It's beginning to look alot like Christmas!

I love this time of year- right after Thanksgiving and then the few days before Christmas are my favorite! I got up yesterday at 4am to do some Black Friday shopping and I got some GREAT deals! But more than that I love decorating- below, my blog-worthy favorite Christmas decoration of all! I was so glad to see it this morning, it's been a whole year! If you know me, then you know I love Winnie the Pooh Christmas decor- (what my ENTIRE tree is filled with) this little thing plays "Carol of the Bells" when you turn the dial- I just love it! My super-simple centerpiece! I thought of this about a month ago because I had been looking for a versatile piece for my diningroom table- I didn't have any luck finding anything I liked. So, I randomly found this hurricane/vase at Target and thought that I'd just fill it with faux leaves and gourds for the fall/Thanksgiving season! (I'm so genius) then this morning I emptied it and filled it with ribbon and extra ornaments I had! Talk about versatile.

we re-arranged the room this year for the tree- I like it. I'm not done decorating, after I blog I'm going to get more ribbon and lights for the mantle, but you get the idea! (You can't tell in the picture, but on the ends of the mantle are the 100 Acre Woods!)

My Hallmark Pooh tree!(You can't really tell here either, the lighting was bad.)

Happy Turkey Day!

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! We did! We had a delicious Thanksgiving lunch with my mom, brother, Eric, my grandparents, and Adam's parents! We played our annual games (pass the present and word search) and Jackson won the present and Adam and I won the word search! (as usual!) ;)

Sorry...

...I'm so excited over such little things, but this is really for Ashley...we said we'd tell each other about the great deals we get because we like it so much. (I think I'm addicted) Okay so 2 Schick razors (not disposables either!) 3 Colgate toothbrushes, 1 box Kleenex, 2 Welches juice, and 4 tubes of toothpaste... $11! (that's less than $1 an item!)

Marshmellows and fires

I know I've been boring you with my coupon and grocery posts- so here are some of the boys last weekend. It's been getting cold here at night, so we started a fire last Saturday and made S'mores with the boys. It was their first time- I think they liked it!
Jackson tasting and Maddox cheesing-

fall family pics

We tried for family pictures again, since the weather has been so nice and the fall foliage is so pretty. Maddox did not cooperate too much, as we had to wake him from a nap...oh well. We'll try again in the spring! You can view them here:

http://photographybynessa.smugmug.com/Other/Nagel/


the password is Maddox (with a capital M- it's case sensitive!)

A Bargain!

Okay, so I have been tring to be more "coupon and sale conscious" lately; especially after seeing Kelly's blog and what great deals she's been getting. So a few weeks ago I tried going to Publix and using some coupons- to my disappointment I spent $20 more than I normally do without coupons! I've since been clipping coupons, but think I have finally figured out how to use them. Today I went to Publix after carefully shopping their weekly flyer and figuring out what I needed from there. SO I went and only bought the items they had on sale AND that I had coupons for. (not everything on my grocery list like I did a few weeks ago) So after the store sales and my coupons I saved $26 and I got all this for only $28! :) The great thing about Publix is that they take almost any coupon and they double them!



The best part was, these four items alone were only $3.10!!! Here's how: they were running a GMills and Nature Valley 4 for $10 deal, plus I had a $4 off coupon and I had an additional $2.90 in manufacturer's coupons, giving me my total!!! What a DEAL!