Some Blogher moms are giving away a pretty cool Intel Laptop. And that is a giveaway I'm not going to miss!
Click here to enter at Owlhaven! OR Click here to enter at Mom to the Screaming Masses!OR Click here to enter at Deb on the Rocks OR click here to enter at Bacon is my enemy!
Or visit all of them - plus more Moms are going to be reviewing it too, which means even more chances to win!
I couldn't resist entering this picture into the contest that Susan and Janice have playfully titled the "Horsing Around" photo contest. Sponsored by A Rocking Horse To Love there are already some fabulous entries to check out.
The story behind the photo can be found if you click here!
And if you really love it, you can go leave a comment on the contest post at 5 Minutes for Mom and let them know you like mine (Butterfly Mama!) Thanks!
Thanks for all the birthday present ideas. Really great! Thank you!
I log on tonight and think - I've got to be then only person in blogland that has a contest that only one person enters!! LOL. Then I log onto my bloglines and see that my last two posts haven't been picked up by bloglines. Weird.
Maybe this one will and you might so be moved to go here and give me your opinion so you can have a chance to win!
Way back in February I mentioned that I put some snow balls in my freezer. When we were kids we'd get them out on the Fourth of July for a summer snow ball fight. This year since we were moving all our stuff was going into storage for a couple weeks we had to celebrate this tradition a bit early! I took out the snowballs and boy did my little guy have a blast with them.
The movers were actually there moving out all the big furniture so we went out and played. It bugs me that I didn't really pay attention to the fact that the fridge shelves and drawers were in the background of the pictures needing to be hosed off and packed but I can't go back and move them now :)!!!
We dumped, threw, stepped on and played with the snowballs until they melted all away!
BTW did you see the latest give away contest from the girls at 5 minutes for mom? They are giving away a
Insignia® 37" Flat-Panel LCD HDTV courtesy of Best Buy! Holy cow, what will those girls give away next...if you want a chance to win click on the link to their site and leave a comment and link on your blog!!!!
Awhile ago I mentioned winning a contest from 5 minutes for mom for a custom alphabet book from Amy at Sweet Arts Design. Well I've neglected to tell you all how wonderful this is. I'm saving it for when the little girl arrives so that my son will have a new book to read that's special for him.
In addition to having my son's name on the cover and used for the letter N, the first letter of his name, we were able to make a dedication to him in the front of the book. The designs and art work are just gorgeous and since we chose the Spanish version each letter spread is in both English and Spanish. This would seriously make a great gift and we're considering getting the French version at some point for the little girl so that we have both.
Thanks again Amy and be sure to go and visit her site if you haven't already by CLICKING RIGHT HERE!!!!
Thanks Stephanie!!!!! It must be my lucky week!
Go visit Adventurese in Babywearing for her next contest from Cheeky Jewelry!. I don't often wear too much jewelry besides a necklace my hubby gave me and my wedding rings. I know I'm the exception so go get yourself entered to win!!!
I won!!!! We all know that the wonderful women at 5 minutes for mom have terrific contests each week. I wanted to say thank you to Susan and Janice for having a great site (which I thought even before I won!) and for making blogging that much more fun for the rest of us!!!
So in about 2-4 weeks I'll be able to show you a wonderful personalized alphabet book from Amy at Sweet Arts Design. These are so sweet, and Amy's customer service has been wonderful. We'll be getting the English and Spanish one. I think it will be a perfect gift for our little guy!!
Plus there's another contest going on at Adventures in Babywearing. Stephanie's giving away a bunch of great stuff from Mason & Matisse. I'm kind of last minute posting about this but you have until 9am tomorrow to go and enter!!!
Heather's surgery is tomorrow (Thursday) it overwhelms me to imagine what her and her family are going through. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers.
The gals at 5 minutes for Mom are having yet another contest. (They are totally the best!) This one is for a Mei Tai baby carrier from All Natural Mommies. They are having many other give aways from now until Mother's Day and you don't even have to be a blogger to sign up to win! (If your not a blogger and you don't want the Mei Tai you could still sign up to win it and give it to someone who's having a baby say mid-August - hint hint!!!)
Steph from Adventures in Babywearing is also having a contest. She's also got fun prizes going on and all you've got to do is post your pic without make up. Since I hardly wear make up I'm just re posting this picture - cropped!
Jewlsntexas is having a contest and the winner gets a new blog template. I'm participating because let's face it I can use all the help I can get - plus I love quotes! One of my favorites is
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." Albert Einstein
Now that I'm all caught up on my list and much more it was time for a day of fun!!! (Well, still hard work but worth it!)
I'm playing along with Stephanie of Stop the Ride she's having a contest. She has challenged her readers to make something from scratch that they've never made before. I choose tamales since I want Mexican food every day lately and I've always wanted to try my hand at them.
I cooked a chicken and shredded the meat - you can see in the pictures that my idea of shredding is a little more chunky but it still tasted great. We soaked the corn husks and mixed the masa - by hand.
I added some spices to the chicken (garlic powder, chili powder, cumin, salt & pepper and a little olive oil.) and mixed it very well. Then got all set up to make the tamales.
I found lots of different recipes online for tamales and followed parts of a few of them to try to fit our tastes. Each one also had different instructions for putting the masa on the husks and rolling the filling. I wasn't very exact and they didn't look the best but that's what you get when they are homemade I guess! (At least in this house.)
After they were all rolled, I put them into my pasta pot with a strainer that fits inside and steamed them for what seemed like forever. The problem that I had was the pot only left room on the bottom for about an inch of water and I kept having to interrupt the process every 15 min or less to add more water to the pot. It took the first batch about 2.5 hours too cook and boy were we ready for dinner when they were done. I thought they turned out good, I think my masa wasn't quite the correct consistency for that batch it was too moist - which was certainly better than too dry in my opinion. My hubby made guacamole when he got home and we pigged out!!!
I also made a batch of sweet tamales that I just took out so hopefully those will be as good as the chicken ones. Thanks to Stephanie for having this contest it was so much fun to try something new and my hubby is now super thrilled that there are tamales going into the freezer for many future meals!
