Sunday, September 13, 2009

summit sunday....

for those of you who know my husband, saying he was frugal would be an understatement....we've just drank the dave ramsey kool-aid & have also enrolled in his financial peace university.....so far so good, mostly the obvious stuff at this point....i also am known to be thrifty at times....i love a good sale & hardly ever grocery shop without coupons....we do pretty well eating at home most meals......we are trying to be good, but we are human.....and, well - i'm female - so ya know that quick trip to target can get a bit pricey at times :) anyhoo, all that being said to tell you about our freebie day.....

it has been fashion weekend at the summit.....today was kid's day.....and was it ever!! after church & a quick lunch at the house we headed up to the summit.....we started at barnes & nobles with fancy nancy story time....*awesome*....the kids were also able to make a beautiful bonjour butterfly.....grant enjoyed the train table much more than the story but he did make it back for craft time :)







next on our trail of fun was old navy for face painting.....a butterfly for fancy audrey & a football for big man.....oh and man did they have some cute stuff!!....i told brett we needed to leave quickly or it could get ugly :) see, human & female.....and i may just have to sneak back over there this week!

stop #3.....zoe's.....they were letting the kids paint pics that will decorate the store.....they switch out the kid artwork periodically in the restaurant and the artwork from today will be displayed for a while.....well, audrey's will ~ brett and i aren't too sure about grant's :) hey, that's two-year-old art for ya!



and to finish our little adventure......ice cream....i was told last week about the free ice cream at bruster's & seeing as there is one literally a minute from our house, we couldn't refuse! the deal is you have to be under 40" and you get a free small cone, no purchase necessary.....sweet!....but really, who could go and not purchase?!?! so brett & i split something......fudgie cheescake icecream.... un.be.liev.able......




so that was our day of free family fun.....well, $3.13 family fun.....we did buy the adults ice cream! i hope all of you had a great weekend as well.....on to a *typical* crazy week for us :)

3 comments:

Amy said...

okay...this is going to be a long comment...
first, I totally agree about blogging being an "outlet" - I feel the same way! Second, I LOVE the larger pictures - you'll have to share your secret!! Third, I love how the doll replaces Grant in the pictures at story time. =)
fourth - The pictures of Audrey and Grant eating the ice cream cones are PRICELESS!! They are perfect images of happy children! You have a real talent for taking pictures....and I'm sure it doesn't hurt that your kiddos are ADORABLE and sooo photogenic!! Loved this post! =)

Ginnie said...

Love the free day! It looks like the kids had so much fun. We love Fancy Nancy at our house. Whenever we read it Isabelle has to get dressed up in her "fancy clothes"!The pics are great! I do like them bigger and would love to know about your new photo editing program.

Kelly said...

These pictures are adorable! Your kids are too cute!!!
The ice-cream pictures are my favorite! :)