Coupon Shopping

I have a friend who has been coupon shopping and finding fantastic deals. for some time now. Seeing all the great deals she has found I have decided to try my hand at it as well. Holy smokes, if you take the time to look you can find some great deals out there.

This is my first venture. ShopKo had a deal going that if you spent at least $25 on P&G items you can get a $10 prepaid MC in the mail.

Here is what I found at Wal-mart. All this rang up to $75.25 but I only spent $40.93 on it and got four (4) free movie tickets from it. Tampax is running a special on some of their boxes ~ a free movie ticket in each one. In the Sunday paper there were coupons for $1-$2 off each box so instead of paying $6.97 you could pay $4.97-$5.97 each. I even checked the special before I went and made the purchase, there are three movie theaters up here that will accept the tickets so we won't have to go to a big city to use them. I'm stocked up for some time now and I got two date nights out of it. Sweet!!! I can't tell you the last time we have gone to see a movie in a theater. All last night we talked about what movies we wanted to use the tickets on.

Get your deal here:

1. Check to see what theaters are participating for your area.
2. Clip coupons and head to the store. Find the one packaged with the extra pink ticket in the corner. I only found them at Wal-mart.
3. Enter your movie ticket codes here.
4. Print your tickets!
5. NOTE: the code on the ticket will expire October 31, 2010. The ticket will expire 30 days from the date issued online.
   

Garden ~ Balcony

We are doing another balcony garden this year. One of the value projects for Faith is to plant, care for, and harvest a vegetable garden.

This is what it looks like after two weeks. I think we are going to need to move the peas to a bigger planter soon. With the plants right next to window they are all leaning towards the window. Paul is pretty excited about all the tomato's and onion he should be getting.

Talley's Folly ~ Set Design

Paul had the opportunity to design a set for the Covey Center for the Arts down in Provo. The show is Talley's Folly and was being put on in the Brinton Black Box Theatre.The weekend we went down to dress the set everyone said they really enjoyed it and were so impressed that he was able to get such a 'full' set in the black box. The show was Talley's Folly written by Langford Wilson. It is a show about two older, single people living in the 1940's and the unlikely romance between them.

Last Saturday we had the opportunity to go and see the show and took Paul's parents and his sister, who just got home from her mission last Thursday. It's always nice to hear that people like your designs. Check out what the Covey center wrote about Paul's set here.

Katie Roundy from the Deseret News came and saw the show and had wrote this up..


......The Brinton Black Box Theater provides an environment conducive to the intimate setting, as the audience is privy to a lovers' spat.

The set itself is quite impressive. The weathered boathouse takes up most of the stage. In a creative fashion, the rest of the theater is painted to look like a river, leaving the audience in the water......

Our Balcony Garden

In Personal Progress one of the activities we can do is plant a garden. Paul and I had so much fun doing this last year and watching everything grow we wanted to do it again.

On Tuesday the Relief Society had a class on pot and planter box gardening. The couple that instructed the class are in our ward and have their own garden shop here in town. It was so interesting and informative, now I just hope I can implement all this new information.

We went to the store and got a starter kit to start growing our seeds inside. Then we had to get seeds. There was this huge wall of seed packages. Paul loves tomato's so he got 4 or 5 different types to plant, same with peppers, I got one jalapeno pepper to spice up all those tomato's and for homemade salsa, YUM. This year I want to try strawberry's and peas. I remember growing up our neighbors did peas and they were so tasty to eat right out of the garden.

We could have done better last year but really, we didn't do too bad either. I'm excited to see what we can grow this year and knowing a little bit more about how to take care of my plants.

St. Patrick's Day

This is the green Paul was wearing on St. Patrick's day because I kept on pinching him. It is such a ridiculous hat. I couldn't stand it any more and told him I would stop pinching him if he would just take it off.

LEED AP

I have completely slacked off during the month of march. There seems to be so much to do that I have not really had a chance to sit and share, so I'll try to take it one step at a time. On March 14th I reached my year mark since I took the LEED AP exam. That was the longest Spring Break ~ and not in a good way ~ of my life. It was spent studying every day in the Library with a friend from 10-5 ~ it was nice to have someone there to go through all the material with. Then I decided to drag it out even longer and sign up for my test on Saturday. Paul always laughs at me because I can work myself up over things and this was no exception. I didn't eat anything all morning cause I did not want to let me tummy get in knots. By the time I finally sat down to take the exam I had calmed myself down. Once I got into the exam ~ I whipped right through it. They give you two hours to take the exam and if I remember right I was able to do it in an hour. Once I realized I had so much time left, I went back through it and took my time looking over all the answers I had marked. 'Click' I hit the finish button and the screen came up with a congratulations!!! I actually ended up with a terrific score ~ I believe one of the highest. Paul was a really good sport by coming with me. He knew I would need someone to cry to if I didn't pass and I would be too excited to drive if I did pass and he wanted to make sure I got home safe.

Now I just wish that since graduation I could have found a job that would allow me to use that knowledge. I'll just keep searching!!!

After the exam we went to the Draper Temple Open house, it was the last day of the open house so we really wanted to make it. Having worked on a temple for my internship it was fun to know some of the behind the scenes stuff that goes on to design a temple.

I can't believe that was all a year ago!!! Time flies.

A Reason To Celebrate

Paul ~ Thank you so much for taking me out for my birthday.

I haven't had to worry about what day my birthday has fallen on because ever since I was in College it has always fallen on Spring Break. This year it was the week before and on a Wednesday so Paul had classes and I ended up being sick. But for my Birthday we were able to get tickets for Fiddler on the Roof that was playing at the Hale Center Theatre. This is one of my Dads favorites and I remember listening to the soundtrack on so many times on family vacations. So not only did Paul get us tickets to go he was able to get enough to take my parents as well.

I absolutely loved it!!!

Anytime the cast started singing I wanted to start singing at the top of my lungs, it put a huge smile on my face. It was a great production of the musical. The opening scene "Tradition" and the dream sequence were the best of the whole show. It is amazing what they are able to do on such a small stage and a theatre in the round {that means there are seats 360 degrees around the stage}. The dead wife of the butcher was flying in the air, the bed was spinning and there were huge puppets. I had heard about he puppets from Paul. He knew what the set was looking like since he helps in the change overs but he had also told me about the puppets because one of his professors was the puppet master and in charge of designing them and getting them built.

If you have a chance to go and see the show before it ends ~ I would recommend it!

Very well worth it.