Happy Birthday 7 Eleven - FREE Slurpee alert July 11th, 2014

This Friday is 7-Eleven's birthday and they are celebrating 

by giving away Slurpee's! 

Go to any participating 7-Eleven between 

11 am - 7 pm and receive a 

FREE SMALL SLURPEE. 

What a great way to spend another hot day! 

What have I been up to?...

Wow it's been a few days since I last posted.

First of all, Happy Anniversary to my awesome husband Kris!! Today we have been married for 7 years..(man where does the time go??) ...and I am still in love with him as much as I was the first day that I met him (which was in grade 12, yes we are high school sweethearts). I am looking forward to celebrating with dinner and a movie tonight while Grandma babysits!!

So where have I been? Well most of you know that I also work full time and this week was the Employment First conference. I am still reeling from getting to meet Hayley Wickenheiser who was the inspirational keynote speaker at the conference.

We were also getting ready for the garage sale that we held this weekend. A right of passage of being a home owner in my opinion, and a great way to meet your neighbours, but thank god it is over.

The birthday party season also continued and we celebrated one of Cart'er s friends 4th birthday this Sunday, which honestly I still can't believe that Carter is 4, his friends are 4, and time just flys by way too fast!  It's just another reminder that life is short and you need to take time for friends, family, and life!

To celebrate the end of it all we went in the hot tub and drank rum.

So that brings us to today! I have lots of fun things planned for some posts so stay tune.  And if you want to receive emails of my posts you can sign up below!!

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Happy Birthday Tim Hortons!

This Saturday May 17th, stop by your local Tim Hortons to help them celebrate their 50th Birthday. 

Tim Hortons is giving away FREE birthday cake donuts, while supplies last so hurry in and grab one when you grab your double double. 

Happy Birthday Tim Hortons

Something else to look forward to - later this year Tim Horton's will be bring back their Eclair for a limited time.

My favorite birthday party venues

We have attended our fair share of children's birthdays in the last 4 years. We have also had to rent space for Carter & Sophie's birthday as our small condo couldn't even fit our immediate family let alone friends and extended family.

This year was different - we had room.  However, there are still people out there that are looking for places to hold their children's birthday parties and I definitely have some favorites!

1. Millwood's Recreation Center- We had Carter's first birthday here and rented the play room upstairs for after swimming. Awesome, warm pool, lots of space, and the party room has lots of kids stuff to play.
The City of Edmonton unfortunately messed up with my original pool booking plans so we actually got the Millwood's Recreation Center for free, but if you were to rent it for an hour of swimming and the party room it would cost about $300.

2. Next Community Church - We had Carter's 2nd & 3rd birthday here. Such a great place! It is the old location of the St. Albert movie theatre which was renovated into a church. The cool thing about this place is that they kept one of the theatre's so you can have a movie screening as well as a play area with enough space for a lot of children plus jungle gym. All of this costs $195 for 3 hours.  For an extra fee of $50 you can also rent the games room which has pinball, video games, air hockey, and foosball. The rental also includes use of the pop machine. (These are birthday party rates, other uses are other fees)

3. The Toy Hutch - We have been to a few birthdays here and it's a great place. It's clean (which is always a plus on my side) and both Sophie and Carter love the bouncy castles. EVERY time we have been here the kids have fallen asleep on the ride home. It's that much fun.

4. Fountain Park Recreation Centre - I had never been to this pool until we were invited to a birthday party there earlier this year. I actually prefer this pool to the other St.Albert pool. You can rent the pool for a private party or you can host a party during public swim hours and rent a meeting room or the preschool play room for cake & presents afterwards.

Do you have a favorite place to host birthday parties, that is not on the list?

Save 25% off your ENTIRE purchase Tuesday May 13th - Thursday May 15th @ Michaels!

We have a lot of crafts planned for this summer, and Michaels is the place where we have to buy 99% of it. With the 25% off your entire purchase coupon,  it makes the crafts that we have planned that much more affordable!

 

Michaels is also a great place to get little items for your child's birthday party. Small manicure/pedicure packages, props for DIY photo booths, DIY sparkle tattoo packages, play jewelry and so much more.

 

Want the coupon? Click here to get it.

(You can print it or have it texted to your phone to use as a electronic coupon)

 

 

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20% off your WHOLE purchase at Michaels TODAY ONLY

With the move and everything happening this month we have decided to do a joint birthday for Carter & Sophie this year AND we will be having a friends/kids birthday party over lunch and cake/coffee for family after supper. That means we will be shopping for LOTS of baking cups for cupcakes, some additions for the DIY photo booth stash and other fantabulous party accessories. The coupon is in the flyer and can also be accessed on the Michaels app through your smart phone.  

What will you be buying?