upselling gone crazy

A while back my friend Rose was shopping at this store and the cashier, despite the fact that Rose was not purchasing anything Harry Potter related, tried to upsell her the book that people are predicting the end of the Harry Potter series in. I apologize for not having the title of the book here, but I am sure if you are dying to waste money, you will be able to locate it at your favorite retail book store. I love books, but if I want to try and predict the ending of a book, I will do it on my own and not waste good book purchasing money on something so ridiculous! Shortly after that shopping experience, Rose and I were in that bookstore purchasing a couple of things, when the cashier randomly started talking about this stuffed duck and how cute it was....Rose and I are looking at each other like huh?
So what is with these upsells? It is a little annoying!
Now, I love the Harry Potter series as much as the next guy...or rather as much as the next 979,484 people! But seriously folks, a book predicting the ending? Cuh-razy!
And have you checked out the Muggle counter at Amazon? They are counting the pre-sale of the last book in the series. Makes you wish you had bought stock in Amazon years ago!

We love us some books

Here's a little glimpse of our book collection. We have books everywhere in our house. We love, love, love to read.

In fact Molly got an award today for her excellence in reading! Way to go Molly!

Shining

A new take on an old favorite! If you have not seen The Shining...you must rent it!

Spring fever

This next Saturday is our all day gossip and scrap fest so I really needed to get organized. I have been guilty of just tossing everything into my scrapbooking room, but this weekend I really want to be able to get to all of my goodies-hence the cleaning fever that hit me today. I took some before pictures, but don't have any good after pictures yet... the girls need to go through a pile of stuff in their craft area first. I did get the chance to sit down and scrapbook tonite, and I am getting some layouts together for this next weekend-yay me!!!

A labor of love

Here is a glimpse of what the girls and I made for Mark for Fathers Day. It was a lot of fun to work on, and I have never in all my years of scrapbooking, made a mini-album. I have an amateur camera, so please forgive the pictures.

School's out for the summer...well almost

Can you feel it in the air? The sun was out today, in fact it got blazin' hot out while I was helping out with field day at the girls school. I have a heck of a sunburned face and neck, but it was worth it! First half of the day was spent with the 1st-3rd graders. Then it was off to a taco feed in Hayley's class, put on by another mom. It was great! I was about to leave to come home to do some scrapbooking, when I got asked to fill in a spot at the 4th-6th grade portion of field day. Let me just mention here that the older kids have a lot less "politeness" about them, than the younger kids, but it was still fun. Ever had a kid try to trick you just for another Otter Pop? Ok, that may say something about how hot it got today. Anyways the highlight of my day was the Teacher vs. 6th grade kickball game. I love that the teachers and principal do this. Then to top the day off, there was a pie eating contest. I took a few pictures to show you how awesome it turned out. I was a bit worried at first that it would be a little "Stand by me" (for those of you who have not seen that movie, well, you are missing out). All in all, I would volunteer again in a heart beat. When the kids come up and say thanks it makes it all worth while.

Ulta salon rules!!!

I finally got to go in and have my hair colored again, it has been since before Christmas. My hairstylist, Brandi, is the best! Mark took some pics so you all can see the updated look I am sporting.