Product Reviews
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The benefits of being a homeowner
My husband and I built our home a little over two years ago and the building process was amazing. We have built several homes but hopefully this one is our final home until we retire. I love having a newer home because of the low maintenance. I have owned an older home in the past and I felt like we were constantly repairing something or another on that home. The expense of the up keep got overwhelming at times. With a new home you don’t have to worry about something breaking down or needing fixed. I have also paid rent in the past and love the benefits owning my own…
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Pip applique pillow from Claire Turpin Designs
Pip the chick! I saw this pillow on Pinterest and fell in LOVE. I knew right away that I wanted to make it. The colors were so fun, bright and little Pip the chick was too cute to pass up! I hunted down Claire Turpin Design and just had to get the pattern for this cute pillow! While browsing her site I fell in love with her style and creativity for cute appliqued pillows and her fun funky colors of quilts! She is my kind of gal. The pattern I received was very easy to follow but I felt so confident that dumb me made the mistake of using interfaceable…
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Building an Easter basket with Crayola (Giveaway)
Celebrating Easter with Crayola There is nothing better than the snow melting and watching Spring make it’s arrival. Along with Spring comes the arrival of the Easter Holiday. Each year I pile up my cart with an assortment of candy just to deal with tummy aches and wrappers afterwards. This year I am shaking up the arrival of Easter by filling my kids easter baskets with items that will inspire their creativity and learning. Crayola is just the brand to help me with that. Enough of the over abundance of candy! Crayola has many many products to inspire little minds. More than just coloring pages crayola offers a line of…
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Wolf Mountain Ski Resort Review and Giveaway
Wolf Mountain Ski Resort Review and Giveaway! This past week I had the opportunity to take my family snowboarding up to Wolf Mountain Ski Resort for a bloggers day! For anyone who is not familiar Wolf Mountain Ski Resort is located here in Utah approximately one hour from Salt Lake City and only 25 minutes from Ogden. So, it is very close for myself and my family! (You can find directions on their website) We arrived around ten a.m. and were greeted by the most awesome staff ever! Everyone was so positive and kind. They were there to answer any questions and moved us through the process rather quickly! Even though my children have…
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Finding the Perfect Dining Room Furniture
Dining Room Furniture My Dining room table is 7 years old and my bar stools are 10+ years old. After that many years they are starting to show their age. I love to browse through different websites and catalogs to see what styles and colors are available so when I do buy new Dining room furniture. I have found that the Bombay Company carries any type of furniture that you would need for your dining area. From Dining chairs, Bar stools and accent furniture they have a wide variety of beautiful pieces that would enhance the beauty of your dining room. In my own home how I display my decor’ can set the…
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New Years organization with Baggallini Bags!
Organizing my life organizing my bag! After the holidays are over I always feel the urge to purge all the junk in my home! I like to get organized for the new year and I like to know where things are. I recognized one evening, while digging through my handbag, that I could not find anything in it and how unorganized it was! I dumped everything out onto my kitchen counter and realized how messy and unorganized my hand bag was. Even my wallet needed de junking! I had left over receipts galore from holiday shopping and loose coupons floating in my purse. ack! what a disaster. Then I learned about…
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Our “Santa Story”
The Best Morning just got better! While at Blog-her in August I had the opportunity to meet the amazing creators from Your Santa Story. I saw what an awesome, creative and inspiring product they had to offer and I was without a doubt on board. Now let me tell you why I was so on board with thier personlized dvd from Santa. I am a mom to 4 awesome kids and every holiday season I am looking for something fun to make them laugh, smile or just to bring the holiday spirit into my home. I received my families “Santa Story” in the mail at the perfect time! Our Santa Story was perfect…
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Michael Angelo’s Gourmet Lasagna
Michael Angelo’s Italian Meals taste test As a full time working mom on the go I am always looking for a fast healthy meal for my family. While in New York I met the team from Michael Angelo’s Gourmet foods and was able to sample some of their fresh Italian Lasagna. I was in heaven! Not to mention I loved the portion sizes of their entree’s Their Italian meals are made in smaller batches to ensure you are getting the freshest ingredients and as a family owned business I know a lot more time and effort is put into making the best for my own family. Unlike most companies that…
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The Harvest Table Gooseberry Patch Cookbook
The Harvest Table I am a huge fan of the Gooseberry Patch cookbooks, craft/holiday books & products. I started collecting the Gooseberry Christmas books years ago and keep adding to my collection every year! My love for Gooseberry has expanded to all cookbooks and I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to review The Harvest Table cookbook. I love the recipes in this cookbook because they are submitted by actual people who use these recipes in their own homes with their families and friends. I also love how the recipes don’t ask for items that I would have to run to the store to buy but instead they use…
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Just Dance Dream team – involving the family!
Thank you to Ubisoft for picking me to be a member of the Just Sweat Dream Team and sponsoring this fitness series. Please click here to learn more about Ubisoft. I was selected for this sponsorship by the Clever Girls Collective. All opinions are my own. Is summer really over? where did August go? Such a fun active summer we had and now that we are back into routine I am proud to say I’ve dropped some pounds! I can’t wait to reveal it all at the end! Kaden on the other hand has gained some but I do believe it is because he took on lifting weights 3 days…
