Christmas Fund Update 2012

Ok so I am now on the tail end of my Christmas Fund. I actually have reached my goal but I haven't cashed out a couple of survey sites that have a total of $25 in them. Yes, this is all after I actually cashed out last month. I get that many surveys.

So without those let's add what I have so far. Two $5 giftcards from Target and $7.93 in spare change.

Lets add. That comes to $17.93

Adding that to my fund come to the total of: $581.79 (so with my $25 I haven't cashed out I HAVE REACHED MY GOAL!!!)

I will let you know when I end up in November how we use the extra funds. Thanks for following along. And stay tuned to Couponing to Christmas!

Christmas Fund 2012 Update

So this past week was a decent week. Its slowly coming but I think I will reach my goal by September. So here is the run down of this week's fund. We are working on our backyard. Doing all the things we can do before the big projects take place once I start getting a paycheck again. We had this really ugly shade cover thingy that hung over our patio. It was able to roll out and create this shade. Which would be nice if it was pretty but it was SO GROSS. I realized a long time ago that it wasn't painted behind it the same color as the rest of the house but I was tired of looking at it and the non painted color looks way better than THIS THING. So I asked Joel to take it down and recycle the metal. We got $9 for it. Then I got $15 worth of Target gift cards for buying multiple items at the same time. And I had $4.33 in change.

 

So here is the run down of what I have so far.

Cash: $9
Gift Cards: $15
Change: $4.33

Total: $28.33 this week

Grand Total: $563.86 (Goal is $600)

I AM ALMOST THERE!!!! WOO HOO!!!!

Finally Enjoying Summer

As a substitute teacher I get to enjoy picking my schedule and how much I work during the year. But it also means that come June 1st I am a FULL TIME STAY AT HOME MOM! My dream is to be able to do this all year round. But as for now I work part time. Hopefully in a couple of years I will be able to be a SAHM. So the first few weeks of summer break were rough. It started on Mother's Day/Birthday weekend. We at first thought it was food poisoning but then I noticed how many people were affected at the same time we were and we realized that Joel, Nathan and Zachary (I was the carrier) had the NORO virus. Its a nasty stomach flu virus. Nathan had it the worst. I have never experienced something so heart wrenching than my 3 year old up all night every 20 minutes sick to his stomach. Once we thought they were over the worst of it I worked a few more days. Then we spent a weekend in Scottsdale. Then Joel's parents got it. That's how we knew it wasn't food poisoning.

I was able to finish out the school year, then the first week of break Nathan came down with a fever of about 102 for a few days. It also meant he had to cancel his very first swim lesson.

Glow sticks in the bath. Just a way to have fun at home.

Then the following week on his first day of swim lessons he woke up with blood shot eyes. He wasn't complaining about them or rubbing them so we just assumed that he was extra tired or the wind dried them out. He went to swim class and had a blast. But the next morning his eyes were not better. I called the doctor's office to see if I needed to worry and they said to come in ASAP. Nathan had viral pink eye in both eyes. Nothing we can do but wait it out and wash everything. We were told it could last up to two weeks. Thankfully, it only lasted about 5 days total.

Nathan's first swim class! His Superman arms!

We are now ALL HEALTHY! Praise God. Summer is in full swing. We are shopping, going to play places, having friends and families over and swimming! I love it! Nathan has 6 more weeks of swim classes then he starts preschool. We will see how he is after the 6 weeks to see if he will continue with swim classes or not.

Zachary is pulling himself up and taking steps to standing on his own. He can push things around on his feet but not very well yet. He just likes crawling and he can crawl fast enough that walking to keep up with big brother doesn't matter. :) I can't believe he will be 1 in just a few weeks!

 We have been spending a lot of time at Lowes. We are finally working on fixing up our backyard. Its going to take a few months but we are getting there! I can't wait to show it off!

SUMMER IF FINALLY HERE AND LOVING IT!

Christmas Fund 2012

Well, the past couple of weeks have been slow since I am building up my points again on my surveys and we have had a couple of different illnesses hit our family. But I still managed to get a few things in this time around. We had to go to the zoo to renew our pass and on our way we turned in our meager bag of cans (we don't drink a lot soda). I also got a Target Gift Card for buying two boxes of Up and Up diapers (super awesome deal with coupons too)

So let's recap.

$3.00 for recycling cans
$2.51 in spare change
$5.00 Target gift card
Total: $10.51

Grand total for the year: $535.53 (Goal is $600)