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It belongs to a real H-O-T-T-I-E who stars on a hit TV show.  I’m asking this bit of trivia because my sister met him and got her picture taken with him!!!!!!

Okay leave your guess in the comments before you click over to Rebecca’s Blog and find out if you’re right.

July 20th was Jack’s 2nd Birthday…and with all the busy, hurrying around that time I forgot to post this! YIKES what a cruddy mom.  So here you go.  If you go to his blog you’ll see pictures of the party.

Happy Birthday to my Son…to my son…to my son,

Happy Birthday to my Son,

My Son, Jack-a-mo!!

(sung to the tune of London Bridge)

Today my boy turns 2!!!!!  We’re of course super excited and thankful to have such a wonderful little boy!!!!

2 years ago at 1:54pm Jack-a-mo was born at 8lbs 11oz!!  What an incredible day!!

Here he is at his 1st birthday party, awe he looks so little :)  (of course I still have that shirt)

Here he is today on his 2nd birthday.  We will be having his birthday party in 2 weeks..so stay tuned for that one!!

We had our second meeting of our Christians Should be Prosperous: Tips for Saving Money and Practical Living yesterday morning at 8:30. Rosemary Lengsas, shared on Groceries and Couponing.

She gave us LOTS of information on how to save money at the grocery store. I enjoyed her sharing because she showed us how we could save money (up to 50%) if we didn’t want to put too much work into it. She also showed us how to save 70-90% on our grocery bills if we just put alittle bit more effort into it.

Here she is sharing at the front of the room (look at all the props and examples she brought):

And here is a shot of the whole room listening very carefully:

(That’s me in the front row on the right…yeah i kind of look like a teenage boy YIKES I might need to glamorize a bit more.)

Now I’ve been studying under the Coupon Queen for a few weeks now and I still learned so much. She had ALOT to share and didn’t even get to it all by 10am. We received handy folded booklets that fit in our purses that cover all the bases when headed out to the store. Like which stores take coupons which don’t. Which stores take competitor coupons, which stores double. The lingo and common terminology in the coupon world and online resources for finding more information.

One thing that I put together to make things a bit clearer was these equations:

Manu stands for Manufacturer’s coupon. I like having the visual on how to maximize your savings.

So are you interested to know if I put anything into application yet?? I did I did!!!! On Tuesday I went to publix and bought the Classico Pasta Sauce that was by one get one free (or 50% off) so $2.00 each. I then used a competitor store coupon for $1.00 off one Jar. So for every jar I purchased I used one coupon so it worked out to be $1.00 per jar of Classico Pasta Sauce!!!! But at the very beginning I used a $5 off $35+ purchase which was a store coupon. I bought a bunch of frozen veggies for 50% off but didn’t have any coupons. I did get a raincheck so I’ll look for coupons in the future to help save even more. My total bill was 69.17 (at sale prices, included) and with my coupons alone I saved $13. I’m not going to figure out how much I really saved just due to things being BOGO, let’s just say ALOT MORE!!!

How exciting to see significant savings on groceries with only a little bit of work! Another great point is that when you do coupon you’re purchasing NAME BRAND items. You don’t have to settle for store brand groceries when you shop with coupons. COOL!!!

Well there is a little bit of a review on our 2nd CSBP: Tips for Saving Money & Practical Living meeting.

Let me know if you have any questions and I’d be happy to help answer them or get my sis to answer. Also let me know if you have any coupon victories to share!!!

Bless you!!!