Don't Miss It!!!

Here are some great giveaways I wanted to let you all in on!  One blog that I love to visit is Kiddies Corner Deals.  She has some great tips, deals, and giveaways!  Starting October 11th Nichol will be kicking off her Home Renovation Event, where she will be hosting some great giveaways from some outstanding sponsors. 


Some of those sponsors are Speakman Showers, Channellock, Cushion Source, Mythic Paint, Spin &Go, The Simple Stencil, Delta Faucet, Dremel, and many more.  She will be adding to her list as time goes on.  So don't miss it! I will have her button to remind everyone about it on the right side of my blog.  I will give all my readers a heads up as the giveaways get closer, but for now she has some other great giveaways going on that you can enter!  Don't miss it because I sure won't!

*Also, don't forget about the Shutterfly
Giveaway I have going on right now!*

3 Hours and About 8 Colors Later....

This weekend was a busy one for us.  Not because of Labor Day weekend.  No...we had our own holiday to celebrate.  We had Will's 4th Birthday Party this weekend! 

I planed, I cleaned, and I made a cake.  I always make Will's birthday cake.  Not always because I wanted to, that's just how it fell.  (long story)  Since last year I started feeling really good about making his birthday cake.  Each year now, I have been getting better and better.  Last year I made him a Bob The Builder cake, but this year was all about Lightning McQueen!  He had a Cars table cloth, balloons, toys, shoes, clothes, tattoos, stickers, and of course Cake!

I got the Lightning McQueen pan from amazon and got to work.  I didn't realize he was made with so many different colors.  I though I would need mostly red.  Well, was I wrong.  Apparently he is made of about 8 different colors.  They are white, blue, dark blue, red, dark red, black, yellow, and orange.  I had icing and food coloring everywhere.  About 3 hours, at lest 8 piping bags, and 3 tips later I had a cake worthy of my son's birthday!

He had so many friends and family come to celebrate his birthday with us!  Here he is opening his gifts....

And this is some of the water balloons that the kids had fun playing water balloon wars with.  They also got to play on the slip and slide.  We had hot dogs, chips, meatballs in bar-b-q sauce, and cake for everyone to eat too. 

Will had such a fun day.  He got to spend time with family and friends and play, play, play!  What more could a little boy want.  He got the Little Tikes Mud Pie Maker he has been wanting forever and a CARS Tackle Box!  He is such a loved little boy!

Shutterfly Giveaway! (CLOSED)

I was lucky enough to be chosen to do a grand giveaway to not 1 but 3 of my readers!

I have used Shutterfly in the past to print pictures and they have always come out nice.  I am thrilled to be able to make some cards now.  They gave me a set of 10 free 5x7 flat stationery cards to try as well as 3 more sets of 10 5x7 flat stationery cards to give away! 

I have been surfing through their cards and found a few I really like.  The one I think I will be getting will be this one....

I really like it and think it will be a great Christmas card for some of my family members and close friends.  I plan on putting a picture of both my babies.  Will and Charlotte together.  What do you think?

You can find more Christmas cards Here!  They have soooo many to chose from.  It took me a long time to pick one. 

This one is so cute too! I wish I would have seen this before Will's birthday party.  It's a Birthday Party Invitation.  Maybe next year!  They have a ton of cute ones to choose from for boys, girls, babies, and teens!

They also have some great Save The Date cards!  I am looking at this one for our 10th Anniversary.  I know I still have about 3 1/2 years to go, but it doesn't hurt to look now!

I know you are dying to know more about the giveaway.  Well, I am giving away 10 5x7 flat stationery cards to 3 winners!  The catch...Taxes, shipping and handling will apply.  Sorry about that, but that is something I have to mention!  Also, please put your email address on every entry or I will have no way to contact you if you win!!!

Mandatory Entry! (CLOSED)

Make sure you read the above paragraph then tell me what cards you would get from Shutterfly if you win!  It could be any 5x7 flat stationery card they offer!

Bonus Entries!

1. If you Follow my Blog you get 3 entries (make a separate comment for each entry).

2.  If you follow me on twitter you get 2 entries!

3. Tweet the following for 1 entry.  Leave the link for me to see!  (Can be don daily!)

#Win 10 5x7 cards from Shutterfly @ http://asavingmomssanity.blogspot.com/2010/09/shutterfly-giveaway.html

#giveaway 3 Winners-Ends 9/20

4.  Blog, facebook, or spread the word in any other way for 5 entries.  You must leave a link for me to see it for it to count!  You can spread the word in more than one way to get extra entries!

5. Leave me a comment on any of my other post for 1 entry.

Giveaway will end on 9/20 at 11:59 pm.  I will use random.org to choose the winners.  The winners will have 48 hours to get back with me or a new winner will be chosen!  I am getting 10 free 5x7 flat stationary cards for myself free from Shutterfly for reviewing.   

Good Luck! 

She Is Such A Good Girl!

Charlotte has come a long way in 5 months.  If you remember, we rescued her from being put to sleep.  She was scheduled for one more week of life.  We got her from a worker at the Humane Society.  No one knew her exact age or if she had had any vet visits much less shots. 

We adopted her and got her shots and figured with she is now around a year or so.  In those 5 months she has been house trained and know knows the boundaries of our yard.  She stays out free in the yard as long as we are outside.  She loves us and plays well with Will.  She knows who her Momma is though and is now a Momma's girl. 

She makes me so proud.  All the work of potty training has paid of and she listens better than Will does.  I often refer to her as my fur baby.  Will considers himself my skin baby.  I know have my boy and my girl and couldn't be happier.  I just wanted everyone to know how good my little girl has become!

Saturday's Giveaways!

I didn't enter all that many giveaways this week.  Last week I took a vacation from my blog, so that was a non-entering week too.  I did manage to enter a few this week.  Here are some of them!


The Indie Tot is giving away this oh so cute toddler owl-lined corduroy hoodie-Ends 9/15


Vegancraftastic is giving away a pendant from Pieces of Me Pendants-Ends 9/6


Kiddies Corner Deals is giving away a 16oz jar of Tropical Traditions Organic Coconut Peanut Butter-Ends 9/9 (This is one of those things I would LOVE to try! I love Peanut Butter!!!)


Kiddies Corner Deals is also giving away a $50.00 Kids Foot Locker Gift Card-Ends 9/10


Kiddies Corner Deals is good enough to also give away an Infinity Pro by Conair Hair Dryer-Ends 9/20


Cars, Trucks, and Teething Rings is giving away a Himalayan Salt Lamp-Ends 9/17

Walking?

Do you remember I once told you I wanted to trying to flatten my belly a little.  I thought doing the Kroger Wight Loss Challenge was going to help, but no.  I tried to eat healthier.  With my garden doing so well, I have been eating so many fresh vegetables.  I have been buying fresh fruit.  I eat only wheat bread (almost all the time).  I try to portion control.  Non of it really helped.  I got myself a pilates DVD and started doing it as much as I can.  (I don't like to do it when Hubby is home.  I am way to self concise.)

All of this and nothing.  I feel the burn and the hunger.  Yet, I have not seen a difference.  I don't really know if I lost any weight because I don't own a scale.  I just know my body looks the same to me and my clothes still fit the same. 

Then I get a phone call yesterday.  My neighbor wants to know if I want to start walking with her in the mornings.  The silence on the phone is deadly.  I try to think of a good excuse.  None come.  So, I agree and try to put a good spin on it.  So the road is extremely dangerous with it's one lane and NO LINES.  So I have to get up earlier than normal.  So what! I can do it.  Maybe I can even talk her into going to town and walking at the park.  Oh!, and waiting to the afternoon!  Unlikely, but I can try.  The walking will be good for me!  That's what I need to keep telling myself, and I will have someone to do it with.  I am so lazy!  I'll keep you updated to weather or not I go walking and if it helps.  Hopefully I don't get ran over first.

4!

My little man turned 4 yesterday!  I can't believe that it's been 4 years since God gave me my beautiful little baby boy!!!  WOW! Talk about thankful!  Today I am doing my Thankful Thursday post. (Early I know! I couldn't hold it in any more!)

I remember all my life wanting a child.  I always wanted to be a Mommy.  I dreamed of it.  I prayed God wouldn't allow me to go through my life on this earth without a child I could call my own.  What few people know is that, I never expected to get find the love of my life and get married.  NEVER!  I looked into single parent adoption very early.  I was barely 20 and doing research.  I knew it would be hard, but I was determined.  I started setting up my life for that very purpose.  I bought my first vehicle, then house, and saved! saved! saved!  I was going to have my child!

Then I met Kenny.  My world turned upside down when I realized we loved each other and was really going to make a life together.  We both wanted a child in time.  Then, I got the news (very unexpectedly) that I had the very beginning stages of cervical cancer.  It was taken care in one outpatient visit.  The doctor was great and knew cancer when he saw it.  He had it taken out before the results even came back confirming it was cancer.  (The results did confirm it was cancer about 6 weeks after he had removed it.)  They advised me not to get pregnant for at least a year.  The cancer could come back and affect the pregnancy.

So, we waited and waited.  Meanwhile few people knew what was going on.  So, to everyone else who didn't know, we just kept telling them we weren't ready for a baby when they would ask "When are you going to have a little one of your own?". 

A year later we started trying to have a baby.  I prayed so hard! It took a little while (that seemed like forever), but it did happen.  Now we are blessed with our little boy!  He is 4 years old and the greatest blessing in our lives!  He is so perfect for us.  God had everything in His plans.  I just had to learn to be patient and trust in Him! 

To this day I am cancer free!  I have truly been blessed!!!  There may not be any more children in our future, but I have all I need right now!  Happy Birthday Will!!!!

Visit us over at Women Taking A Stand and tell us what you are thankful for!