Bad pics but great deals!

So I got to WI and it was NOT warm yet so I went to Walmart to find a cheap sweatshirt and I bought 2!

I bought 2 because they were only $3 each and I expected to spend 10 to 15$.

It wasn't a sweat shirt but this cute shirt was again...$3!  I added a belt I had and loved it!

It would be cute in a high waisted pencil skirt too!

Then I found this cute reversible shirt and I figured (again) $3 for a comfy long sleeve shirt?! Done!

I'm not sure about this one but the yellow is fun.

Yeah for Walmarts clearance section! (Who would have EVER thought I'd say that)

The long and short of it...

I got hooked on Maxi dresses last year and bought a few.  I got a couple from ebay and not trying them on before I bought them didnt work out so well.

Here is one of them.

I LOVED the detail on the top and bottom of this dress so I just couldn't give it up even though I haven't worn it once yet.

I pulled it out of my closet yesterday and had an idea!  I didn't like this dress because I have permanent emotional scars from being tall and having pants that flood.  SO, I grabbed a belt and pulled the dress up until it hit me at the knees.

Ta'da!!!

SHORT:

LONG:

Now that I look at where it hits me in the pictures its not THAT bad or THAT short.  I'm just weird and don't like things hitting me at the ankle because that is flooding.  What do you think...is it flooding or not?!

First Slightly Warm Day at the Beach...

FINALLY, some decent weather.  There's only been a few sunny days and most of them are still bitter cold but Sunday was finally slightly warm!

We all headed to the beach with toys to play.  Of course, the temperature dropped quite a few degrees when we got closer to the water.  I was happy that I stayed in jeans and that I brought an extra sweat shirt.  haha!  Welcome to Wisconsin.

I hope it just keeps getting better and better.

 The boys were playing a Frisbee football or something.  

 When the boys took a break to catch their breath Matt came and met us on the blankets. 

 Unlike last time when we had no where to sit and were freezing, this time we were prepared.  

 The wives hung out and watched the boys be boys. 

 The little munchkin was so good!

 So dang cute.  

 Austin (in green) grabbed Brooks and the whole group of boys stood around and made faces and noises at him.  The pictures just don't capture how funny they were being around the baby.  

 Isn't is beautiful!?!?

 Mama and the baby snuggling

Lindsey and I went on a run today and it was beautiful.  Even with all the wind it was still warm and I tried to see if the pool was open but its not.  Maybe I was extra warm after running but I felt like I could handle laying out finally!  Too bad.  They said maybe by next week because they are heating the pool.

Book number 1...DONE!

I have a list of projects that I want to do this summer while I have extra time and one of them is catching up on photo books.  I want one done for each year of our marriage (we have 3 years down and 0 books made) until now!

I finished my first book and even better than finishing is how much I spent on it!

Back at our 2nd anniversary I did start our 1st year book but then stopped when I realized the price.  It was going to cost me $80 and I just couldn't do it.  I think the books are less expensive in general now, but even better is they have GROUPONS and Living Social deals for them!

I paid $10 for $50 towards a book with Vistaprint.  This 8x8 book with a hard cover came out to cost $57 and then had $6 shipping. (They also gave me a discount because I was signed into my living social account so the $57 was already 30% off)

For some reason the Living Social code took off the whole book so all I paid was shipping!!

SO, I paid $16.  TOTAL

Now that I have started book #2 I can tell that this Vistaprints program was a lot more simple (had less options) than the one I am using right now.  So the back grounds and layouts are pretty simple and not exciting but who cares.

The same book with this next groupon I have will still cost me $45 even with the deal.  So, its a toss up in my mind.

Finally!

I have been wanting one of these things for a while and its so dumb and simple but it is great!

When I get out of the shower I don't want to put any kind of clothes on until my body is completely dry so I always stay in my towel but then as I try to put lotion on, my towel has issues staying in place if you know what I mean.

I finally found this towel for $5 at Walmart (of course) and I LOVE it.

It has the option of straps or no straps and it stays in place.  PERFECT!

Oh the simple things that make me happy now-a-days.

Oh my gosh, I'm addicted!!

So, I now LOVE looking at the clearance racks at Walmart because of the good finds I've got there.

Well, there are clearance racks in the food isles as well.

Anyone who knows me knows I LOVE and am obsessed with kettle corn.  Any fair or game, I MUST buy the fresh amazing kettle corn.  Its so good.  I finally found a brand of packaged kettle corn that tastes almost like it was just made in a kettle...at the fair.

So, as I'm walking down the clearance isle, THIS catches my eye...

OH MY GOODNESS!!! I'm done for.  Its so good.  I've gone through 4 bags in 4 days!  I had never seen it before.  I ALSO love anything CINNAMON AND SUGAR so kettle corn and cinnamon and sugar AND a frosting...AHHHH its heaven.  Everyone I have let have a small handful comes back for more.  Its addicting.

So here is my last confession...

I'm stocking up.  I know! Its so sad.  But its on clearance.  Its only $1.50 and its my favorite! (I just cant allow myself to eat a bag a day anymore).  Every time I go to Walmart I have to buy a few bags (thats right, not just one) and if you remember I go to Walmart almost everyday here in Sheboygan because I don't have much else to do.

Oh man... I have to keep doing Insanity or I'm going to blow up! :)

Blow up with me! :)  Go to Walmart or here http://www.popcornindiana.com/products/cinnamon-sugar

Good old Walmart again....

I'm not a mother but I got mothers day flowers!

Flowers from a florist are undoubtedly BEAUTIFUL but they are even more undeniably SO DANG expensive.

I tell Matt that I LOVE flowers but please do not spend much on them.

SO, these are the flower I received the other day and just love.   I'm cheap.  Flowers die.  So, the price makes them SO MUCH more pretty to me :)

1 dozen roses for $5.  Booya!

I just love having flowers in the house.  I haven't gotten any for a while though so all I had to put them in was a pitcher for water and not even a glass one.  It was a ghetto plastic one.  So, I ran to the dollar store and snagged this one.  NOT BAD RIGHT?!

$6 for beauty in my home.

Upsetting story from the plane...

The other day when I was flying, we had 2 mothers with infants (a child under the age of 2).  When the infants are closer to 2, they are hard to manage on the plane because they are very active and don't like sitting still.  Because of this gate agents will TRY to seat these mothers by empty seats so that their infant can have space to move around.

Our flight was not completely full but was almost.  Therefore, one mother had an empty seat next to her and the other mother thought she did but as a man walked down the isle, she realized she did not.

Let me better explain this passenger that came down the isle.  He was very large.  He COULD NOT walk down the isle.  He had to side step/hobble down the isle.  As he came closer to their seats, my heart just dropped for her.  I watched her face to see if she made any sign of irritation.  SHE DIDN'T!! She was SUCH a sweet woman.  She smiled and made conversation.  Meanwhile, he struggled lifting his body across the one seat to get to his spot by the window.

He was so large that she COULD NOT put down the arm rest between them.  He was literally taking up 1/3 of her seat.  You may think I am very harsh in the way I am explaining him BUT THIS IS WHY!

She didn't bat an eye, didn't make a face, and was so pleasant to him.  But, immediately after getting situated as best as he could, he had the audacity to say to her, "Well, I sure hope your kid doesn't cry a lot".   Here he is taking up her already small seat (because she had a 1 year old on her lap) that she paid full price for!!!

I'm sorry, but if you can not fit in your own one seat and you are not traveling with a companion in the seat next to you, then buy a dang second seat! IT IS SO UNFAIR to the other passenger!

Luckily, the gate agent had saved the last row of seats for us (the FA's) - because if not we have no place to sit during the 3 hour flight between services.  I moved the sweet mom into the open seats.  We ended up talking a lot and I just loved that sweet lady and was so frustrated with that ignorant man.

Oh Walmart...how I have grown to love you

Aside from some of the crazy things (people) you see in Walmart, I truly have come to LOVE Walmart and how much I save there!!

When I lived in California, I don't think I EVER went to Walmart.  As soon as I moved to Utah, I was there everyday.  And now even as I move across the country, I'm still there.  I'm addicted.

This summer we moved to a very small town in Wisconsin and literally Walmart is the only thing to do there because there is a beautiful beach that looks like this...

But the weather looks like this...

Its grey, almost everyday. So when the only thing to do is the beach and the weather makes you want to do anything BUT go to the beach...to Walmart I always seem to end up going.

This is one of my amazing steals.  I think that it was actually mismarked because there were some other ones that said $11 but Walmart honored this. and I got it for $1!!

Then, we had to grab a few more bins before we left.  They were sitting above a sign that said $8 but they were way nice.  I thought it was a great deal but when I got to the register they rang up as $16.  Well, that was a big difference so I spoke up.  I explained it was sitting above a sign for $8.  She said sometimes they get moved but I explained that the aisle was very well cleaned (I think we were there at 1 AM).  So, she said she couldn't afford to do $8 but would meet me in the middle at $11.  I said, "SOLD" :)

Getting paid NOT to work? WHAT?!

I landed in Medford, Oregon at 8:30 pm yesterday.  Then, instead of getting up at some point today to fly again...I DIDNT HAVE TO FLY AT ALL!! But then I'm not getting hours you say?! Not so!  I got paid as if I worked almost 4 hours and instead, I PLAYED!!

I had a yummy discounted breakfast (flight crew discount = $3.99) and it was so big I still had a full (huge) pancake left = breakfast for tomorrow!

Then, I headed out for a hike.  The pilots wife flew out to hang out so they rented a car.  They drove us to our first hike sight which was called Upper Table Top.  It was a beautiful hike but only took us a little over an hour.

 Starting the hike...

 At the top..and excited about it!

Lots of turkey vultures flying round

Tons of yellow flowers

Can you see the mountain directly above the pond in the pic below?!  I wish the camera could have captured what it really looked liked.

The bark on the trees were amazing!

Then, we got a ride back to the hotel and picked up the golden beach cruisers.

Literally, GOLD :) awesome!!

Then, we biked to the next hike.  Well...after 4.8 miles I was DYING!! I haven't been on a bike since I was like 8!  I was WALKING my bike up the hills!  Finally, it was 2 pm.  We had breakfast (1 pancake) at 8:15 am.  And we all know, my life REVOLVES around food.  I couldn't do it.  I knew this next hike was twice as long and we werent even to it yet!

So what did I do?

I told him (the other FA) to go ahead and I was going to bike to Subway.  He laughed and didn't realize I was DEAD serious.  So, he went his way and I went mine.  Thank you to the Iphone and googlemaps!!

It took me a while to actually find but...

It was TOTALLY worth it.  And yes, that is a cookie in the picture.  Subways new chicken salad sandwich is my favorite!  And they have new raspberry cheesecake cookies that Matt got me hooked on.

Then, I biked 5 miles home and THANK GOODNESS the trail was MUCH MUCH more do-able.  Not so many hills.  It was so nice I thought to myself, "I could do this for another hour or 2" but I didn't :)

 a street of tulips on my bike ride

And then googlemaps switched me from the road to a bike/walking path that followed below the freeway and stayed along side a river for a while.  It was very pretty!

And now... I'm pooped.  Can't do my insanity because my legs are so tired from biking.  I have a 5 AM show so up at 4:30 AM I'll be!  Off to my bed I go :)