Giveaway Grabber Betty Crocker Fruit Flavored Snacks “Win & Give” Program: Win a XO Laptop!!

Betty Crocker Fruit Flavored Snacks “Win & Give” Program: Win a XO Laptop!!

  Now through the end of May your child could win an XO Laptop from specially marked Betty Crocker Fruit Snacks. How great is that? Even better, for every laptop won Betty Crocker will donate a matching laptop to deserving kids in Africa.
  These laptops are build rugged, which being a mommy of 5, it's something we could really use in our house. I'm always so scared to let my kids on our laptop in fear that something might happen. It would only take one easy little accident and POW no more laptop.
  I think I'll run out to the store for some Betty Crocker Fruit Snacks for the kids' lunch. Before I do that though I'm heading on over to Misaventures In Baby Raising and let me tell you why. She is giving one of these great laptops away and we all have until May  16th to enter.

Anniversary Flight

So How Cool Is He.....

On May 1st 2011 my husband and I had been married 12 yrs.

For two weeks leading up to "our big day" my hub kept telling me he had a surprise for me. The only thing he would tell me is that I needed to have the camera charged and we were dropping the kids off at Grandma's house for a couple of hours. I had no clue what he had planned but I didn't ask either. I'm good at guessing his surprises but I thought I'd let him trick me just this once.  I figured we were going on one of our little adventure walks and I'd be taking nature pictures (which I LOVE to do)

                             On April 27th I had to have surgery on my foot and I asked my hub if this was going to put a damper on his little plan. He said he had called "The Place" and asked if I'd still be able to do our little "adventure" with a walking boot on and they okayed it.

                                 So then came the big day....May 1st. I woke up that morning camera charged! We loaded up the kids and took them to grandma's house. My 16yr old son said he wished he could go and he was jealous. I really had no clue what was planned but my hub kept saying "Boy it's windy out today". Hummmmm why did he care it was so windy?

After the drop off of the kids we went for "our drive" to the "Special place". As he drove I kept thinking "what in the world does he have planned". Well, then there was a turn off that said "Mt Joy Airport". I looked at him with a strange look and asked "Are we Flying?" His response with a little evil smile was "We ARE flying" Okay, my heart dropped and I'm sorry to say I was scared shitless .

As we pulled in I see this itty bitty plane and the wind was just whipping around us. My heart was pounding and I kept thinking "Great, I'm gonna die on our anniversary."

So here I am, just having surgery a few days before, trying to climb into this itty bitty plane trying to look grateful. I thought it was so cool my hub would plan such a thing but did I mention I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO DIE!!!

The plane takes off and my heart is pounding. I'm trying to smile and I think I had a death grip on my camera (knuckles were turning white. yeah, as if the camera was going to save me). So we are up in the air and did I mention IT WAS WINDY AS HELL!!!! Yep, every gust of wind we could feel and I'd lose my stomach. I knew we were going to be flying for about a half and hour and I think I was counting the minutes. I just wanted back on the ground where I knew it was safe.

The pilot knew I was a bit scared and he was great. He was trying to joke about positive G forces and neg. G forces and he could show me what a neg G was if I wanted him to. Yeah, okay mister pilot, just fly this thing and get me down.

Well, once we landed I hobbled out of the plane, took some pictures of the plane and would have kissed the ground had my hub not been standing there. Within five minutes of landing I thought it was the coolest thing ever. How awesome is my husband!!!! I couldn't believe he went to all that trouble to make it a special day for me. It was definitely a day I will never forget and was one of the best days of my life!!!

Notice the smile once I was safe on the ground

Let's Build Us A 3 Foot Sunday!!!

                              

   Have you ever wondered how to build a 3 ft wide Sunday? Yeah, I guess that thought has never entered my mind either....Well, not until I heard Hy-Vee on John Deere Road was going to attempt it. That's right, for frozen food month they decided they'd use ICE CREAM to celebrate. All week I've heard my friend Eric announcing this fun event at our local Hy-Vee store. Well, since this happens to be one of my favorite places to shop I decided I'd wake the kids up early and drive on in to check it out. This was one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

Kay and Jeff setting up

  First off they needed 56 gallons of Blue Bunny Ice Cream, 14 8oz. tubs of Cool Whip, 4 packages of Oreos, 5 bottles of Hersey's Chocolate Syrup, two jars of Hy-vee Cherries, and 2 containers of sprinkles to top it off. How did they get all that into one 3ft base. Well, by trial and error and A LOT OF LAUGHS!!!

   



Yummy!!!



I couldn't believe the final results. Everything looked

so great and the kids had fun eatting helping set up.

                                                                            

                                        So if you live in the Midwest area and have a 

Free sample anyone?

Hy-vee store near you I suggest you check them out. You never know what you might find.

Wordless Wednesday

It's not cute! It's not sexy! But it's funny and I'll most anything on a dare!

Giveaway Grabber-Price Pfister Faucets

  Seriously, remodeling can be fun yet time consuming. I love remodeling but it takes soooo long. We bought our house 12 years ago and we have remodeled little by little. After those long 12 years we still aren't done. So far we have taken out a wall between the livingroom and a bedroom to make our living room huge. We've done the bathroom and a couple of bedrooms. The only thing we have left to do is the kitchen but it's soooo expensive.What floor do we want? What counters will look best? Well, one thing we've decided on is the faucet. I LOVE the look of the Avanti faucet in Tuscan Bronze by Pfister . The Tuscan Bronze looks awesome!!! Well before I buy it I try to win it. Why not right. During my search I found Experimental Mommy hosting a giveaway for a Price Pfister faucet!!! The winner will have their choice of the Avanti, Elevate EXT, Alina, or Rembrant. This giveaway ends March 10. You have unlimited tweet entries if you have 50 Twitter followers or more. I like the unlimited tweet thing but I will only tweet a couple times a day. I wouldn't want to lose Twitter followers by spamming them. Good Luck!!!

Giveaway Grabber-Knork

 Okay so my  kids are always losing silverware. I mean always. I don't understand where it goes so we are always buying the cheapest silverware one can buy. I've come to think that maybe that's the problem. Maybe since they know I buy the cheap stuff then it doesn't matter if they use them to dig dirt. I'm wondering if I bought something nice like Knork then maybe they'd know better :) Well guess what, Trying To Stay Calm is hosting a giveaway right now for Knork flatware. Maybe I should try my luck huh?
Giveaway ends March 1st

Giveaway Grabber-Petcakes

I LOVE Petcakes!! These are the cutest little creatures and my favorite is Honey Cakes . Because I love them so much I searched Prizey.net until I found someone who was hosting a Petcake giveaway. Well, guess what, I found one at Because It's Fun To Win! Hurry on over and get those entries in because I know you have a special little boy or girl who would love one of these. Giveaway ends 2/25

 Here is Honey Cakes