New Mattress!

Last week, Jackie and I went to Rooms To Go and purchased a Sealy Posturepedic queen mattress set. Well, it was delivered today!A clean, empty room awaiting the mattress arrival

It's here! (plastic and all)

The finished product

Here's to many rest-filled nights ahead!

Saying Yes to the Dress!

This weekend, I went wedding dress shopping with Mom and my Maid of Honor, Nicole.

We traveled to David's Bridal and tried on some dresses.  After lots of deliberation and some re-trying on dresses, I finally chose what will be my wedding dress!!  Nicole then tried on some bridesmaid dresses and we decided on a style and look for the wedding.

I am now really pumped for the wedding.  I have been making lots of decisions and choices since being home.  I have updated our wedding website.  Here you can find information about the wedding, how we met, and where we are registered!

Jackie & Jonathan's Wedding Website

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Winnie the Pooh Movie

Tonight, Jonathan and I took a "date night"!

We went to Denny's for dinner because I had received coupons in the Sunday paper.

Jonathan tried the new Georgia Peach French Toast while I had the Build-Your-Own Grand Slam.

After the deliciousness, we went lamp shopping to replace the broken one.  See the previous blog entry for that story. 

After purchasing our new lamp, we loaded it up in the car and drove to the movies.  I had been so excited to see this new Pooh movie that was coming out.  Luckily the theater was not full because of the Harry Potter madness that was going on.  It was a really cute movie and included many adventures in finding Eeyore's tail, searching for Christopher Robin, and fighting Backsons!  While it wasn't better than The Tigger Movie, it was still really funny and a new favorite of mine!

New Lamp

Our lamp had an unfortunate accident a while a go.

I received a phone call from Jonathan telling me that he was vacuuming one day and hit the end table by the couch.  In doing so, the lamp knocked over and broke the glass surroundings.

Today before going to see a movie, we decided to stop by JCPenny's and look at lamps.

The one we purchased was on clearance for 60% off, originally being $100.00, now $39.99

It now matches our new couch furniture and it more stable then the one before.

It includes a 3-way lighting system and came with the shade.

We made sure to check for scratches or marks and found none.

Extreme Shoppers

After church this morning, Jonathan and I did some extreme coupon shopping at CVS and Walgreens.  We got several items to stockpile because they were on sale and had lots of good coupons to use that were going to expire.  Our loot includes:

• 24 Pack of Bottled Water
• 3 Venus Pro-Skin Razor Sets
• 1 Fusion Pro-Glide Razor Set
• 1 Bottle of Shaving Cream
• 1 Refill Cartridge (Venus PS)
• 1 Refill Cartridge (Fusion PG)
• 4 Oral-B Indicator Toothbrushes
• 1 Box of Cascade (60 oz)
• 2 Boxes of Wal-Zyr Allergy Medicine (30 tablets)
• 1 Box of Bounce (120 sheets)
• 2 Packs of Bounty Basic Paper Towels (8 rolls)
• 2 Packs of Charmin Toilet Paper (16 rolls)

Our total between all items include: $130.51
Our savings with coupons and sale items: $70.15
Extra savings and coupons received: $5.50 ExtraBucks + $20 Walgreens Coupons + $10 Shell Gas = $35.50
Grand total: $24.86 (81% savings!)

We now should be good on toilet paper and paper towels for a while, Jonathan has a 2 month supply of allergy medication, Jonathan and I both have razors for our shaving needs.

We have filled up the empty cabinet in the kitchen that holds all of our paper goods we bought.  (Picture to come....if my computer would recognize my memory card!)

Toyota Transformed!

Jonathan picked up his Toyota 4-Runner from the dealership on Thursday afternoon.

There were quite a few major repairs done and some other needed tune-up items.

Work done included:

• Transmission fluid flush and replacement of Transmission O-rings
• Replaced front brake calipers and brake pads
• Cleaned and aligned back brakes
• Replaced fuel filter
• Replaced all 6 spark plugs

Now the 4-Runner purrs like a kitten and brakes like a dream!!

Hopefully we won't have problems with that car for a while!!

Bridal Shower Present

Here is the first bridal shower present that Jonathan and I have received. 
We got it in the mail from Kohl's today sent by Dee and Doug. 
We have been borrowing their vacuum that they use for the upstairs. 
I'm pretty sure they are getting tired of carrying the downstairs vacuum upstairs. 
Don't worry, I'll return it when we come home in July!!

 

The vacuum is really light-weight and includes all the normal attachments.
It is bagless, includes a HEPA filter, and also has a special small vacuum attachment for rugs.

I think the feature that I like is the foot power latch. 
There is a red latch on the back that you just push down to start the vacuum.

I might just enjoy vacuuming now....maybe Jonathan will get a break from vacuum duties!!