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Restaurant Gift Certificates Item Name Quantity Price EachPrice Total Total Cert. Value
$10.00 Cold Stone Creamery 1 $0.40 $0.40 $10.00
$25.00 Riverboat Landing 1 $1.75 $1.75 $25.00"

I don't know if any of you have ever tried this website. I have used it a few times to get gift certificates for places to try when we go out of town. There is not a lot of choices here in Wilmington. You have 2 restaurants and Cold Stone Creamery.

I purchaed a $25 certificate last month for $3 to the Riverboat Landing and they gave me the $10 gift certificate to Cold Stone Creamery FREE. So $3 for $35 worth of food...not bad huh? The kids enjoyed a ice cream treat and david & I enjoyed a nice date night out. We got a $45 meal for $20 and I thought that was a great deal.

They are having another sale today if you use the code "WOW" at check out it will give you 90% off your order. I got the same two gift certificates ($35 worth) for a whopping total of $2.15. I will hold onto these a while since we just had a treat, and since they don't expire it doesn't matter when we use them.

Just a quick note

Just a quick note from a mom.....

If you leave them alone for over 5 minutes, please be aware that you have to accept that a room can be destroyed in that amount of time. LOL!!

God willing & the creek don't rise

I don't know about you but my grandma has said this to me thousands of times.Me: "Grandma. Are you coming to my house". Grandma: "Well God willing and the creek don't rise I am coming". Seriously I never understood what that meant. That was until I moved to Pender County. The creek rises a lot more than I thought. I guess growing up outside of Raleigh the only creek I ever heard of rising was Crabtree Creek. But if Crabtree Creek did rise it took out most of the first floor of the mall, and the U-Haul dealership on Capital Blvd. always lost a few trailers. LOL!! People just knew to stay away from those places when we got a lot of rain.

However after moving to Pender County I realized some people (from all parts of the world) just do not have common sense. Note the picture above. This is Scott Road. I live on Scott Rd., I took this picture from my driveway. I would not attempt to cross a creek that is flowing even with David's F-250. But this GENIUS tried to go across it in his little car. What are people thinking? If you can see the water flowing with a current over the road then it is not a good idea to try to cross.

Just to reassure all of you. When I saw this I immediate drove as close as I felt was safe and tried to see in the car to see if anyone was in need of help. I couldn't see anyone in the car so I called the Highway Patrol and reported it, and drove up to the fire department to see if they were aware of it because God only knows how long it would take the trooper to get here today. The fireman that came out when I blew the horn said they had already checked it and there was no one in the car when they got there, and they did a search of the area. That made me feel better. But still I got a big case of anxiety because of this persons bad judgement.

Sunday School Social Cruise

Wow! That is all I can say. The yacht was awesome. My whole family had a great time. It was so nice to fellowship with old friends, & new friends. Suprisingly the boat kept everybody attention for a full 4 hours. The kids have fun running from level to level. The watched tv in the master bedroom while looking out of the sky light to the people sitting at the front of the boat. There was also multiple lounge areas that people just rotated through all day.

High School Football

That's my man, #87. I have to admit I have no idea how to play football. Other than get the ball past the line & score a touchdown, I am clueless. I know the people in the stands thought I was a mumbling idiot. I kept asking David what was going on. According to David, Austin had a good game. He did great at blocking, he even caught the ball on 2 different kicks. I have to say for my first HS football experience it was kind of FUN!!

Hayden's 1st Day of Preschool

Today was Hayden's first day of Preschool. He has been so excited since Friday when we found out he could go. We have talked it up all weekend to him about going. We told him he would be going by himself and that he would get to do all of the cool things that his big sister Ashlee got to do. He is very familiar with the preschool because Ashlee has been going there since last year. We looked at a couple of different preschools and decided this one would be the best transition for him because it was somewhere he felt safe.

I dropped him off this morning hoping that things went smoothly. Thank God they did. He went right in, found his chair, found his cubby, and went straight to the play area. I sat down and took a couple of pictures and he basically ignored me. So I thought what the heck? He didn't care if I was there or not. So I told him I was leaving and would see him later. He said Okay & gave me a kiss.

I left school with Ashlee & thought my little baby has grown up. When did I miss that? I guess I under estimated my son and his ability to adapt. When I picked him up his teacher said he did great. He was a little quite, but he seemed to enjoy himself.

Mailbox check

I follow this blog where every once in a while the girl post what she got in the mail that day. I thought it was cute so I thought I would try it. So far this week (other than bills & junk mail) I have gotten:

1. A free bag of cheetos

2. A free 2 pack of Strawberry Pop Tarts (Austin's 1/2 birthday)

3. A coupon for a free bag of the New Kraft Homestyle Mac & cheese, and a $1 off coupon I will be using at HT for Super Doubles tomorrow.

A pretty good haul for free stuff in the mail.

Deal of the week

I didn't get to any real good sales this past week, except for getting the free earphones from CVS. So I waited to do my deals today while I had a baby sitter (I love Austin) and I could jump in and out of the car without having to drag kids with me.

So what I got from Harris Teeter & CVS was:

2 boxes of vanilla wafers

2 Shick Hydo Razors

1 Shick Hydro shaving cream (only had 1 free coupon left- should have gotten 2)

4 packs of Trident layers gum

2 bottles of Gain dish wash

7 philly cream cheese

4 packs of ball park franks

4 bags of kraft shredded cheese

1 jar of peanut butter

1 cookbook (FREE with purchase of 4 philly cream cheese- found @ the college road location)

All of this before coupons should have cost:

$87.66 before coupons & sales, but I only paid $8.70 after tax.

Not bad for $8.70 huh? I LOVE COUPONS!!!