Picnic Winner

We have a winner for the picnic dinner(ware)!

Congrats Heidi! E-mail me your address and I will send this out right away.

Thanks to everyone who entered and reads my little blog.

(Phoebe keeps picking names and calling out new winners. I'm hearing all of your names being called.) :o)

Let's Have A Picnic giveaway (updated)

I found these cute and colorful pieces today and immediately thought to buy them and give them away. It includes.... 4 cups, 4 plates, 1 chip and dip tray, 1 condiment tray, and 4 hot dog/corn on the cob holders. I might look for more stuff to add, so the winner will be surprised. I did add more stuff and here it is.
Set of 8 Ice Pop makers, pack of festive napkins, pack of straws, complete with little umbrellas, a container of toothpicks, and a bottle of lemon scented bubbles. How fun!

My girls are always asking to have a picnic in the backyard, and dishes like these are perfect for such a request.

Leave a comment if you want a chance to be the winner. I'll pick a winner sometime Friday, the 23rd.

BOC* Winner

*Box of Crap

I was going to pick the winner an hour ago, but my sister called and had to vent to me. I'm sure you were all refreshing your blog list just waiting to see if you were the lucky winner of my big ole box of crap. ;o)

Thanks to all of you who were brave enough to want to win a BOC*.
Thanks to all of you for popping in to my blog. I appreciate all of you. I appreciate all of you who pop in to my blog and didn't want to win a BOC*.

With the thank you's out of the way, I now announce the winner.......drumroll.......
Oops, one more thank you. Thanks to dear hubby for picking the name out of a bowl for me. He did it with no peeking.

Congratulations to christy rose
This was her comment. "It would be fun to get a big ole box of crap from you. I am in!"
Cool, I just put some fun in her life.
Send me your address Christy and I'll get your BOC* in the mail.

Thanks again everybody. You're good people. :o)

It's Time

After getting Heidi's blessing (Do it! Everyone loves a big ole box of crap, man.) I am ready to have my giveaway of a big ole box of crap. Not that I wouldn't have had a giveaway, I just wanted to give away a big ole box of crap, and I didn't want to take Heidi's glory of being the first person I knew who gave away a box of crap.

I have been out shopping. Looking for deals and fun stuff to put in my box of crap. I'm even looking around my home to see if I can get rid of some of my crap. It's good crap, kids. It's the kind of crap that if you don't like it, I won't feel bad if you give it away or throw it away.

I'm not going to show you what's in this BOC*. I want you to be all excited for your BOC* to arrive. I want to hear that you hugged your mail carrier because he/she handed you this treasure. HA!

OK Enough drama. It's not that great. I just want to give away something to show my appreciation to all of you who hang out over here once in awhile.

Come on in, leave a comment, and I'll pick a random winner on Thursday, March 18, and ship your BOC* by Friday. And knowing that I have only a handful of readers, your chance to win is pretty darn good. :oD

*Box of crap

Sorry if I have offended anyone by using the word crap.

Why don't they learn?

This morning Phoebe tried pulling the "I'm too sick to go to school" line. I took her temp. Normal. No coughing. She looked and sounded just fine. I told her that God knows if she's lying. She said she's not lying. I told her no running around or playing. She said she won't. I asked her what test was going on at school today. None. Then she said maybe a math test. She looked to see what was being served for hot lunch today. Her favorite! Oh well, she said she would just have to miss it, and I would have to make it for her in a few days. HA! I was all ready to call her in when at the last minute she said she would go. She had less than 5 minutes to get ready, and I would have food for her to eat on the way. She made it. When will she learn that I was once her age and tried pulling the sick thing on my mom too. If I stayed home, by mid morning I was so bored that I didn't pull being sick again for a long time. When will she learn that I know what her next move is going to be. I've been there, I've pulled every move possible. Sometimes it worked, but I really didn't get away with anything. God knew just what I was up to.

It is very foggy out today. Leaving late and driving in this soup was no fun. Why don't people learn that when it's foggy out that their headlights should be on!!! Just crazy how many cars I saw at the last second because of no lights. No wonder accidents happen.

A long time ago I said I was about due for a giveaway. I was going to celebrate my 200th post. I believe this post is my 321st post. When will I learn to do what I've set out to do? HA!
I will be on the lookout for something to giveaway. Hey Heidi, can I take over your giveaway of giving away "a big ol' box of crap"? It will be good crap.
There, now that I said I was going to plan a giveaway, I hope it won't take over 100 more posts before I actually do it.

Have a God day!

Last of the snail mail

Another contest win goody box came my way today. This one was a name that photo contest over at Joel's Journey. Cindy is a busy mom raising 12 children while missing her son Joel who died of a horrible cancer almost 3 years ago at the age of 3.

She sure packed this box up. I was shocked at all the loot.

from left to right: Thanksgiving cookie cutters, jar of leaf sprinkles for the cookies I will bake.
2 wooden Thanksgiving dolls to color. An Indian and a Pilgrim girl. ( the girls are coloring them now)
2 Joels Journey And The Sanctity Of Life videos. This video was the 2007 winner Best Biblical Family film at the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival
1 video of Gardening Workshop for Beginners that they also filmed. I want a bigger garden next spring and I am a beginner. My brown thumb should turn a shade of green after watching this.
A lovely shade of burnt orange nail polish. Perfect for the fall season.
2 wooden (rectangle) pumpkins. so cute!
and behind the pumpkins is a neat metal acorn
and on the back of the couch is an awesome metal hanging decoration that reads F A L L

Very exciting past couple of weeks I've had receiving these wonderful gifts from my bloggy friends. I may never meet them this side of heaven, but I will catch up to them in heaven and give them the proper hugs.

All of you are so special to me.

More snail mail

Today I received another package in my mailbox from another bloggy friend. I won her giveaway for the month of September. Oh happy day.
This one was from April over at Straight from the Heart

A pretty little notebook with fold away pen. Great for my purse.

A magnetic notepad which will find it's way on the refrigerator. I've become a list maker lately and this will be perfect.

A hefty bookmark that says Everything is possible for him who believes. Mark 9:23
I say hefty because this is no paper or plastic bookmark. It is a beefy piece of metal. So cool!
It is now my protection when I'm reading. It may look like an innocent bookmark, but anyone who tries anything funny is going to get wholloped across the head with it. HA!

It's all so pretty and I thank you April for the fun surprises. I said this in my previous post. Bloggy friends are wonderful. I've picked the best blogs to follow.

Friday Freebie

Heidi has this great giveaway every Friday. She is taking care of her family right now, so Amanda@ProudMommyofFour is hosting it. What a great giveaway!
Adorable hats, and butter flavored grapeseed oil. I have had that oil, and it is sooooo good. Healthy too. A lot more other stuff going on at her site to. Check it out.

And keep Heidi's family in prayer. Surgery and sickness going on over there. They need God's healing touch.


Happy Weekend!

A very cool giveaway

Nope, the cool giveaway is not from me. Tim @ Fort Thompson is giving away something cool for Father's Day. Check it out. Now I have to go back to his place and let him know I did this, so I get 5 more entries.

and the Caffeine goes to.....

McDonalds coffee coupon giveaway winners are going to be picked and announced by Phoebe.



Congratulations winners. Email me your addresses and I will send these out to you right away. Thanks for taking these off my hands your interest.

Coffee anyone?

See what the wonderful director of our Sunday School kids department gave me for my birthday! (I help out in the 3-5 yr. old class) 10 $1. gift certificates to my favorite coffee joint. Jo to Go. It seems many of you do not have the awesome pleasure to have one of these pint sized shacks near you. I feel bad for you.

But, I bet you do have one of these near you. The Golden Arches, Micky D's, gut rot city... aka McDonalds.
Since you probably have a McDonalds near you, I have 2 somewhat beat up, but never used, coffee coupons for you. If you frequent the place and want them, that is.

The top coupon gives you a free medium coffee, and the bottom two will give you a free medium coffee, if you buy four. They expire in December 2009.

I'll give 1 coupon each to two people.

This is no big deal of a giveaway, but I won't use them, and I don't want to throw them away.

If you are a McDonald coffee nut and want a chance for a coupon, just let me know by leaving a comment. I'll be taking your order until....whenever I stop. I'll pick a number and let you know who wins soon. Cheers!

Vlogemotions plus a whole lot more!

Tim @ Fort Thompson hosts this every week. It's lots of fun and you should join in. Check it all out.

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OK then...now a word from our sponsor.


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I'll keep in touch. I'm off to celebrate.

A Birthday Gift and a contest

Phoebe had a great birthday party. Food, Family, Friends, Fun.

One of her gifts was a Nintendo DSi. Not my idea, but it's a done deal, and she loves it.

She is raising a dog on it, named Dasie (Daisy) and it's great. It's keeping her quiet about getting a real dog. And I don't have to do a thing. (Although I did feed it before, and played with it.)

Now for the contest.

This photo is begging for a caption, or sentence, or thought process. Abby seems to be thinking something, but I can't tell what.

Help me out and name this photo. Of course there will be a prize. How about a $10. gift card of your choice, as long as I have that store near me.

I'll let you have two entries, if you want, because sometimes you come up with one after you put in the first entry. And they don't have to be in separate comments.

I'll keep this contest open until Tuesday night, May 19, 10:00 p.m. CST.

The judge will be ME. I won't play favorites, because I don't have a favorite. You are all my favorite in your own special way.

Ready, set, name that photo.

$50 giveaway

Nooooo, it's not me giving away a $50 gift card to Target or Amazon.com. I'm not that generous today. It's Sadie aka Sheryl over at The Perch. Or click Go Ask Sadie to get right to the giveaway. She's closing the contest at midnight (EST) tonight. Check her blogs out and maybe you'll win. Or maybe I'll win, because I'm getting extra chances to win by posting about this. Go....what are you still doing here? Nothing exciting going on at this blog!

Giveaways and Giftaways and cookies

Blog land is giving out. Head on over to Amanda's, A Proud Mommy of 4. She collecting baby/children needs for Haiti. Even a chance to win a prize for yourself.



Heidi at Sacred and Profane has her weekly Friday Freebie going on. Giving away the book, The Five Love Languages.


We baked 4 dozen Valentine cookies yesterday. Frosted and decorated them too. And so what if the Pillsbury dough boy helped. He's a better baker than I am. I just had to open the package and tear apart the heart shaped cookies and put them on a cookie sheet. 2 dozen went with Phoebe to school for a Valentine party.

The other 2 dozen are being eaten here.

Happy Friday.

Winner of My 100th Post giveaway

Thanks to all of you participating in my 1st giveaway. I love to give and I'm sure this won't be my last one. Abigail was being unsociable, and didn't want to join in the picking of the winner. So, Phoebe and I did this fair and square. No ballot bag stuffing. All 13 of you were in there.

Phoebe shook the bag well, to mix you all up.
No peeking allowed.
Here's the winning name in hand.
And the winner is.........

JILL @ Sneaky Momma

Congratulations. The rest of you came in a close second. Send me your address Jill, and I will send your winnings off to you.


For those of you who loved that purse, I got it at Hobby Lobby. For 60% off regular price I might add. If you have one near you, check it out.

Thanks again for reading my blog and being comment queens.