Winners...

I didn't reallly plan ahead and didn't give you all much time to enter the give-away, but if I'm going to mail these out, I thought I'd better get it done asap, so the winners get their packages before the 4th of July!

So congrats to Cherish & Micaela e-mail me to claim your prize! Thanks everyone for entering... give aways are always fun, so look for more in the future. Hope you are all having a great week!!!

Another Tag Catch Up...

I have a few different tags I need to catch up on. I know you are all dreading this, I'll make it short and sweet I promise. :) I was surfing through bloglines... and I saw that Christal had given me this award! Well... it made my day! So thanks Christal! So now it's my turn to award this to a few of my favorite..."You Make My Day" Blogs! I really LOVE all my blogging friends and I really do find that all of you make my day, but two that stand out to me are... I'll probably do a few of these since really, I love all of your blogs! Hanna's... Our life in Full Bloom, she's the cutest little mommy ever. She is the craft queen! I would love to spend a whole month just crafting away with her and getting fun ideas! She is laid back and loves to have a good time. She is so giving, and always thinking about others. I love your blog Han... My next pick for the make my day award is Alison's... blog...This is My Joy, she is also an amazing mommy. She has so much energy and gets so much done in a day, it always totally inspires me! She is a great cook,and I also love to read about her cute little family (she has also adopted) and it has been so much fun getting to know her through blogging! Look at this cute little guy that I won on her blog a few weeks ago... he never leaves Braxton's side now. LOVE it!! One other thing that really stands out to me is these girls' positive attitudes and sincere concern for others. Thanks for the inspiration girls! You make my day! :) I was tagged by: Ann-Michelle 1) Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves. 2) People who are tagged need to write a post on their own blog (about their eight things) and post these rules. 3) At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names. 1. I am majorly worried about hurting someone else's feelings or offending someone. I lay awake at night worrying about things I have said sometimes. Hate that guilt feeling. So if I have hurt your feelings... or offended you, I promise I didn't mean to! Please accept my appologies right now. :) 2. I eat almost everything with a fork. I am getting better about this. It all started when I was younger, I don't like milk and if I used a fork to eat my cereal, it would drain the milk out as I ate. 3. I love reading tags about everyone else, I can't think of anything interesting to write when I do them. 4. I love to read, but I can read a whole book, really fast, and then a few days later okay maybe at best a few weeks later, I can't remember anything I read, this makes me a horrible test taker, and awful awful at math! 5. I have to look over each piece of silverware that I set out on the table or grab to eat with, just to make sure there's no little dried pieces of food on one of them, I seriously gag, if I see it's even a little dirty still. 6. I want to build an orphange in another 3rd world country or I would love to spend time in one. Before I was married that was my goal, and when Zach asked me to marry him, I made him promise to take me to one one day. (Kind of ironic, since we have adopted now). 7. I love Martha Stewart and Oprah Winfrey, as much as I get teased about this, I don't even care, I still LOVE em both! 8. I often buy clothes that I think I love and then a few weeks later, I'm thinking I hate this shirt what was I thinking, so I make alot of trips to the DI. It drives me nuts, even if I research it out and think I am really loving my new product, I usually end up wishing I had gotten something else. (Don't tell Zach, but I really hope it's not the case with my new stroller, which still hasn't arrived yet) Ugh. Okay there you go... 8 random fact. I tag, everyone on my list that hasn't done this tag before. One more thing I wanted to share... me and my sister in law Amber got together on Friday and made these, for our girls for the 4th of July, aren't they cute! I love them and they were so easy... I got the instructions RIGHT HERE , and since I have some left over ribbon, I'm going to make a few more sets, I'll do a random drawing for them, so if you want in the drawing just say so in your comment. :)

What are we doing with today...

I saw this on Heather and Christal's blog and LOVED it!!! "What are we doing with today"? how great is that. "Let us ask ourselves the questions: “Have I done any good in the world today? Have I helped anyone in need?” What a formula for happiness! What a prescription for contentment, for inner peace—to have inspired gratitude in another human being. Our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable. There are hearts to gladden. There are kind words to say. There are gifts to be given. There are deeds to be done. There are souls to be saved." President Monson What are we doing with today?

Happy Mail...

Look what I got in the mail this week! SOO excited about this! It's Becky Higgins School kit, it has everything you need to scrapbook your kids school years preschool-12th grade. What a time saver!! I've also been checking out different options for strollers, I tried to go for a walk the other day with the kids, Brooklyn loved the freedom, of no stroller, but got tired on the way back and wanted to ride with Braxton, plus I'm not a huge fan of taking her to the mall these days and just letting her run around wild in the store. I knew I didn't want to get a double stroller, I've seen girls try to use them and they just look hard to manuever around. Not fun. So this is the best thing I've found. ! It's called the Sit and Stand stroller.Brooklyn can sit on the bench in back or stand up, whatever her little Miss Independent heart desires. I think it's going to be perfect.   I've also been getting lots of requests for Amber's Oreo Madness Cake a few posts below. You can find the recipe Right Here. Hope you guys are having a great week!

A trip to Australia...

I saw this on Janeal's blog who saw it on someone else's blog. Don't you just LOVE the blogging world?! I do! Thanks Janeal!

Deciding to have a baby is like planning a trip to Australia. You've heard it's a wonderful place; you've read many guide-books and feel certain you're ready to go. Everyone you know has traveled there by plane. They say it can be a turbulent flight with occasional rough landings, but you can look forward to being pampered on the trip. So you go to the airport and ask the ticket agent for a ticket to Australia. All around you, excited people are boarding planes for Australia. It seems there is no seat for you; you'll have to wait for the next flight. Impatient, but anticipating a wonderful trip, you wait --- and wait --- and wait. Flights to Australia continue to come and go. People say silly things like, "Relax. You'll get on a flight soon." Other people actually get on a plane and then cancel their trip, to which you cry, "It's no fair!" After a long time the ticket agent tells you, "I'm sorry, we're not going to be able to get you on a plane to Australia. Perhaps you should think about going by boat." "By BOAT!" you say. "Going by boat will take a very long time and it costs a great deal of money. I really had my heart set on going by plane." So you go home and think about not going to Australia at all. You wonder if Australia will be as beautiful if you approach it by sea rather than air. But you have long dreamed of this wonderful place, and finally you decide to travel by boat. It is a long trip, many months over many rough seas. No one pampers you. You wonder if you will ever see Australia. Meanwhile, your friends and family have flown back and forth to Australia two or three more times, marveling about each trip. Then one glorious day, the boat docks in Australia. It is more exquisite than you ever imagined, and the beauty is magnified by your long days at sea. You have made many wonderful friends during your voyage, and you find yourself comparing stories with others who also traveled by sea rather than by air. People continue to fly to Australia as often as they like, but you are able to travel only once, perhaps twice. Some say things like, "Oh, be glad you didn't fly. My flight was horrible; traveling by sea is so easy." You will always wonder what it would have been like to fly to Australia. Still, you know God blessed you with a special appreciation of Australia, and the beauty of Australia is not in the way you get there, but in the place itself.

It's a good thing that the Lord knows me better than I know myself, and sent me these two perfect little angels. I wouldn't trade my journey by boat to Australia for anything.

Eat. Play. Blog...

I shouldn't go so long without posting, because then I have to play catch up! First I wanted to tell you about a couple of fun new blogs some friends of mine just started! First Stacey started a blog called Piggies & Ponies, she has two little girls and she can do HAIR!! Her girls always look so darn cute, so if you need some ideas on hair, check it out!