The Weber Family

Hello Keurig!

Saturday:
I check my email as usual. Spam, spam, junk, family, Influenster, Spam... wait, what?! Influnster?! "You are getting the Keurig VoxBox"! Aaaaaugh! I can't believe it! I excitedly text my husband and post the email on Instagram. I'M GETTING A FREE KEURIG!!

Monday: A large box is delivered to my door. The delivery driver says it's the first Keurig box he has needed a signature on. I tell him about Influenster of course! Now comes the frustrating part- I'm leaving town today for a few days. I must wait to use my new toy!

Friday:
I'm finally home! I open the large box and find the beautiful, shiny, black Keurig 2.0 neatly packaged. I'm dissappointed to see so much waste, however. The machine is wrapped in plastic and styrofoam. There are flyers for the K-cups, flyers telling me how awesome the Keurig is (I'm not sure why those are in there since I clearly have the product), and a plethora of other papers about the machine, company, and products they sell. There are sample single cups and carafe cups.

I take out all the parts and follow the simple instructions. Once I get the machine put together I realize that no where in the instructions did it tell me to put the water filter in or plug it in. The cord is tightly wound inside so I have to take off the water container and that's just a hassle. Then I open the water filter pack and it has instructions which lead me to, once again, take off the water container. Sheesh, this seems too complicated.

I finally get this all together and I'm left with a large box and a ton of trash. Plus the Keurig is large and takes up a ton of space. The carafe is just another item to store until I use it. Great. I follow the instructions and make my first cup of coffee in my new, shiny Keurig. It's great and easy. The machine works as advertised and I suppose that's important. However, the 10+ minutes it took me to put it together (5 minutes to soak the water filter) combined with the large, clunky, space taking machine just make it clear to me that this is something I would never buy. We have a normal Black & Decker coffee pot and a small Hamilton Beach single-cup coffee maker (which I love!!!).

I think that this Keurig will only be brought out for special occasions. For many reasons. Mostly because I have several K-cups that I use in my Hamilton Beach and NONE of them will work in this new Keurig. It takes only specialy designed cups that have a colored ring around them. I can't use my regular coffee with this machine, which I CAN with my H-B and that machine came with the filter for it (unlike any Keurig, it's a separate purchase).

Disclaimer: I received the Keurig 2.0 courtesy of Influenster to test and review. All opinions are my own.

Payless is misleading you

Check out this pair of kids shoes.

The normal price is $19.99 and the sale price is $19.99. How is that possible? My first thought was that they were in the wrong box. Then I saw this:

These are the same style shoes in a different size. As you can see the original price tag has a sticker on it that says $22.99. Under that sticker is the original price of $19.99. I was a bit taken aback by that. What is going on here?

That's when I noticed the sales lady with stickers in her hands putting these higher priced stickers on the shoes. Here are a few more examples.

Under the $24.99 sticker is a price of $19.99. Really, how are these on sale then??!!

And this one too. Under the $17.99 sticker price it shows the price being $14.99. Sure this one is actually on sale, but why be misleading??

I left the store with a strange feeling. Why I Payless doing this? Why are they misleading their customers? Why are they saying a shoe is on sale when it's not really?

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! I hope you all had a fun and candy filled evening. Here are the girls: Lucy is 5-1/2 years, Penny will be 3 next week, and Ellie is 6-1/2 months. Thanks to Nana for making Lucy's costume!!

Missouri

We just got back from a week in Missouri at Lake of the Ozarks. It's a really fun place, you should consider it some time for a vacation. It's HUGE and there are so many neat things to do.

We stayed at a small place called Lakeview Resort where they are mostly individual cabins with some apartment-like rooms. If you do decide to go here be warned: you are expected to bring all of your own supplies. This is not a hotel where they offer room service or supply any towels/toiletries.

There were two bedrooms, one on each side of the shared bathroom. They both looked the same.

Happy 4th of July! We flew out on the 4th to have a great evening with family.

Getting ready to watch fireworks

The next day we went out on a pontoon boat. Of course, we had to have a special cooler for the three beers we were bringing!! LOL, they filled it up later with cokes and water but I thought it was pretty funny that this was all that was in it to begin with.

After watching Daddy on the tube Lucy wanted a turn. Joe went nice and easy so she didn't have a hard time like her old Dad. ;-) We had a fun time on the boat that day. We saw a lot of huge mansions and other houses that were along the lake. We swam and cooled off from the 112* heat. It was a great day to be out on the lake. Well except that Daniel went swimming with his phone in his pocket.... oops!

Getting some Penny love :-)

I cannot believe Penny is wearing this suit! Lucy wore it when we went to Kauai... when I was pregnant with Penny!

Penny making silly faces on the balcony :-)

When it finally cooled off (to like 85?) we took a walk in the resort to play on the old-school playground.

Remember these???!!

Lucy and Daniel went parasailing!!!!! I missed seeing it (ugh!) but here's the photo they got from the company they did it with. Lucy had so much fun on this trip, I'm hoping she will remember it forever! She went on the water tube, went parasailing, rode a jet ski, drove in a go kart, and so much more!! It was a trip I will never forget.