsible Sawyer.