A Good Buy

I want to start sharing things that I think are "good buys". The first item I 'd like to share as a "good buy" is this bean bag toss game I picked up at Bed Bath and Beyond. 

This game came in its own carrying case with two sets of bean bags (4 blue/ 4red) and two wooden goal nets to toss the bags into.

This set was 39.99 and of course I had 20% off coupon (Sign up for postal mailings, email and/or text alerts). 

The kids helped me break the game in this weekend , although I think Coby thought it was a bean bag drop.

He loves shouting " hooray! for himself.

Bed Bath and Beyond has become one of my "must shop stops". I look forward to their mailings and can pretty much always find a few things that we must have. 

Easter's coming

If you follow me on Twitter @Momme2Five you may have seen me post about these awesome felt Easter baskets I found at Aldi. If you know me personally you know I love to shop and I always try to shop around for the best quality item for our dollar. I've seen other baskets as high as 7 dollars each, which I guess is an alright price for someone with less children or a longer Easter basket budget. Honestly these baskets were the best quality I'd seen and they were only a dollar eighty nine. I couldn't MAKE these baskets for a buck 89. 

It's been a tradition for me since I've had children to make their Easter baskets; the way my Granma made ours for years and years. I think I was still getting a homemade Easter basket from her well into my college years. So the tradition lives on. It's fun! It's healthier than those store bought ones packed with dyed candies and sugar coated high fructose corn syrup. And...it's just what I do. So what are some of your Easter traditions? Please share in the comments section. Thank you...

Sing Into Spring

 

You all Know our family are BIG Disney fans. We love Disney Movies, Music and most of all Disney Parks. The Disney Sing into Spring contest combines all three. Enter to win Disney Park tickets for four by submiting a thirty second video of you or your family member singing a song from your favorite Disney movie.

Submit your entry on One2One Networks Facebook page...here.

 

You can find a list of songs here.

 

How easy is that?

 

I'm off to get out entries ready...I promise I'll post or link them on the blog.

 

By the way Instagram users can submit a video via Instagram if it's tagged #DisneySingIntoSpring

Back in Business

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I've been an Uppercase Living demonstrator in the past but once we relocated I let it go for awhile. Now, I'm back and I'm SO excited about what they have going on now...please visit my page at RachelRenee.uppercaseliving.net to check it out.

 

Valentines Day prep

The kids and I have been getting ready for Valentine's Day. Which is not only a big deal in our family but is also a pretty big deal at school. Every year we make Valentines for their classmates and teachers and a Valentine box for them to collect their love notes and tokens in. We used boxes of various sizes, construction paper, card stock, the Cricut Expressions2 machine, various knick knack pieces and a hot glue gun to create the Valentines boxes.

Our Kindergardener wanted a Monster box.

Our second grader wanted a puppy box. 

Here's her "Val-mation".

And our fourth grader wanted an Owl Valentine box. 

She even came up with some cute owl themed sayings for her Valentines, like "You're Owl-some" and "Owl be your Valentine". 

Now if I could shake this flu enough to finish them and the thousand other things on my to-do-list. Thanks for reading and feel free to comment below. 

What's up Wednesday

I thought I'd bring the blog up to speed with what's been up with our family the last few weeks.

First, it's cold! Very cold. When it hasn't been cold, it's been snowing. This hasn't been a bunch of light snowing either, it's been snow-nado, blizzard conditions...snowing! This has been a winter for the weather record books because our temperatures in the MidWest have gone so low(40 below) that they have cancelled school several times; even some churches have cancelled Sunday services. 

Next, I've been working weekends which has been awesome since the kids are on hiatus from sports and activities during the winter. Now that their seasons are approaching it's going to take some serious juggling. I like to work, hence the fab five; and hubby likes the extra money. 

Of course these two situations (the subzero snow days and me working weekends) has lead to what I've coined as 'FamilyFratHouse'. Simply put, our place is a bit of a mess. To top it off BabyGirls "nose is melting" and when she catches a  cold she loves to cling to Momme. So today I'll be cleaning and rearranging and organizing in hopes that Spring will soon be upon us. Thanks for reading, take care.

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