And so it begins....

Dustin picked our first bucket full of tomatoes last night.

Ready or not.. canning season is here!

Oh! and the giveaway winner is #2 out of 9. Who was the second commenter?

Kurt and Kortney Tobler! 

Congrats Destry!

Will you have your mommy email me at laurenjh04 {at} hotmail {dot} com to claim your prize?!

Thanks!!

Love/Hate = Giveaway

I'm having a love/hate relationship with this blog...
why don't my pictures post themselves?

I'm having a love/hate relationship with my house...
why doesn't it stay clean?

The kids haven't ever really been motivated to help me around the house. I can yell and plead and beg.. but I've found bribes rewards work better.

 Recently, I found a job chart template from Brooke at Little Wonders. Brooke is amazingly crafty and well... she's super mom! So I downloaded her template and made some job charts for the kids. When they get their "jobs" done they get to do something fun like watch a movie or eat a cookie or something.


Brooke recommend laminating the charts but I got these cheap frame at Wal-Mart and you can write right on the glass with a dry erase marker.

Allie loves her pink chart. Every morning she checks to see what she needs to do and what she's already done. At the end of the day she says, "Mom we need to read our scriptures, I need a star on my chart!"

Mark just likes to erase all the stars off everyone's boards.. but he'll get it... someday.. I hope!

The job charts are really helping improve the love/hate relationship with my messy house.
So what do I do to improve the love/hate relationship with my blog?

Have a giveaway, of course!!

I'm going to give away a job chart design to one of you!
Just leave a comment, saying that you are a follower and that you love me.
On Friday I'll draw a name and announce the winner.

The winner will receive a customized job chart file that I will email to them and they can get printed at Wal-Mart or online, or wherever!


P.S.
The final four logos are up at Somewhat Simple -- mine is #3!
Go vote for me, please!!!
Thanks so much!

Give Away Day

GIVE AWAY CLOSED!

The winner is

Ashley Comeau said...
holy shmoly sign me up! I'm in love with the Rock On layout and totally want to win that one!

Email me at lauren@designerblogs.com to claim your prize!!

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Us girls over at Designer Blogs are giving the premade section of our site a hot make over!
So to make room for some new designs I decided to have a

GIVEAWAY!

Here's what you do:

Leave a comment saying which premade layout you'd like.

Want another chance to win?

Follow Designer Blogs on Twitter and leave a comment saying you do.

Want another chance to win?!

Become a Designer Blogs fan on Facebook and leave a comment saying you are.

That's three chances to win one of these fun layouts!

Images are linked. Click a preview to see the whole design :)

AAAAANNNDD

if you read THIS blog, you get 10% of a custom design or any premade design!

The give away ends on Tuesday the 6th and the winner will be announced Wednesday morning!

Good luck and check out Designer Blogs for more bloggy goodness :)

And the winner is...

Have any of you guys tried Random.org??

Soooo much fun.

I think I'm going to start using it to make all of my decisions!

I plugged all your comments in to the list randomizer
and her are the winners....

Lauren won the fancy-shmancy grocery sack holder

Natalie won the crayon cozy

and

Dawn won the custom blog banner

Ladies, please email me at laurenjh04 (at) hotmail (dot) com and we'll talk colors and get your mailing info!!!!

Thanks, Love ya, BYE!

Give oh Give Away!

Guess what??

This is my 250th post!

To mark this momentous occasion and to celebrate the first New Moon trailer I'm having a give away!!

One lucky winner will get to chose between three great prizes.

Here they are...

Prize (A)

This fancy-shmancy grocery sack holder!

Prize (2)

A cute Crayon Cozy for the kiddos!

Prize (D)
A Custom made Blog Banner for your blog!

All you have to do is leave me a comment saying you love me and tell me which one of the prizes you'd like to have if you are chosen!
Super easy, right?!

But wait that's not all!! If you are a follower of my blog you get to leave two comments and double your chances of winning!

Just a little thank you to my friends for reading my silly posts!

The give oh give away closes Thursday night at midnight. The winner will be chosen by random and announced Friday!