How deep is my love...

...for shoes. I love shoes. I can't stop buying shoes. I buy as many shoes for my baby girl, who, coincidentally is developing her own love of shoes, as I do for me. I thought I would just show you how deep my love is with a few pictures. It started in July with this.
I bought these at Old Navy. First, I bought black and brown. I left my black ones on the deck and they melted (Yes, melted!). So I went back and now I have black, brown, and navy blue.

Then on our first trip to Pigeon Forge, I got these. Sketchers are my favs. And of course at the Sketchers' outlet they had a sale B1G1 half off.

So I got these 50% off. And I got a pack of Cali Gear bits for free.
This past weekend in Kodak, TN at Bass Pro Shops, I found these cute sandals clearanced for $6.97 and who can pass up a deal like that?
Then upstairs in the same Bass Pro Shops, I found these cuties. Also clearanced! $9.99!

Then on a recent grocery trip (with a short side visit to The Shoe Department),
I found these babies on a clearance table for $6.50.
8 pairs in less than a month. Now do you understand my deep, deep, deep love?

My Latest Project

I promised the boys many months ago we would work on their bedrooms. We decorated the nursery when Maci Clare was born but we have neglected the boys' rooms. So begins my list of projects. I am starting with Zane's. We decided on a hunting theme since we have a bear rug to work around. (The bear was hit by a car and picked up and given to us.) So I painted the camo letters. I thought they turned out really cute so I decided to post them. Your opinion?

Some Homework While I Am Away!

While on our Mission Trip to Atlanta, I met a wonderful woman by the name of Catherine Palmer. If you enjoy Christian fiction you may have heard of her. She has written many books and even a few with Gary Chapman. She and her husband, Tim, moved to the middle of the International Village in Atlanta ( "in da hood") from the middle of the country overlooking a lake in Missouri. What a sacrifice they made because they also brought their autistic son, Andrei. This family is awesome and they have a blog so you can keep up with what is going on in their mission field. Please go by and give her some encouragement. It is so interesting to see and read about the things they face daily. Go her and give her some bloggy love and if you pray, please put on your prayer list. God is working throught these great missionaries everyday. So check it out here.

Headed Out One Last Time

We're headed out of town for one last trip before school starts. We are going back to Dollywood. I'll be back!

Feeding the Ducks and Publix

We went to Furman University (which, I must say, is one of the most beautiful colleges I have ever seen). We like to go there and feed the ducks and walk at the lake. We took our lunch and had a picnic.
This is a picture of the bell tower. We usually drive over and park close enough to walk and feed the ducks there. They had the road blocked because they are doing lots of work. So we parked across the lake and I snapped this picture.

The boys were trying to feed the turtles too but the ducks wouldn't allow it.
There were lots of ducks and they kept coming and coming.
Jack and Maci Clare liked eating the bread instead of feeding it to the ducks.

The late comers didn't get too much. They got chips because the bread was gone. The swan closest to the camera is a baby swan. It was so funny looking. The Ugly Duckling.

We decided to walk over to the bell tower and we took a little detour. There were Canadian geese on the walkway. Zane was really excited that he got that close.


We finally made it to the bell tower. I did manage to get a halfway decent picture.
And this one with my mom.

After we left Furman, I ran by Publix to score some deals. I bought:
8 boxes of Pop Tarts
6 boxes of Granolas (Quaker and Fiber One)
2 boxes of Live Active cereal
2 rolls of Basic Paper Towels
3 cans of Chef BoyarDee Ravioli
4 boxes of Kraft Deluxe Shells and Cheese
4 boxes of Eggo Waffles
5 boxes of Betty Crocker Supreme Brownie Mix

The total was roughly $46 and I paid $20.37. Another successful shopping trip with some extras to give away.

Awesome Shopping Trips

On Thursday night, I went to buy groceries. It was triple coupon week at Ingles so I planned my trip and headed out. When all was said and done, I had $105 worth of groceries and paid $39.97 for them. I just couldn't bring myself to pile it all on the table and take a picture and somehow the receipt has been lost. But I promise it is true.

Then Saturday after a few garage sales I did a couple of transactions at CVS. I bought 2 bottles of Listerine, 2 tubes of Neosporin, 1 box of Benadryl, 4 12pks. of Coke products, 1 box of Bandaids for $9.52OOP. I would've come out better but I screwed the first transaction up and had to re-calculate and add another transaction. Oh well, still a good trip.

Maci Clare and I went to several yard sales. I will try to remember to take some pictures of what I bought. I got some pretty good deals when it was all said and done. I'm off to Publix tomorrow for some more sweet deals. I'll let you know how it turns out.

Im Honored:

I received another award. Thank you to Hearts Full Of Love for giving me this award. I will be passing it along shortly. We are heading out for a picnic and duck feeding tomorrow morning and football is in full swing so we will be busy, busy, busy!