rethinks

I am the type of person that likes instant gratification! Can anybody relate? I love to do home improvement projects and really love the ones that are quick and easy. I love to go to Goodwill and Salvation Army to find things that need "rethinking".

Here are a few things I have found so far this summer.... I will only show you the before now because I am to lazy to take the after pictures right now....hehehehehe!! Stay tuned :)

Meet poor Mr. Squirrel.... this baby has been in my Mother-in-laws basement for YEARS! My hubby and I went plundering one day and found him. My Son's room is done in a hunting theme so I thought Mr. Squirrel would be tooooo cute! FREE! Remember, this is before!

Next, we have old yucky pot.... this was in my Mother-in-law's garage and she told me to take it...FREE.... again.... before!

And last, we have a not too bad buffet lamp... bought at Goodwill for $5.00

Stay tuned for the after pictures :) I will post them soon.

Have a great Thursday!!!

All star Annalee

It has been so long since I have posted about our happenings.... We have been so busy!

Annalee made the all-star softball team this year and we have been hitting the ball field a lot! Her first tournament was this past weekend and they did soooo good!

Her team is called the Explosion and they came in 1st against all-star teams and 3rd against travel ball teams!

She had so much fun and is now hooked! Momma and Daddy sweated like pigs but it was so worth it to watch her having fun. We were at the ball field for 13 hours! Fun, fun!

She has another tournament this weekend.... Friday and Sat. I will keep you posted on how she does! :)

Publix love

This weeks Publix deals were fun....

Total before coupons.... $63.43

Total savings... $42.18

Total OOP.... $21.25

Not bad for all I got!!!!

Happy Wednesday! :)

Publix and other fun deals :)

It has been a while since I have posted a great deal from Publix! This week was to good not to show!

3 boxes Frosted Flakes cereal

4 Sobe waters...all free :)

2 packs light bulbs

2 bottles salad dressing (paid me .89 to take these off their shelf!)

4 Tony's pizzas

1 Tombstone pizzas

1 box Eggo Waffles

3 bags Bliss Chocolates...yummy!

2 packs Dentyne gum

2 pts. Starbucks Coffee ice cream

1 bag sub rolls

Total before coupons..... $71.76

Total Savings....$55.46

Total OOP....$16.30!!!!

I forgot to put the sub rolls in the picture :)

I also had to return a cat toy that my daughter had bought. We had used a $2.00 off a $5.00 purchase on the pet isle. When I took it back I told the cashier that we used the coupon and she told me not to worry about it! She refunded the total price which was $5.35! We had a $2.00 profit on that deal!

Later that same day I took the kids by McDonald's for a Ice cream cone and decided to get me one of the yummy Mocha Frappacinos....I ordered a small Mocha(we were in the drive thru). When I got it it was a Caramel.... Yuck.... I went back in and told them nicely that I ordered a Mocha... and they gave me a Large one for my trouble!!! Yummy!

It was a fun frugal day! :)

Poor Daddy

This will be a quiet weekend at the Scarbary house..... Daddy had some dental work done this morning. He is snoozing as I type. It is so pitiful to see him not feel great. Hopefully he will be back to himself soon!

Annalee has made him some signs to hold up since he can't talk right now. Isn't that the sweetest! I think we will rent some movies later and have a quiet evening!

We love you daddy and hope you feel better soon!

Happy weekend!

Happy Birthday, Josh!

Today is my sweet boy's 15th Birthday!!!!

I can't believe it!

Happy Birthday, Josh! I am so proud of you and love you to pieces!!! Thank you for making your Momma laugh all the time!!!! You are a precious gift from God and it still feels weird to have to "look up" at you now! That is so not right!!!!

Have a wonderful Birthday!!!!!

I love you ...

Momma :)

6 updates!!!

There are 6 new updates below!!! Thanks for taking time to check on us!!!!

Time to brag!!

This school year has been such a busy one for my kids, especially Annalee.

I have been so proud of all her accomplishments this year. With her 11th birthday being last week, I decided it was a great time to brag on her a little!!!!

1. She PASSED the CRCT with flying colors!!!!

2. Her portfolio paper on the state of Georgia scored the highest out of 83 fifth grade papers! Her teacher said she honestly could not find a single problem with the paper! She scored a 5's all the way across the Rubric scale.

3. She meet the standards for her State mandatory 5th grade writing test. She had to go to a testing sight, was given her topic to write on and had to develop her idea, write the rough draft, and write the final draft in 2 hours. She did great!

4. She finished all the requirements to move on the Middle school!!! (there were too many to list!) She is now officially a 6th grader!

5. Her softball team won every game and are League Champions!

6. She made the All-star team and will play in several tournaments this summer!

7. She completed her year in Bible Study Fellowship and studied the whole book of John!

Annalee,

You have worked so hard this year and all your hard work has paid off!!! I am so very proud of you!!!!!

love, Momma xoxox

P.S. This friday is Josh's birthday..... I will brag on him them also!!!! hehehe :)

Happy Birthday!!

Today is my sweet girl's 11th Birthday! Boy does time fly!

Annalee,

We are so proud of you and all that you have accomplished this year. You are truly a blessing from the Lord and we thank him every day for such a wonderful gift. We pray that you will continue to grow in your love for Jesus as you have this past year!

We love you, sweetheart!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

love,

Momma and Daddy :)

p.s. notice her shirt??? I will be back soon with the details!!!

Have a wonderful Memorial Weekend! :)

UPDATE!!!!!

It is so hard to believe that it has been a month since my last post!! School has taken all of my time lately .... but only 5 more days left!

I wanted to update you and thank everyone for their prayers for Annalee and her CRCT testing. I really appreciate those who took the time to say a little prayer on her behalf.

We are thrilled to let you know.....

she PASSED!!! 6th grade here we come!!!

Praise God!! :)

I will be back soon with updates on what the Scarbarys have been up to ....

Hugs!!

Spring fun

My hubby and I love to work in the yard. We love to buy things off the "distressed" rack and watch them thrive at home!

Here are a couple of my flowers we have in our yard.... bought off the "distressed" rack!

When we bought our house 3 years ago..... there was little to no yard... Dean and Josh have been working hard to get some grass growing. Their hard work is beginning to show!!!
Here they are getting ready to spread some more seed!

Here is my sweet girl washing the van.... she is always busy doing something!!!

League Champions!!

We are so excited for Annalee! She has really worked hard this season in softball and really loves to play!

Her team, the Lightning, won the League Championship!

On the way home after the team party she said that she was sad that is was over and she wanted to play softball during the summer. That evening her coach called and told her she made the all-star team! She was soooo excited! We are so proud of her and look forward to seeing her work hard.

She had her first all-star practice last night and it whooped her hiney!!!! It is so different than rec. ball..... but she loved it !!!

Way to go Annalee!!! You have worked so hard this year on so many different things and we are so poud of you!!!!

Easter 2010

I think this will be that last year that I have a Easter Egg hunter :( sniff sniff!!

Here are some hightlight of our Easter egg hunt....

Annalee with her loot...

All the kiddos..

My bunch... with my other son, Clarke... he is really my nephew but he stays at our house alot so I just call him my other son! I love that kid!

My kids.... Josh is in need of a serious haircut!!!!

Cherry Blossom Festival 2010

Each year in March we have the world famous..... Cherry Blossom Festival. We love to go downtown and get free Cherry ice cream, cherry coke and ride the free horse and buggy. We usually do it 2-3 times that week. Hey...... I love anything free! :)

Can you see the kids little faces?

Annalee eating her yummy Cherry Ice Cream

We also got to see these cute Sea lions do their show... it is amazing how they are trained to do tricks.... Annalee loved this part!

Annalee decided she wanted a new doo.... so here we have....

The new Annalee! At first I didn't want her to get it cut... but after all,,,, sometimes Momma has to let her do things on her own... one thing about it.... it will grow back ... but... I love it!! It is so much easier for her to take care of it. What do you think?

I would have more pictures of my son.... but he is now officially to cool for the camera! Teenage boys!

Atlanta Motor Speedway

I can't believe how behind I am with blogging! We have been so busy with school responsibilities.... but our hard work paid off!!! More about that later....

Now... to catch you up with the many happenings of the Scarbarys!!!!

We took the kids back to Atlanta Motor Speedway... I think it was in March?!

My son and hubby love NASCAR so we took the opportunity to go to the race on a Saturday. It is really interesting to watch all that goes on. Annalee and I sat the whole time with the binoculars. The weather was beautiful! We took our nephew this time and he in now officially hooked!

The kids waiting to go in the gate.

Josh and his favorite driver, Jeff Gordon.



Annalee likes Joey Logano




and of course.... Daddy and Clarke like the girl!!!! This drives Josh crazy!!! Dean loves to aggravate him :)

One more day :)

Thank you to all that have been praying for Annalee. She has one more day of testing and then she will be finished!

She feels like she has done well, we will not have the results for 4 or more weeks.

Hopefully I will be back to the blogging world next week. There has been a lot going on in our household and I look forward to telling yall about it :)

Have a wonderful weekend!

Happy Monday morning! Annalee is taking her first day of the CRCT! She was excited to get started this morning so I guess that is a good sign!

thank you to all that have been praying for her. :)

She is taking the test on the campus of Macon State College. Josh and I are in the lobby of one of the class buildings enjoying watching the people! Is sure does bring back so many memories of college life for me! I look at all of these "kids" and think about how they have their whole lives in front of them! It is really interesting that we have also been seeing a lot of "mature" age students. Who knows.... by the end of the week, I might want to return to school!!! haha

I look forward to catching up with everyone again! hugs........

Well, the time is here. My daughter has the dreaded CRCT this week. We have prepared the best we know how....now it is left up to prayer! She knows the material and should do fine!

Would you mind saying a prayer for her this week? The critical days are Monday~ Reading and Wednesday~Math. She must pass these to move on to 6th grade.

Thanks in advance for praying for her!

Happy Birthday, honey!

Today is my sweet husband's birthday!

Happy Birthday, honey! I love you!

P.S. For the few of you that read this blog.... we have not fallen off the planet.... we are so busy with school and have been having to much fun on spring break! I will be back soon with all we have been up to. Right now, preparing my kids for the CRCT is a higher priority! hugs to all!!