July Challenge: Days 18 - 20

Well, we've had an exciting few days.  I can definitely tell that the discipline of being on this challenge is starting to make we want to rebel.  So far we are still on track, but I'm going to really have to watch things closely.

Day 18:  We had a great day at church.  We are going through a video series on Philippians by Matt Chandler that is just excellent.  If you haven't heard of this guy, you should definitely look him up and take a listen. 
I don't think I wrote down our expenses from Saturday (day 17), but it was about $50 in gas and then $6 at the corner market for a couple of things.  I also went to CVS and spent $9 out of pocket and got back $18 in CVS reward dollars to use on my next purchase.

Day 19:  Spent $0

Day 20:  Well, I spent some today!  These last few days have been so much harder to NOT spend and I'm not sure why, other than I just want to rebel and do what I want.  I think part of it is that I got my (very little) check to cash from the mystery shopping that I do.  It doesn't pay a ton, but it does bring in a little extra and I get some free stuff along the way too.  Alright, so we did have a really fun day at a city waterpark in Arlington.  We started off at Walmart so I could get some snacks and flip flops for the boys.  Spent $20 there.  It was about lunch time and Rosa's was right there...and it was taco Tuesday...so, I swung through the drive through and ordered 2 taco plates and a pint of beans and the total was $10.  It fed all of us, so not a bad deal!  We spent from 1-5 at the waterpark and the cost for that was $23.50.  Well, by 5 pm we were needing some cold refreshment...our drinks had gotten pretty hot sitting in the sun for four hours, so we swung by McDonalds for drinks.  (See, I start spending and it just snowballs!).  Spent just over $4 there.  So, in one day I managed to spend all of my check!  But, I will say it again, we had a lot of fun!