Still Picking up the Pennies

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Thank you to everyone that entered. the winners are Honeybunny LisaLisa and frugalmommieof2 The frugalmommieof2 and LisaLisa have been contacted and sent me their mailing addresses, but I cannot find a way to contact Honeybunny. Honeybunny you have 48 hours to contact me, or you will forfeit your prize. Once again, thank you everyone!

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When the calender says it is back to school time, my brain says start planning. As we all now once school starts we all now how times seems to fly. Before we know it, it will be Halloween time. Halloween is a quick one day ordeal, but I never seem to be able to do it frugally has I hope. If you have never visited costumediscounters.com , I suggest you do. I was very surprised by the prices of many of their items. When I was presented an opportunity to review a Halloween costume from costumediscounters.com I jumped all over it. What tween does not love Indiana Jones? Well, mine sure does. After looking at all of the boys costumes, Joel chose the Indiana Jones Distressed Jacket . Even grown kids love to play dress up and mine are no different. Costume Discounters has many movie character costumes . If your sons are not in the movie character costumes, they also carry a great variety of boys costumes When the costume arrived, Joel was so excited he put it on. I had the camera ready

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I used the Hillbilly Housewife's recipe for 60 Minute Rolls . Oh MY GOD!! They taste as good as they look! I am going to be making this recipe a lot. I brought a loaf up to my parents. They raved about this bread and said it makes excellent French toast. My dear Hubby made sandwiches from the rolls to carry in his lunch pail all week.

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Thank you to everyone who entered my giveaway for the set of Oktoberfest Beer Mugs! Jen, you are the winner! Congratulations! I hope you enjoy your prize. I will be having other great giveaways, really soon. Make sure you check back regularly.

My boys and I just got back from a 5 hour road trip with my mother to see my Gramma. Gram has not been feeling well, but for privacy sack she ask me not to post details here on my blog. Here is a photo (from l to r) of Noah, my mother Lin 61, and my Gram-Glendelon 80! and Joel. So we all just got home and are tired and the house is a wreck, this week's food plan is going to be really simple! Monday - Hot Dogs. Tuesday - Chicken and rice. Wednesday - Spaghetti with country ribs. Thursday - Pork chops. Friday - Pizza. Don't forget to enter my two current giveaways. Oktoberfest Beer Mug (DONT forget you have to comment AND be a follow my blog!! K-Y® INTENSE® Giveaway For more yummy meal plans check out orgjunkie

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Usually I post my menu plans on Monday, but today is Tuesday. Tuesday - Sloppy Joes. Wednesday - Chicken Sandwiches. Thursday - Spaghetti Friday - Hot dogs and Mac & Cheese. I have to work and this meal the boys love and me not so much. Saturday - Cook's delight. This week we are busy preparing for the county fair. This afternoon we go and clean out the food booth. Wednesday we will start baking, Joel chose to do brownies and Noah bread. Both sound yummy to me :)

Today I am alone in the house for the first time since May 28, the last day of school. I feel so refreshed and content. This is how I spent my 5 hours, cooking dinner for my menfolk. First I made crock-pot pizza. It is a fancy version of goulash, with a ton of mozzarella cheese and peperoni. Next is homemade bread and breakfast pie. The breakfast pie is for Sunday morning. DH's cousin is spending the weekend and the man can eat. And most importantly I was able to get in a nap and a new blog post. What a great day.

We love summer time with the great warm weather we are having. We would so love to go on a real vacation, but instead we have resorted to day long trips and excursions this year. We were all in the mood for a day trip to Copper Harbor, MI. If you have never been there, go! It is one of my very favorite small towns in the world. Copper harbor is about 2 hours from where we live. We stopped at every little site seeing opportunity along the way. This is a snow-o-meter measuring the local area's record breaking snow fall in one year 390.4 inches. Can you imagine!? It still snows a lot up here but I am glad I have never seen that much snow. Our next stop was at Fort Wilkins' State Park. There is a ton of history at this fort. My boys really enjoyed seeing how and where the soldiers of that time lived and worked. Joel setting off the cannon. Noah shopping getting supplies for making cookies, he is my cookie monster!! The ammo depot. Then to Mount Brockway, it sure do

I am enjoying a cup of coffee, while blog hopping!

this sign really made me stop and think. There was an elevator around the corner.

About 2 years ago, my cousin's kingerten class she was teaching, hatched eggs. They were so cute but grew and grew and GREW. Lisa lives with in the city limits so she had to find a home for her babies. We invited them in our home coop with open arms. Well, it has been quite the learning process with these three additions to our flock. They are bantam Ameraucanas and the go broody in a drop of a hat. With that said, I have baby chickens again, they are the cutest little things and the females are such good mamas! Here is Rita and her five offspring. See the little ones peeping out. We have about 28 chickens right now, with 10 that are hens and old enough to lay. We get on average 9 eggs a day. I have two regular buyers for $2.50 a dozen, which goes for feed.