Target Run

Hey guys, sorry its been a while. Things have been busy around here!
I have a few post I need to be doing in the next day or 2 when I have time. Ones a fun valentines idea instead of the boring paper cards or candy. I need to finish Brendens then Il have it up! Also, a few recipes I have in mind and some to share from Super Bowl.

But I made a quick run to Target for some baking stuff I needed and spotted a few deals.

The seasonal section that has had the bulk items the last few months is on clerance. Between 15-50 % off at my store, depending on what it was.
I found the 2 packs on Barilla Pasta Whole Grain for only 1.84. They let me use my $1.00 off 2 boxes pasta on each, since there were 2 in a pack. So it ended up being only like 22 cents per box. I know you can get regular pasta basically for free a lot, but the whole wheat is more expensive. So I got a few of these.

Also, Target.com had/has a printable coupon for $1 off up&up paper towels. I used this on the 1 roll package and it made it free! They were like .97 cents. The coupon just took off .97 cents when she scanned it instead of $1.

Third good deal were these serving plates and bowls I found. They were on the end near the kitchen stuff. The bowls were only 1.08 and the plates were .54. I love the size of these!

Big boxes of Huggies diapers were also marked down to 26 from 39.99. There was some other items I wanted as well, but they had plenty so Il just wait a week or 2 and see if they go down even more.

The Next Cake Boss

Jake finally finished the 'learning tower' he was building me.
I've always wanted one of these things, but they are entirely too expensive.
http://www.littlepartners.com/products/The-Learning-Tower.html

But Brenden loves baking and helping in the kitchen. Atleast 4 times a week I found him standing on chairs helping me at the counter and I dont know how many times I had to tell him to be careful not to fall. Well that's the point of the learning tower, they cant.

So while I was on Pinterest a few weeks, well months, back I found a DYI tutorial for building one! But even better, it was foldable! And Jake being the 'handyman' he thinks he is, this was the perfect project for him. Especially since he got some new saw (as if he didnt have enough) for Christmas. I'm not sure exactly how much he went by the 14 page tutorial, because he's not one that reads directions to put something together. But they did include all mesurments for the wood you need and pictures to show you exactly what to do. The only negative I think was the 'materials' list missed some things. So we had to make multiple trips to Home Depot. One thing being it didn't mention hindges (but duh, its foldable I should have thought of that) and it says woodglue, but that we didn't use.
Anyways heres the link if your interested:
http://pinterest.com/pin/52424783131836492/


It's been done being built for a few weeks but we had to sand it down and paint it. It took a few coats. But its finally done and we used it tonight! Brenden helped bake cupcakes for our Super Bowl party tomarrow! He loved it. It worked perfectly. It's adjustable so the different spots to adjust the height act as a ladder so he can climb right up in it himself. My only negative is the paint we used, I wish we would have gotten the shinnier paint that wipes off easier. It wasnt horrible but I can tell the more I wipe it down the paint will start to fade. So we're going to buy some sealer to seal the paint. So FYI if you make one, use the wipeable paint.

Target Diapers

So today we ran out of diapers. (Well in his size anyway. I had 1 box in his closet but they're size 6 which look HUGE. I dont think he will ever fit into them.) But we've never ran our of diapers in over 2 years. This proves Im not going shopping as much :)

So we had to go out, in the rain, to get diapers.
Ended up at Target just because it's more convienent than Walmart and would be cheaper than CVS.
They actually had a great deal going!
Pampers and Huggies big boxes (Size 5 had 88 diapers I think) are on sale for 29.99. And when you buy 2 you get a $15 gift card back. So I ended up with that. Now I wont need to buy diapers for a while. Hopefully until he's potty trained! Since Im hoping that's soon! But anyways, I also had 2 $4 off Pampers box coupons that came in some boxes I bought a while back. So in the end I payed $52 and got back a $15 gift card, making the diapers only like $18 each for 88 diapers!
As Ive said in the past I usually bought diapers through Amazon, but they changed their whole Amazon Mom thing and you no longer get 30% off and there hasnt been the 20% off coupons in Parents magazine latley so I cancled our Subscribe and Save order. Thats probably why we've also run out.