Stock up on blankets Wow!!

Plush Microfiber Down Blanket in 6 Colors. Reg $129-$149

on Sale for $59.99 Any Size!

Twin V 720-3023

Full/Queen V 720-3024

King V720-3025

Ever Soft Blanket in 6 Colors (these are on backorder

until December FYI at least the Fulls are) Regular $29-$59 on Sale now for $19.99 any SIZE!

However I did find if you want the twin size in a different catalog it is $14.99

Twin 66X90 V 720-3077 $14.99

Full 80X90 J 720-3078 $19.99

Queen 90X90 J 720-3078 $19.99

King 108X90 J 720-3080 $19.99

Plush Blanket & Throw

100% polyester microplush. Self-binding on four sides. Washable.

All Sizes $19.99

Twin J720-3017

Full J 720-3018

Queen J 720-3019

King J 720-3020

Throw 50X70 J 720-2000 $9.99

Ok I thought I would just quickly share with you what I just ordered because I am really excited about the great deal I got on everything. We don't have a ton of blankets in my house... lots of bedspreads and quilts but not warm blankets. I went to toss out a JC Penney catalog last week and noticed on the back that they had some way nice blankets ANY SIZE for $19.99. So I set it aside thinking I would look at it more later. Well.... its an awesome deal. I also bought a down blanket too. Like I said we don't have many blankets in this house and I took advantage of this sale PLUS there is more.....

Here is what I did... I ordered 6 blankets. 1 Down King blanket, 1 King Plush blanket, 2 Ever Soft Blankets for my kids beds and 2 Queen Plush blankets just to have on hand and for the extra bedrooms. Then I did a search and found a 30% off your entire order coupon code only good through Thursday. (FULL30) This is only usable if you use your JC Penney card. I had intended on just ordering using this awesome sale and then I have some Free Shipping offers. Then i found this 30% off code and couldn't not use it. However you cannot use a coupon code AND a free shipping offer. So I had to figure out which would be the best way to go which of course was the 30% off. Here is how I ended up. All the $19.99 blankets with 30% off ended up being $13.99. My down blanket went from $59.99 to $41.99. With the 30% off promo AND the sale on the blankets I saved $307.00!!!! That is totally worth rejoicing over. My shipping was $19, but with the 30% off it was worth paying shipping. My total for 6 blankets, shipping and tax was $138.26. I don't feel bad about that one stinkin bit.

Now I am not advertising charging and using credit cards or anything like that... I just know that sometimes when you have a store card it is well, well worth using it, but please be sure to pay it off ASAP and not accumulate debt because of me. :) Also for JC Penney card members.. after I had placed my order I found an email in that I had gotten for me to sign up for their rewards program. Its free. I signed up and they gave me a $10 off rewards code. I called the customer service dept and they applied that $10 credit to my order. Rewards CAN be used with other coupon codes. SOOOO I ended up really only paying $128.26 for 6 blankets. WOOO HOOO!!! Well really only $124 after my ebates cash back.

If you don't have a JC Penney Card this is still a great, awesome sale. You can still order the blankets and get FREE shipping using the code TREND49. You have to spend $49 or more to get the FREE shipping though. Also if you google JC Penney coupon codes you will get a bunch of websites with codes. There are quite a few 15% off coupon codes out there and depending on your order usinga 15% off code might save you more than using the free shipping code. Just thought I would pass this on.

Also if you need/want electric blankets all of them are 50% off. You can just go to jcpenney.com and search for them. The source code for the catalog that the best prices came out of is J9222 it will ask you for that so it knows what prices to reflect.

LASTLY: I know I am getting a little long here. If you have an ebates.com account don't forget to use them to put through your JC Penney order and you will get an additional 3% cash back from them on your next pay out. I saved a little over $4 more dollars through ebates. If you don't have an ebates account SHAME ON YOU... go get signed up right away. Its free money guys. Its free to sign up. Its silly not to have one. Go to ebates.com, or here is a quick link to the sign up page https://www.ebates.com/editUserInfos.do?navigation_id=18574. You just enter your email address and a password and it asks for who referred you. You get $5 free just for signing up! If you would, please put my email address down for the referral I will get $5 too. sammi_nickel@yahoo.com . Then you just start shopping. There are 100's of stores that you get credit for going through ebates. You just click the store and ebates routes you to their website then they can track your spending and send you a check every 3 months for your cash back that you earned. It adds up fast. Since I signed up over two years ago my cash back total is $327.59. There's the proof.

Happy Shopping!! :)

FREE Carnation Holiday Recipe Guide

The FREE CARNATION Holiday Recipe Guide is themust-have resource for delicious ideas this season. Itincludes recipes for potluck, appetizers, brunch/breakfast,game day and even leftovers. Order yours today so you have it in time for your next get-together! While supplies Last!! FREE HOLIDAY RECIPE GUIDE. I just ordered mine you can download it or have it mailed to you. Either way it looks fun and its FREE. Also there are coupons online for Carnation milk and other things so take advantage of them as well!

I am so glad the Holidays are HERE!!! Yay!

Halloween 09

Don't judge me, these 3 pictures are the only ones I took of my kids the whole Halloween night. What the heck is wrong with me!?!?

We had a fun first in our little family this year. Kade and I have been married going on 8 years now, and we have never carved pumpkins together or with Kadence either. We both had done it when we were younger, but never had the desire to do it together. We were always too busy going to haunted houses and other things when we were childless. This year my mom gave us two pumpkins from one of the hunters at Deseret, and then we decided to buy 2 more so that we could all do them as a family. It made for a very enjoyable FHE, and the kids and even Kade and I had a great time. The kids drew all over theirs and that was their funnest part. For Kadences, Kade ended up cutting out some of her actual drawings and it turned out to be a really cute pumpkin. The kids are now very sad that the pumpkins are wilting and needing to go to the garbage.

Kadence's, mine, Kade's, and Kash's.
Wow its great to be able to catch up a little on life for the past couple weeks. We have had a great October.. busy but great. The kids have had an absolute blast this month. We have filled our time lately with, ranch work, butchering beef, Hogle Zoo (went back to see the babies), a visit to Great-Grandma, a visit to the witches at Gardner Village, visits with friends, doctors appts, photography sessions, church callings, lessons, talks in church, pink eye, family picnics, Halloween trunk or treat, cookies, Halloween parties, and Halloween itself. Geez no wonder I was so exhausted all the time!! I was not sad to have Halloween over and get all the decorations put away. I was way burned out this year by the time we finished up with everything.

I have really slacked this month on pictures though.. I have no idea what my problem was. I hardly took any of Halloween night, my sister and mom thank heavens took pics at the trunk or treat, zoo, and Gardner Village. I have vowed to be better for the next upcoming months.

Kash wanted nothing to do with a Halloween costume. He only wanted to wear his regular clothes so he became a "cowboy" pretty easily. He carried his gun, stick horse, and rope around for the first 4 or 5 houses but slowly started leaving his accessories in the car. Kadence wanted to be Sleeping Beauty this year and she was darling. They both got way too much candy and had a great time though and that is all that matters I think.

Finally.... A Photography Blog

Finally I have taken the time to set up what will be my photography blog. You can check it out at http://www.nicolemartinphotography.blogspot.com/.
Warning: It is very generic and boring right now. The blog only has about 30% of the pictures it will have and hopefully by the end of the year it will be full of what I have done.I hope sometime soon to be able to "beautify" it, but I have no idea when that will be. Thanks again or all your love, support, and encouragement.

Favorites: I love FREE print offers!

See Here from Fuji is offering 100 FREE prints to new account holders (pay only shipping and handling.) This will cover all of your summer photos, I am sure! Sign up Here and start uploading those photos! Go to website then click "sign up" at the top and you will see that it will give you 100 prints.


Also there is a FREE 8X10 Canvas OR $55 OFF, offered Here (pay $14.95 for shipping – but that is less than how much a canvas itself would cost – these items are expensive.)

Canvas People allows you to upload your own photos to canvas. Shipping is $14.95 but to me that is totally worth it for a canvas of my little gal – I am so excited about this offer as I just got 3 weeks photos made of my daugther this past week. Once I get them back, I am jumping on this amazing deal! Consider this as a great gift too for the holidays.

With $55 off the current prices is as follows…
8×10 FREE
11×11 $3.99
11×14 $13.99
16×16 $23.99
16×20 $33.99 (Best Value!)
18×24 $43.99.

Also there is a $15 credit offer from Kodak, I just got mine I am going to use it towards a Xmas gift I have been working on. Go HERE to sign up for the credit. They are giving it to the first 100,000 people and then after that you will get a 40% off coupon. If you are the recipient of a 40% off gift code, you may come back to the promotion during the next phase to receive a $15 gift code. It is emailed to you and mine came to my junk/spam folder about 3 minutes after I signed up.

Don't you love all the cool offers that are out there to help you preserve memories!!

Making your blog a little safer

I keep forgetting to share this with you, and while it was fresh on my mind I thought I would hurry and post it. I got this info months ago from Holly, and while it doesn't prevent all predators from your blog it does help that they at least can't save your images to their computer. If you have tried to copy words or pictures from my blog you will get a message that says "copyrighted material" if you want to add this feature to your blog here is how you do it.


**** UPDATE: OK this won't let me post the link for some reason, so here is what I will do. Its just a simple HTML code you add to your layout. If you want this code email me at sammi_nickel@yahoo.com Subject: Blog Code, I will reply back to you with the code. Then copy and paste the code after going to layout, add gadget, html, then paste, save and voila. Also it will leave a black space with a line on your blog like you have added something there, I added it to the bottom of my layout so there isn't a line just hanging out there.

Finally 1 project finished

Last night I finally got to sit down and sew this skirt, that the material has been sitting out for over a week now. Its nothing fancy but it turned out pretty, darn cute. I love that I can go buy fabric and elastic, and sew something cute for like $3 you really can't beat that. Anyway its nothing fancy, but my 4 year old loves it, so thats all that matters to me. For my 3rd sewing project 3 hrs wasn't too shabby for this one compared to the stupid 4th of July one that took me like 8. I have a little bit of material left over; I might try and whip out another one for like a 6 mo. old. Anyway, its been fun to be home and relax with my kids... enjoy their company and not have a million things going on. However that ends next week. :(

I took these pics quickly of my kids this morning as we rushed out the door to (gasp) get the flu and swine flu shots. I know there is a lot of controversy over the sf shot and all I can say is make a decision you think is right and pray hard for confirmation it is right for your family. It has weighed heavily on Kade and I for a good 3 weeks now as we have 2 high risk individuals in our household. Me being pregnant, and Kash with his immune deficiency, are both prime candidates for the virus to effect us harshly. Poor Kadence has had to suffer and miss pre-school for 2 weeks now and primary, because we can't have her bringing anything home to us until we are all protected. A week ago I had decided we would not be getting it, that I would rather take our chances on getting sick than take chances on the vaccine. That is plain silly. There is a lot of information being passed around some of it is very scary. I think its good to stop and think about things before you do them. However, with some effort and research and prayer I found 95% of the info to be incorrect, blown out of proportion, and down right not true. I encourage you all to do your own studying and not believe everything media and even some health officials are saying. Dig deep and study what the CDC says as they have the accurate information and then you decide if the risks are worth taking. I know my decision is my decision and may not be right for you and your family. All I know is I will be sleeping better tonight than I have for weeks, and will be rejoicing in 2 weeks when all the shots are actually effective. Now to just stay healthy until then. :)

*** Here is a link off of my OB's website that has tons of links of good, accurate info. if you are interested in looking into it further. http://www.colwc.com/swineflu.asp. I trust my OB with all my heart, and he is one of the people that turned my opinion around because he was very concerned with his pregnant patients getting the shot. Good luck and I hope you all stay healthy!!

Kash wanted his pics taken too since I was taking Kadence's.

He is such a stinker. :)