This week's savings jackpots!

I'm just about at full speed now, so last week I was able to start our summer schedule of activities with the kiddos!

Austin loves art and I had considered signing him up for an art camp that would have cost $90 for three half days.  Instead, I spent $20 to sign him up for 10 Michael's Passport to Imagination classes.  I am taking him and his cousin on Mondays and Fridays.  They started this week and had a great time!

We used our Summer Y pass to go to the waterpark 3 times this week.

We went to the Natural History Museum with some friends and used a coupon to get a discount.  The kids had a really fun tim!

We cooked most meals at home and brought snacks and drinks with us on the go.  I brought Golden Spoon yogurt home one night as a treat on their 2 for 1 day.  Austin wanted the same flavor as me, so I got a larger size and took my half in the lid and gave him the bowl.  They had a new flavor this week, banana.  NW locals, if you text "spoon" to 90210 you will get the text alerts for the 2 for 1 days (usually Saturday) and also any other specials.  You can also like them on FB to get news on specials and new flavors.  We really love this place!

I went to a Relief Society BBQ one night, so Ryan got McDonald's for he and Austin.

I made 12 handmade cards of 3 different designs this week.  I will be using my spare time over summer to make all the cards I'll need for the year.

I made no butter banana bread and applesauce cookies.  I took some of the cookies over to our friends who we had dinner with one night.

Ryan's parents watched the kids so we could go to the Temple this week.

Took Austin to a free Lowe's Kids Clinic.  He had a great time and can now do most of the hammering himself!

Ryan finished with all the tiling on the master bath and the walls adjacent to the tile were textured and primed.  He will be painting and grouting this week!

I went through clothes and toys no longer used/needed to send to donation.  I inventoried the donations in case I need to itemize them for taxes.  When I did, I found some items that I can repurpose instead of buying.  I wanted to get a bin for the kid's bathroom and an under-the-sink storage for mine.  I found a basket and old shoe rack no longer used in a closet so these will work for what I need.  I will have Ryan trim the shoe rack a little shorter so it fits under our sink.

We had a little scare with the baby over the weekend.  I was getting a few things at Dollar Tree, they have those smaller carts with the heavy metal posts on the front.  The baby was sitting in the seat of the cart and Austin stepped up on the front of the cart and it flipped over to the ground in a split second.  The baby hit her head on the floor and had a huge bump.  The cart landed on Austin's legs, but he was fine.  I'm so grateful for the shoppers who heard the crash and came to help us.  One brought a bag of frozen vegetables to ice Amilia's head while I calmed her down.  We left the store and headed straight to the ER, where she was checked out and got a CAT scan of the brain.  Everything was normal (thank God).