:: Giveaway Weeeener! ::

:: Geez, your guesses were good...however most of you were way off! Ha Ha, I though it would be a super easy contest because you could see a slight reflection of the tulips in the bottom of the . . . ROASTING PAN! ::

:: Now you can see it hey?!?! You can see the flowers reflection and my camera to the right of the flowers ::

:: So, I'm going to give the lotion to the closest guesser ::

:: MELISSA ::

:: She guessed it was on the edge of the sink, which was closest as it was a metal object it was on and it was in my kitchen! Ha ha, I've got my own rules for all of this giveaway nonsense! ::

:: Congratulations Mo! Email me your addy and I'll be sure to get this to you ASAP ::

:: Hope y'all are having a better hump day then me, ha ha, mine has been a doozy! ::

:: What we're learning ::

:: Near the beginning of Spring Jacob came home with this little sponge and a handful of grass seeds on top, no instructions given from the teacher and the only instruction I got from Jacob was "Grass seeds don't taste so good" - very observant Jacob {as we're driving home and I can see in the rear view mirror that he's chomping on something-Ha!} ::

:: So when Mr. L gets home we ask him if he thinks it'll grow..."I dunno" he states, humph, so much help you are! ::

:: So we decided to fill up the dish and see what happened ::

:: Well those must have been miracle seeds, because they started sprouting right on that there dinosaur sponge and made a lovely coat of green grass all over him ::

:: Even little brother was into seeing the grass grow. I don't think I got any other pictures of the lovely fully grown grass, but do not fear Lovelies I will repeating the same process next year at the same time when Cole comes home with his sponge of choice covered in grass seeds! ::

:: The lovely dish filled with the dinosaur, grass and water has now been transplanted to the garden, well that's at least what I told Jacob...little does he know that the garbage dump is where the garden is - Ha! ::

:: Happy Monday Lovelies...I've done my taxes and submitted them to my accountant, have dinner tonight with friends & watching the playoff hockey game and it's a balmy 20 degrees here today - couldn't ask for anything more! Okay, well I guess I could ask for a house cleaner but let's be realistic here folks! :: :: Xo, *S ::

:: Oh, look -- you thought I was done - no, I'm just full of surprises today! ::

:: Took this photo yesterday of one of my favorite flowers, these particular ones are from my garden, well all of them except one...The yellow and red one is from my neighbours yard, I just picked it, it was alone -- the only one in her garden. Plus I only had two, if you know anything, you know that flower arrangements must have odd not even numbers, so two wasn't going to cut it! Yeah, now you really want to be my neighbour! Bah Ha Ha Ha! I don't feel guilty one bit, it was the only one in her garden because the other ones I transplanted to my garden weeks ago when I took her 2footwide by 2footwide pot of peonies {legally, she gave them to me}! Ha! See so technically it was mine, I just forgot to take it when I transplanted the peonies! Ha Ha Ha ::

:: Anywho..this isn't about the flowers it's about a contest! Yeah, you know I love ya, I want you to smell super good for Spring, so here is what you have to do...Submit you guess as to what the tulips were on when I took this photograph. That's it! And this is what you will win ::

:: Family First - The Winner ::

:: Remember last week when I had this contest I was hosting? Well, I totally forgot to post a winner! ::

:: So here ya go, the winner (as chosen from random org) is ::

Kristin Chandra said...

This post made me smile :) With 3 girls in my house i'm not sure that i'll ever have egg hockey played in my kitchen!!! Would love a copy of the book! Any help with how to parent well is always welcome!!!

10:04 AM

:: YaY Kristin, email me your address and I'll drop your copy of Family First off at your place ::

:: HAPPY FRIDAY!!! ::

:: My Monday + A Giveaway ::

:: Well, this is what we faced early this morning ::

:: The boys received a new Canucks hockey stick -- we heard them playing with it and thought "oh, isn't that nice that they are playing so nice and not fighting?" --- yeah. Jacob was the one who instigated this one, and told us just that. When Mr. L headed down the stairs to see why they were laughing so hard and came across the two culprits, Jacob said I gave Cole the eggs and he hit's 'em real hard. Mr. L didn't laugh. He disciplined the kids and I laughed and cleaned up the eggy mess. The coach and hockey player had time out in their rooms while we cleaned up the floor ::

:: I had to Lysol the floor and then steam clean it twice with my steam mop to get all the egg up - oy! And that was just the start of the most terrible Monday we've had in a very long time. My mom called this afternoon to see how I was; I said you don't understand, I'm sure she understands though! Our kids are going through a very busy time of toddler-hood and it ends up in hurt feelings, broken toys, too much time spent in time out, and usually a black eye or bruise. It's all a season, so I can laugh about it -- but heaven help us if this carries on much longer! ::

:: So since today has been trying on me, I thought it would be a good day to give something away. It always feels good to give something away and concentrate on the blessings I have {instead of the marks in my fresh painted walls from the 'coach'}...ahem. So all y'all have to do is write a little comment and you could be entered to win this hard cover copy of Family First by Dr. Phil McGraw. When my parent's were going through their books that they were giving away they found it and my Mom thought I could give it away {thanks Marm!}. Apparently my parents read it and since we're all a lost cause {just kidding} they don't need it for reference. I will say that obviously they read it in a tropical climate as I found some sand in the back binding -- Sand & tropical climate not included in the giveaway ;) ::

:: Now, I'll leave you with the sweetest little picture of my boys. They have wanted to sleep together the past few nights and the other night when we were going to bed this is how we found them. What fun little guys they are, the coach and the hockey player...I am blessed. I have to tell you the first thought that entered my mind when I saw all the eggs on the floor was "crap, I should have bought some eggs when I was in the states last night!!" apparently the whole event was not half as amusing to Mr. L :) ::

:: Happy Monday Y'all -- The cut off for entering the contest will be Friday night @ 11:00 pm ::

:: The WINNER! ::

:: Well, y'all are pretty good guessers, I celebrated my 3 year blog birthday last weekend! I can't believe it's been 3 years since I started this crazy thing! It's so much fun and like I've said to so many - it's free therapy, really it is! ::

:: I wanted to give you, my loyal lovelies a chance to win a fabulous gift, just for the heck of it! So I received 17 entries, yes, only 17 --- I had aprox. 113 people visit the blog on Thursday then 134 visit on Friday and still I only had 17 enter! ::

:: So I ask, why come visit and leave no comment...no strings attached, nothing to loose, so why no comment? I have crazy amounts of traffic on this blog, friends, some close - some not so close and some that I don't even know {like my loyal reader from North Vancouver - I'd love to know who you are!}, that read my blog, and yet don't comment. I don't quite understand that, of course I understand wanting to snoop into some one's life and find out what they do & how they do it, heck that's why I like reading blogs, however if I find something that I love I give the courtesy of leaving a comment, so why no comment? If any of you could enlighten me, I would love to hear your opinion...you can email me directly by clicking my "email me" tab on my side bar or just leave a comment :) ::

:: Enough of that, on to the fun stuff! I was up to my eyeballs in shopping/cleaning/sorting clothes Saturday, so I delayed pulling a name until Sunday night. And here is how it went:

:: No, no, no -- that's not Sardh..that's just my poor penmanship! It's SARAH, Sarah darling, you won the $75 gift certificate to BeautiControl!!! I'm SO excited for you! I'll mail you the catalogue and you can get shopping! Congratulations & Happy shopping! ::

:: Have a beautiful Monday and I'll be back here for more about my shopping extravaganza and a post about provision on Tuesday morning - until then lovelies, thanks for celebrating with me! ::

:: XO, *S ::

:: Pioneer Woman - In the flesh ::

:: Hey Y'all, I know, I know...I'm way behind on my "birthday" contest from earlier this weekend, but that's for good reason, kinda. More on that later! ::
:: Right now, I wanted to tell you that if you follow Ree aka: The Pioneer Woman - as I do, you'll be interested to know that she'll be on the Bonny Hunt show tomorrow ::


:: She's blogged about it here - but I'm sure we'll get more juicy details tomorrow as the show airs. So if your tomorrow is expected to be rainy, like mine is, you may just want to tune into the Bonny Hunt show. This is actually a show that I quite enjoy watching, she's decent. Not over the moon good, but I LOVE her guests, ah, hello, REE is going to be on her show! And she has GREAT topics. Clean, concise and to the point {so not me!} ::

:: Happy watching and tune in tomorrow morning to find out who won the contest...I know who you are and you're going to be very happy! ::

:: Just until Noon tomorrow ::

:: Only a few short hours left until the cut off for the "birthday" contest --- make sure you enter it here
- due to some extra grace I found tonight, I've extended the contest until Saturday @ noon...go and enter yourself in my birthday contest! ::

:: Happy Birthday! ::

:: I've celebrated a birthday {of sorts} around here over the weekend...can you guess who/what birthday it was that I celebrated? ::

:: Here is Jacob on Saturday night -- he found H-A-P-P-Y B-I-R-T-H-D-A-Y candles and stuck them in 1/2 a pound of butter that was in the same cupboard. Then he walked over to me at my desk and said "Happy Birthday Mama" - and reenacted it for the full affect over and over and over again. It was truly very sweet! Paul grabbed the camera and got this shot ::

:: So if you can guess what "birthday" I celebrated this past weekend, you'll win a $75 spending spree at BeautiControl {the SPA products I can't get enough of!} ::

:: So guess away, you have a limited time to guess, this post will be closed by 5:00 pm on Friday evening ::

:: I'll be pulling a name randomly on Saturday morning and posting it by noon -- happy guessing! ::

:: XO, *Shawna ::

:: Don't forget to Vote! ::

:: Hey Lovelies -- I just wanted to remind you that I have a few days left to win a room make-over through Benjamin Moore's "Share Your Style" ::

:: I'm currently 14th of 149, which isn't bad -- but it's not a win, so keep those votes coming, apparently you can vote as many times as you want. I would SO appreciate your vote! ::

:: Thank You Muchly! ::

:: and the winner is... ::

:: BABES IN BOY LAND - Candice ::



:: Congrat's Candice -- email me your details and I'll send your prize out to you! ::

:: Honorable mentions: "Cute in the Act", "Snuggle Trouble" & "Diaper Dudes" ::

:: Thanks for playing ladies! ::

xo :: *Shawna { & Paul too - he was the judge ;) }

:: Contest Winner...TBA ::

:: Okay Peeps -- Since y'all missed the deadline and are entering in some pretty good titles for the picture of my baby boys...I've extended the deadline to tonight @ 6:00pm ::

:: See what you win below, it's some pretty great swag! ::

:: Here's the original post - you can write your entry on this post or on the original one...all entries will be included until 6:00 pm tonight and then there will be a random {no names} choosing of what one we {the hubs and I} like best ::

:: Ps. You girls not local, make sure you enter the contest too...I'll ship it to you, wherever you are! ::

xo :: *S

:: Brotherly Love - A Contest ::

:: Okay Peeps -- Here's my very first contest....just for the heck of it! ::



:: Name that Photo - Come up with the best name for this photo and you win, that's it....Me and my DH will be the deciding factor on who wins ::

:: Contest closes on Tuesday morning @ 9:00 am ::

:: Now go and name that photo! ::

xo :: S