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Kaching! Tanner tallied up his points last night to see what he need to get on his final exam in order to get an A. He needed to get a 30%. So, instead of going to bed and getting well rested before the exam, he just took it. It so nice to have just an teensy little break. No more school for the rest of today and tomorrow!

So, what did we do with all of this free time? Well, we went to the bank, the post office, Village Foods, the farmers market and then when we got home, Tanner went into the attice and brought down the grill.

Now, you have to hear the story of this grill. I'm a bargain hunter. I'm a cheap sale maniac. I've wanted a gas grill since before I got married. Now the average, tiny little gas grill is about $100. And I've seen them go on sale for as low as $80, but to me that's just a little spendy. When you can buy a charcoal grill for $20, why spend that much on a gas grill? So, I've waited, and looked, and waited and looked. Everyone that I know has gotten a gas grill way before I ever did, but I got the gas grill bargain of the century.

One day, when I was about 8 months pregnant with Georgie, Emily and I went shopping at Target. Remember, Target is our favorite store. We were strolling up and down the aisles looking for a messenger bag when I stumbled on this heap of miscellaneous summer clearance stuff. Umbrellas, blankets, hot-pink pitchers, all sorts of things. I discovered as I sifted through all this stuff that underneath all that junk there was this box. It said $24.98. I leaned over and bumped my tummy as I tried to figure out what was in the box. There was a crude sketch on the side and it looked like some kind of grilling contraption. I pulled at the box, and Emily screamed at me. "DON'T!" I was getting excited, you see, and I kind of forgot that moving 50lb boxes while pregnant was not a really smart thing to do. The problem we face was that Emily had a hurt back, but together we managed to shift the box and there staring up at me was a picture of a nice little gas grill. I checked the tag again. Then I went and got a customer service rep to confirm the price. And after that we loaded it into the cart.

Now, we didn't bother to assemble the grill because we knew that we were moving to Texas in just a few months, so the grill has laid dormant inside of its box until this evening. I finally got to rip through the soft, cardboard shell, pull out the instructions and assemble the dream machine. It took me four hours, but the grill is now ready and primed to go. I just have to buy a propane tank. I'm so excited. Can't wait to fire up the barbee and go all gourmet with it.