My newest addiction...

I LOVE Groupon! I check every Florida city every day and I have scored some great deals! Last week I got a year of Sunday delivery of the St. Pete Times for $10. SCORE!! Then I got a pass to the Pier Aquarium in St. Pete for our family for $25. What's really great about this deal is that they reciprocate with a ton of other aquariums and museums. So we have a year's worth of visits planned and our admission is basically free!

Our first visit to the Pier aquarium was a ton of fun! I couldnt get good pics inside the aquarium because they don't want you to use a flash, but we got great pics outside and managed to beat the rain!

The St. Pete Pier. I love the retro look of the building. I hadnt been to the pier since a high school field trip. My son and his cousin had never been. They are talking about tearing it down, so I am glad we got to visit.

The weather we were trying to beat. It looks like evening but it was about 11am.Jake and Justin enjoying the view

Princess B didn't care about the view...she just wanted to eat her dress! Like the stroller? It was Jake's :)

Yeah...I really need to work on that baby belly!This guy was posing for me! They usually don't let you get so close but the people fishing off the pier were feeding him. I guess he was hoping for more hand outs.The view of St. Pete from atop the pier.

Coming out of the closet....

I am a couponer. There I said it. Lately, we have gotten a bad rap from that TV show. You know the one...I don't want to even say the name to give them any more publicity. People using fraudulent coupons and clearing shelves so there is nothing left for anyone else. Using their kids as their little couponing slaves and hoarding so much food they can't possibly use it before it expires.

Okay, rant over. I am not that kind of couponer. I'm the one who is happy to save $15 or $20 off groceries so my husband can have the brand of expensive pickles he likes and we can have some extra treats in the pantry. And I am fortunate to be able to donate to our local homeless shelter the things on their wish list.

I wanted to share with you a couple of places that I go to to find the best deals on stuff:

Vocal Point- they have coupons, samples, and special offers. This morning they sent me coupons for Motts for Tots. http://www.vocalpoint.com/mottsfortots

There are tons of deals to be found on Facebook too! One page I follow is Deal Wise Mommy. Another is Coupon Geek. Both share coupons and great deals to be found around the web and in stores. I know there are tons more- you could make a full time job out of clipping coupons and shopping around. But thats when you fall into that area of being a little bit extreme ;)

Big Big Day!

My beautiful Princess B tried to crawl tonight! She has been scooting herself backwards for a while now so I knew it was coming, but its so exciting to see her learn and grow! She pushed up onto all fours and took that first little crawley step...and promptly fell down! But she got back up and tried again!

Of course I had to grab the camera! I just love her pudge!

Some News

Hi everyone! I am sad to share that Enchanted Studio Scraps has decided to close their doors forever. This came about suddenly and unexpectly as a result of technical issues. I am so sad to see my digital home close its doors, but I am looking forward to new opportunities.

In the meantime, my blog is in serious need of a facelift! Please excuse my dust as I move things around and figure them out. I am determined to learn all of this css and html stuff so I don't want to have someone do it for me this time. It might get pretty ugly around here while I am learning!

Now for a creepy-funny story;

My daughter's daycare keeps the infants in a separate little building. The baby cottage is an adorable little log cabin style cottage and the babies are protected from all the big kid germs. Its one of the many reasons I love the school so much. We are usually the first arrivals each morning and they open the cottage when we get there.

This morning a moth flew in behind Ms. Ashley. I scooped it out the door and turned to go back inside. As I stepped in the door, I felt something on the back of my neck and brushed it off thinking the moth had found its way back inside. I was holding my daughter talking to Ashley and I felt something crawling on my arm. I looked down to see a 2 inch scorpion running down my arm. EEEK! I don't do things that sting. I jumped and screemed and brushed it off my arm and stomped on it so fast that I don't think Princess B knew what to think. She was laughing though, so I didnt scare her. I'm just so glad that neither one of us was stung.

I have decided that since my heart rate climbed so high this morning, I am excused from exercising later, right?