Using Coupons

Sooo I love the idea of coupons and ideally I'd like to use them all of the time, but the reality is that I use them on and off and then about half the time.. I made a trip to Harris Teeter today, they are doing their super doubles where they double any coupon up to $1.98. So, the boy and I were sitting around and I was reading about all of the free or almost free things that I could be getting today and jumped in the car and off we went.

I ended up with

6 boxes of green giant vegetables for $3
4 boxes of Betty Crocker potatoes for $2
4 cans of Chunky soup for $3
2 packs of Dannons kids yogurts for $free
2 packs of Danonino kids yogurt for $1.70
2 bags of friskies cat food for $4
2 bags of friskies cat treats for $free
2 bags of Yoplait smoothies for $1.00
1 pack of Polly string cheese for $2.79
2 packs of Pillsbury Sweet Moments for $3
2 packs of Wholly Guacamole for $2
2 boxes of Toaster Strudels for $4.50

Total of $27 + Tax

Not too bad!

Here is the haul:

Preschool!

I haven't updated in a while (Imagine that!)

We had a pretty uneventful summer, though we bought a swimming pool and that was tons of fun! We haven't had our vacation yet, but will next week so be on the lookout for that post!

However, Mr Brandon officially left the nest of Grandma and Mommy (for 3 half days a week anyway) and started Preschool. The first day was full of tears from Mama and sheer joy and excitement from Brandon!

My first tears started over our conversation in the van on the way there:

Brandon - Mama, are you going to miss me?
Me - Of course I'm going to miss you
Brandon - It's okay Mama I'll be back in a little while

Who knew the boy would have to comfort the Mama on this big day in both of our lives..

It's been a week since that first day and the boy loves it more and more every day I think. He comes home singing songs and telling me about things that happened, this amazes me since not quite 2yrs ago my little boy couldn't say 10 words and we were going through the hell that is known as "Evaluations".. Speaking of, he's come so far in that 2yrs that his speech therapist doesn't think she'll need to see him much longer so we'll be having another evaluation soon and I believe that this one will be met with happy tears instead of frustrated ones!

Here are a few pictures of his first day of school:

Brandons 4th Birthday

Brandon turned four on December 6th, where in the world does the time go!! We did our usual birthday party at the Church Fellowship Hall of my Moms Church and had hot dogs, chips and cake. We got him a Leapster2 which has been a huge hit and Grandma got him the "crash cage" for his monster jams that he had been begging for forever! Here are a few pictures from the festivities!

Catching Up (Yet again!)

So I am back to catching up (yet again!) on here! It has been a long while since I posted on here and a lot and not a lot has happened in that time frame.

Brandon turned 4 and is finally talking (almost) like he should be. He is still learning how to put sentences that make complete sense together, but for the most part we're right on track! In October we took a short family vacation to the beach and although it rained on us at the beach, we enjoyed the time away.

I am still working at the bank, but I am trying to get in at the new Emergency Room that opened near our house doing patient registration, I've had my first interview and that went well so I'm hoping and praying that I hear back on that as soon as possible..

Here are some pictures of the beach trip!