Busy Bee and Saying Yes to the Dress!!!

I haven't posted in over a week and for good reason, I have been a busy girl!  I had to study for the TEAS test, which I took on Sat., it is an entrance exam to my Plan B nursing school.  Hopefully I won't need a Plan B, but you can never be too careful! Anyways, the test just brought back all kinds of memories of the standardized tests we had to take to get into college after high school.  I think standardized testing is ridic....I mean you sit there for 4 hours and take a test.  Four hours people, I mean who is good at sitting still for four hours not to mention having to read and answer questions during each timed section?!?! Anywho, on to more positive things!! 

Mr. T reads this so I can't post pics but I offically said YES to a dress, wedding dress that is!!!  I am more than thrilled! For some reason this has made the whole wedding seem more realistic (I guess because we still have a lot of time and a lot to do before the big day)!  First of all, I am not good at making big decisions.  I mean I look and look and investigate and price check and read articles and look some more before then figuring out I am just making myself crazy and even more confused!  See my wedding dress shopping went like this..... My parents came into town in February and we went to XYZ bridal (don't want to name names so we will just call it this) where I experienced my first wedding dress fitting.  I tried on every single style imaginable to figure out what looked good on me and what I thought would work well for our wedding vision.  First of all, my Daddy was bored and just wanted to get the heck outta there and go get some lunch!  Love you Daddy but wedding dress shopping should definitely be left to the ladies!!   Secondly, that store is GROSS!  They gave me a bra to use and it smelled like a hog had rolled around in it for days and then they hung it up in the sun to dry before they decided it was fit for me to use!!!  I am not exaggerating!!! Needless to say I didn't find my dress there! We had lots of other wedding things to do while my parents were here so we had to use our time wisely so we didn't go dress shopping again during that trip.  Later on I got to talking to a friend of mine Aubrey about wedding dresses and she expressed to me how she loved all things wedding, so I dragged invited her to go wedding dress shopping with me and we went to about a bajillion stores in the Tampa Bay area.  I fell in love with one of the first dresses I tried on, but me being me I had to continue looking!  Well after I had gone to about every store you can imagine here, I decided to stop my searching and wait to go with my Momma again while I was visiting her in Pensacola.  We went to one bridal boutique where I continued to try on about 20 dresses. This is where I started to panic and questioning myself and wondering if I even knew what the heck I liked and didn't like!!  Then my Momma said with all her wisdom...."Angie, you need to make a decision because you are just confusing yourself more by trying on all these dresses!" And she was right, so this week I swung by the store that had the dress I loved from before.... just to try it on one more time!  As soon as I put it on, I KNEW!  I am oh so excited to say that I have picked out my wedding dress and it is better than I ever could have imagined!! I cannot wait to show you guys pictures of me in the most beautiful gown I have ever laid eyes on!!!!  Now, you just have to wait 288 days, HA!!

The results are in............

And we saved some mega money on groceries today!  I told you guys about the couponing class we took last week.  Well we put our couponing knowledge to the test today!  In the spirit of our money saving Thursday, I started the day off with a visit to our local produce stand (I found this one last week and it has fantastic produce at outstanding prices and it is literally right down the road, which = perfect)!  Here is a photo of my scores at the produce stand. I got all of this for $11.81.

(1 Watermelon, 1 cantaloupe, 2 yellow bell peppers, 3 tomatoes, 5 Georgia peaches and 6 cucumbers)

Then I waited for Mr. T to get home from work so we could go to Publix and this is where the real fun began.  I had already prepared for our visit by clipping coupons that went along with their BOGO deal and a few others that ended up being great deals themselves.  Not to mention the coupon that comes in the "junk" mail that gives you a $10.00 gift card when you spend $50.00 or more.  We got all of this for $80.08 and saved $94.19 (55% savings), yes you read that right!!! Go ahead you can say it, HOLY COW, that's CRAZY!!!

(4 Ragu, 6 boxes of pasta - different types, 1 Pepsi, 2 packs of hot dogs, 10 yogurts, 1 sour cream, 1 bag of sliced cheese, 2 bags of dog treats, 1 aluminum foil, 8 rolls of paper towels, 2 men's body wash, 2 body lotions, 2 bottles of olive oil, 1 can of Off, 2 value size boxes of granola bars, 2 V8 Splash, 6 Lysol cleaners, 2 1/2 gallons of Organic Milk and 10 hand soaps)

And then we finally headed over to Aldi, which is where we got a few additional things because they are always better priced at Aldi.  We spent a total of $38.08 there.


(2.5 lbs of ground beef, pack of pork chops, bananas, blueberries, loaf of bread, hot dog buns, bag of stir fry, 3 bags of shrimp, 1 liquid dish soap, 2 fried shrimp frozen dinners, 2 pringles and 4 chocolate puddings)



All in all, I think it was a TOTAL success!!  I can't believe we haven't been doing this for years!  Ahhhh, think of the savings! I am so excited and I can't wait to see how much we can save with more practice.  You have to keep in mind that this was our FIRST time!  Not to shabby, if I say so myself!! It was so much fun and so easy to do!!  Now we just have to figure out what we want to do with all the money we are going to be saving :)

Row, row, row your boat

I took this picture yesterday, but was too tired to post it last night!  Mr. T and I live on a canal off of Tampa Bay so we like to go to the dock and fish... Well I watch and Mr. T does the fishing!  Yesterday was so nice, the breeze was delightful and we got to watch this man row back and forth on the canal.  Just one of those perks to living on the water :)

Couponing

This past Friday I went with Mr. T and my SIL to a free couponing class at a local church.  We learned so much about how to cut coupons and use them appropriately to save money and in some instances make money!  Yes, you heard that right!!  With careful planning you can be paid to take products off of stores shelves!! Of course, we are just starting out so I am sure it will take plenty of practice to get that good!! So today I cut, organized and planned our next grocery shopping experience, which will take place at our local Publix!  I just love Publix Grocery Stores, they are so clean and have a really friendly staff; not to mention great deals... can you say BOGO?!?!  So for my photo for the day, I wanted to show you all the coupons I plan on using Thursday when the new sales come out!!  Once we get home I will do a post on how much money we saved!  Until then, happy shopping :)

Notice my little helper :)

Picture A Day

I recently saw this, Today, on a friend's facebook page and thought it was such a neat idea.  This guy by the name of Jonathan Harris was turning 30 and wanted to take one photo a day and post it to his website.  So I am going to try and do my own version.  I can't wait to go back after a year and see the photos that made the cut.  For the first Picture I chose my Fur Baby Cody! 

Isn't he the cutest pup dog ever!!

Becoming a Blogger

So this is my first post and I am just trying to figure out the world of blogging!  One of my very sweet friends, Mandy over at Certain Days, came over to teach me the ropes of blogging!  Thank you Mandy for teaching me everything you know about blogging and helping me get started on this journey!!  I am going to use this blog to document my journey of planning our wedding, becoming a wife to Mr. T and anything and everything in between.  I hope you enjoy our adventures as much as we do and welcome to my blog!! I will leave you with a picture of us (and so I can practice at inserting pictures, ha).