Weekend Roundup

Well, how was your weekend?  Mine was busy, but great!

Daughter had Drill Team tryouts on Friday.  She did make the team (this is year #3 for her).  There were also 4 girls that tried out for captain.  They went through an interview process, but because there is not an advisor for the Drill Team yet, no decision has been made.  That's frustrating, especially for the girls.

Foxy, Son and I went grocery shopping.  While we were there, it poured buckets!  When we all got home from our days, we decided to celebrate daughter's achievement, then went to see a movie.  We saw The Hangover 2.  I wanted to take the kids, because it is rated R.  Should have been rated R-17.  I saw the first one and it was pretty funny.  This one, was just way more over the top.  Funny in places, but not all nearly as funny as the first one.  But we saw it.  I really want to see Pirates, but Daughter had seen it, so we saw this.  The bonus was that it was only $5 per person, so that was a good bargain.

Saturday, Daughter and I got up, went and let the dog out at the house she watched and then ran errands.  We took back Old Navy FlipFlops that she had purchased at the $1 sale for cuter, more colorful ones.  Then we went to Michael's because I wanted a pair of scissors just for my couponing habit.  We ended up getting scrapbooking supplies (I had a 25% coupon) and getting another 40% coupon. Then we went to Chik-Fil-A and ate for free.  We each had waffle fry and chicken sandwich free coupons, and we had drinks we brought from home.  Then we went home, got ready and went to our friend's wedding.  I have pictures, but they are not up yet, but they will be soon. We wish the new Mr. & Mrs. Parks all the best!

Sunday, we got up, went to church and then went out to eat with my parents to celebrate Father's Day.  Foxy has to work next Sunday, so we thought this would be easier.  We then went home and Foxy and Son put up fencing around the garden (which has some exciting new shoots!) and Daughter and I cleaned a few areas in the house.  I also got most of the laundry done.  Then Daughter and I dropped Son and his friend off at Kings Island and found out where she will be going to babysit.  Today she will be watching a 8 year old and a 6 year old for several hours.  I think they are going to the pool at the YMCA.  I'm excited she has a job!  How exciting for her.  Then we came home, and Foxy grilled chicken, onions and yellow/orange peppers and I made pasta salad.  Nice meal.  Then I settled down (after dishes), cut coupons and watched the Season Finale of Army Wives, and the premier of The Protector. 

This has been the most heart-wrenching season of Army Wives.  I have never cried so much!  I loved every minute of it and can't wait until Winter 2012 (whatever that means) for it to be back on.

The Protector stars Ally Walker (who was on a previous show that my husband and I loved The Profiler).  This was different, but she did play a cop.  I loved how fun she is with her children, and how she just kind of doesn't let others bother her.  I will watch it again.
Well, this is already longer than normal.  How did your weekend go?

It's Friday!

It's my first half workday of the summer!  I get out at noon today!  How fun.  Son and I are getting our hair cut, Foxy is changing the oil in Daughter's car, and I have grocery shopping to do.  Daughter has tryouts tonight for Auxillary and for captain tonight.  That is exciting!  Cross your fingers.

Daughter is also house/dog setting for some friends.  Last night Son stayed with her.  Apparently, Benny the dog kept them up barking a lot.  They came home bleary-eyed at 7:00 and Daughter went back to sleep.  Interesting.  Tonight she is suppose to have a friend over to stay with her.  She may not do this again.  The girl likes her sleep.

Tomorrow, we have a wedding.  That will be nice.  Nothing major for us to do, except celebrate with the new couple.  Son is suppose to wear the bow tie I got him.  We will see if he actually does.  We need to practice tying it.  Other than that, Sunday will be our day to celebrate with my dad and Foxy (he has to work next Sunday).  Have a great weekend!

The Foxy Garden

Well, we have the garden officially planted.  I am excited.  We actually have beans sprouting!  We have a cayenne pepper growing.  But it is so hot (like 95+ degrees).  Yucky!  So lots of watering went on last night.  Even Josie Belle got sprayed last night.

Last night, Daughter and Son had a few friends over and they enjoyed smores, the fire and took lots of pictures.  I don't have any of their pictures, though.  Just the garden.

These are the green peppers, cayenne pepper and zucchini seeds we planted last night.

These are our pole beans.  We didn't have many so this will all be dried for seeds for next year.

I can't decide if this is peas coming up or weeds.

Here is some of our tomatos.  See how dry the soil is?

It's that a cute view?  Nice little tomato.

So this weekend we will be putting a fence around it.  There are too many rabbits to worry about.  How are your gardens doing?

Another one in the Books

Today is the last day of school for Daughter and Son.  At 1:00 PM today I will officially have two children in high school, a junior and a freshman, respectively.  I am not old enough for this!  To celebrate, they are having an End-of-Year Smores-Slip-n-Slide party.  Should be interesting. 

Last night, I ended up not getting home from the band meeting until 9 PM.  Foxy, Daughter, Gma & Gpa went to see Son in his first high school basketball game.  They won!  Which was great!  I can't wait to go tomorrow evening.

Hopefully, tonight while the festivities is going on, Foxy and I will plant the rest of the plants and water.  It's funny, but last week, we had all the rain we could handle.  Now, we really could use some.  Go figure.

I'll have pictures tonight's garden party for everyone.  Here are a couple of highlights from this school year.  Have a great day!

Son at the foul line.

Daughter got her driver's license!

Weekend Update

Well, this weekend was very interesting for us Foxys.  Friday night, I was so sick with a cold/sinus or something that I stayed home and did nothing.  I didn't even get to my coupon class.  I sat on the couch, napped and did a bunch of nothing.

Saturday I felt a bit better.  Daughter wanted to go shopping because we have a wedding this weekend.  And we wanted to get Son a bow tie for the wedding.  So we went to a few stores that we thought were having deals on cute dresses.  She didn't like the ugly sun dresses for $12.  So we walked down another wing of the mall and she spotted the store we bought her homecoming dress at.  So we went in there to look.  We came out of there with a) a dress for the wedding ($10 off), a dress for next year's homecoming for $7.50, and a prom dress for next season that was originally $119, and we paid $34.99 for it!  What an amazing shopper she is.  We paid full price for the bow tie (that was something), but to get out of a mall with three beautiful dress for under $78.00 made me proud!  She was so excited.  She said, "No I don't have to deal with the drama of finding a dress, I can look for shoes, accessories, and tell all my friends!"  I think she is going shopping Friday with a friend to see if there are any more great deals.  She won't let me post pictures because she wants them to be surprised.  I will post the dress for the wedding there next week, though.

I also purchased some green pepper, cayenne pepper, banana pepper plants, as well as zucchini seeds.  So we will get them in the ground this week and planting will be over.  I just need to keep weeding and nurturing.

I did do some extreme couponing this weekend.  Have you seen this show on TLC?  It's of people spending hundreds to thousands of dollars and barely paying anything. I am inspired.  I have a binder I am filling full of coupons, looking at lots of sales and starting a price book soon.  I bought 2 papers and am asking for people to send me their unused coupons.  If any of you would do this, all the outdated coupons we send to military families (they can use them for a longer period of time).  Anyway, I was at our local grocery store and knowing Josie Belle needed some dog food, I started looking for a few good deals.  I found cans of dog food for $.72 each.  I had a coupon for buy 3 get 1 free, so I bought four because I wasn't sure she would like it.  Yesterday at lunch, I fed her a can, and she woofed it down!  (Sorry for the pun.)  So I had five more coupons, so I went and purchased 20 cans of dog food, getting five of them for free.  I essentially paid $.54 a can.  Not too shabby.  

Sunday, I did laundry, dishes, and cut out coupons besides going to church.  But, all in all, not a bad weekend.  How was yours?

It's finally Friday!

A lot has happened over that past two days.  First, Daughter has two job offers to consider.  One is watching two girls and a boy all summer.  The other is at a daycare facility.  She is leaning toward the first job.  She is excited.  She can go to the YMCA, Kings Island, or just stay home.

Last night we found out that Son was selected to play on  Frosh/Sophomore school basketball league.  How exciting is that?  It will be Mondays and Wednesday in June.  So Foxy can get to at least one game a week.  Most of the games are at 6 or later, so i get off work at 5:30 starting Monday, so I'll make all except the last week, because of Vacation Bible School. 

We got more planted in the garden on Wednesday.  We planted two mounds of cucumbers, watermelon, carrots, snow peas, beans (for seeds only), and we still need to plant peppers and zucchini.  I will keep a running picture blog of them each Wednesday.  Excited for that.

Foxy is working this weekend, I have contracted a cold/sinus but things are kinda of slow.  I do have a crazy couponing class tonight.  I'm pretty pysched about it.  I hope I learn a lot. 


Tomorrow, we have nothing except looking for a bow tie for Son.  We are going to a wedding next weekend and the bride wants Son to wear a bow tie.  So we are looking for a "cool" one.  And, Daughter wants a new sundress for the occassion.  We'll see what we get.

What are you doing this weekend?

2011 Garden

Here is Ohio, you never know what the weather is going to be like, so you never even think about putting your garden out until after Mother's Day, and usually not until around Memorial Day.  This year, we are just starting to do that.  Early in the spring, my dad decided he wanted to have a garden at his house.  So he had some friends and Foxy help him.  Now, as most of us know, it's been a rather wet spring.  But that hasn't slowed him down.  He collected a whole bunch of tomato plants, and what he didn't use, he gave to us.   So as we were planting them Monday evening, we counted up 20 plants!  If this is a good year, I am going to be canning a lot of tomatoes!  Here are some pictures.

This is one of the plants.  They are kind of pitiful.  Last night we staked most of them.  Tonight, after I get home from church, we will plant the watermelon, and the beans.  I also have peas and maybe some cucumbers.  I want zucchini, peppers, and Foxy wants radishes.  We didn't get near enough radishes. 

So that is where we have started.  Next time I'm at my parents, I'll get a picture of what he is growing.  What are you growing this year?