Friday we got the wonderful opportunity to have Aunt Kitt with us, and you know what we did with that splendid time...stuff. We just did normal everyday stuff. Actually it wasn't normal everyday stuff, but it wasn't super entertaining like other things, but we did have fun.
Friday morning I needed to go help with food truck, and even though I could just go for the very end part I really like going for all of it. I like helping setup the 'store' and then help fill orders. It is really fun to work with both the volunteers and the people who are receiving the food. It is kind of hard for me to focus on that kind of thing and think clearly with my kids running around, so like I said before Aunt Kitt came. I was so glad Aunt Kitt could come. She took care of the girls while I went and did food truck. They had breakfast, and walked to the park and played. After food truck, I had to take some of the leftover food to some other people and then I was double glad that Kitt was babysitting for me, because I knew she wouldn't care. Anyway, after all that food truck stuff I decided we needed to go find Tia a pair of new sandals. Her sandals had broken and she hates wearing shoes, so I needed something that I could get her to wear. Well it being towards the end of summer I didn't want to spend a whole lot on Tia's sandals, so I thought a good first stop would be Goodwill.
Sometimes Goodwill has good treasures. It did this time...just not in the sandal world. As we first walked in the first thing the girls saw were the bikes. They both hopped on them and tried to ride them. I did convince them to get off of them, but it took some work. One of the bikes they were riding was another 12.5 inch bike and I have been wanting to get Tia a bike since Kylee has learned to ride hers without training wheels. I have really wanted to get her a balance bike, but man those things are so expensive. So, of course Goodwill had to have known I was looking, because here was this bike and it was only $3.00. I passed it up for a bit while we walked around the rest of the store. While doing that I looked through a shoe bin hoping to find some sandals, but instead found a great pair of snow boots that will fit Kylee this winter for only $2.00. So, with those boots in tow, we wandered a bit more. Then I looked at the bike a bit more and decided to go for it. If nothing else the seat was good and that alone is worth the $3.00. (We got a tag-a-long bike for free from our neighbors, but the seat they sent with it was not so great, so I was kind of thinking this one might work.) So, we bought a bike and boots, but still no sandals.
So, then we decided to head down to Ross. At the beginning of summer this is my favorite place to get sandals. They have quality sandals at affordable prices. Anyway, on our way there Kitt says "Don't they have a Maurice's right here?" I say, "Yeah, want to go?" She says, "Yeah, I want to see if they have any business tops." So, we swing by Maurice's. Well I was trying so hard not to look at anything, but then I looked and before I knew it I had an armful of clothes and was headed to the dressing room. Maurice's is pretty smart. They had a box full of Mega Blocks in the dressing room. It worked for Kylee, but sadly Tia was way more interested in the door. Anyway, after trying on the stack of clothes I had I found a pair of jeans that I really like and a skirt I thought was pretty cute too. Well, Kitt tried on clothes and shoes while I thought about it. Finally, I decided to get the jeans and pass on the skirt. I thought the skirt was a bit to casual for church. However, the jeans were really cool, and 50% off. So, yes I bought a pair of jeans for $13.00. So now I have spent about $20.00 and I still have no sandals for Tia.
Now the girls are getting kind of tired of shopping, but we still have to go to Ross. So, we got to Ross and there are NO sandals. Like none. The girls love all the toys and I encourage Kitt to go look at tops while they are distracted. So, she does. Sadly none of them fit, so we leave. Luckily we made no purchases.
Next stop was what the girls were waiting for Chic-fil-a. They had free milkshake cards and Kylee was so excited that she could pay with her own card. It was so cute to watch them both hand their cards over. I did find out that we didn't have to get the peach shake, so that was a fun surprise because we don't like their peach shakes and that is what the card was for. So, while we waited for their chocolate and cookies and cream milkshakes they went and played at the play place. We would have stayed and ate their and let them play more, but it was packed. Seriously there were people EVERYWHERE. I have never seen it that busy before and there weren't even any specials going on like free breakfast. Anyway, we got our shakes and came home.
After that shopping venture we had lunch and naps. Then we had grill food for dinner and then watched Zootopia with Kitt and went to bed. Kitt had to get up early, so we tried to go to bed at a decent time.
So yeah, Saturday dawned bright and early at 5:00. Oh man, I can not believe I actually woke up at that time the majority of my high school career. I seriously must have been crazy. It is so early. Anyway, I got up and made Kitt some scrambled eggs with cheese, ham, and peppers. They were tasty. I tried some. So, Kitt had breakfast and then was out the door at about 5:45. After I waved her off, I went back to bed. Then of course I couldn't get up. This has been the story of my life since then. I don't know why, but I can seriously not shake the sleep from me in the mornings it is awful. Anyway, after sleeping in, I wake up and get dressed and go downstairs. Guapo has already gone on a walk and made breakfast. What a great guy. Anyway, We decide that we need to go swimming this beautiful Saturday. So, after dropping food off at someones home we head for Kanemoto swimming pool. It was super fun. They have a little kid tube slide and the girls seriously rode down it like 20 times. I am pretty sure Tia would have kept going, but we decided that it was getting a little too crowded and that people were getting hurt on the slide, so we should leave. So, we did, but we didn't stop swimming we just went to the Rec Center instead. That place was barren. There were seriously about 10 people max in the pool. We talked Tia into going down the slide and after going down once that is all she wanted to do. We finally took Kylee the last time and let her go in the hot tub after. We chilled in the hot tub and then Tia did the slides again and then we left for home, lunch, and naps.
After naps it was time to get the shopping done. Because I still had not found sandals we decided to go to Walmart. Here we scored. We found sandals on clearance, but the bad part is there was other stuff on clearance too like swimsuits and flip-flops. Since I hate buying flip-flops at full price we got each girl one pair and then Tia will need a new swimsuit about December, so after much much search I found on in the right size that was bright colored. I still might have to take it in a little bit, but it will do the trick and was only 5 dollars, so I am not too worried about it. Also at Walmart they have all their college stuff out and Gaupo was like I need to show you somethings. So, he took me to the full length mirrors that were on sale and said "You have been wanting one for awhile. Do you like these?" Well once again, I just couldn't pass it up. So now I do have sandals for Tia, but I also have flip-flops, a swimsuit, and a mirror plus wall mounts for it.
I wish I could say that the spending stopped there, but you know we still had to go grocery shopping and it was one of those trips were we shouldn't have gone together. Oh man, we definitely got more than we needed and stuff we didn't truly need, but we did have fun and it wasn't too bad.
So that is how you spend money folk. Go searching for one thing and before you know you will have all kind of things you didn't know you needed. It was quite a weekend and really I love everything I bought. I was a little iffy on the bike, but we have put a lot of effort into getting the bike to ride true and Tia just loves it, so I can't really complain plus it was only 3 dollars. Anyway, I just had to write about it because it was seriously one of those trips were you feel like well we were good all summer and I just blew it in like 2 days. Oh well, it was fun to spend time with Kitt and it was fun to go deal hunting. I do have other stuff to write about, but I will get to that in the next post hopefully.
Friday morning I needed to go help with food truck, and even though I could just go for the very end part I really like going for all of it. I like helping setup the 'store' and then help fill orders. It is really fun to work with both the volunteers and the people who are receiving the food. It is kind of hard for me to focus on that kind of thing and think clearly with my kids running around, so like I said before Aunt Kitt came. I was so glad Aunt Kitt could come. She took care of the girls while I went and did food truck. They had breakfast, and walked to the park and played. After food truck, I had to take some of the leftover food to some other people and then I was double glad that Kitt was babysitting for me, because I knew she wouldn't care. Anyway, after all that food truck stuff I decided we needed to go find Tia a pair of new sandals. Her sandals had broken and she hates wearing shoes, so I needed something that I could get her to wear. Well it being towards the end of summer I didn't want to spend a whole lot on Tia's sandals, so I thought a good first stop would be Goodwill.
Sometimes Goodwill has good treasures. It did this time...just not in the sandal world. As we first walked in the first thing the girls saw were the bikes. They both hopped on them and tried to ride them. I did convince them to get off of them, but it took some work. One of the bikes they were riding was another 12.5 inch bike and I have been wanting to get Tia a bike since Kylee has learned to ride hers without training wheels. I have really wanted to get her a balance bike, but man those things are so expensive. So, of course Goodwill had to have known I was looking, because here was this bike and it was only $3.00. I passed it up for a bit while we walked around the rest of the store. While doing that I looked through a shoe bin hoping to find some sandals, but instead found a great pair of snow boots that will fit Kylee this winter for only $2.00. So, with those boots in tow, we wandered a bit more. Then I looked at the bike a bit more and decided to go for it. If nothing else the seat was good and that alone is worth the $3.00. (We got a tag-a-long bike for free from our neighbors, but the seat they sent with it was not so great, so I was kind of thinking this one might work.) So, we bought a bike and boots, but still no sandals.
So, then we decided to head down to Ross. At the beginning of summer this is my favorite place to get sandals. They have quality sandals at affordable prices. Anyway, on our way there Kitt says "Don't they have a Maurice's right here?" I say, "Yeah, want to go?" She says, "Yeah, I want to see if they have any business tops." So, we swing by Maurice's. Well I was trying so hard not to look at anything, but then I looked and before I knew it I had an armful of clothes and was headed to the dressing room. Maurice's is pretty smart. They had a box full of Mega Blocks in the dressing room. It worked for Kylee, but sadly Tia was way more interested in the door. Anyway, after trying on the stack of clothes I had I found a pair of jeans that I really like and a skirt I thought was pretty cute too. Well, Kitt tried on clothes and shoes while I thought about it. Finally, I decided to get the jeans and pass on the skirt. I thought the skirt was a bit to casual for church. However, the jeans were really cool, and 50% off. So, yes I bought a pair of jeans for $13.00. So now I have spent about $20.00 and I still have no sandals for Tia.
Now the girls are getting kind of tired of shopping, but we still have to go to Ross. So, we got to Ross and there are NO sandals. Like none. The girls love all the toys and I encourage Kitt to go look at tops while they are distracted. So, she does. Sadly none of them fit, so we leave. Luckily we made no purchases.
Next stop was what the girls were waiting for Chic-fil-a. They had free milkshake cards and Kylee was so excited that she could pay with her own card. It was so cute to watch them both hand their cards over. I did find out that we didn't have to get the peach shake, so that was a fun surprise because we don't like their peach shakes and that is what the card was for. So, while we waited for their chocolate and cookies and cream milkshakes they went and played at the play place. We would have stayed and ate their and let them play more, but it was packed. Seriously there were people EVERYWHERE. I have never seen it that busy before and there weren't even any specials going on like free breakfast. Anyway, we got our shakes and came home.
After that shopping venture we had lunch and naps. Then we had grill food for dinner and then watched Zootopia with Kitt and went to bed. Kitt had to get up early, so we tried to go to bed at a decent time.
So yeah, Saturday dawned bright and early at 5:00. Oh man, I can not believe I actually woke up at that time the majority of my high school career. I seriously must have been crazy. It is so early. Anyway, I got up and made Kitt some scrambled eggs with cheese, ham, and peppers. They were tasty. I tried some. So, Kitt had breakfast and then was out the door at about 5:45. After I waved her off, I went back to bed. Then of course I couldn't get up. This has been the story of my life since then. I don't know why, but I can seriously not shake the sleep from me in the mornings it is awful. Anyway, after sleeping in, I wake up and get dressed and go downstairs. Guapo has already gone on a walk and made breakfast. What a great guy. Anyway, We decide that we need to go swimming this beautiful Saturday. So, after dropping food off at someones home we head for Kanemoto swimming pool. It was super fun. They have a little kid tube slide and the girls seriously rode down it like 20 times. I am pretty sure Tia would have kept going, but we decided that it was getting a little too crowded and that people were getting hurt on the slide, so we should leave. So, we did, but we didn't stop swimming we just went to the Rec Center instead. That place was barren. There were seriously about 10 people max in the pool. We talked Tia into going down the slide and after going down once that is all she wanted to do. We finally took Kylee the last time and let her go in the hot tub after. We chilled in the hot tub and then Tia did the slides again and then we left for home, lunch, and naps.
After naps it was time to get the shopping done. Because I still had not found sandals we decided to go to Walmart. Here we scored. We found sandals on clearance, but the bad part is there was other stuff on clearance too like swimsuits and flip-flops. Since I hate buying flip-flops at full price we got each girl one pair and then Tia will need a new swimsuit about December, so after much much search I found on in the right size that was bright colored. I still might have to take it in a little bit, but it will do the trick and was only 5 dollars, so I am not too worried about it. Also at Walmart they have all their college stuff out and Gaupo was like I need to show you somethings. So, he took me to the full length mirrors that were on sale and said "You have been wanting one for awhile. Do you like these?" Well once again, I just couldn't pass it up. So now I do have sandals for Tia, but I also have flip-flops, a swimsuit, and a mirror plus wall mounts for it.
I wish I could say that the spending stopped there, but you know we still had to go grocery shopping and it was one of those trips were we shouldn't have gone together. Oh man, we definitely got more than we needed and stuff we didn't truly need, but we did have fun and it wasn't too bad.
So that is how you spend money folk. Go searching for one thing and before you know you will have all kind of things you didn't know you needed. It was quite a weekend and really I love everything I bought. I was a little iffy on the bike, but we have put a lot of effort into getting the bike to ride true and Tia just loves it, so I can't really complain plus it was only 3 dollars. Anyway, I just had to write about it because it was seriously one of those trips were you feel like well we were good all summer and I just blew it in like 2 days. Oh well, it was fun to spend time with Kitt and it was fun to go deal hunting. I do have other stuff to write about, but I will get to that in the next post hopefully.
What fun times! And, I'm a sucker for good deals too :) it must run in the family
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