Inspiration

Rachel Capistrant and her lovely blog inspired me to do my hair for the 1st time in ages. I NEVER do my hair... except straighten it (which is really boring). So I decided to try this style I found on pintrest. Speaking of Pintrest... my mom is obsessed. In her words "Why would anyone Facebook when they can pin?". :)

The finished style!

My family

We are all completely normal.

The Balgaards

The Hoff's

my little angel neice

BEFORE

AFTER

Awkward Family Photo

My friend Erin and her husband... Can you feel the love tonight?

First time on ice!

Chad brought his awesome girlfriend Lana to visit Duluth! She lives in LA and has seen very little snow and walked for the first time on ice this weekend! We had a really fun weekend showing them around Duluth. It was a beautiful weekend!!

Phobia

If there is one place that I just hate going it's the mall. I think I have developed this phobia for the mall within the past couple of years. There is sooooo many more fun, interesting and local places to shop. I really really don't want to go tomorrow... but when you have a coupon for a FREE pair of undies at Victorias Secret you just have to right?! My plan is to run as quickly as I can get my free undies and run out... as.fast.as.I.can. I hope I don't trip.

Let's get extreme!!

So if you are a snowboarder you would know that the title of this post is a quote from the "That's it, That's all" snowboard movie. But today i'm not talking about extreme sports, i'm talking about extreme couponing! Ever since I have watched the extreme coupon show I have had this fascination about how it works. I met a couponer at a financial class we are taking and she sort of showed me the ropes. I've been collecting coupons for two weeks now and i'm happy to report I had a successful shopping trip to Walgreens today!! I'm not looking to stock pile a bunch of stuff I will never use, but definitely stock up on things when they are cheap to save some money. This was my first "extreme" purchase & I'm sure I will only get better at it.

Total before coupons: $64.11

GRAND TOTAL (after coupons): $14.40

I got (2) crest pro health toothpaste, (2) Nivea body washes, (4) ricola dual action cough drops, (2) colgate toothpaste, (2) Tide laundry detergent, (1) carmex, (2) reeses peanut butter candies (very important!), three caramels!

Woohoo! The Frey's will be good on toothpaste for a while and enough cough drops to last through the winter!