Okay so to all our Utah friends I have been trying to find ways in which to save money! If you know me, I like to save as much money as possible on literally ANYTHING I buy! I'm not an impulsive buyer and yes I do my research on things that I want before I go out and buy them (this includes all sorts of internet research). Once a friend told me that I should make a business out of it, because I know how to find great deals on just about anything! Just a little tip on saving a bit of money on groceries I started doing price matching for groceries at Walmart. They are great, they will give you the same deal on anything! Just bring in the ads that you get in the mail during the week and they will price match them for you. I tried this out at a local Target here in Orem and they do not do it on groceries but will do it on anything else that can be scanned. I haven't quite gotten into all the coupon craziness quite yet but I'm slowly learning about them. Both Walmart and Ridley's have a double coupon tuesday. Here are some rules that go along with it...
1. No price matching and doubling together. You will need to pick one or the other.
2. Coupons will be doubled up $1.00:
$0.25 coupon = $0.50 off
$0.50 coupon = $1.00 off
$0.75 coupon = $1.00 off
$1.00 coupon = $1.00 off (No doubling $1 off coupons.)
3. To double a coupon, the product being purchased must be “price matched” by deducting the face value of the coupon (up to $0.50). Then the coupon will be scanned at full value. Hence, the coupon is “doubled”!
You do have to have a bit of patience though because the lines do tend to get kinda long specially if you go during the weekends.
Watch this crazy video, I hope one day I can be like this! :)
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Sunday, May 29, 2011
Mission Reunion!!
Short post. If anyone wants pictures from the mission reunion, either the one with President and his wife or from general conference, here you go!
Jon's New Shinny Toy
Jon finally got a new shiny toy! He has always loved to grill ever since he was little, so it was time to get him a new grill! He was so excited that he wanted to grill every night for the past week... I think it is great, less cooking for me! I hope the feeling of wanting to grill every night sticks for a while! Here are a few pictures of him putting it together....
Birthday Girl
We celebrated my birthday on the 14th of May. The weather this year has been really yucky lately! It has been raining A LOT and it still doesn't feel like summer even though its almost June! Jon said he had a surprised planned for my birthday! He took me shopping!!! I always bug him about how he never takes me shopping and I just can't go out and spend money on myself, so he decided to take me shopping and he came along with me! Afterward we went to a new restaurant that we both had been wanting to try out for quite a while since it opened. It is a steakhouse called Texas Roadhouse, we where both really impressed at how yummy the food was! Way better than any other steakhouse I had been to! Highly recommend it if you are looking for a great steak! Dayan made me a beautiful 3-leches cake!
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Yearly Hajj to Arches National Park
This is a place I seriously can't get enough of. I've gone there every year (except last year) that I've lived in Utah. Kind of ironic, since I remember my parents taking us to desserts. They would sit and say how beautiful it was, and I would sit and say how ugly it was. I love it down there! There are tons of trails to hike on and there is something for everyone. This time around, we got to hike out to see the sun set on Delicate Arch (always a must). We also got to see Navajo Arch, which was a first for me.
Kim was sooo excited to go. We got a tent and brought a bunch of blankets, but it was still suuuper cold (so she says - I always sleep like a log). The wind was blowing really hard, which I've never had a problem with. It's always been kind of breezy, but it has never been this bad.
Matt and Annicka came along with us. We were going to make it a three day trip, but we decided to shorten down to two days and one night. I drove on the way down. It had been raining really bad for about 2 weeks and we were concerned that it was going to be bad weather down there as well. On our way, we went through a minor storm, but nothing huge. There's a tiny little summit on the way down, though, called Soldiers Summit; it has a Chevron gas station right there and then nothing else for about half an hour. Well, we get to this little summit (really, it's more of a hill) and we hit an ice patch. I'm not sure exactly what happened; I just know that doing all those donuts in the parking lot of the BYU football stadium with snow on the ground kicked in. I'm soooo grateful that it did, because we ended up doing a 720 on the road with a semi coming head on. Thankfully, the road was two lanes wide on both sides with a left hand turn lane and no other cars. I think everyone had to change their pants after that, as well! I know I had to get out of the car and take a couple deep breaths and say a VERY heartfelt prayer of gratitude.
I'd be willing to pay some money to see what that truck driver was thinking when he saw us spin out and head for his rig...
Check out the pictures we took below
Kim was sooo excited to go. We got a tent and brought a bunch of blankets, but it was still suuuper cold (so she says - I always sleep like a log). The wind was blowing really hard, which I've never had a problem with. It's always been kind of breezy, but it has never been this bad.
Matt and Annicka came along with us. We were going to make it a three day trip, but we decided to shorten down to two days and one night. I drove on the way down. It had been raining really bad for about 2 weeks and we were concerned that it was going to be bad weather down there as well. On our way, we went through a minor storm, but nothing huge. There's a tiny little summit on the way down, though, called Soldiers Summit; it has a Chevron gas station right there and then nothing else for about half an hour. Well, we get to this little summit (really, it's more of a hill) and we hit an ice patch. I'm not sure exactly what happened; I just know that doing all those donuts in the parking lot of the BYU football stadium with snow on the ground kicked in. I'm soooo grateful that it did, because we ended up doing a 720 on the road with a semi coming head on. Thankfully, the road was two lanes wide on both sides with a left hand turn lane and no other cars. I think everyone had to change their pants after that, as well! I know I had to get out of the car and take a couple deep breaths and say a VERY heartfelt prayer of gratitude.
I'd be willing to pay some money to see what that truck driver was thinking when he saw us spin out and head for his rig...
Check out the pictures we took below
Thursday, May 19, 2011
It'll be done by Monday Babe!!
Famous last words...
Since I lost my job, I decided to tare out the paneling upstairs and repair the plaster that was under it. A lot of people told me to just hang up drywall over it, but I had read things that some plaster wouldn't be able to support the weight of the walls. And for some reason, I really like the smooth look of the plaster. So I tore it out. It took me one night to tare it all out. I thought it looked better already!! Since they had used glue and nails to put up the paneling, there were huge chunks of plaster missing. Glue was all over! I came up with the brilliant idea of sanding it all off. So we went out and bought a belt sander and a bunch of belts and I started sanding down the wall.
After a couple hours, a couple packs of belts and about 2 feet on the wall, I realized that:
So I quit sanding and broke out a putty knife. (This is on Sunday... And I still hadn't finished 3 feet of the wall when I was supposed to be done by Monday.) I was prying and scraping glue off like crazy. Monday came and left and I hadn't even finished the hallway yet... TWO AND A HALF WEEKS went by and I finally finished scraping the glue of the walls... Good thing I had plenty of time to work on it since I didn't have a job.
I then had to patch all the holes. I had to fill them with dry wall compound and then let it dry and then fill it again since the dry wall compound contracts when it dries. Once I had filled it all in, Kim painted. We put two coats of primer and three coats of paint, just to be sure. We cleaned the carpets and tried to clean the curtains... That didn't go over too well. They fell apart in the wash machine. So we got some new ones as well. Check out the before and after below.
Since I lost my job, I decided to tare out the paneling upstairs and repair the plaster that was under it. A lot of people told me to just hang up drywall over it, but I had read things that some plaster wouldn't be able to support the weight of the walls. And for some reason, I really like the smooth look of the plaster. So I tore it out. It took me one night to tare it all out. I thought it looked better already!! Since they had used glue and nails to put up the paneling, there were huge chunks of plaster missing. Glue was all over! I came up with the brilliant idea of sanding it all off. So we went out and bought a belt sander and a bunch of belts and I started sanding down the wall.
After a couple hours, a couple packs of belts and about 2 feet on the wall, I realized that:
- I was putting huge chunks in the wall
- I wasn't going anywhere and I was taking forever to get there
- I was sanding down lead paint
So I quit sanding and broke out a putty knife. (This is on Sunday... And I still hadn't finished 3 feet of the wall when I was supposed to be done by Monday.) I was prying and scraping glue off like crazy. Monday came and left and I hadn't even finished the hallway yet... TWO AND A HALF WEEKS went by and I finally finished scraping the glue of the walls... Good thing I had plenty of time to work on it since I didn't have a job.
I then had to patch all the holes. I had to fill them with dry wall compound and then let it dry and then fill it again since the dry wall compound contracts when it dries. Once I had filled it all in, Kim painted. We put two coats of primer and three coats of paint, just to be sure. We cleaned the carpets and tried to clean the curtains... That didn't go over too well. They fell apart in the wash machine. So we got some new ones as well. Check out the before and after below.
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