Our Seventh Anniversary

Today Andy and I are celebrating our seventh wedding anniversary. June 30, 2001 was a very hot wonderful day!

Our anniversary has made me a little nostalgic, so I thought I would share some pictures of us through the years.

This is us the night we got engaged, my 21st birthday. (That is also my first legal alcoholic drink, a long island iced tea. I don’t mess around!)
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This is our official engagement picture.
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However, since we got married before the popularization of digital photography, I have no pictures that I can post of our wedding day! But we really did get married, I swear.

And then, a few years later, we became three.
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Our first family road trip to Busch Stadium (although she had already been to a Reds game by this point… this little girl visited four different major league stadiums – and at least a dozen games -in her first three years of life!)
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Our first Christmas as a family.
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Andy and me at my sister’s wedding.
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We LOVE Disney World!
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And then we became four. Except you wouldn’t know it, because nary a picture exists of all four of us. So you’ll have to take my word for it that I still exist.
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On each of our anniversaries, I think back to our first one. At work that day, I mentioned that it was our first anniversary and a co-worker said to me “Do you still like him?” I replied affirmatively, and she said “Well, you’re doing better than I was.” OK so you had to be there, but it was funny. Anyway, seven years later, I still like him. So much so that we’re I have consented to spend our anniversary evening at a Rush concert. That is love, people.

Happy annivesary, baby. I look forward to many, many more.

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Weekly Winners June 22-28

This week I took some pictures of some flowers in my family:

My Grandma’s scarlet sisters
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A bumblebee having his way with my dad’s urban hollyhocks
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My own Gerber daisies:

Pink Lady…
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…and her Twisted Sister
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And then I took some pictures of the little people in my family:

Emily’s baby Sammy charmed me with his sweet smile
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Sophie thinks things are lookin’ up
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Joshua has fun racing down my parents driveway. I love his joy!
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And I love this one of Sophie. I just want to kiss her face!
love this girl

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Competitors Coupons and the Return of CRTs!!!

This was a great week at CVS! I had some great deals with competitors coupons, that my CVS accepts, and also I got FOUR CRTs after months of not getting any!! YAY!! They were for products, which I will happily take, but I am crossing my fingers that they will start popping out some dollar-off CRTs for me as well. (Please CVS?? Please??) Anyhoo, here’s what I got at CVS this week:

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Batteries!! I can’t believe how fast we go thru them!!
I got 4 pkgs. of AA’s at $5.29 each and donated $1 to CVS’ efforts to raise $$ for ALS: So my total was $22.16.
I used:
CVS $3/$15 (expired but they take it for 2 weeks)
One 75 cent off Duracell coupon
Four $2 off Walgreens EasySaver Duracell coupons
10 ECBs
I paid 43 cents cash and got back 10 ECBs!!! Now that is how I like to buy batteries!!

Next, I had to get some of those OFF Power Pad lantern thingies. The mosquitoes are already really bad at our house and I am tired of them biting my babies! So I got:
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Two Off lanterns $10.99 each
Three SoyJoy bars
Total = $24.98
I used:
CVS $3/$15 coupon
B1F1 FREE OFF lantern coupon
$3 off OFF lantern coupon
Two $1 off OFF coupons from Walgreens ES Catalog
Buy two, get one free Soy Joy coupon
I paid with 4 ECB and $1.69 cash and got back 4 ECB for the Soy Joy! ( I had bought my 4th Soy Joy on a previous transaction).

Of course, I also had to get some Pampers!! I ALWAYS get diapers when they are on ECBs whether I need them or not, because they WILL get used! So…
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Pampers Cruisers $13.99
OFF spray $3.49 (I hate mosquitoes, k???)
CVS Cotton Swabs $3.19
CVS ChapBlock $1.99
Colgate Total $2.49
My total was $25.14
I used:
CVS $4/$20 email coupon (thanks CVS!)
$1.50 Pampers q from Cheerios box
$1 Pampers Rite Aid q
$1 OFF Walgreens ES Catalog q
75-cents off OFF q
$2 off CVS skincare q
$1.50 Colgate printable
$1 Colgate Target q
FREE CVS Chapblock q from email (My CVS didn’t have the right kind, so the cashier let me substitute)
I paid with 10 ECB and 71 cents cash and got back 7 ECB! 3 for the Pampers, 2 for the cotton swabs, and 2 for the Colgate. YAY!

Well that’s all for me this week!! To see more of my CVS adventures check out this post at my BFF Luanne’s blog. (If it asks you for a password, just hit cancel. I don’t know what is up with that!) I have decided to do her CVS shopping for her and we hit ’em hard on Tuesday!!

Fore more great CVSers, go check out CVS Superstars at the Centsible Sawyer and Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom!

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