Gift Card Holders

Here's a creative way to give a gift card, make it into a snow globe!

Needed: a mason jar, some little ornaments, liquid gyclerin, glitter and ribbon.

Hot glue the gift card to the lid. Let it sit overnight. Don't worry, the gift card comes off pretty easily later on.

Put everything in the mason jar, close it with the lid.

Add a ribbon, shake it up and flip it upside down. 

Ta da... done!

Root Deer!

Evan and Bryon's favorite drink is root beer and we usually have the fancy in the bottle root beer when we go on trips. This Christmas, we're spending it in Flagstaff, so I thought it'd be cute to dress up our root beer into root DEER!

Need: Brown pipe cleaners, eyes, red noses! 

...And you get six cute root deers!

Holiday Ornaments

Made some scrabble tiled ornaments as presents. Six names took me two Scrabble games (too many Ys and Cs)...

They are also magnets so you can use them year round.

Here's all of them!



Walgreens Goodies!

Lots of goodies for low low prices...

It's been awhile so these are rough prices.

The big blue box of Puffs was free with two Vicks products. The cold medicine was $2 per box.

Pantene shampoos were all $1 each. Head and Shoulders was $2.

The Lysol wipes were $1.25 each, bought 4. Other Puff tissues were $.65 per box and I bought like 12, gave lots away. Charmin 6 packs were about $2.50 each.

Not pictured... Made $2 from 2 Colgate Total toothpastes for Evan's parents and made $.75 from floss for Evan.

Basically, Evan doesn't need to buy anything himself anymore. Yesterday he mentioned he needed Axe deodorant (he's picky about what kind), so today I went and got him his deodorant for $3.79 - $1 coupon - $1 RR = $1.79.

That's all for now!

Baby Kate - One month old

Kate is getting so big now! We thought it'd be a nice photo shoot with Kate dreaming away, but she decided to stay awake the entire time.

My favorites are the sweet pictures of Kate with her daddy!



Shout out to Rachel, who did an awesome job of distracting Kate and keeping her smiling!

Max

Met the Gatti family at Desert Botanical Garden this morning at 8am. It was nice strolling around the garden when no one else was there. Got some great shots of two year old Max and the family (thanks to M&Ms and Gold Fish crackers)!

 Love the next three photos of Max with his daddy.

Crazy Weekend

Whew... never been more excited to go to work on a Monday knowing it'd be more relaxing than the weekend.

Here's the run down of my hectic weekend:

Friday evening - Led small group at church for the college group, then went home to read a case and do lifetime customer value calculations.

Saturday - Attended Customer Relations Measurement class from 8:00am to 4:25pm. Sped home to throw on a dress and pretty up my hair. Then drove like a crazy to a wedding in Scottsdale (pictured below). Had lots of fun!

 After midnight as I lay down... the fire alarm starts beeping due to low battery.

Sunday - Went to church, had Lee's Sandwiches for lunch, picked up a cake at Donna's Bakery. Went to my dad's wedding at 3pm! Followed by super early celebration dinner at 4pm. Finished the night with a show (pictured below)!

Hoping for a nice, quiet, and relaxing next weekend!!!

Baby Kate - 10 days old

These are from Saturday morning. Wanted to get some family pictures for baby Kate's grandma while she's still in town.

Sarah - she's beautiful!

More Savings!!!

Fry's: 8 Crest toothpastes, 2 Oral-B toothbrushes and some girly products for $1.30!

Target: 2 pastas, 2 pasta sauces, Olay cleansing wipes, Crest Total toothpaste with a sample of 30 minute whitening for $6.50. Splurged on the Crest toothpaste (on clearance for $2.50 and used a $1.00 off coupon) but it had more coupons inside!

Walgreens: Needed body wash, $1.

Naomi

Here's my favorite little kid, Naomi! Since she's one of the few kids around, she gets spoiled by her many aunties and uncles! Auntie Cici is cool with feeding her candy since she goes home to her daddy!

Candy and body wash

Caught up on some couponing by making a quick trip to Walgreens for candy. I needed the candy for Fall Festival and was glad to get it for so cheap! Bought 3 bags at $1.99 a bag, used a $1.50 off, $1 off and $1 off making 3 bags cost $2.50.

Also picked Evan up some big bottles of body wash. Originally $5.79, buy one get one 50% off. I used a buy one get one free and a $1.50 off AXE body wash. Made them about $.69 each!

Yay for deals!

Sneek Peak

So happy to be done with finals in Managerial Accounting and Supply Chain. Took this Saturday to catch up on something I love... photography!

Started the morning with a drive to Tolleson to take pictures of my co-worker's new baby, Kate! She's beautiful! More pictures to come...

Then in the afternoon, I snapped some pictures of Naomi (not my daughter, but I take pictures of her like she's my own) before our church's Fall Festival. Also, more pictures to come...

Great day!