Ho! Ho! Ho!

That's what it said on the hat Brittany almost bought for me last night.  I've been told repeatedly that I look like a creeper when I wear my current one (that's what I get for spending 10 dollars at target) so I've been looking for a new hat all of break. The first one I bought was way too small... so we went shopping for a new one... and found a few other things.

Technically speaking... we made a killing at Kohl's last night. As you can see, we should have spent $523.65 as compared to spending merely $193.81. Actually, we only spent $163.96 since Brittany works at Kohl's. She also has a 30% off of everything you buy coupon... then, since we put it on her Kohl's charge, we got her associate discount of an additional 15% off. In addition, for every $50 we spend we get 10 dollars of Kohl's cash to spend after Christmas day. (we earned another $30 there) For anyone interested in the percentages involved there...

We spent 133.96 after all deductions... that's only 25% of the value of the items.

That makes us happy.

Beanie Baby Bash!

Ok so this is the first time Brittany is writing a post.  Ben is a lot better at making things interesting!  I'm just going to say it how it is... Today we were lazy bums!  Well Brittany was... (because I'm feeling a bit under the weather...)  But let me paint the picture... we slept until 10:30... Ben hasn't showered in two days, we took all the blankies and put them on a couch and cuddled, we ate lunch on the blanky couch and we've been playing with beanie babies we found in my closet all morning!

Ok so maybe not exactly playing.  We are trying to get someone to take them off our hands!!! I have over 139 beanie babies in a large basket.  About 50 of them are sellable bc they are still in mint condition but yeah... the other! Either I'll use them in my elementary classroom one day or will be donated to Good will and Aubs!
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To Do Lists

One of the many things on our to-do lists for the break was to select 75 photos to get free 4x6 prints. Mission successful! With a full 20 minutes to spare in the day, we ordered our prints free of charge... only having to pay for shipping. We tried to organize them into sets or series that would look good together. Here are three of them. Feel free to comment on them or if you want enlargements (digital or print) of anything we can do that too!

Today we are delving into our library of pictures (extensive enough that Brittany's iPhoto has slowed down considerably) and trying to find our 75 best (or at least 75 most cohesive and matchy-matchy) pictures for free prints courtesy of Shutterfly.

In the process, we discovered this gem: the first picture ever taken with both of us. We were bowling at Elgin Lanes and Brittany was certainly beating Ben at this point and you can tell by his face that he's trying to figure out how to graciously lose to girl. Even if she is a very good looking girl.

First Post of the Rest of Our Lives

We are Brittany Loikets (ladies first) and Ben Weltzin. We recently deleted our facebook accounts so as to enable rather than inhibit our prospective job searches. Not to mention the constant news feed checks and facebook gaming addictions were getting out of control.

However, we didn't want to shut ourselves off from the world, especially our friends and families who this blog targets. For Brittany this is just a hobby, but for Ben his career is going to be centered around photography and videography. Almost all of the pictures we will share are taken by him, but most of those are creatively inspired by her.

So here's our blog... feel free to comment on our captures, shoots, and reports.