Subway and Little League Baseball

SUBWAY® restaurants, the world’s largest restaurant chain is doing a wonderful thing! For the third year in a row this great sandwich loving company has sponsored what they call The SUBWAY® Baseball DeSIGNS Tour. What kind of tour is that....you might be thinking. 


The SUBWAY® Baseball DeSIGNS Tour includes more than 40 baseballs designed by young artists and signed by celebrities and athletes including: musician Katy Perry, actor Zac Efron, rock band Maroon 5, gold medal-winning swimmer Michael Phelps, pro football’s Drew Brees,  and baseball star Ryan Howard. For a complete list of celebrities click  here.

The tour will visit four U.S. cities concluding with a final stop at the Little League® Baseball World Series (LLBWS) from Aug. 19-28, where the baseballs will then be auctioned off to the general public with all proceeds benefiting the Little League® Baseball Urban Initiative program which helps fund start-ups, developments, equipment, clinics and field maintenance for inner-city youth leagues and teams.

Sounds pretty great, doesn't it! A baseball signed by Zac Efron? He's pretty cute, you know. If you are interested in bidding on any of these fun baseballs you can do so on Ebay. 

You can learn more about the baseballs on Facebook. 

Samsung 4-Door LCD Refrigerator with Apps and $100 Best Buy Giveaway

We live in a wild world, you know. Technology in all it's different forms has plowed its way into our lives reshaping the way the whole world operates. A short 55 years ago, my mother was a small girl and can remember her parents buying their very first television set. 

What a wonderment! It must have been very exciting. New technology at it's finest. 


Now years later, most of us carry a phone around 24/7 that will make calls, text, log on to the Internet, hold games, tv shows, movies, pictures and all kinds of apps.

What an amazement! It is very exciting. New technology at it's finest!


Life is fast paced in this new high tech world! Being efficient with the wonderful technology available is certainly key. I am often saying to MyHandsomeHusband....just imagine what life will be like 10 years from now. At the rate technology is changing and advancing who knows what kind of things will be available to us.

Things like the new Samsung 4-door LCD Refrigerator with Apps. Visit the Official site

Yes, you read it correctly. A refrigerator that has Internet capability. 

What an amazement! It is very exciting. New technology at it's finest!



This cutting edge refrigerator has a lot of great features. For example, with the new refrigerator, owners are able to view recipes, read the tweets of those they follow, review the family Google calendar, listen to music while cooking or cleaning, check out the weather report and leave notes for their family members with the post-it functionality. Efficiency at it's best.

Amazing!!!! Exciting!!!! Technology is out doing itself. 


What do you suppose could be next? How about a washer and dryer that folds clothes neatly and then puts them away in the correct drawer. Imagine all of the time that would save!

Love it!

Do you have any brilliant ideas for a cutting edge appliance? 

For a chance to win 

$100 Best Buy Gift Certificate 

leave me a comment telling me what your dream appliance is, and how it could help you to solve a vexing problem.

Be creative!

It can be as wild as your imagination.

Good luck, everyone! 
The Sweepstakes will run from 

7/25-8/15.

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Fruits and Veggies and $100 Visa Gift Card Giveaway

This is a sponsored post from BlogHer and Tropicana.

Pledge to squeeze more fruits and veggies into your day & Tropicana will help kids in need. Tropicana will donate one 8-oz glass of orange juice to the USDA School Breakfast and Summer Food Service programs, up to 184,375 8-oz glasses. Please pledge by going to http://bit.ly/gAU7Eq . Promo will end 12/31/11.



"Can I have a treat?"
"Can I have a piece of candy?"
"Can I have a cookie?"
"Can I have something to eat that will give me lots of cavities and make my blood sugar level sky rocket?"

These are some of the repeater questions I loath. It seems they frequent the halls of this home on a regular basis. What to do with all of these treat hounds around here? 

Slice it up nice....

Serve it up twice, or thrice (is that a word?)


Fresh fruits and vegetables. That's what I'm talking about! We like treats around here, it's no secret. But having fresh fruits and veggies around the house at all times makes me feel a lot better about the nutrition of my kidlets. I offer fruit and veggies a lot...a real lot....and  am  finding my kids are developing a love for them. Few. What a relief. 

I don't try and sneak artichokes into cookies dough...
I don't blend up spinach with chocolate sauce and pour it over ice cream.
I don't pour tomato juice over the top of rice crispy treats.

I just chop up carrots sticks for their lunch, and bring apples to the park, and steam up frozen peas with dinner, and slice up oranges after school.

You know. We try and eat the good for you stuff. I offer it. Serve it. Place it in front of their cute faces. 
Then after the carrot sticks we have a cookie. I can not tell a lie.

How about you? 


To enter the to win the $100 Visa Gift Card from BlogHer leave me a comment below telling me how you serve up fruits and veggies to your kids. Please, pretty please.... leave your email address in your comment. This giveaway will run from April 11th-May 9th.

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Shabby Apple Dress Giveaway

               This Giveaway is now closed

I'm happy to be partnering with Shabby Apple, an online dress boutique selling women’s dresses, casual dresses, skirts, and women’s apparel. They have so many beautiful dresses to choose from! Click on over and take a little peek. It's a wonderful site, indeed. I would bet you'll find something you love over there. 

Shabby Apple would like to giveaway a dress to one of you lucky readers. Isn't that great news! I sure think so. The lucky winner will be able to choose from the following five dresses.

Happy Talk

Spanish Steps

Cider

 

Azure Coast

 

 Creamsicle

All very lovely, wouldn't you say?

If you would like to enter to win, leave me a comment telling me your favorite spring time activity. (It's going to be spring soon, isn't it? Please! Someone make it be spring.) Be sure and leave your email address in your comment.


For a second entry "Like" me on Facebook, by clicking here. Then leave a comment telling me you did so. 

You have until Sunday night at midnight to enter. The winner will be announced on Monday morning. 


Good luck everyone!

Tropicana Orange Juice and $100 Visa Gift Card Giveaway

This is a sponsored post from BlogHer and Tropicana.

This giveaway is now closed.

Fresh Oranges in the winter. Yum. We can't get enough of them around here! There's not a kid walking these halls of mine that doesn't love a good orange. That is a relief! Kids with a love for a good healthy orange.

Orange Juice...? They love it just as much! (If given the opportunity, the two children pictured above would drink OJ at every meal and three times between each meal.)

I was very  happy to discover that Tropicana Pure Premium Orange Juice contains 16 picked fresh oranges in each 59 oz container. That's not too shabby! I was equally excited to learn this wonderful juice has no added sugar, artificial flavors, sweetener or water. Amazing. They don't even add water? That is a lot of orange!

One 8 ounce glass of Tropicana Orange Juice has a fulls day's supply of vitamin C, as much potassium as a banana  and is a natural source of the vitamin B foliate. That is something I can feel good about! We all want to feel good about the food we are supplying for our little ones. I have been pleased to learn that Tropicana Orange Juice is good through and through. Think of it as handing your kidlets an orange in the liquid form. A fantastic way to put a little bit of "good" in your morning. 


To enter the to win the $100 Visa Gift Card from BlogHer leave me a comment below telling me how you include good nutrition in your daily breakfast routine. And please, oh please leave your email address in your comment. This giveaway will run from 3/14-4/11. Winner will be informed by email. Check back in a couple of weeks for second chance to win $100 Visa Gift Card.  

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$25 Kroger Gift Card Giveaway

 Hello there! I wanted to let you know about a great sale that is coming up! Kroger (otherwise known as Smiths Grocery Store for those of you living in Utah) is having a great sale starting

Sunday February 27th.

If you would like to enter to win a $25 Kroger Gift Card leave me a comment telling me the item you purchase most regularly at the grocery store. Milk.....eggs.....cheese.....diet coke.......chocolate......healthy vegetables! What do you buy the most, my friends. That is what I would like to know! You may enter from now until Thursday March 3rd. I will announce the winner on Friday morning  March 4th. Please, oh please leave your email address in your comment. Good luck! 

Details about the sale are below!

Instead of breaking your piggy bank, shop and save with the Cart Buster Savings Event exclusively at Kroger and the Kroger Family of Stores. You´ll see Big Savings Storewide!

From February 27th through March 12th, shop Kroger´s biggest-ever promotion and find the hottest prices around on more than 35 brands, across more than 60 categories from General Mills, P & G, Nestle, Pepsi and Kroger Banner Brands. During the Cart Buster Savings Event, you´ll find great savings in almost every department at the Kroger Family of Stores, which includes Kroger, Ralph´s, King Soopers, City Market, Dillons, Smith´s, Fry´s, QFC, Baker´s, Owen´s, Jay C Food Stores, Hilander, Gerbes, Food4Less, Pay Less Super Markets and Scott´s Food & Pharmacy.

Here are just a handful of the great brands participating in the event: Multigrain Cheerios, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Hamburger Helper, Yoplait, Progresso, Totino´s, Green Giant, Cascadian Farm, Tide, Charmin, Bounty, Pampers, Pantene, Crest, Iams, Febreze, Old Spice, Bounce, DiGiorno´s, Nestle Toll House, Juicy Juice, Coffee-Mate, Edy´s, Stouffer´s, Lean Cuisine, Hot Pockets, Nestle Candy, Purina and many more!

Looking for even more ways to add money to your pocket? Visit Facebook.com/Kroger to participate in their "Deal of the Day" promotion! During each day of Kroger´s Cart Buster Savings Event, be one of the first 1000 people to click on the deal link and receive a free load-to-card coupon for the featured daily item.

Jimmy Dean Better Breakfast Better You! and $100 Visa Gift Card Giveaway

This is a compensated review by BlogHer and Jimmy Dean.

However the opinions and feelings expressed here are my own.

The holiday season is nearing an end my friends. Unless you count Valentines day...and in that case the holiday season is just 3/4 of the way through! Let that put a little sparkle in your eye, now. However whether you count it or not, January is staring us right in the face.


January. The old girl is usually pretty cold in my neck of the woods. Also a  bit boring. No one wants to make anything with butter and sugar anymore, holiday parties are over, and my pants are too tight. Not really my favorite month...if you catch my drift. 

But with January also comes the opportunity for change. A fresh start, if you will. That is something to smile about. While I love (and have a serious addiction) to butter and sugar...it is bit refreshing to take a break from them for a spell. I cannot deny it. I often tend to get in a butter/sugar frenzy by the end of December. Come January I am ready to bring in a replacement! Something that is a little bit better for you!


A couple of weeks ago I was given some samples of Jimmy Dean Delights breakfast sandwiches. 

Jimmy Dean has come out with several options for breakfast that have less fat, while still tasting great. I have to say I was a bit skeptical of these breakfast sandwiches at first. I'm more of a grind-the-wheat-make-the-bread-from-scratch kind of chic. However I am finding in my ever increasing busy life...I make better choices when there are "better choices" available quickly. 

I was pleasantly surprised by the taste of these products! They are really good. They have a lot of protein and much less fat than Jimmy Dean's regular product. Two things that are a great bonus. I have found (in my many years battling the bulge) that eating more protein really helps a lot. Protein combined with whole grains is a magical potion. I am looking forward to hanging out with both of these two. More of these, less of the butter/sugar combo we discussed earlier. The new Jimmy Dean products will be a great addition to my routine. I look forward to having them as an option on a busy morning. Ok...let's be honest. I can count on one very tiny finger the mornings that aren't super busy around here. Must be the mother-of-five gig I'm trying to pull off.

If you would like to enter to win the $100 Visa Gift Card Giveaway leave me a comment telling me one choice you are going to make this January to improve your self. One simple way you plan to make a better you.

Rules:
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You may receive (2) total entries by selecting from the following entry methods:
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This giveaway is open to US Residents age 18 or older.
Winners will be selected via random draw, and will be notified by e-mail.

You have 72 hours to get back to me, otherwise a new winner will be selected.This giveaway will run from December 28th to January 30th
.

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