A good morning

Guess how much I spent on this:

I normally don't look at the grocery store ads. When I check my mail, which is about once a week (have I mentioned my LOVE of locked mail boxes), the grocery store ads normally go straight to the recycling bin. Sometimes I will glance at the first page to see if they're having a sale on Pepsi. I pretty much never buy pop, but I'm sure that drinking Pepsi makes the world a happier place. Lucky for me, my in-laws and my parents stock Pepsi by the case, so I make sure to drink it for them while I'm visiting. Why don't they sell Pepsi Vanilla anymore? That stuff was amazing. Way better than *the other brand*'s version. I digress... where were we? Ah yes, grocery store ads. I normally ignore them and just shop at Winco. I'm not an ad chaser who goes to all the different stores to get the deals. Although I am now a proud Costco card holder (for anyone keeping track of my blog). But this week one of the deal blogs I read (sorry, I don't remember which one), mentioned a huge sale at Albertson's on Quaker products. So I checked the Albertson's ad. This morning we took a trip to Albertson's and bought the above products for a total of...

$18.16

Are you kidding me? I "saved" $40.74. I put that in quotes since I wouldn't ever buy those items at that store at their regular price. Plus Eric doesn't believe in the concept of "saving money", you still spent money. Anyway...

Here's the breakdown:

All Quaker items (2 boxes of Life cereal, 6 boxes of peanut butter chocolate chip granola bars (a required food for Eric), and 2 boxes of Dipps granola bars) $1 each. You have to get these in multiples of 5 for the deal.

2 cans of Ragu for $1 each. They were on sale plus there was a coupon in the ad.

2 jars of Skippy peanut butter for $1 each. They were on sale plus there was a coupon in the ad.

The popcorn was buy one get one free and then you also got 2 free 2-liters of either 7-up, A&W, or Sunkist. It ended up being $0.80 for each item.

5 pounds of potatoes for $0.78. That's only $0.13 less than their regular price, but I needed them anyway.

I think I might need to start shopping the ads more often. I totally scored. Now, go to Albertson's for some granola bars!

Also, I'm normally not a fan of the clientelle that Albertson's usually attracts. But today there were quite a few friendly old men who all talked to us, it was very nice. I think they were excited about the granola bar and oatmeal sale.

The weather was super nice out today, sunny and 50 degrees! I decided to take the girls to the park by our house. Kaylin liked to "help" push the stroller as we walked. This was Lauren's first trip to the park and I uncovered her so she could get some air and sun. I think she liked it.

For some reason Kaylin loves the baby slide at this park. She didn't go down the bigger one even once.

This is one of Kaylin's favorite park activites:

Gathering rocks and bark. At least she didn't try to stuff her pockets full and bring them home this time.

We got home, Kaylin ate lunch, and now she's actually SLEEPING during nap time. Now if I can just get Lauren to take a nap.

Overall, it was a good morning.