CSN STORES $45.00 GIVEAWAY! (CLOSED)

OK, you all know I like to shop!  I am getting so good at this shopping on the Internet thing!  Last year I found the CSN Store.  I found Rachel Ray cookware, Fisher Price toys, leather messenger bags, and even kitchen sinks!


Do you see know why I like the CSN Stores?  I myself have purchased a crock pot and a few other items from this store.  Everything I ordered I love still to this day!  Best of all, they are letting me give one of my fabulous readers a $45.00 gift card!

The Giveaway (CLOSED)

Win a $45.00 one-time use promotional code to any of the CSN Stores 200+ sites!

Mandatory Entry: (must be done for any other entry to count and you must leave your email address for me to contact you if you win!)

Tell me what you would get with your $45.00 at the CSN Stores.

Extra Entries:

1. Tell me, would what you buy with your $45.00 at the CSN Stores would be a gift or for yourself.

2. Be a current follower or become a follower of my blog for 3 extra entries! (make 3 separate comments. One for each entry!)

3. Blog about this giveaway for 5 extra entries! ( make 5 separate comments!)

4. Leave a comment on any of my other posts. Let me know which one and you get 2 extra entries! (make 2 separate comments!)

That's it! Easy!!!! The CSN Stores provided me with the products, information, and giveaway.  All opinions are mine and mine alone. I was in no way payed. This giveaway ends 12/6 at 11:59 p.m. I will choose a winner using random.org. The Winner will have 48 hours to respond after I send the email or another winner will be chosen.  Good Luck!

Old El Paso "Family Taco Night" Giveaway! (CLOSED)

My family loves tacos!  Really loves them.  I make tacos for my family once a week, so when My Blog Spark asked me to try the Old El Paso's "Family Taco Night" I was so happy to accept!

I got my package in the mail that contained a packet of original Old El Paso Taco Seasoning, a Cactus Chip & Dip Serving dish, a Fiesta Chili Pepper serving dish, and a $10 gift card to purchase your taco fixings.

I ran to the store to get all my fixings and couldn't wait for taco night.  I made my taco family night last night.  Hubby had a gig to play later and I thought it would make a good family activity before he had to go.  I set up all my food like a buffet and we made our own tacos.  Hubby made traditional tacos, while Will and I made taco salads!  It was soooo good.  We ate, talked, and spent family time together. 

Here are recipes for Double Layered Tacos and Chicken Ranch Tacos.  You can also do as we did and just let our family members make their own.  You can also make it a real part night by downloading game cards and other items from www.ElTacodor.com.

For a coupon to get you started off right click HERE and get your $0.60 off any two Old El Paso products today!

The Giveaway (CLOSED)

WinYour Own Old El Paso "Family Taco Night" Prize Pack just like the one I got!

Mandatory Entry: (must be done for any other entry to count and you must leave your email address for me to contact you if you win!)

Tell me what you normally do for your family night! Do you cook a certain kind of meal or do you play games?  What do you do together?

Extra Entries:

1.  Tell me how you like your tacos? 

2.  Be a current follower or become a follower of my blog for 3 extra entries! (make 3 separate comments.  One for each entry!)

3.  Blog about this giveaway for 5 extra entries!  ( make 5 separate comments!)

4.  Leave a comment on any of my other posts.  Let me know which one and you get 2 extra entries! (make 2 separate comments!)

That's it! Easy!!!! Old El Paso provided me with the products, information, and giveaway through MyBlogSpark.  All opinions are mine and mine alone. I was in no way payed and only received the package to review.  This giveaway ends 12/5 at 11:59 p.m.  I will choose a winner using random.org.  The winner has 48 hours to contact me after I send the winning email or another winner will be chosen.  Good Luck!

Holiday Giveaways!!!!

Oh my gosh! Have you seen all the giveaways going on right now! I have not had any time to enter them, but I am slowly trying!  I just entered some over at Kiddies Corner Deals!  I have so many more to catch up on. 

If you run across some really good ones please let me know!!! I will have some coming up soon too, so stay on the lookout!

Part Of Growing Up

I know kids have to get booster shots as they grow to keep them healthy, but they are just so painful.  Not just painful for they kids, but even more painful for the parents. 

Yesterday was the day for Will's 4 year old boosters.  What a painful day yesterday was.  I didn't realize he would be getting 3 individual shots, his finger pricked, and the flue mist!  It was horrible! 

First we had an appointment at his Pediatrician for 1:30.  We got there early and signed in.  Then waited and waited.  Finlay we got in to see the Doctor.  She examined him and then we waited and waited again for the nurse that gives the shots.  Finlay we got to see her.  She did some normal 4 year old health checks on his eyes, ears, and all that.  He is now 42 inches tall and 43 pounds!  So Big!!!

Then came shot time.  I was so happy Hubby was there to hold him.  By the time all was said and done, Will was crying, screaming, yelling, and fighting!  I was also crying.  I couldn't help it!  When you see your child in pain and going through what seems like tourcher ...well you cry!  (It doesn't help that I'm a big emotional baby!)

The rest of the day was barley better.  We where all exhausted from the whole thing.  We ended up being at the Doctor for almost 3 hours.  Will hurt and then freaked out every time the saw the band aids.  For some reason he HATES band aids.  He acts like its the band aid's fault that he got hurt.  You should have been there when I gave him a bath and removed the ones on his arm.  Between the arm and finger band aids, he had 5.  Taking the band aids off was almost as bad as getting the shots!

My poor baby still hurts this morning.  Tylenol and Ibuprofen can only do so much.  He's sore.

New Coupon!

I have been given this great opportunity to share with you the Show Your Helping Hand campaign.  This campaign is to raise awareness about the national issue of hunger.  Hamburger Helper and GRAMMY® Award-winning singer, songwriter and actor, Tim McGraw have teamed up to help Feeding America deliver millions of meals to local food banks.

You can help to, by submitting codes from specially marked boxes of Hamburger Helper at http://www.showyourhelpinghand.com/ or by logging on to make a donation.  Hamburger Helper will donate 17 cents per code.  That's enough for Feeding America to deliver one meal to a local food bank.

You can Click here to see the Public Service Announcement Tim McGraw made for this campaign.  You can also have a chance to win an autographed copy of Tim McGraw´s "Southern Voice" CD by visiting http://www.showyourhelpinghand.com/.

I have a coupon that you can go HERE to print for 35 cents off of Hamburger Helper, Tuna Helper OR Chicken Helper Home Cooked Skillet Meals.  I have seen Hamburger Helper on sale from time to time for $1.00 a box.  Some stores will even double or triple your coupon, so you get a box for almost nothing.  Then go and enter your code at the site above to help a local food bank get a meal too!

A Hurricane In The Forcast!

Who could have guessed that a hurricane was going to hit our home in 24 hours?  I sure didn't.  I spent hours yesterday cleaning Will's room and preparing to put in his big boy bed, only to have it almost all destroyed!

Will's friend Karlie came to play today and destroyed his room.  They played for hours!  The only rule was that they didn't get on the bed!  Jumping on the bed was grounds for punishment.  And to my surprise the bed was never touched!

As promised here is a picture of Will's new Big Boy Bed!

And this is a picture of the room after the hurricane!

Yea, the room is small but this picture makes it look even smaller!


We did get the room in a better shape later today, but I was just so amazed that hours of hard work where gone in minutes.  That's live though.  They had a good time and everyone followed the no getting in the bed rule.  That sounds like a successful day!

Will did have a good nights sleep in his new bed.  It must be comfy, because he woke up at 3:30 am and wanted to know if it was time to get up.  When I told him it wasn't morning yet, and he could go back to sleep, he gladly went back to dream land. 

Big Boy Needs A Big Bed!

All Children grow up, but that is a hard fact for a Momma!  My little man seems to be growing at a high speed.  Not long ago I had to buy him new winter clothes.  He grew two sizes in one one year.  Shoes are the same way, but you don't often think of a child growing out of his bed.

Will has been sleeping in his crib for 4 years now.  It's a convertible crib that turns into a toddler bed and then into a double bed.  He has been sleeping in it as a toddler bed.  He is growing so tall that he is almost to long for it now.  Instead of turning it into a double bed, we decided to go ahead and get Will a twin bed. 

We shopped for a twin bed for a few weeks now, and saw a lot of bunk beds, but not many normal twin beds.  Will wanted a bunk bed but is afraid of heights, so that was out.  The last think I need is a top bunk bed filled with toys or kids coming over to jump off the top. (I so see an ER visit in the future if we would get a bunk bed.)

I finally found a bed at a garage sale of all places.  It had the sticker still on it from the furniture place it was purchased form and all.  The bonus was that they only wanted $20 for it!  Yesterday we went and got a Serta twin mattress for it from Big Lots.  $99 and it was ours. 

Today I will be taking down the crib/toddler bed so Hubby can put up the Big Boy Bed when he gets home from work tonight.  Pictures to come tomorrow!