My boys had pictures at Portrait Innovations in their Christmas pj’s on Friday. The location is right next to LLBean, Coldwater Creek, Williams Sonoma and our mall. I told my kids that if they were on their best behavior during their pictures and while shopping, I would take them to ride the carousel at the mall. While we were waiting to get their pictures printed, I went into LLBean to spend some Christmas money and got these and these. Oh. My. Heaven. They are so soft.

Then we went into the mall to ride the carousel because the boys did fantastic. I decided we would take two rides, then go shopping and then ride two more rides later if they behaved. We headed to Victoria’s Secret first. They mailed me two $10 off any purchase coupons and they were burning a hole in my purse! I found a cute night shirt for $12.99 and since it was in the pink collection, I got a free panty. My total for both was $2.99! I found another night shirt that was $9.99 so it would have been completely free with a panty too, but I tried it on and I didn’t like the style very much. I decided not to get it just because it was free, if I wouldn’t wear it and I couldn’t think of anyone else who might like it. I look around again and found cute black tights! They were on sale for $7.25. I added two lollipops ($2 each) for the boys. I paid $1.25 for Tights, a free panty and two lollipops to keep the boys happy. On our way out, Logan dodged for the front window. I found him hiding in there hoping to find a quite place to do his business in his diaper right under a VS mannequin sporting her “PINK” underwear. I was laughing so hard that I had to snap a quick picture!

Picture: You Caught Me!

Amanda wrote about her son hiding to do his business last week. Here is proof that I can relate!

We headed over to Bath and Body Works, where I bought hand sanitizer ($1.50) and got a free room spray (with a free room spray coupon with any purchase) and bought another hand sanitizer ($1.50) and got these free slippers

(with a free item up to $13 value with any purchase coupon). BBW sent me both coupons in the mail. The total for all four items, $3.00! My husband loves hand sanitizer so it should make a good stocking stuffer for him! On the way out of BBW, Logan decided to check out the super soft socks. He ended up pulling about a dozen pairs off the hooks! The sweetest employee insisted to help me put them all back and was very sweet about it. She said that they are so soft, she would have been tempted to pull them all off too! I gave her some BSL business cards because I love sweet readers!

My Hubs met us at Coldwater Creek, because the mall is on his way home from work and he graciously took the boys home for me! I got an extra hour of shopping all to myself. I returned a few things to Coldwater Creek and headed over to Williams Sonoma where I got Mexican Vanilla for a few quick gifts. Mexican Vanilla and Bourbon Vanilla are my secret ingredients to baking a spectacular treat! They cost $12 a jar and make a great gifts. They even offered to put them in cute Williams Sonoma bags and tie cute ribbon on them for me!