Extreme Couponing, Houston Frugal Living Blog
Today at 2:30 I decided it would be a good idea to drag all the kids to both Walmart and Target super stores. I had to have them at Tucker’s baseball practice by 5:30 dressed, fed dinner, and all the stuff packed for four hours at the ballpark in 100 degree heat. Needless to say I was in a hurry. We raced through Walmart and jumped in line at the first checkout closest to the door, you know line #1, the one next to the super fast self checkout.
I have a full overflowing cart and 6 children all in line also, when a woman, who looked exactly like the woman in the picture below, gets in line behind us with a single box of wheat thins. She was ranting and raving about something on the phone and was clearly in a hurry. I tried multiple times to get her attention and show her that I also had coupons to be rung up, along with the cart full of groceries, and to suggest she go over to one of the four open ‘fifteen or less items’ registers. But she refused to look at me.
When the cashier got to my coupons and started putting them in, the woman freaked out and snatched her crackers off the line knocking the gum rack down and marched over to the self check out yelling at me, VERY loudly.
I finished checking out and looked over to see that her box of crackers refused to be rung up and they had to call a manager to go get her another box…. So she ended up in line two people longer than if she had stayed behind me and was still freaking out. I hope her day got better!
From Walmart we raced to Target and and ran through the store trying to not loose a child, which was a miracle considering how packed the place was. I drug them out to the car, counted heads and raced home arriving at 5pm, just in time to throw them back in the car for the baseball game.
Above is everything I got completely FREE today! The only two things missing from my free stuff picture? The two gallons of milk that I got FREE and left on the bottom of my cart in the Target parking lot!
But the good thing is I called Target when I realized what I did and they told me to come in tomorrow with my receipt and they would give me two more gallons! It is a hassle to go back in but at least it was milk and not a child!
I recognized the pile from the ballpark the other day. They had been putting up a new chain link fence and the little kids spent most of the game checking out the new addition.
Rush apparently wanted some peanut better also. I thought it was nice Storie shared with him don’t you?
I was thinking Storie wanted a sandwich or apples slices with peanut butter, but now I know when she asks for peanut butter, I can just hand her a spoon and the jar!
Last night my husband and I took our two little girls on a date to the mall. They are ages 4 and 6 physically, but 40 going on 45 mentally 🙂
This darling little boy came running out of his room the other day just as proud as could be! I just had to laugh, I remembered back when another little boy came running out of the same room, at the same age, having done the same thing, only 10 years earlier! But how things have changed….
So we packed lunch and headed down to LaPorte, to the Battleship Texas and San Jacinto battlegrounds.
For “only” $10 an adult you are allowed to tour the battleship. My children were not satisfied with just walking the deck though and had to climb the death defying skinny little steps all the way to the top of the entire ship!
When that ugly ordeal was over and my 10 year old had to talk me down from the top, we went below to checkout the inside of the ship. 
With this one battle, 6 years in the making that lasted only 20 minutes, Texas won it’s freedom and the U.S. won almost 1/3 of our country! 
This is my Father. Isn’t he handsome!?
In college Dad was known was as “The Fish.” The rest of his days at UNI are a blur, as he won’t tell us about them and his best friend Dane Sommers has also been sworn to secrecy
(the old “you don’t tell my kids and I won’t tell yours” thing). I know that he had some crazy times as one of the popular stories about “his friends“ that he tells where “he wasn’t there” involves a police chase and a corn field. There is also a mysterious picture of him wearing some underwear on his head. He claims he knows nothing about it.He met and married his sweetheart at the ripe old age of 21. He finished his masters degree in geology and then started working. Interestingly enough, he wanted to be a lawyer but didn’t want to spend his life in a cubicle. Little did he know that the geology department sucks you in with their cool field trips for a few years and THEN throws you in a cubicle
(or in Dad’s case a nice office with a view). My Mom joined the LDS church when they lived in Louisiana. It wasn’t til 12 years later in Texas that Dad followed her great example. Ha-no one would believe that THE Craig Davis was getting baptized and so many people came they had to meet in the chapel.Dad is the father of six marvelous kids
(I’m his favorite) and 11 grandchildren who he loves very much. CALLINGS, AWARDS, ETC.LeRoy Golson Award (very distinguished)
Scouting Family of the Year
Unit Commissioner of the Year
Scoutmaster of the Year
Silver Beaver
And so many other Pine Tree awards I can’t even recall
Other Random InformationHe always has a handkerchief
(AKA snot rag).On one of the scouting trips he took, Blake Rhalston kept taking off his smelly shoes. My dad repeatedly said not to. Blake didn’t listen, and his socks ended up on the freeway. Blake is still whining about this 10 years later.
Jonathan Kay was fascinated with my dad’s beard. I remember the day he witnessed something that is usually only captured on
a high speed camera-my dad coming his beard. He keeps a comb in his pocket so he can straighten it out and when Jonathan saw him comb his whole face in less than a second he was impressed out of his mind and couldn’t stop talking about it for months.
He’s not a cowboy. In fact, he hates country music.
He shaved the beard into a goatee, and now people think he is Colonel Sanders.
He’s been mistaken for Steve Martin and Richard Dreifus more than once. People are very disappointed when they see him at the airport, ask for a signature and it comes out, “Craig Davis.”
He’s the best husband ever. He’s been shopping patiently for hours with my mom at antique stores so she can find this certain drawer for a sewing machine and I’ve never heard a complaint.
People fear and love him. He is intimidating… he’s really smart and knows everything. He wrote the dictionary.
He can make things explode just by looking at them.
He has traveled to more countries than I am old. I think so anyway. He has spent a lot of time in Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Greece, Europe, China and like four hundred other places I can’t even keep track of. He’s dined with ambassadors, presidents, and all sorts of VIP peoples.
I have had numerous people at church over the years pull me aside to tell me how lucky I am to be his daughter and how much they love and respect him.
Dad has a unique cough. Whenever we go somewhere and lose site of him, we listen for his “Eh heh” cough and we can find him.
He likes to canoe, rock climb, mountain bike
(face first), hike.He can name every kind of rock. My least favorite as a kid was the “Levarite.” …
Leave it right where you found it… FAVORITE PHRASES
How cute are they?!
Since it was so HOT and I had to be back earlier than I would have liked, we only had about 45 min. to pick. Between all of us, we got about 25lbs. 
This little guy had NONE in his bucket when we left, although I personally put in about 3 cups worth.
The first trip of the year I usually don’t have any to freeze, the kids will probably eat them all today and my husband will finish them off tonight! Have you ever changed the diaper of a 2 year old who had eaten 3 lbs of blueberries? Interesting. Very interesting.
Part comedian, part Dad, part athlete. He will boss around your children while they play ball.
Just as angelic as she looks, this girl could easily raise a Village by herself, and all the children would grow up to be President.
Self proclaimed, she would be a webkinz dog. Because, "they're cute, and puppies are too. And they're sweet and they always get along with other puppies."
This mini-Martha Stewart can handle ANY craft you send her way. She isn't all bows and rainbows, she's got karate kid moves!
Not "Pick-Me-Up" like caffeine, she wants you to pick her up! AND NOW!
Anything that can be destroyed WILL be destroyed!
Practically Perfect in Every Way for now! Nicknamed "The Panda" she is rolly polly and lives by the motto, "the little one, is KING!"
The resident Labradoodle, Miller got his name because Mom won and got to name the baby! Need something chewed up? He'll take care of it. Especially if it's expensive..