There's some things you just don't say

This last weekend getaway went by too fast.  We got into Minneapolis early evening Thursday and headed to a social hour with all of Clay's company members.  It consisted of heavy hors d'oeurves and plenty of alcohol...to which we stayed in the ballroom eating shrimp while most everyone was taking advantage of the free open bar!  Friday Clay had meetings all day so I headed off to the Mall of America!  Let me just say, I definitely got my exercise in.  I don't think I ever really stopped walking from 10 to 3:30 with 4 floors.  You would think this would be a girl's dream of having all these stores to go shopping in.  Well, I think I broke a record for the least amount of money spent. :)  Maybe I'm too much of a bargain shopper now and I really didn't see many sales.  Anywho, it was still fun to look around.  That night Clay and I went to the company dinner full of tons of great food!!! This isn't the best angle of us but it was fun to get to know Clay's work team members and enjoy the excellent food.

Saturday morning Clay wanted to go shopping ! So we headed off to the Mall again and basically did the same routine as I did the previous day.  However, Clay was a better shopper than I and took advantage of the no sales tax on clothes and shoes (mostly for shoes:)!!!  

They had a big dance in the middle of the bottom floor and had a Michael Jackson impersonator who danced to all the songs, including moon walking!  We should have ridden at least one of the roller coasters while we were there, but the shopping wore us out!

Later that night we headed off to a dinner theater with some of the team and their guests.  It was an awesome place!  It had over 400 tables/booths with the stage in the front and center.  Dinner was excellent and we also got free dessert with the company deal!  So, we had one dessert to share before the show started, then they brought us out the other one during intermission...well planned out :)  We got to see Footloose and it was actually pretty dang good!  It's definitely not your Playmill Theater in West Yellowstone that I'm used to, but more of a formal type of theater which was just as much fun.  

Anyway, the weekend was great, we headed out to the airport early Sunday morning and were about to load on the plane when Clay started telling a story from the news to one of his buddies that he works with.  First thing, we all know that you don't ever yell "fire" when there isn't one, or better yet, "bomb" or "terrorist" or anything like that, *especially* in the airport! So, Clay's telling this story about that "underwear bomber" from a month or so ago in the news, and as soon as he said "bomber", he was escorted away.  I've told him before that you don't say things like that there and now he got what was coming to him.  Well, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.  I thought he'd be detained and since I am his wife, that I would be too and we'd miss our flight, but they only took him aside, checked his bag thoroughly, and took a sample from his hand to check for bomb material or whatever.  Anyway, we finally made it on the plane and then one of his co-workers asked if they found anything. To answer, Clay said "only these guns" (while flexing his biceps) and I hit him and said "Freak, Clay, you don't say things like that" while everyone was staring at us.  Wow.  Luckily, no one freaked out or complained so our flight home was dandy, other than the man next to Clay who he said stunk like b.o. and onion breath.  Lovely trip.

Time for a little vacay

Yup, that's right! I'm going there this weekend! Clay has his annual company meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota and fortunately they are letting me fly there with him.  While he's in meetings all day, I thought that I'd get myself lost inside here and see all the cool things they have!  This will make for a nice little weekend getaway, although we'll be going somewhere colder and with snow!  Once we get through this mini vacation, we only have about one more month until we head to Idaho!  We're so excited to see family again and see Clay's youngest brother, Quinn, get home from his mission!!!

Stinkin' Cute Candlesticks

I am so in love with these! I was at a craft show a while back and was going to buy a set of candlesticks, and now I am so glad I didn't!  With it being my day off today, I think I shall run to the store to buy some cute candles and some accessories and get this started! Check this out here.

Those Little Rascals...

After six months of living here in Washington, I have finally gotten myself out of the house! ha ha I have decided that I was going to substitute teach here since we would be moving around a lot and with that, I wouldn't be tied down with a job or anything.  Well, I put in my application to the school district I live in in November.  I still have not heard back from them for when they finished my reference checks.  Oh. my. heck. So, I decided that I would try another school district close by.  I did my whole application in one day and heard back from them after the weekend and set up an orientation to get started.  Wow. Forget about the other district that has been taking months! Annoying!  Anyway, so I just had my first day subbing Friday! I have my teaching certificate in secondary education, but I am able to sub anywhere, any class. Most of the ones I have lined up are those little rascals in the elementary and middle schools-ok, they really aren't that bad.  I'm just glad to finally get to start subbing and keep myself somewhat busy and out of the house.  I am keeping busy though still with my other blog, crocheting away! I'll be getting new style of beanies up there hopefully soon so check back again!

My Albies Doubler Deal

Like many of you out there, couponing seems to becoming a huge thing to do! I'll admit, it has taken me a while to get used to it, understand the lingo, the deals, how to use the coupons properly, etc.  I've gotten some pretty good deals now, but today made me happy!  Now let me tell you that many of these deals that I find on other blogs, seem to usually be junk foods so I really don't buy a whole lot of stuff using coupons.  If it's something we use, I'll buy.  There have been plenty of stuff we could have gotten for dirt cheap, had we eaten that type of food, but I sadly passed it up.  So here's my lovely deal from Albertsons today :)

I got all of this pictured for a whoppin' $2.91!  This is factoring in all my manufacturer coupons, preferred savings card, doubler coupons, and catalina.  I saved 83%! Boo Yah!

I really don't want to find the links that I used for the coupons, so go check out The Krazy Coupon Lady and Fabulessly Frugal to find these deals that I did.  However, I did use coupons from coupons.com for the cereals and it looks like they're already gone!  Anyway, for those of you that are diaper buyers, there's always awesome deals that I see too.  Maybe one of these days I'll be one of those buyers ;) I just wanted to share my deals with you all to see what you're missing out on if you're not a couponer by now :)

New Blog

Yay! I'm so excited to finally have my new blog up and running. 
Go check it out!

Crafty 'lil' Gal

Looking Back at the Holidays...Finally!

I used to be so good at writing in my journal and then I completely slacked and haven't written in it basically since I got married and I feel like I have forgotten so many memories without really thinking about them and now my blog is acting like my journal-I haven't updated with Holiday memories and I'm starting to forget them! ahhh So here's just kind of a quick overview of what our Christmas holiday memories entailed!

Christmas was unusual for us this year.  We didn't have family around to go over to for Christmas Eve and day so it felt like any other day. Sad, I know.  Clay even worked Christmas Eve :(.  Anyway, we lucked out and had the most beautiful weather that week! Christmas day was gorgeous, clear skies and about 60 degrees so we went for a bike ride on this path that we found online.  I got Clay a target to shoot his bow at so he did that in the afternoon while I crocheted.  How cheesy is that?! Oh goodness.  It was a nice day though but sadly I didn't even get pictures.

Clay's family came up for New Year's so we picked them all up from the airport Tuesday morning.  We got Seattle City Passes to show them around.  Wednesday we spent all day there checking out the Experience Music Project Museum, Pacific Science Center, went on a Harbor Cruise, the Aquarium, Pikes Place, and of course the Space Needle!  It was definitely a busy day and luck was on our side as it was a clear day with no rain!

This was at EMP and we got to do our own Rock Band!  We got in trouble for taking this picture but we got it still. ha ha  It was absolutely hilarious though! That dork with hands in the air is me, the singer ;)

Buying fish from Pikes Place!

The awesome centerpiece or whatever you call it at EMP with all sorts of instruments!

On our harbor cruise around Seattle.

Space Needle!!!

The Aquarium with us all!

Atop the Space Needle at night overlooking downtown

Taking a walk at the beach at Point Defiance Park on a typical, rainy day :)

We went on the underground tour of Seattle.  I think it's way overrated and not worth your money, but I suppose it was cool to check it out what Seattle used to be like before they started building above everything.  It was nasty so afterwards we settled our stomachs by eating at Claim Jumpers :)

Clay took us all to Fort Lewis Thursday and showed us around all the projects and buildings that he's been working on.  It's nice to now have a visual of what he's always coming home to and telling me about. ha ha  We celebrated New Year's playing card games all night long with a bunch of crap food of course and then fell asleep watching movies.  Tyler, Clay's brother, was Harry Potter for the week and wanted to sleep under our stairs-our house was jam packed but it was his decision :)  It felt so weird having people in our place so once they all left I felt so lonely because I dropped them all off at the airport and came home to no one since Clay went back to work.  Anyway, we were so grateful that family could come and stay with us and celebrate the new year and see what our lives are like up here for a while.