Poster Giveaway

Happy Monday!

For all of you folks that entered my giveaway for a new poster and didn't win, Stephanie has been hosting a giveaway over at her blog, FactThisBlogIsAwesome (how fun is that for a blog name!?), and it ends tonight at midnight!

This is Stephanie:

She's giving away one of these:

So hurry over to her blog to enter the giveaway - that is, if you want a chance to win a poster from my etsy shop! While you're there, tell her I said hi!

Last Day to Enter the Giveaway!

Hey guys, I just wanted to remind you that you have until 11:59 this evening to enter in the drawing for one of three of my new poster designs.

To enter, go here.

In other news, my little miss is 18 months old. She's actually 18 months, 2 weeks, but here's a photo I forgot I had from a failed attempt at her 18 month pics.



She was a tad moody so that was the best of the bunch!

Happy Thursday and see you tomorrow to announce the winners!!

The Big News

***UPDATE: giveaway is now closed***

First off, you guys cracked me up on Friday with your guesses. I better clear some things up before I get to the news.

I may or may not be having a girl - we still don't know. Could be a girl. Could be a boy. In about 7 weeks, give or take a few days, we'll know!!!

Also, we are not having twins. I had a Dr. appointment last week and there's still only one little peanut in there.

So, if I'm not announcing the sex, name or the fact that I'm carrying an extra little one around, what is this big news?

I'm opening an Etsy store!





If you follow me on instagram, you saw the "joy" print already. Or, if you were really paying attention, you saw the pic on the January in photos post - hence the very small clue of JOY :)

I have been wanting to do this for quite sometime and finally committed to it. I know this isn't as exciting news as some of you expected so I hope to still make it a little exciting by doing a giveaway!

I have three poster designs in the store right now so there will be three, yes three, winners in this week's giveaway - one winner per poster, chosen at random.



Do you want to enter the giveaway for your chance to win one of my posters?

Yes!?

Oh that's so exciting!

Just leave me a comment letting me know which design you would want if you were chosen.

If you want to increase your chances of winning, you can get another entry if you share this giveaway on twitter and come back and let me know about it.

Want another entry? Share it on your blog and come back and leave me a comment with the link.

If that doesn't make you feel good about your chances, you can share a link to the giveaway and leave me a comment.

If my math is right, that's a max of four entries.

I will accept entries until 11:59pm, Thursday night, Oklahoma time (so you can space your comments out over the next few days, if you so choose). The three winners will be chosen at random using the random number generator and I will announce the winners Friday! Each winner will get an 11"x17" printed poster.

I also want to let you know how excited I am to announce that part of the proceeds of every sale of the "love" poster will be donated to Love146, an organization that is close to my heart.

So go check out my store already and let me know what you think.

Thanks and good luck!!!

Birthday Weekend Celebration

My birthday was last week and we celebrated all weekend. It was awesome, especially since the fair is always in town on my birthday weekend!

I took Sweet P to the fair on Thursday with my mom and grandma. We went early and since there weren't any crowds yet, she got to run wild.



Then I went back on Friday with the husband. When we got there MC Hammer was practicing with his dancers for the concert that evening. He was too legit to quit.



Then it was off to eat the fair food.

Corndog.



Followed by cheese curds and fried green tomatoes.



And then we shared a pineapple whip to wash it down but didn't get a pic of that.

Then we walked down the midway and headed for the petting zoo. It was a success.



Sweet P kept saying, "goa" (goat) and really wanted to get in the pin and play with them. She made pig faces at the pigs, mooed at the cows and pointed to everything. It was so fun to watch.

Then we had to get the annual fair pics and monster cookie before we left.



Last year's pic:

Last year's pic:

There was a surprise party that evening for me, but, since I didn't know it was coming, I didn't have my camera. :( It was tons of fun though.

Saturday we finished up the birthday fun by taking P to Philbrook's Fall Family Festival. It was free to get in so we had to take advantage of that!

We had to finish our coffees before going in and that's when we saw the squirrel.



Sweet P finally saw it and tried talking it down.



But, sadly, it ran away.



After walking through the museum, we headed out back to the gardens. I snapped a couple of pictures of P.



Then she found the band. They were playing up on the rocks but came down and surrounded her and started up again.



I was so surprised she didn't run away! Instead, she just stared up at them and then started walking around dancing and clapping her hands. Show-stopper, folks. SHOW. STOPPER.



And that takes care of our weekend. Too many pictures? Sorry. That's not even close to the amount I took!!

Sesame Orange Shrimp

If you have followed this blog for a while, you know I love Martha Stewart's Everyday Food magazine. I love getting that she has pictures of all the recipes and she usually has easy, unique things to try.

Sometimes I have some ingredients on hand that I don't know what to do with and don't really like searching through her books to find a recipe. So instead, I go to her website. I think she publishes most of the recipes online anyway.

I had a bag of frozen shrimp in the freezer so I did a quick search for shrimp recipes and found this one for sesame orange shrimp.

I will say, the shrimp was delicious, however, if you make it, I recommend doubling the sauce recipe and making some noodles to go with it. I made rice but it wasn't the best. I think noodles with extra sauce would have been perfect.



And just because I can, a donut picture. Thanks dad for the dozen Dunkin Donuts! I did share.



Oh, and, since I figured out how to share a pdf file on here, remember these? You can download the file for free here.

Happy Hump Day!

Friday Freebie

I have seen a couple "family manifestos" around the web and played around with making to share with you guys.

Here's what I came up with.

You can download a 16x20 pdf here and print it off to use for free. I just ask that you don't reproduce and sell it.

Oh, and you better let me know if you printed it off, better yet, send me a picture! Or else.

Happy Friday.