A typical Saturday at our house!

Many might think of Saturday as a day to clean the house, a day of soccer games or a day working in the yard but at our house we call it "Slushy Day"! Some time around when Neeley was two we officially declared Saturdays as Slushy Day and ever since then we have made it a habit of getting slurpees on Saturdays. It is really the only day of the week the girls really keep track of.

Along with our slushies we love hunting for bargains. Today was one of those days. We woke up at 7, threw on our cloths, put the girls in their car seats with some cinnamon toast and we were off to hunt for garage sales. I am not sure what it is about garage sales that I love so much. Maybe it is somewhere to go early on a Saturday, maybe it is the thrill of the hunt as you drive around looking for signs, or maybe it is the bargains you find there. Throughout our marriage we have been known to find a bargain or two at garage sales. Like the mother load we hit when we bought our first home. We found a couple that had bought everything a year earlier but had then decided to sell it all to go on the road in an RV. We pretty much furnished our first home from that garage sale and everything was all a year or less old. I think Jennie and Ryan have a few of these things left in their basement. Another great find were the girls play houses in the back yard. Then of course there are all of the girls cloths (I love getting jammies at garage sales because I hate to pay full price for them) or some new toys. Neeley has really caught on to the garage sale concept. She asks all week long if it is the right day for a garage sale. I think she loves them because she can usually pick out something fun. Today was a pretty slow garage sale day. I am not sure if the weather or the holiday scared lots of sales away but we didn't find very many. We got so into looking for them that we made our way all the way through Syracuse, Layton, Kaysville (they won with the most sales but lost with the most JUNK), Farmington and on to Centerville. I am sure you are thinking now that there is no way we could have saved very much considering the gas we spent which you are probably right. Once we were out we just didn't want to go back home!

When I stop to think about it garage sales are a really silly thing. People putting out their junk for others to pick up as treasures. We have had our own sale before and made some pretty good money at it.  It is one of those things you have to experience a bargain before you really understand the thrill!

On our way home we went to the bank to cash in our change jar for the year.  For our wedding we got a jar full of money that we used on our honeymoon.  Ever since then we have filled our "honeymoon" jar each year and cashed it in on our anniversary to do something fun.  This year our anniversary came and went and we never bothered to cash it in until today.  When we got home Jeremy gave some money to the girls.  It is really fun to give cash to kids.  I love to see their reaction.  As you can see from the picture, Neeley was tickled.  I love how kids at this age can't grasp the concept of money.  You can let them choose between 1 $100 bill or two $1 bills and they will choose the two $1 bills thinking it is more.  So we had a little math lesson on what each is worth.  Then we told her all of the things she could buy for the $6 she had.  She finally decided that 6 slurpees sounded like a good option.  But we only had four people in our family so that would leave 2 left over.  So she thought about it for a minute and decided that Ari and one other cousins could have one too!