The Brudcrew: giveaways

Oooh I hope I win one! I have so many projects in mind! I think I would start with some vinyl wall art. I've got a couple of quotes I would like to put up. Then I might do some t-shirt transfers to go with the skirts I have been making for the girls. It would be my new favorite toy!

I am trying again as I discover some other GREAT sites:

Grosgrain

Kara's Party Ideas

Shabby Nest

Under the Table Dreaming

Crap I've Made

Making it Lovely
Prudent Baby
The Shopping Mama
Amy's Finer Things
Shanty2Chic
Moms Review 4 You
Love Stitched
The TomKat Studio
Be Different...Act Normal
House of Hepworths
Crazy Coupon Mommy
Colie's Kitchen

Monday, May 25, 2009

Some beautiful music

My friend Denae did a musical review on her blog. I went over to Sherrie Shepherd's blog to hear the music that could calm my savage beasties on a Sunday afternoon. I actually think this might do it, maybe, once in a while. It is beautiful and if it doesn't calm my little savage beasties maybe it might calm the Mommy savage beast. :) It was so beautiful I put the sample play list on my side bar. It doesn't hurt that she is having a contest and I would love to win one of her CD's. Scroll down and give it a listen!

Monday, March 16, 2009

Surprise gift game!

Here's a fun blogging game started by my friend Dahlene over at My Happy Family...

Be one of the first three people to leave a comment on this post and you'll receive something handmade from me sometime in the next year. But there is a catch. You have to do the same thing on your blog. And then once you get the item from me you have to comment about it on my blog!! Your entry into this, is your most embarrassing moment.

I have so many stories in my arsenal, but I guess it will be the one at Bear Lake. When I was about 15 we had a ward outing and they had reserved two cabins to let people shower. I was showering, when someone knocked on the door and informed my friend that there was a fire and we had to evacuate immediately! Looong story short, I ended up on the highway with the rest of my ward in a towel with a blanket thrown over me as all the little kids asked me if I had "any clothes on under there" and the semi truck drivers honked!

Sunday, March 01, 2009

My first giveaway! A science booklet

Here I am doing my first blogosphere giveaway! We'll see if anyone checks in or if I will just experience the sound of crickets. Enter BEFORE MARCH 7TH!!

Do your kids like science? My son Christian, when he was 6½ years old informed us that he wanted a chemistry set for Christmas. I searched everywhere and found nothing that satisfied me. The kits I found were $20 and basically included experiments with vinegar and baking soda...period! We had been there and done all that. So I started researching on the internet. I found some great websites and some things from my old teaching files and compiled my own book. There are more than 25 activities from the vinegar and baking soda volcanoes, to crystal gardens, to electrical circuits. The experiments use materials you can find at your grocery store and craft store. There is even a supply list on the back so you can gather it all and put it in a box, making a kit to use for a gift.

This booklet is a great to combat the summer doldrums! Making my own science kit worked for me! Check out more on Works for me Wednesday over at We are THAT family.

Leave me a comment to enter to win a copy of this fun booklet.

**Using a highly scientific (or seemingly so to this techno challenged mind) process at http://random.org/sequences/ we have a winner. And the winner is....Fairion. I will contact you by email! Happy experimenting!

Anyone else who may still be interested in the booklet, you can leave me a comment and we can work something out for the cost of copying and postage.

Things our kids have said

When writing things we love about each other for our Valentine Family Home Evening, Emma wrote that she loves that Jordan is "ignopshish" (obnoxious). 2/13 Jordan hit his head on the trampoline frame resulting in a cut. "I now have a dent in the landscape of my head." 10/12 Emma at her baptism preview, raises her hand and asks: "Do we have to wear underwear under the jumpsuit?" "But why?" 3/12 Jordan while praying: "Bless us that our dreams will be of ponies, flowers, and butterflies." 3/12 Jenna: "Dad, you got the booyah!" (When Dad won a game) 3/12 After watching the movie "Journey 2" Jordan to Dad: "You know that thing you can do with your nipples?" (referring to flexing pectoral muscles) "I can do it with my bum cheeks." "Watch! Throw a berry." 12/11 Jenna: " Vevember when...?" Jenna: "Daddy's the big of the bomb!" 7/11 Emma at Golden Corral, "If I could just burp I could probably eat more." 6/11 Jenna with hands on hips, while combing Daddy's hair: "No, No, No, this just wont do. Your hair is just too boingy!" 1/11 Emma to Jenna in the car: "Pinky swear that we will always be sisters!" Jenna: "Daddy, I'm gonna tickle your laughs out" 11/11/10 We were talking about the song "Pants on the Ground" from American Idol. Jordan said "Like a geezer...I mean like a gangster" 11/12/10 Part of Jordan's prayer: "Please bless us so Mom doesn't have to torture us anymore." (Time for school to start!) 7/5/10 Emma: "Where is that place that I've never been? The one I went to a little while ago." 1/8/09 Jordan: "I love it how the snow sparkles when the sun shines on it." 1/10/09 Jordan: "I don't want to have to go potty EVERY day!" while potty training Emma: "I love your face" age 2 or 3 Emma (wearing sunglasses): "How do I look?" Paul: "You look beautiful!" She puts the glasses on Paul, he asks, "Do I look cool?" Emma: "No, you look girly" 1/11/09 Christian & Jordan (to Dad): "A guy's got to do what the woman tells him to." 11/08 Emma to a friend: "This is my Daddy, he has curly hair like a girl but on him it's okay." 1/30/09 Sidenote: she continues to tell this to every new friend she meets. Emma: "I liked the music in that play so much I was rockin' out!" 2/12/09 Mom: "Jordan! I just can't keep your jackets clean! Why do you always get them muddy?" Jordan: "Because I'm not a girl! Boys like getting dirty!" /24/09 Emma: "Daddy, I just learned how caterpillars put on their pretty clothes to look like beautiful butterflies!" 3/25/09 On his birthday, I told Christian that he needs to stop getting older because that means I get older too. He replied, "You only look old when your hair isn't done." 4/19/09 Jordan: "I didn't know that burying the telephone handset in the sandbox would ruin it!" 5/19/09 We were telling Emma that her eyes look like Mommy's and she said, "But, I don't have those red squiggly lines in them!" 5/09 Emma came streaking in naked so we asked her to go put some panties on. As she came back in she proudly said, "Look Mommy, I'm not in my bum anymore." Soon after potty training Jenna: "Chocolee" (all the time, she LOVES chocolate), "buckle-ee" 7/09 Jenna: "Daddy silly a-gen" about 16 months Jordan: "Watch out guys, I'm gonna go speed" 5 years old Jenna: "Naker-good-girl" running through the house before bathtime. 21 months Jordan heard yelling from the bathroom: "Cannonball pee-pee!" about 5 years old Emma after the Dinosaur drop at Lagoon: "I wasn't scared, just my tummy was scared." 8/19/09 Jordan: "Is it against the law for dwarves to ride motorcycles?" 9/09 Emma singing in the backseat: "The face bone's connected to the tongue bone..." 9/09 Mom: "This makes me look like a fat cow! Dad: "Oh, no it doesn't dear" Christian: "No it doesn't" Jordan: "Mooo" 2004 Christian: "I had to change my my jeans because I had a wrinkly, foldy feeling on my bum." 10/18/09 Jenna: "Look at my pigs. They're perfect!" 01/15/10 Emma: "Mooommmy, my eyes are cold!" Jenna: Daddy, you have something in your nose. It's scaring me. 03/10