Saturday, August 14, 2010

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Saturday, August 7, 2010

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Rubbermaid Reveal Mop Giveaway -- Ends 6/13

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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Wordless Wednesday -- DUNK TANK!!!

The Kids in the dunk tank!!



A few weekends ago we had a big family reunion know as
"Christmas in July". This year they rented a dunk tank
and the kids had a blast with it!

Yes they did talk me into trying it too! Sorry
no pictures though. I have to admit it was
pretty fun even though the water was REALLY MURKY!!

Anyone else ever sat in a dunk tank???


If you're wondering... YES we threw balls and dunked
our children... and YES they had fun dunking me too!

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Rubbermaid Reveal Mop Review and Giveaway


I don't have an actual mop. My mop involves my
daughter to take a bucket of water and get
down on her hands and knees and scrub away.
I know, how mean am I!?!?!?

I've owned mops before, but thought they were
worthless and messy plus before this house I
didn't have much hard surface.

Well we were BOTH overjoyed when Rubbermaid
contacted me and wanted me to review their brand
new Rubbermaid Reveal Spray Mop!!

(picture not me! It's from their site)


We love it! I'm sold!! If it broke, I'd go buy another one!
Things I like...
1. REUSABLE PADS! Just throw them in the washer
and they last around 100 washes each!

2. You can use whatever kind of cleaner in the bottle.
Just pull the knob and it sprays out in front of you.

3. Works on all type of floors.

4. The pads just velcro on to the bottom and stick hard.

5.. Nothing more to buy...
Just keep refilling the cleaner bottle and washing the pads!

What took my daughter about 10-15 minutes
took me about 3 with the mop!

This picture is the bottom of the mop
and how the pads velcro on!

(Sorry it's hard to see)

Would you like to win a mop kit?!!?!
Rubbermaid is generously giving away 1 mop kit
to 1 of my wonderful readers!!
If you don't want to wait and see if you
win, you can go here and buy today!



This giveaway is open to US and Canada Entries.

To Enter do one or all
of the following.
(leave separate comments for each)

1. Tell us how much hard surface you have in your house.
2. Blog about the giveaway
3. Follow my blog (or tell me you do)
4. Twitter about giveaway (daily if you'd like!)
5. Subscribe to my blog (or tell me you do)

Remember to leave one comment for each item you do --
up to 5 comments (or more if you Twitter daily).
Also please don't forget to leave me your email!

This giveaway will end August 13th at 8pm
One winner will be chosen using Random.org!
Good Luck!!!

Disclaimer -- Rubbermaid provided me a new
Reveal Mop Kit to try out free of charge!

Thanks Rubbermaid!

Saturday, July 31, 2010

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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Kids at Camp!

We dropped our 2 oldest babies off at
Church Camp on Monday!

They went last year and had such a blast!


Halee on left, cousin Brie on the Right
Malachi wasn't alone!
2 of his cousins are in his cabin too!!!
(sorry I didn't get their pic, they were on the other side)

It's only Wednesday and it feels like
they've been gone FOREVER!!

Saturday, July 24, 2010

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We're having fun camping this weekend!!
Hope you have a great weekend too!


Thursday, July 22, 2010

Summer Sleepover!!

Note -- I know you are about to fall over in shock...
that's 3 whole posts in 3 days from me.

I guess I'm an overachiever this week!!
! ha or something like that!
ANYWAY....
My daughter (in the red and blue dress)
had 3 of her cousins over for a night!

They had a blast (or at least it looked like they did!)

Art projects!


Pizza for dinner (of course)
Complete with goblets of root beer!


Dress up and
makeovers!


Lots of swimming!


And of course Ice cream SUNDAES!!

Next week, boy sleepover.....
Do you think it will be LOUDER!!

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Zucchini in excess!!! Freeze it!!

If you have a garden chances are you have excess zucchini.

Did you know you could just slice it up, blanch it and freeze it??
Then in the dead of winter when the snows a fallin' pull it
out and enjoy some garden zucchini!
Fried in a tiny bit of olive oil... Yum!!!

Check this link for more details or just do a
simple search for freezing zucchini.
I read that unblanched zucchini will last 4-6 months
while blanched will last 10-12.

Of course don't forget to shred some for the
WONDERFUL Zucchini bread.


Oh and don't forget to leave the peel on!!
It's got the good stuff!

What's you favorite way of eating zucchini??

Ranch Dressing Recipe.. NO HFCS!!

Have you ever looked at the
ingredients of your salad dressing??

Besides having about 40 of them it includes
high fructose corn syrup (3rd ingred.)

Why they have to put all that junk in our food is beyond me...
But the good news.... We don't have to buy it!!!!

Here is a easy, quick recipe for Ranch dressing from
Heavenly Homemakers.
I love her site and have been getting soooo many
recipes from her!!


I tried the dressing this week and it's a keeper!
I even put it in our mashed potatoes last night!!

Anyone else sick of HFCS
in ALL our food?!?!?!?

I've been working on HFCS for around 4 months and
I'm excited to say that we're about 90% HFCS FREE!!

Saturday, July 17, 2010

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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Wordless Wednesday!!! Garden Salad!

I LOVE Summertime Produce!!


Everything on this plate came directly from our garden!!
Including....
Lettuce, broccoli, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, and peas.
I guess the sprouts were actually grown in the house!

We are soooo blessed to
have an abundant garden!!!

Does anyone have an idea of what to do with excessive
cucumbers that does not involve pickling them???
I'd love to preserve them for the winter!!

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

$60. Gift Certificate Giveaway!!!


Danielle at the Gaerte Gang is having another giveaway!!

This one is for a $60. gift certificate!!
Gotta love that!

Hurry and go here to enter!

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