Sarah Kate's day at the Zoo with friends!

Sarah Kate went with her friend Haynes to the zoo today and had a blast! We started out our day of fun with a picnic at botanical gardens and then decided to stroll around there and try to get some pics, then we headed to the zoo! Sarah kate loved seeing all the animals and playing with her friend Haynes (he loved the first half, and passed out for the second half in his stroller). It was a beautiful day to go, not crowded and not too hot!

Happy Birthday, Pop!!

Sarah Kate wanted to tell Pop, "Happy Birthday, Pop!!" this morning! She loves her Pop and she hopes he has a wonderful birthday!!

Sprinkler Day!

Sunday afternoon, we decided to pull out the sprinkler and let Sarah Kate play in the water while we did some yard work. It was such a lovely day and felt so great, we stayed out till it was almost dark :) Sarah Kate did more drinking of the hosepipe water than playing! She would stick her tongue out and drink it, then look at me or Daddy and lick her lips and say "yumm, yumm!!" She is such an outdoor girl. Every morning lately, we wake up and she begs to go outside to "play" or "swing" (sometimes it turns into, "PLAY....SWING..."). I think she would stay out all day if I let her :) It has been awesome weather lately and I am glad she likes to go out, because her momma and daddy do too!
Sarah Kate did a good job too of helping daddy water the grass :)

Easter weekend 2010

Just thought I would share some pics from our Easter weekend. Sarah Kate had so much fun learning the concept of hunting Easter eggs! We went Fri. morning to start things off to the nursing home we visit and had a hunt there. We had lots of fun looking for the eggs with Annika and Maja! Sat. morning we headed to our church for their annual Egg Hunt. It was raining a little, so it became an indoor egg hunt, which was fun :)

Sarah Kate did a good job of sitting with the other kids listening to Mrs. Paige tell about the Resurection Eggs. Then it was off to hunt. After that we headed straight the her cousin, Haven's, 2nd birthday party at Pump it Up. That is quite the fun place.

I think the adults had more fun than the kids. Sarah Kate was really unsure about the big jumping things at first, but after some time, she branched out and really had a good time!

Sat. night we made resurection cookies with Sarah Kate. Daddy read us the story and Sarah Kate helped Mommy stir and mix all the ingredients. Sarah Kate actually picked up some the the story and was repeating some of it back to us the next morning as we told her Jesus was no long in the tomb. She was precious as she told us her version of the story that she got from what we had told her.

Sunday was full of activities too. We headed to church and enjoyed worshipping a RISEN SAVIOR, and then headed home to meet family coming over to eat. We enjoyed some ham and such and then got to decorate eggs and then do our 3rd egg hunt.

By this point Sarah Kate was quite the pro at the whole thing :)

I think this picture happened to capture too why Haven ended up with a blue stained mouth :) We are so blessed to get to worship a risen Savior who loves us with an everlasting love!

Publix trip 4/7/10

We had a great trip today at Publix! I spent $68 on all the items above, and not included in the pic is a $50 bp gas card! So total: $18 on the groceries this week :) Some of the best deals:

cinnamon toast crunch-b1g1--making it $1.98 a box-$1.50 peelies found on the boxes= .48/box

Midol--$3.69-$2 publix green adv. coupon and $2 printable coupon=.31 overage x2

Heinz Vinegar--.99-.50 cent coupon doubled to $1=free

Suave haircare--$1-.50/2 coupon and .55/1 publix coupon x2=.10 overage

Bayer---$2.65-$2 green adv. flyer coupon and $1 newspaper coupon=.35 overage

Immaculate cookies--$1.54-$1 coupon in Publix mag.=.54

Yoplait yogurt--$1.25-.50 cent coupon doubled to $1=.25

coffeemate creamers--1.00-.50 cent coupons doubled=free (and I had printed a b2g1 free coupon too--so I was able to score all 4 for free!!!

Goldfish--$1 (no coupon :(=$1--but the joy in Sarah Kate's eyes as we drove home and she chowed down on some goldfish=priceless :)

Stoffer's family size entrees- $3.99-$2.50 coupon found on facebook fan page=$1.50 each

Publix bleach-$1.67-penny item coupon-1.66= .01

ground chuck-on sale $2.69/lb.x3

bc brownies 1.26-$1 peelies (found sometime back)= .26 each

bananas

fresh green beans

lemonades (which I plan to use to make some homemade dishwasher detergent)

bush's blackeyed peas--.93

bp gas card--$50-$10 in ad coupon= $40

Good day I must say!

Free Pantene Full Size sample!!

There is a great offer right now on Vocalpoint, that was available last week, and is available again! If you missed this last week, you can sign up for a free sample of Pantene shampoo and conditioner from Vocalpoint. If you aren't already a member of vocalpoint, you will first need to apply on their website.
So today I had a couponing class in Vestavia with a great group of ladies and we had a great time! I love sharing how to get into this couponing thing and seeing others get excited about saving lots of money and having fun with it too! We haven't been shopping this week yet, but will post a pic when we get around to it and a break down of what all we got!
I have another class next Tues. in Chelsea that will be quite fun I am sure! These classes are so fun, and I can't wait to see more and more join in on this crazy couponing thing!

Cheap Photostamps!!!

I found these today looking around at blogs and jumped right on it! If you go to southersavers, she has the full post on how to get 60 personalized photostamps for $21.16!! That is cheaper than the price of stamps themselves!!! I got some cute ones of my little girl, Sarah Kate posing :) These will be fun to use and I will save one for her baby book. I think in 30 years or so she might think it is neat to see the cost of stamps when she was 2. Check it out! here is the link for southernsavers blog on how to get this great deal!