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!

Kroger Mega-Event

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!

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We’re Home!

We got home from Walt Disney World on Saturday night. It was a fantastic trip! We had such a good time and I am more enthralled with Disney than ever before.

I’m going to post more details about it tomorrow, but here are a few pictures of our trip!

Kate and me riding Winnie the Pooh.
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Sammy riding Dumbo.
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Andy and the kids on the Kilimanjaro Safari.
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Kate and Sam with Cinderella.
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Sam was more of a fan of the characters from a distance.
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Kate with her Tinkerbell face on.
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Kate workin’ it before the new Toy Story ride.
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Andy and Sam on the Triceratop Spin.
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Sam was pretty over riding in the stroller by Saturday morning.
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This is how we ended most nights.
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All of us in Fantasy Land.
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Kate found it impossible to look directly at the camera and smile, so I figured, if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.
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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

graceful

Wink, wink!

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

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My dad and my daughter:

Learning from Papaw

Spinster sisters:

spinster sisters

An ant encroaching on a blanket flower:

ant on a blanket flower

Two of my favorite guys in a field of flowers:

Papaw & Joshua & wildflowers

Past it’s prime:

past its prime

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

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