I started using MapMyWalk.com within the last week again. I found the website about a year ago, but at the time I did not use it. I found recent goals and one was to Walk a Marathon in 30 Days which is equivalent to 26.2 miles. Since it says walking, it will not count other exercises such as bike riding. As another incentive since it does not count our recent bike riding activity, I also did a goal to exercise 20 out of 30 days. So far, we have been able to do 3 days within the past 7 days. I was also excited to see my total steps today were over 11,000!! I try to wear my pedometer when I go to a school because I walk a decent amount. According to its estimations between walking at school and walking to the playground I walked about 4.6 miles today!
So far, I have the front and back of the clipboard painted purple using Making Memories Grapevine (purple) paint. Then I plan to use Coordinates Collections' May Soda Pop kit to alter it some more. I have not quite decided how it will look since I am letting the paint dry on the front side right now. Stay tuned for the final project!
Since school is winding down and I will have a little more free time on my hands, I decided I would play World of Warcraft with Jeff again. This is my primary character, Evaelyn. She is a level 50 Blood Elf Mage.
After visiting one of my favorite sites, Southern Savers, I headed out to CVS. My total out of pocket (OOP) was higher today at CVS because I used my remaining ECB last week. However, I was excited about getting the Clearasil face wash for Roland, the free deodorant for Roland or Jeff, and the Olay body wash for me! We are well stocked in toothpaste right now. However, I must say I have learned I really do not have to pay for toothpaste between coupons and specials! I just absolutely love it!CVS: Sunday & Monday only
$3.99 ECB wyb Clearasil Stayclear face wash 6.5 oz at $3.99 Free after ECB, Limit 1
-$1 off Clearasil, SS 4/19 (I do not believe I cut this coupon because I could not find it in my coupon notebook!)
$3.99 ECB wyb Speed Stick Pro Deodorant at $3.99 Free after ECB Limit 2
$3 ECB wyb Playtex Gentle Glide 18 ct or Sport Tampons 16 ct at $3.99 Limit 1
Another good item currently on sale at Kroger is Electrasol Finish Powerball dish detergent. They are currently on sale at $2.99. We needed milk, eggs, and bread this morning so I decided to pick up another 2 while I was there. I have bought 3 now, since I have had coupons to add along to my purchase averaging $1.50 each.
Your biggest task is not to get ahead of others, but to surpass yourself.
--Unknown
Kroger Gallon Milk $1.99 ea
Total Before Savings and Coupons: $119.15
I did pretty good today. I had a $4.00 ECB along with my coupons. I installed the Airwick Freshmatic in the front bathroom and I am thinking of buying one more for our bathroom since inside it had another $2.00 coupon.
I created this layout using Coordinates Collections' March 2009 Sky kit. Jakob attended this birthday party on March 31, 2009 at Going Bonkers. Many birthday parties this year have been at Going Bonkers. We are done with birthday parties for a while now. All of them seem to have birthdays around the same time at his school! The layout is designed using the May 2009 1-Page Sketch from Coordinates Collections. I really liked using this sketch this month because it was a quick and easy sketch. It worked perfect for what I had remaining of the Sky kit to use for a girl's birthday party.
I used Coordinates Collections' May 2009 Soda Pop kit to create the layout. I created this scrapbook page for a challenge from Coordinates Collections. Challenge #1 focused on everything May is...one of the choices stated it was National Bike Month. Beginning in April, we have started riding bikes and Roland has also started rollerblading. Jakob has been using Roland's old Star Wars bicycle with training wheels and really enjoys it. Sometimes he gets concerned about going too fast, but usually he does pretty well. The picture of Jeff and Jakob was taken while we stopped waiting for a car to pass. The layout is designed using Sketch #21 from Inspired Blueprints.
I finished my third challenge for Coordinates Collections May Cyber Crop. This layout was designed for challenge #2. The requirements were to have at least 1 black & white or sepia photograph and 1 color photograph. I decided to use water skiing photographs I have of my husbands' grandfather, father, and brother water skiing in 1992 and in 2006. All three of them were up at the same time and is just too cool! I learned how to water ski because of all of their help. I am really happy with how this layout came out. The layout is designed using Sketch #51 from Creative Scrappers. Overall, I was able to finish 3 out of the 6 layouts this weekend. If I hadn't gotten in the mood to make cards last night, I probably would have had 4 layouts completed. However, the cards are gorgeous and they will get used as well in the future!
I created both of these cards using Coordinates Collections's March 2009 Sky kit.
I created this card using Coordinates Collections's March 2009 Sky kit. The layout is designed using Sketch #114 from CPS-Card Sketches.
I finished my second challenge for Coordinates Collections May Cyber Crop. This layout was designed for challenge #4. The requirements were to have all the colors of the rainbow in the layout. This was harder than I had expected as I had troubles with adding purple and yellow into the layout. However, I think it came out okay. The layout is designed using Sketch #11 from The Scrappiest.
Coordinates Collections is hosting another cyber crop this weekend. These pictures of Jakob are from 2007, only 2 years old! He was eating a bagel before going to school. For challenge #1, the requirements were to have 2 pictures, red, and bling in the layout. All of challenges are centered around the Wizard of Oz! The layout is designed using Sketch #82 from Got Sketch?.
I created this Happy Birthday card using Coordinates Collections' March 2009 Sky kit. It is based on their May 2009 card sketch. 
I headed to Target after dropping Jakob off to school. I was unable to take a picture of everything today from Target since some of it needed to be put away and some was left in the car for another load to bring up the 3 flights of stairs! From Target, I considered the above picture the best of products for price with coupons and savings! However, with coupons today from Target I saved over $36 in coupons!! My bill went from $70 to $33!!
Here's what I received free this week in my mailbox! Sure is fun to check the mailbox now! These are a combination of things signed up for.....free samples, free magazine subscriptions and more.
I created this layout using Coordinates Collections' March 2009 Sky kit. The layout is designed using Sketch #10 from The Scrappiest. Jakob was funny when riding the bumper boats. He liked them, but he thought they were a little loud! If you look in the top right picture, he has his hands covering his ears!
