Savings

We went to Idaho Falls yesterday and this s what I found:

Walgreen's had a photo collage day online, and I got a wedding one

for FREE!

When we went to the mall, we found that Old Navy had a sale going on:

This is what I got:

In case you can't see the picture too well, I got 3 pairs of pants and two shirts

Have your guess?

$22.50! Note: The pair of jeans on clearance were normally this price!

Target:

This one is not that exciting, but we found that the Pamolive dish soap was (I'm guessing) around 7 bucks I think. I used a $1 off coupon, and there was a booklet of coupons in there. :)

Next stop: Wal-Mart! Can you make a guess? (notice the two steaks as well!)

Ending result! The cash register lady was shocked. :) I would have normally just gotten the steak and maybe the cream soda for this price. We bought the soda so we can use them for upping our food storage with water--milk jugs are not good for storing water. The rest I had a coupon for. The Bar S hotdogs were $.88/ea. and I have a $1/2, so I got them about $.38/ea. (That coupon was from the internet) I got the coupon for dawn from a booklet I got in the mail. It has many other "high-priced" coupons in it, too! The Wheat Thins had a coupon on Target, that was actually a manufacture's coupon, so I could use it at Wal-Mart on their sale of $2. The one I'm most proud of is my score on the steaks/filets. There is a $3/1 bacon wrapped Chef's request coupon. Wal-Mart has a sale that never seems to end on them, so I got them for $.68! Do I hear Valentine's dinner? haha

I do have to say that Steven and I love this couponing business. :) He is very supportive of me doing it, too! Most likely because he likes to see the bills go down. :)
If anybody is looking for a good deal on a Valentine's gift for your hubby, I can share what I did! I would post it, but he might see it! :/

To add to my wonderful day, I found out I went down in my pant size by two-three sizes! :) Could my day have been any better?!

Getting into this blogging business!

1. Ok, so I don't think I have any exciting pictures to post really. I am still waiting...waiting...and waiting to get my wedding pictures back from the Utah side. Who knew it would take this many months for them to get my a CD I can post. I have one I'm allowed to view, but it is very much... copyright-ed? We are back up at school and are loving it! I enjoy it because I have something to do. Period. Steven loves it because he has "something" to do. Although, in Utah, he atleast had something to do. I had, well, nothing. Jobs are scarce and I was feeling the pain of...well, boredom. :) It is so much fun having family and friends here, too! Last year I only had Liz. I suppose once in a while I had Dave.

2.Steven is tutoring Chem 106 this semester.Steven is pushing himself a lot this semester. He is taking 4 classes; three of them being:

• Anatomy


• Organic Chemistry (2nd half)


• Physics

All of which have labs! His study buddy/friend decided not to take O-chem at the same time as Anatomy because of the work load of these labs. Smart? I think so. My husband has enough guts to face the world head-on! Smart? I think...not, but we'll see later this semester. I think he can do it; I just may be single for one more semester because he will be at the library. :) His other class is with me though, so yipee! It's family foundations, and it's quite interesting.

3. I am currently still looking for a job. I am ahead of my classes from the lack of a job, so there is the "silver lining." I sure hope it stays that way. If I keep making blogs this long it probably won't. I am taking family foundations (as mentioned above), Math 108 (down a class from last year--complicated story), Science Foundations, Money Management (which has managed to be cancelled 2/3 times--not complaining), Humanities, and Interior Design.

4. What else can I update you on? Nothing I can think of. Let me know though because I am new to this whole blogging business, and I know I could probably do whatever I wanted. I just want to know if I'm leaving out some standards.

My Fascinating Facts:

The Greeks disliked the idea of irrational numbers, yet they came up with a most crucial irrational number. They went about trying to find how to split a line into two pieces that is most pleasing to the eye. Well they came up with a spot-- it is called phi (pronounced fee or fie and the symbol is a cirlce with a line straight up and down in the middle). Today, we round it to 1.6 or 8/5. This is known as the golden ratio. It led to a "golden rectangle." I wonder if that sounds familiar to anybody? This golden rectangle was considered the most pleasing to the eye. Basically the shorter side is x. The longer side is x*1.6. Surprisingly enough, it is seen a lot!!!! Also, this guy--sorry I don't remember his name-- did a survey on most pleasing/displeasing rectangles. Without even knowing it, the public made a trend. The "golden rectangle" had the most votes for most pleasing and NO votes for displeasing. The closer the pleasing votes came to the golden rectangle the higher they were, and the closer it got with the displeasing votes, the smaller! Last bit about golden rectangles. If you make a square out of a "g.r." the other section becomes a new g.r.. If you keep dividing them and smoothly connect the squares--it makes a "golden sprial" which is found in nature. I even got a pic so it makes more sense! Fascinating! This pic was on wikipedia under golden spiral--for copyrights' sake. :) Hope you enjoyed!

We're married!

We did it! We got married on September 12 in Vernal. We had a luncheon after several hours of picture-time (and an hour break). Then we had a short, very short, break and then had our reception. We really enjoyed seeing everybody and want to thank all those who took time to come celebrate. This, of course, goes for our reception we had in Texas on the 25th--but, now back to what happened after the12th. We drove to Salt Lake City because we had a plane to catch Sunday to Los Angeles. From Los Angeles we boarded the "Splendor." We took a cruise down to Mexico. We really enjoyed everything. We've had a long day, so we'll continue tomorrow. :)

Cont. We had two day before we reached our first destination--Puerto Vallarta. These were both a "Fun Day at Sea." It seemed like the boat never slept! There was always something going on! Our travel agent got a cake for us. Steven really enjoyed it. I think I had one piece. He snacked on it every time we needed to stop by to get something from the room, in the morning, midnight snack, you name it. When we reached Puerto Vallarta, we decided to get off the boat and explore a little before our tour with the cruise. We went to a market to get some water--yes bottled. We were curious to see the differences between produce and this is what we found! Cute little bananas!

Then we went on the tour around town. This place was beautiful! We absolutely loved it. We stopped by tons of places--one of which was a Catholic Cathedral. It was very elaborate.

After a bunch of other city touring, we went to a village up in the moutains. I loved it! We ate up there and looked around at the stuff to sell. This is a picture from Mazatlan. We decided to do some shopping there. Steven just LOVED bargaining and speaking spanuguese. That's what I call it. He served in Brazil, so he knows Potuguese, and they are close enough to get by, but it confused the Mexicans at times. On our way back to the boat we took another Taxi back. The driver wanted to drive us back to the boat in a way where we could see the best scenery and attractions. This picture is from one of the stops. In Cabo San Lucas, we went snorkling--both of us for only $20! Needless to say, it was gorgeous! That is our honeymoon it a nutshell! We have now been home for a week. A full week! (Almost, we actually had my Grandma Morgan's funeral Tuesday) Anyway, we have been married for a month and will be going to church tomorrow (Oct. 10) for the first time in our ward. Steven and I are also going to be doing a musical number sometime while being down here. That should be, oh how do I want to put it.... nerve-racking! We still aren't all put away in our house, but it is coming along. Still job hunting as well. Steven finally got two interviews lined up and possibly a job at the college (tutoring). He also found out while at the college that they have internships there. So, we might have found our spot for his internship! We'll see!

Our Family to-be

It'll be small--but great.