Food, Family, and Lifestyle
It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man is snoring. Yup, seeing that we were so low on rainfall, the rain is welcome but we have had 5 days of dark, grey, chilly rainy bleechy-blah. Not much outdoorsy patio stuff going on – even our new teak table can’t seem to catch a dry break. Lately,…
This week I walked out of CVS with my husband’s favorite toothpaste and shaving gel for $.54! In fact, I only had to pay the $.54 for tax since you can’t use extrabucks to cover tax. Do you want to see how I saved $8.68? Then head over to Koupon Karen where she will show…
Our daughter’s request was to have a party at a gymnastics studio and to have a rainbow party. We did our best to make that happen. For the cupcakes, I used mostly natural food coloring as I did with these cupcakes but added 2 drops of artificial to each color for added brightness. The kids…
For the past 6 weeks, I have been reading the book Food Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots by Nicole Young. I thought there were many useful topics and tips in the book for not only the foodie trying to improve their photographs, but also for the average person who wants to take better photographs….
This weekend we had the privilege of spending time with friends. On Saturday we hosted some friends under 8 and had fun playing outdoors while grilling on the new patio. Then on Sunday, we spent time with many, many friends of all ages for Isabel’s birthday party. I guess I would call it a warm,…
This past Saturday, following soccer and a play-date, we headed downtown to the annual Duck Race. This is the 8th year in a row we have attended…..sort of a tradition. The event begins with lots of vendors with food, face painting, and many family activities. The highlight of the event is when a dump trucks…
Happy Sunday Everyone! Today we threw our daughter a gymnastics birthday party with a rainbow theme. This morning I finished packing up the supplies and frosting the rainbow cupcakes. I will share more about the party this week. The rest of Isabel’s Birthday included a gift from her brother and dinner at Fiji Garden Japanese…
I know what you are thinking: ‘Is this grilled sandwich week?’. Nope, it is not, although there is such a thing, but while I was making the ‘super grilled cheese sandwich‘ the other day, I decided to see what else I could make out of some leftovers. I grabbed the barely any left roasted chicken,…
I am learning so much about how to maximize the CVS Extrabucks (EB’s)! I had $19 from last week’s shopping trip and rolled them over into this week’s shopping needs which resulted a savings of $38.27 (Karen saved $49.77*) with the EB’s, coupons and buying sale items. In addition, I now have $10.59 in EB’s…
