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August 17, 2009August 17, 2009

Savin’ at the Kroger Mega Event (and giveaway!)

If you’ve been reading this blog for awhile, you know I loooves me some Kroger. With their promotions and unlimited double coupons, I always save a bunch. So of course I was ever-so-pleased when MyBlogSpark and Kroger e-mailed me to challenge me to see how well I could do at the Kroger Mega Event sale, which runs from August 16-September 2nd. They gave me a $30 Kroger gift card from General Mills and PepsiCo to work with, too! Woohoo! Tonight I went shopping, and even though I had to take BOTH my children with me (thank you Lord for the race car carts – I would never get Sophie and my sanity through a grocery run without one) I did quite well! For ALL of our weekly groceries, I spent $47.62. Here are the Mega-Event sale items I got. When you buy 10 items, you get $5 off your order!

I had coupons for ALL these items so I saved even more! Before the $5 off and my coupons, these items alone would have cost me $20.40. After the $5 off and my coupons, these 10 items cost me $9 even. Woohoo! That is a HUGE savings! (You can see this post at MommySnacks for coupon match-ups for our area.) And they are all things my family regularly eats and uses. We take brownies to our house church meeting every Sunday, so I go through a lot of brownie mixes, and I am partial to Betty Crocker! Peanut Butter Captain Crunch is my husband’s favorite. My kids love Betty Crocker fruit snacks, and we all love Fiber One bars. So this mega-event was an AWESOME one for us!

Here are the brands with participating items in the Mega-Event:

AMP Energy, Aquafina, Betty Crocker Baking Mixes, Betty Crocker Fruit Snacks, Cascadian Farms Cereals and Bars, Cap’n Crunch, Cheerios, Cheetos, Chex Mix, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Cocoa Puffs, Dole Juices and Juice Drinks, Fiber One, Fritos, Gatorade, Golden Grahams, Green Giant, Hamburger Helper, Life , Lipton Tea, Nature Valley, Old El Paso, Pepsi family of 2 Liters, Pillsbury, Progresso, Propel, Quaker Instant Oatmeal, Quaker Chewy Bars, Starbucks, Sobe Life Water, Totino’s, Trix, Tropicana, Yoplait and MORE!

All the stores in the Kroger family of stores are having this Mega-Event through September 2nd. So make sure and check your store circular or website to see what’s on sale in your area!

Kroger and MyBlogSpark are giving one lucky Mommin’ It Up reader a $30 gift card of their own to celebrate the Mega-Event. To enter, just leave a comment and tell us your favorite thing about Kroger. One winner will be drawn by Random.org on Saturday, August 22nd. Good luck! And happy Krogering!

August 16, 2009

Weekly Winners: Virginia Vacation

I promised more pictures from my Virginia vacation, and here they are! I haven’t done Weekly Winners in a long time and I’ve missed it. Hope you all enjoy, and don’t forget to visit the Weekly Winners headquarters at Sarcastic Mom.

My graceful girl

Wink, wink!

We went to a wildflower farm. Even though many of the flowers were past season, it was still gorgeous!

My dad and my daughter:

Spinster sisters:

An ant encroaching on a blanket flower:

Two of my favorite guys in a field of flowers:

Past it’s prime:

We had a great vacation, and I loved taking photos of all the beauty in nature there!

August 14, 2009August 13, 2009

The Domino Effect

Are you sick of hearing about what I did on my Virginia vacation yet? I hope not, cause here comes yet another tale. In this exciting chapter, you will hear about how I embraced my Inner Senior Citizen.

I became an avid Domino player. That’s right, yours truly, generally known for being super ~~nerdy~~ hip, young, and dazzlingly stylish, succumbed to peer pressure from my parental units and embraced this old folks home favorite. And what’s worse, I dragged my uber-cool husband down with me.

My mom and I played on a team against my dad and Bobby, and we tooooootally whooped ’em. It was legen…wait for it…DARY! In the world of familial domino-playing, that is. It was on like Donkey Kong! My mother and I seriously laid the girl power smackdown on those dudes, while high-fiving each other and ruthlessly taunting our competition. It was like, totally a “Girls Rule, Boys Drool” moment. Although, in the nursing home, where this game is usually played, I think both genders drool equally.

But anyways. We played every night we were there, and this week I have been having Domino withdrawal. I am thiiiiiiis close to running out and getting a set for Bobby and I. Dominoes in hand, I can then start cruising long-term care facilities for people to play against us.

Protect your Grandmas, people! Or I’m gonna force them to play Dominoes against me. And I plan to show NO mercy.

But to save you, my friends, from a similar dotted-tile related fate, I’ll give you one piece of advice: do not accept an invitation to play games with two people whose most exciting upcoming life events are going on Social Security and/or Medicare in the next 30 days. I beg of you, don’t do it! It’s too late for me, but YOU – you have your whole life ahead of you!

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Photo by Great Beyond on Flickr