Sweeps4Bloggers Bathrobe & Gain Laundry Giveaway ((ENDED))

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Valerie from Sweeps4Bloggers is giving away an awesome, helpful prize. A wonderful looking bathrobe and some awesome smelling gain laundry products!

I think my husband is a bigger fan of bathrobes than I am. I only wear mine in the winter, when I'm absolutely freezing and want to be snuggled up. My husband wears his all year long. He loves fluffy robes! He will probably enjoy the robe more than I would.

As for the laundry products, I am the one who does all the laundry and while I try to go cheap, I also try and get what smells good. Gain is definitely a product that smells so good! Laundry is a chore I have every week. With just the two of us, I can usually do about 2-3 loads a week, and that's all that I need to do. Laundry detergent and fabric softener is not always cheap, so winning some and getting some free, would definitely help financially and help our clothes to smell amazing!

To enter this contest, visit the link below. Follow the rules to enter this contest. Please GO QUICKLY because this contest ends 7/2! You only have a couple more days to enter this contest!

Sweeps4Bloggers Bathrobe & Gain Laundry Giveaway

Twitter Wins & Thank You's Part 5

Here are some more pictures and thank you's from my twitter wins.

I have won a few different prizes from Dove, and recently I won another one! I absolutely love Dove products. The smell, the way they work, and the generosity of the Dove twitter company! I won some Dove Nourishing Oil Care Shampoo & Conditioner! I hope to soon do a review on them because I love them! Thank you Dove! To follow Dove on twitter, visit the link below the picture.



Dove

I won an Axe pack from Kitten Lounge, and because of some server errors, I also received a Schick pack from the same company! That was so unbelievably nice of them! The Schick Pack included two razors and two cans of shaving cream. The Axe Pack included the new Axe Excite products. A body wash, two deodorants (one dry and one gel), and of course a body spray. Plus it also came with an awesome travel bathroom bag! Thank you so much Kitten Lounge. My husband very much loves the prizes I won for him! And I love him clean shaven and smelling good! To follow Kitten Lounge on twitter, visit the link below the two pictures!





Kitten Lounge

I love my husband and I love that he wears Axe products. They smell amazing. I won some awesome goodies from the Axe twitter. I won two containers of the Buzzed Look Cream for Crew Cut hair. They also threw in some extra awesome goodies! We also got Refreshing Mint Shampoo, which suprisingly smells amazing and the smell lasts all day! We also received a Thai Massage Body Wash! It's different, but still smells awesome. Thank you so much Axe, I appreciate it so much and hubby loves all the stuff! To follow Axe on twitter, visit the link below the two pictures.





Axe

My last recent win, was from the Subway twitter! For tweeting for Footlong Friday and mentioning a friend who should try the Orchard Chicken Salad Footlong, I won a gift card from Subway! I love subway, and can't wait to go get the hubby and I some lunch, or dinner, whenever we are in the mood for it! Yum! And subway is so healthy, which makes this a win win all around! Thank you so much subway! To follow subway on twitter click the link below the picture!



Subway

One last thank you to all of these awesome companies for these amazing wins! I appreciate each and every thing that I receive!

Sweeps4Bloggers Monopoly Disney Pixar Cars 2 Edition Giveaway ((ENDED))

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My husband and I are big Disney Pixar fans. While my favorite so far is Up, my husband's favorite of all time, is Cars. He is SO excited for Cars 2 to come out. While we probably won't see it on opening night, or even opening week, we definitely plan to see it in theaters at some point.

I've always been a big Monopoly fan. It's a long game, but when you have the time to sit down and play it, it's loads of fun. My husband is not as big of a fan of monopoly, but he plays it with me every now and then.

Valerie from Sweeps4Bloggers is giving away a Cars 2 Edition of Monopoly! Big win win for hubby and I! Plus our siblings, our nephew, and our future children will also enjoy this game if we would win it!

There will be only one winner of this giveaway, so while I want to tell you to stay away and don't enter so that I have more chance of winning, I can't do that to Valerie. So please visit the link below and follow the rules to enter this contest. This giveaway ends 6/25.

Sweeps4Bloggers Monopoly Disney Pixar Cars 2 Edition Giveaway

Father's Day 2011

Father's Day is a difficult day for me some years. My dad was missing from my life from about age 9 until age 18. During that time we didn't talk a whole ton, and we didn't have much of a close relationship. During the past 4 years or so that my dad has been back in my life, I have still had trouble building up a relationship. Things are awkward and distant still. Along with that, his health has slowly gotten worse and worse. He is not quite 50 yet and I worry how long he will still be around.

Most conversations and visits with my dad are quiet, and very awkward. When I called my dad to wish him happy father's day yesterday, I didn't expect much difference. While things were awkward at first, I just kinda quit thinking about it and tried to talk about just whatever I could think of. It ended up being about an hour long phone call. It was still kinda of quiet, with awkward silent pauses here and there, but it seemed to be an improvement from past conversations.

We just mainly talked about what's going on in each other's lives over the past month or two since we have last talked. With him, there's never really anything new. With me, I just told him what I've been up to recently, between attending and planning birthday parties, babysitting, cleaning house, and so on.

On a better note, we had James' parents and siblings over for dinner for father's day. James made some delicious barbeque chicken on the grill and I made perogies and green beans to go along with it. The meal was a good success. Everyone found it very delicious, and sometimes his family seems hard to please, so I was glad to see that they all enjoyed it. We got to enjoy time on the back porch in the decent weather, and we played xbox kinect games for a while too. So yesterday wasn't too terribly bad.

Sweeps4Bloggers Miss Lucy's Monograms Weekender Tote Giveaway ((ENDED))

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This is a cute girly giveaway from Valerie at Sweeps4Bloggers. Miss Lucy is a company of cute monogrammed pieces! A fun fact about the Miss Lucy company: The company is named after their cute rescued puppy mill dog, which they named Lucy!

The prize for this giveaway is the large weekender tote! It's a large quilted bag, that comes in many different colors. It looks large enough to be an oversized purse, an overnight bag, a diaper bag, a briefcase, a beach bag, or whatever you can imagine to use it for! I always have a need for different sized bags, and what girl doesn't love bags!

This contest ends 6/25 and there will be only one winner. To enter the contest, visit the link below and follow the rules to enter.

Sweeps4Bloggers Miss Lucy's Monograms Weekender Tote Giveaway

Leslie Loves Veggies Vitalicious Super Samplers Pack Giveaway ((ENDED))

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Leslie from Leslie Loves Veggies is holding a delicious, guilt free giveaway. Vitalicious brand snacks, are healthy baked goods! There are brownies and muffins and muffin tops and all kinds of delicious goodies! Being healthy and low calories, just makes them even more awesome!

The Super Sampler Pack that Leslie is giving away, has so many awesome goodies! It includes brownies and muffin tops and YUM! So many flavors, and so much variety!

This giveaway ends 6/24. To enter, visit the first link below and follow the rules and enter this delicious giveaway! There will be only one winner of this giveaway, so good luck to you all. To visit the Vitalicious website, just follow the second link below and check out all they have to offer!

Leslie Loves Veggies Vitalicious Super Sampler Pack Giveaway

Vitalicious

Sweeps4Bloggers ScareMeNot Plush Toy Giveaway! ((ENDED))

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Little children are usually scared of monsters under their bed or in their closet at some point in their young life. I know my sister in law (who is only 6), came home from school saying the kids all told her that there is such thing as monsters. So my mother in law talked her into saying she has a monster under her bed, which is her cat. Her cat likes to hide under her bed and jump out at peoples feet! So now she tells everyone at school that she has a monster under her bed, but that she's not scared of this monster. So being afraid of something, is all part of childhood and growing up.

Valerie from Sweeps4Bloggers is giving away a cute stuffed monster toy, that is supposed to help children not be afraid of monsters. These toys show monsters in a new light. They look cute and adorable and cuddly. Not scary. This way they have their own cute monsters and hopefully will help them not be afraid of any supposed monsters under their bed or in their closets or whatnot. Also, these cute little monster toys have adorable names like Protector Patty!

There will be one winner of this contest, and it ends on 6/18. To enter, please visit the link, and as always, follow the rules.

Sweeps4Bloggers ScareMeNot Plush Toy Giveaway

James' 23rd Birthday!

Yesterday was my wonderful husband James' birthday. It turned out to be a great party, and a good day for both of us.

We got up early in the morning, because we still had quite a bit of cleaning and such to get done. I started off the morning by making my love double chocolate chip mini muffins for breakfast! He loves muffins, he loves mini muffins, he loves chocolate, and he definitely loved me for making them for him!

After breakfast, we did all our housework and stuff. Dishes, shower, cleaning the bathroom, cutting up vegetables, preparing foods, filling coolers, and on and on and on.

The party started about 1pm and went pretty good. James' mom and siblings came, my mom, stepdad, sisters and nephew, both sets of James' grandparents, and my grandma attended the party. James' dad was very late, but still came for a bit later.

We visited for a while, then James cooked on the grill for us, and we ate lots of yummy food, then talked for a while, then had desserts, then gifts, and more visiting! Apparently some of the grandparents were grumpy, but they got over it and it was still an enjoyable party.

Things went very well at the party. I was not overly stressed like I normally would have been. The nephew crying and upset did not bother me too much, and the younger sibling running around like a crazy woman was not horrible. The wrestling and horseplay between some of the boys somewhat bothered me, but the nephew kept me busy so I didn't worry about it as much, so that was good.

Once everyone left, James and I sat on the back deck in the rain for a few minutes just talking about how the day had gone and how today would go. Then we relaxed on the couch, something we hadn't done in a while, and just watched tv before heading to bed.

James said he had a nice birthday party and I for once had people over to the house without stressing too much. James got lots of gift cards for his birthday and also a season of South Park that he was missing. James was happy, I was happy, and it was a wonderful birthday for my love.

One bad thing, is that I did not get any pictures at the party at all. That makes me sad. Meaning I have no pictures to add to this post.

Sweeps4Bloggers Ball Park Franks Giveaway ((ENDED))

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This is a giveaway my husband will enjoy. His favorite food of all times, is hot dogs. He could eat them everyday if I let him. He loves them grilled, and burnt, and in beans, and pretty much however he can get them. I also enjoy hot dogs, but not as much as my hubby, so I'm entering this contest for him.

Valerie from Sweeps4Bloggers is giving away 3 product coupons to one winner! Each product coupon will buy you a package of hot dogs! This would feed my hubby for a few meals!

This contest ends 6/18! To enter, visit the link below and follow all the rules!

Sweeps4Bloggers Ball Park Franks Giveaway

Meet Jack!

Throughout the next few months when I don't really have another post prepared or don't feel like posting anything too important, I'm going to introduce you to my furbabies, one at a time. I hate that I feel this way, but I'm going to introduce you to my favorite, my baby, first.

Jack is an all black cat, about 2 years old. James always wanted an all black cat, so Jack was a present for his 21st birthday, from my mother. We named him Blackjack, because it was James' "21st" birthday, and he was all black, it just fit. But his nickname was Jack, so that stuck a little more. Jack was picked from a litter of kittens from someones home who was giving away free kittens. He was not a stray or from the pound.



I remember the day we got him, he was so tiny and fluffy! Our other cats, didn't really like him at first. He was the newest and he's the youngest of all our six cats.

Through these two years he has been here, he has grown to be mommy's boy. He was given to James, but he's definitely my kitty. I've been through so much with Jack. While James was deployed, I was at home with all the little cats, and Jack did not handle having daddy gone very well. It was rough, and he was very sick.



It was shortly after James left, and (don't read this is you're squeemish), Jack had diarrhea badly. He sounded awful in the litterbox, he dripped all through the house, he was very sick. I tried changing his food, I tried giving him rice and chicken as the vet said, and I even tried diapers, with no success.



I had him at the vet probably 10 times within a month or more. He was on different types of medicine, which didn't work. He ended up to a point that diarrhea was not it, he started getting really sick and throwing up a lot. At this point I had him at the vets and he was put on an i.v. with fluids. I had to sit there holding my baby in my arms while he was scared to death while he got fluids dripped into his back. Not only that one time, I had to leave him overnight once so they could try and figure out what was wrong with him. He had more i.v. fluids at that point too, but I wasn't there to hold him. He was on two differnt kinds of pills, he had antibiotic shots, and he was on one type of liquid medicine. The liquid medicine was a nightmare. It made him foam at the mouth and drool pink stuff all over the place for 10 minutes. He only got that medicine once. It was a mess.



During this whole process, I had to feed him and make him drink. He had gatorade in water, which had to be fed to him in a dropper. He had baby food which had to be fed to him in a dropper also. He had prescription canned cat food, which did work finally. All of this stuff was so expensive. The medicines and prescription cat food, and the i.v. fluids and multiple shots, and so on.



For about a month or two while Jack was getting better, him and I both stayed at my moms away from the other cats. I had been staying at my moms and I couldn't leave my baby home alone. I'm so happy that my mom is always accepting of having cats stay over there. She is the healing house, or the hospital as we call it. I've had 3 different cats over at her house healing up from one thing or another, so that they could stay away from the other cats.

We still to this day have to have Jack on only indoor formula dry cat food. Meow Mix seems to be the best option that works for him. I also still have some of the prescription canned food that I use when jack seems to throw up a lot, or has diarrhea again. It usually straightens it right up.



Luckily once James came home for his break halfway through deployment, Jack got much better. I think the whole thing, was that he was afraid his daddy left him. Once James came home halfway through, he realized that he would be coming back. I honestly think that was his problem. Now that James has been home from deployment for good, Jack has rarely been sick. We just can't change his food.

Well, besides the rough times, Jack is still a fun loving, loveable cat. I think it was the rough times that bonded us close together. Jack sleeps with us at night, he always comes when you yell for him, he's definitely a begger when it comes to people food, and he loves soft fuzzy things, such as robes or blankets. He absolutely loves the outside. He begs and cries to go outside. He will gladly wear a harness and leash just so he can go outside. He loves walking around the yard.



He loves watching the birds. He loves meeting new cats. When people come to the house, he usually hides behind the couch for a few minutes, just until he can figure out who it is that is here, then he comes out and is friendly. We say he still hasn't hit puberty, because his voice is still kind of high and squeeky. But I love that squeek! His favorite toys are bouncy balls and fluffy balls, and of course strings. And daddy's favorite to use with him, is the laser pointer! He will chase it until he's panting and dizzy!



Jack is fixed, but not yet declawed. He will be declawed soon. We are doing our cats one at a time, and he is #3. We've only gotten one done so far.

I absolutely love my adorable baby. And I hope you enjoyed meeting him. There will be more meet my kitties post in the future! You've still got 5 more to meet, and I may introduce you to our neighborhood cats, and also to my mom's cat, which used to be another one of our cats!

Sweeps4Bloggers Cape Clogs for Women Giveaway ((ENDED))

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I like shoes. I like cute shoes. Flip flops are heaven. I like to have one in each color. Clogs are cute, but I never seem to find ones that are cute enough or comfortable enough. I have one dressy pair of clogs that I own, and they are kind of tight, and they are plain. Brown. They have little jewels on them, but still, brown and boring. They are fine for dressy occasions. I want some everyday clogs.

Valerie from Sweeps4Bloggers is giving away a pair of Cape Clogs to one winner! These clogs are so bright and cute, I would love to own one of each pair. They look so summery and comfy. Have I mentioned they are adorable???

This contest ends 6/17. To enter the contest, please visit the link below and follow the rules to enter yourself.

Sweeps4Bloggers Cape Clogs Giveaway

Leslie Loves Veggies Oogies Gourmet Popcorn Party Pack Giveaway ((ENDED))

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Leslie from Leslie Loves Veggies likes to give away delicious, and nutritious foods sometimes! Some things sound so amazing, and this is one of them! Popcorn is a fun snack, and a great movie time snack! I don't get a chance to watch movies too often, but I would definitely make time to watch a movie, just so I could fully enjoy this popcorn!

Oogies Popcorn is made in corn oil so it's better for you, and it's made with all natural ingredients! The best part, they come in seven different flavors! My top three I would like to try are below.

-White Cheddar
-Hatch Chili Con Queso
-Movie Lovers Buttered

Three lucky winners will be winning a party pack of Oogies Gourmet Popcorn! Which if I understand right, has two bags of each of the 7 flavors! Yum!!! This contest ends on 6/17. To enter the contest, visit the first link below and follow the rules! To check out the Oogies Gourmet Popcorn Website!

Leslie Loves Veggies Oogies Gourmet Popcorn Party Pack Giveaway

Oogies Gourmet Popcorn

One Step At A Time

There for a while I had fallen behind on so many of my favorite things online. I've been getting back into them all, one step at a time. I added my weight loss blog, then back to my twitter, then back to my normal blog, and my next step is my avon blog. I would like to use it to get lots more business. As of right now, my avon is only getting in enough income to be called a hobby. I want it to be a job again. I need to make some more money to help out my family.

I want to try and keep up on ALL my internet things. Both emails, both twitters, all four blogs, facebook, my fitness pal, and my survey sites I use to make some extra money. I still have quite a few things to add in. I want to be able to blog at least once a day or every other day on EVERY blog. Whether it's a random post, a review, a recipe, a contest, or whatever. I want my blogs get regular traffic and I want to keep up on it because it's something I enjoy doing. I'm gonna eventually get into a routine where I can get everything done each day in a short amount of time. I just need to keep up what I'm doing. Adding one thing at a time, so as not to overwhelm myself. Today's project, and added step, is my avon blog. So look out for a new post on it at some point today. Hopefully a review!

Sweeps4Bloggers Supreme 90 Day 10 DVD Set Giveaway ((ENDED))

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Valerie from Sweeps4Bloggers is giving away a 10 DVD Set, called Supreme 90 Day. They are workout videos and very much appeal to me. Since I'm in the process of dieting and losing weight, this would be awesome to win. It's a 90 day program, hence the name. It includes a meal plan booklet, which is cool. It also includes a calendar that tells you which days of the 90 to be using which dvds and which days you should be resting! That is so cool to have it planned out fully for all 90 days! I have trouble sticking to workouts and such, so having it all set up for me, would help me stick to it! Plus it sounds like it has much more variety since there are 10 DVD's!!!

There will be 3 winners of this fabulous prize, and I hope to be one of them! This contest ends 6/12, so you have just under a week to enter! To enter please visit the link below and follow the rules! Enjoy!

Sweeps4Bloggers Supreme 90 Day 10 DVD Set Giveaway

Congratulations To My Sister!

I just wanted to post a congratulations to my younger sister (not the youngest). Her name is Nikki and she just turned 20 years old. School was always a struggle for her, from elementary all the way up through high school. She had her adorable little boy, my wonderful nephew in the middle of her senior year, when she was 19 years old. Yet she pushed through and somehow was able to finish school, from home, and then going back to school, and has finally graduated. I'm proud of her, because I know it was a struggle for her. I also think she did the right thing by not dropping out, even under hard circumstances, and finished and got her diploma. It is the best thing for her and her baby. She graduated high school yesterday!

Her future plans are to go to cosmetology school, or maybe get a job. I wish her luck in all her future plans and I hope she can get on track and have a good life for her and my wonderful nephew!

Sweeps4Bloggers World's Best Cat Litter Giveaway! ((ENDED))

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For myself, being a cat owner, this is an awesome giveaway for me. I have six cats of my own and buying litter is not always simple. I try to go for name brand, but at a decent price. I do not like store brand litter, I don't like non-clumping litter. Currently I buy Tidy Cats for my cats. It seems to keep the smell down the least, without being overly expensive. We used to buy Scoop Away, but it's getting kind of expensive. I would love Fresh Step, because it seems to be the best at clumping and keeping down the smell, but it's always extremely expensive, and with six cats, we can't go overboard on some things.

World's Best cat litter clumps, which is a plus, and it's made from corn meaning it's better for everyone! It's biodegradable, no dust, and it even comes scented! If I could afford this litter full time, I would definitely be purchasing it for my own cats.

Valerie at Sweeps4Bloggers, is giving away a 7 pound bag of Worlds Best Cat Litter to FIVE winners! FIVE! To enter this contest, visit the link below and enter away! Just don't enter too many times, because I really want this one! :) Make sure to follow the rules! This contest ends 6/12.

Sweeps4Bloggers World's Best Cat Litter Giveaway