Weekend Recap

The movie, This Means War, that we saw on Friday Funday was hilarious.  It was one of those great comedies where you just want to lose touch and laugh.  I recommend it.  The extra bonus about this movie trip was that I found these old gift certificates that have been hanging around for who knows how long.

We decided we would take them and see if they were still good and they were!  AND they gave us $3.50 in change!  We got paid to go to the movies.  How often does that happen??  All in a days work.

The rest of the weekend was spent cleaning out the house in preparation for our April move.  My favorite story from the weekend was about these Texas Gold saving stamps.

Grocery stores used to provide savings stamps to their customers, one stamp for every 50 cents spent.  You collected them in a booklet and then went to a redemption center (not back to the grocery store) to purchase things with your filled in booklets.  Everything in the redemption center was priced by the booklet.  Some things were one booklet, some two...etc.  My mom said you could purchase all kinds of things like lamps, kitchen items, and small electrics.  You learn something new every weekend!

Here are my favorite old photos from the weekend.

My parents...not sure what the discoloration on my mom's nose is...I assure you it isn't there in real life.  :)

Picture taken by my dad.

With his handwriting on the back.

The Leaning Tower of Pisa picture makes me smile.  I hope to take the same picture very soon.  This one is going in a frame.

I hope you had a wonderful weekend as well.  Did you learn anything new?

Weekend Recap

That's right no weigh in today.  If you guessed that after Friday's post, you are getting to know me so well!  The good news is that increase activity week is off to a great start...workout buddy and neighbor, Rebecca and I got in a walk this morning and I have plans to go to yoga at lunch.

Over the weekend we did some cleaning out at my mom's house.  You have heard me mention that the husband and I are getting ready to move into a house, well that house is my mom's and in order to get it ready for new people to move in, it's important to get the old things cleaned out.  This house is the house I grew up in and my mom lived in it a little while when she was a child.  It has been in the family for a long time.

One of the highlights of the clean out was that we got to look through a lot of old pictures and newspaper clippings.  Here are some of my favorites.

Mom

Mom and Dad

Gramps - mom's dad

Grandpa D - dad's dad

Dad as a kid - on left

Mom as bridesmaid

Program from my elementary school.

Yes, I was in the mime troupe because I was super cool.  I was laughing at the super high tech  computer on the program...this was only like a few years ago.

In addition to pictures we found all kinds of crazy random things.

ET windup toy and Avon Betsy Ross perfume bottle...everyone has that right?

We worked very hard on Saturday.  We ended up with a ton of stuff to donate to the Salvation Army...my mom is making a drop off trip over there today.  We still have a lot more to do, but we are beginning to make a dent in it.

Sunday we spent relaxing.

Doesn't Trixie look so excited about this snuggle time?

And this morning the husband got awesome news!  He got a promotion!  I am so proud of him!  Congrats angel!!!!