$10 off

Anyone want a coupon for $10 off your next $50 purchase for Lowe's?

I got this coupon when we moved and Guam doesn't have a Lowe's so it's pointless.

I hate to throw away $10.

Anyone want it?

Its valid through May 15th. I will mail it to you ASAP.

Giveaway!

I have a giveaway!
Totally random I know- but as I am cleaning, or de-junking my house for a yard sale next weekend I came across something that an old chat board friend sent to me when we were preparing to go into our IVF cycle.

It's a post ivf transfer meditation music cd. She mailed it to me no charge and I would love to pass it on to who ever would like it. It is 18 minutes of music to help you relax so your growing embryos can happily dance their way to your uterus and stay there for the long haul.

So if you are going through or about to go through IVF, please send me a comment and let me know so you can be entered into the drawing for this cd. If you know of someone going through or about to go through the IVF process, please tell them about my giveaway so they can drop me a comment and enter the contest.
In the comment, just introduce yourself and tell me a little about you. Thats all I ask. You have until July 21st to enter the drawing for the free giveaway.

Ok, its 4:11 AM and Kayla has been done crying for some time now, so I really should be in bed. This is a success though. She was only up once at 3 AM crying for about 20 minutes. We are getting there!!! Soon we will be back to normal.

GIVEAWAY! and videos

Check out Onemorebaby's blog for a give away contest!

She's a loving, kind, thoughtful and supportive fellow blogger and friend of mine.

Here is Kayla this morning crawling and standing and saying Dada.

And the winner is........

Kathryn from Baby Blueprint!

Kate was almost the winner, except she missed 1 small detail in the rules. The rule was to post a link on you blog to Tina's Sweet Pea Place, and she posted the link to Tina's personal blog, Life in the Northwest. Maybe next time Kate!?

Kathryn- contact Tina with your information!

Thank you to all who entered. That was fun! Hopefully we can do something like this again!

Give Away Today from Sweet Pea's Place

This Give Away comes from Tina over at Sweet Pea's Place. Her custom made hair pretties and Tutu's are a must check out. She does fabulous work.


What is she giving away?
A custom made Tutu! YOU choose the colors!

The rules are as follows..
First person to follow all the rules correctly and answer the trivia question about Tina wins!

Rules:
1. Link my blog and Tina's Sweet Pea blog to your blog telling about the Give Away from Tina so we can gain new readers.
2. Go to Tina's personal blog
and find the answer to this question:
What do you get when you have a BBQ, tritip, avocado, cheese, homemade salad and corn tortillas?

STAY TUNED!!!

Stay tuned my fantastic friends. I will be hosting another Give Away Today contest!!!!
This time, the item going to be given away will be from the fabulous Tina from Sweet Pea's Place.
Kayla holds stock in her items. Trust me. She does.

Here is her site. Don't forget to come back soon.

http://tina-sweetpeasplace.blogspot.com/

And the winner is..................

KATE!!!!!

How did I come up with the winner? I went to RANDOM.ORG. I didn't realize I had to be registered with them to use the random winner picker. So what I did was I went to the list randomizer. I put everyone's name on the list as many times as entries they had. Then I had the list randomized, and the person in the number one slot was the winner!

CONGRATS KATE!! From http://stinkytinky.blogspot.com/ Expect your package soon! I will be mailing it first thing tomorrow morning!! I sure hope you enjoy it.

I had fun with this giveaway. I had a fun reading everyone's ideas and many of them Im going to work on doing. From ideas of things to do while Nick is gone and more ideas for my blogging. Thank you everyone for your entries.

I has so much fun that I may make this a bi-monthly event in the future.

Tomorrow will also resume my regularly scheduled blogging.

And you will get to see pictures from our photo session from the weekend very soon! The pictures turned out AMAZING! We have the 2nd half of our photo session on Tuesday so after then you will get to see them all! Im so excited to share them all!

*EDIT* Just wanted to add, it looks like not everyone's name is on this list but everyone's name is indeed on this list, as many times as you made an entry. I just couldnt fit the whole entire list in the picture. There were 38 names.

GIVE AWAY CONTEST IS HERE! modified

Kayla turned 6 months old yesterday for us! (Today for you)In celebration of my readers sticking by me though so much from our days of trying to create a baby, to loosing our 2 angel babies, through the adoption of Kayla and up until this very day, I'm holding a contest! This contest is for everyone and anyone who reads my blog. Family, friends, stranger, long time readers, new readers. If your reading this you can enter.

Here is what Im giving away. It's totally free to you. I will pay shipping. Just follow my contest rules below.

Guam souvenirs, a purse, dried mangoes, cool water scented soap, and a orange scented Guam candle.





***RULES***

Im giving you each 4, FOUR, chances to enter into this contest.

***First entry*** Send me a comment just simply saying hello if I know you already. If I dont know you already, send me a comment introducing yourself.
Also I need a way to contact you should you win this give away so I can get your mailing address.

***SECOND ENTRY*** Send me an additional comment on a topic you want me to blog about. Or tell me what I need to blog less about or more about.

***THIRD ENTRY***Send me an additional comment to give me an idea of something Kayla and I do can while Nick is on deployment to keep us busy. If I like your idea, I will add it to my Deployment Resolutions list that is on the right hand side of my blog.

***FOURTH ENTRY*** Enter an additional comment and let me know you linked my blog to yours.

It's that simple. You get 4 chances to enter.

The contest will go until Feb 1st. Feb 1st because this is the day 6 months ago Kayla was released from the hospital into our arms forever. It was a day that we will never ever forget.

The evening of Feb 1st (morning of Feb 2 my time) I will enter you all into random.org and randomly pick a winner. I will take a picture of the computer screen with the random winner and post it here for all to see.

Alright......Have Fun!!!!!

Another Blog CONTEST!

Ok, so this morning as I was going through my address book making sure I sent Christmas cards out to all family and friends that I send to every year, I realized I have extra Christmas cards. The Christmas cards this year are extra special. I ordered them from Snapf*sh with a family photo of us on them. Its our first major holiday as a family of THREE!

So, what do I do with the leftovers? Give them away!

Here's the deal...

Most of my blog readers already have this Christmas card.
If you dont its because I either dont have your address or you are a reader that I dont know about. So come out of hiding and introduce yourself. Leave me a comment and tell me who are you and how you found my blog. If I know you already and would like to be entered, just let me know.

If you post my giveaway on your blog or your Myspace as a bulletin (Im a big Myspacer) let me know- and add the link to your blog or your myspace page in your comment and I will add you a second time in the contest.

When Tuesday night of December 16 hits I will put everyone's name into Random.org and randomly choose a winner of said Christmas card.

Then Wednesday morning your Christmas card will be in the mail.

There will be not only 1 winner, but I will choose TWO winners!

GOOD LUCK!


Also, check out my good friend Tammy's blog. She is trying to raise money to bring her little peanut into this world. Her and her wonderful Mom are now making blankets to help with the fund raising. I have personally ordered 2 of these blankets!

http://ourpeanuttravels.blogspot.com/

Tsunami test/Contest winner/Kayla is 3 months old!

Ok, so the Tsunami watch was a test and no one knew about it. Turns out on the radio Nick heard that the Tsunami watch was REAL, but it was real because there was miscommunication coming out of Japan. Japan was running an emergency TEST of a 9.2 earthquake and the weather center didn't realize it was a test. So they sent out the Tsunami watch for Guam. Shheesh.

So, the winner for the caption contest....I couldn't pick one. I did have a few favorites but I couldn't bear that task of picking one. I didn't want to seem like I was playing favorites even though that is what I was supposed to do. Pick my favorite. So my bright idea...write everyone's name on a piece of paper and leave it up to my cat to choose. I threw each paper name at him and waited until he picked one by playing with it. Roo usually cant resist playing with a paper bally. But this time he did....he spotted a lizard out back right after I threw the balls at him. Figures. So while he was lizard hunting, I flung each paper ball at him until he went after one. He went after this one................(drum roll please)

EMILY's MOMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And now he continues to play with the rest of the paper balls.
Emily's Mommy's caption...:"Hey YOU in the WHITE...don't come any closer or I'll have to dirty my diaper!"


CONGRATS JODY!! Expect a picture of our little princess in the mail. Im still waiting on them to arrive to me from shutterfly.com. But I should be getting them any day now. And I will also be using this caption with her picture in her scrapbook. I will note on the page who the caption came from.

Here are the pictures from the paper ball drawing.
Roo and the paper balls on the floor.

Roo distracted by a lizard.

Baby girl during the paper bally drawing.

Roo walking away from a paper ball he played with.


Also Yesterday was our Birth mother's 19th birthday. And I took these pictures for her.


Today marks Kayla's 3 month birthday. Happy 3 months old baby girl. Mommy and Daddy love you more than you even know. Now stop growing up so darn fast.

14 April 2008- Drawing for adoption fundraiser!!!!!!!!!!

I am having a donation contest for the item pictured above.

About the item:
*It is a Partylite Clean Lines Votive Holder and includes a green Partylite square votive candle in Kiwi Strawberry scent. *It is brand new, only used gently as a display item in my Partylite shows. *It includes the original box. *The holder can be used for tealights or square votives. *The holder is made of dazzling 24% lead crystal and is 3 inches tall. *Hand wash only in warm soapy water, this holder is NOT dishwasher safe.

The RuLeS:
*Donate to our adoption fundraiser, no less than $10, between now- 14 April 2008, and
30 April 2008 and be put into a drawing for this item!! *For every $10 donated you will be put into the drawing. *Drawing will be held on 30 April 2008, Guam time. *I will take pictures of the drawing to prove that it is done fair. * Winner will NOT have to pay additional for shipping. I will cover the shipping cost.

It's that simple!!

If you have any questions please contact me!!

Here is our adoption website:
www.helpafamilyadopt.com

Donations are to be made through paypal. If you do not have a paypal account, but wish to participate in the contest, please contact me.