High Heels & Sippy Cups......: MUM's The Word ~

I LOVE MUMS!! Don't you?? I love how they give such a dense punch of color. And are pretty easy to take care of. Can you believe the price of mums though? A nice big one will run you $15 to $20 these days. So i always have stuck to getting the smaller more "wallet" friendly ones.

Sunday afternoon after church we headed to Lowes to pick a few things up. Lowes is our home away from home these days....HA! While the hubby was looking for what he needed i headed out to the flower section. I wanted to see how much the small potted Christmas tree looking plants {ehhh....pine? spruce??} for my front porch this winter holiday. I found a few that i liked and they were around $25 each. I wanted two {one for each side of the front door} but i may just get one this year. Depending on price later on.

The kids were loving looking at all the flowers and plants and so was I. As we started out i passed a large plant cart that had some mums. So i stopped and was enjoying the beautiful color. Then i saw something on one of the pots.....a orange price tag. It looked like a clearance price tag. It said $2.00!! WHAT????? So i started looking and all the mums on this cart had $3 and $2.00 price tags! They looked totally fine! So the kids and I went back in to look for the hubby and had him come out and look too. He gave the OK to get a few. I came home with 4! Big ones at that! They had several clearanced carts full of nice plants. The hubs said that a co-worker said that Lowes marks down there plants on Sundays and he always gets good deals on nice plants that have nothing wrong with them! Did you know that they clearanced plants like this??

So incase you didn't know...check out your local Lowes on Sundays for some good deals!! :o) Here is a house plant i snatched for $2 buckaroos!

Speaking of plants.....i was also givin a ton of plants this weekend! 57 to be exact! 17 Amaryllis, 20 Iris and 20 mixed color day lilies. LOVE!! I'm all about free flowers! The MR. that gave them to us had been "thinning" his out cause they had got to thick. So the hubby tilled up the yard in a few places and i got to work planting them. They are all hardy plants and should do just fine planting them this time of year. Then we did some outside clean up work and made the yard look pretty nice. It has gotten NO love since we moved here. We have been so busy working on the inside of the house that the outside has gotten neglected. BUT this weekend it got some well needed love. Got the leaf blower up and running so that job will be WAY easier this year. Cleaned up all the patio furniture...and actually enjoyed sitting in it for a bit. :o)