Relax and Surf Sunday Blog Hop!

Here is a new blog hop that I just found, please check it out!

 

Saturday Spectacular-Link Up Your Giveaways-10/30-11/6

Good Saturday morning!  It's that all important time again!  Do you have one or more great giveaways going on right now?  How about running across some cool giveaways from other blogs that you would like to share?  Link them up here today and all week on the Saturday Spectacular giveaway linky!

Friday Blog Hopping

Good Friday afternoon everyone!  Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend so far.  Busy weekend for us as usual with the oldest having her last soccer game of the season tomorrow morning, dinner out and a hockey game. Then of course trick or treating with the kids on Sunday.  What are your plans for the weekend?  Hope everyone has a safe and Happy Halloween weekend!  Onto the great blog hops!

Giveaway Winners

Good Tuesday evening!  I am so sorry for the delay in posting the winners of the giveaways that have ended.  I have sent everyone an email which you should have received or will receive soon.  Here are the winners of the giveaways:

The winner of the $65 CSN Stores Gift Certificate is:
COMMENT #50-Lynda Del

The winner of the $50 Cards Direct Gift Certificate is:
COMMENT #26-Anja M.

The winner of the Precious Moments Luxury Plush Blanket is:
COMMENT #63-Tiffany Christie

The winner of the CelebriDucks Cocoa Canard Duck Set is:
COMMENT #1-Ladytink_534

The winner of the $30 Cushion Source Gift Certificate is:
COMMENT #27-LLL with Leslie

The winner of the Artterro Craft Kits is:
COMMENT #3-Ronda

The winner of the Wow Wow Wubbzy Goes to School DVD is:
COMMENT #2-Reggie Mann

The winner of the $50 Dakota Personalized Gifts Gift Certificate is:
COMMENT #27-Christine Jensen

The winner of the Nature's Path HUGE Breakfast Package is:
COMMENT #17-Tiffany Christie

The winners of the Lakeshore Candle Co Candles are:
COMMENT #16-Yona Williams
COMMENT #40-LLL with Leslie
COMMENT #1-Ronda
COMMENT #7-Tiffany Christie
COMMENT #24-Christine Jensen

Congratulations to all of the winners.  As you may have noticed, there are A LOT of repeat winners for some of these giveaways.  The reason being there were quite a few of these giveaways that had the same amount of entrants.  I am hoping to do a better job of promoting my future giveaways and getting more people over here to my blog to enter.  I will be posting MANY MORE NEW and exciting giveaways starting on Thursday or Friday of this week.  Trust me folks, I have a ton of giveaways to post that I have fallen behind on.  Have a great rest of the week!

Tuesday Blog Hopping!

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It's everyone's favorite day of the week again, Tuesday..

So that means it's time to link up & follow for

Follow Me Back Tuesday

Hosted By:   Survey Junkie, Little Yaya's, 
Review Retreat  &  Boobies,BabiesAndABlog   

This week joining us as our Guest Host is:

Carissa from The Little Family 

  

 How F.M.B.T Works

• Follow all 4 Hosts & Guest Host - Spots 1-5   leave a comment w/ link so we can follow back  ( only leave a comment that you follow if you actually follow )

• Snag our button & make a F.M.B.T. post. 
• After you post use that link to add your blog to the hop along with blog name  

( NO BLOG HOPs & GIVEAWAYS PLEASE  ) These entries will be deleted.

• Follow the blogs you like & Follow Back who follows you

Link up every Tuesday at 12:00 am est

Welcome to this week's Tuesday Tag-Along blog hop, hosted by Twee Poppets Review and Giveaway! This is a great way to discover new blogs while increasing the number of followers for your own blog. Please feel free to grab the TTA button for your blogroll to help bring more bloggers to this blog hop!

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Tuesday Tag-Along button art adapted from the "Follow the Leader" illustration by Diana Jones. I encourage you to visit her at her blog, Sketch & Jones, and her online shop to see more great illustrations and all sorts of wonderful crafts!


Without further ado...
Here's how it works:

• Create a new Tuesday Tag-Along blog post. Include the Tuesday Tag-Along button by copying and pasting the code above. (You are also welcome to copy and paste these instructions in their entirety, or any portion of this Tuesday Tag-Along blog post!)
• Add your blog name and the URL of your TTA post to the MckLinky below.
• Follow Twee Poppets, the hostess blog listed in the first slot. Twee Poppets will follow you back! (Note: If you want Twee Poppets to follow you back, you MUST leave her a comment saying that you are a new follower and leave a link to your blog!)
• Follow the Blog Hopper of the Week, listed in the second slot. To learn how to be chosen as the Blog Hopper of the Week, read the red text below.
• If you can, please follow the blogs in the three slots before you (e.g., if you're number 20, follow numbers 19, 18, and 17). This is not mandatory, but it will help ensure that everyone who signs up gets a few new followers!
• Follow as many other blogs as you want. The more you follow, the more that will follow you back! Be sure to tell them that you're following from Tuesday Tag-Along! You may also want to leave a link to your blog so they can return your follow more easily.
• When you get a new follower through Tuesday Tag-Along, be sure to follow them back! It's just common courtesy. :)

The weekly Tuesday Tag-Along MckLinky opens every Monday night at 8:59pm Pacific Standard Time (that's 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time), and the TTA blog post will be posted well in advance of that time. The MckLinky will be open to add your blog until 11:59pm Tuesday night. You then have all week long to visit blogs and return follows!

There is a new list every week. The link you enter one week will not carry over to the next week's MckLinky. Please link up again each week to join in the fun!


Tuesday Tag-Along Blog Hopper of the Week:
Note: To be eligible to be Blog Hopper of the Week, you MUST place the Tuesday Tag-Along button somewhere on the main page of your blog or website (Inside a blog post does NOT count; it must be on the actual page, e.g. in the sidebar. And since I'll be checking for it manually, I must be able to actually find it). If the randomly-drawn winner does not meet this condition, a new winner will be randomly selected. If you do not want to place the TTA button on your site, you are still more than welcome to join in the blog hop, you will just not be eligible to be the Blog Hopper of the Week.

Each week, one blog will be chosen randomly from all the links, and that lucky blog will be placed in the desirable second slot for the following week's MckLinky!

This week's lucky blog hopper is #8 - Life of Us! Congratulations!

Saturday Spectacular-Link Up Your Giveaways-10/23-10/30

Good Saturday morning!  Hope everyone is having the best weekend ever so far.  Today should be a great day for me.  The oldest has a soccer game at 11 am and then hubby and I get to spend some time together for our short and delayed "honeymoon".  We are going out to lunch and just spend some time alone while the girls spend the day with their aunt and uncle.  The weather is perfect, just like the first time we got married, it's going to be raining all day.  15 years ago when we got married, it was raining, cold and windy and we thought for sure that it was going to snow at any point.  

It's that all important time again!  Do you have one or more giveaways running on your blog?  Run across any giveaways that you would like to share?  Link them up here today and all week on the Saturday Spectacular linky.  Here's one picture from the wedding, hope to post more either today or tomorrow!  Have a wonderful day!

Friday Blog Hopping

Welcome Wednesday Blog Hop

Welcome to the "Welcome Wednesday" blog hop, hosted by Take It From Me! Welcome Wednesday is a great way to meet new people and learn new things as well as increase your blog followers! So let's have some fun!!

If you want to be a part of Welcome Wednesday, just follow these 5 simple steps:

1. Follow the Welcome Wednesday Host (Take It From Me) as well as the 2 Spotlighted Blogs of the Week. (These will make up the top three slots on the Linky)
2. Link up your blog name and URL with our Linky. (You only need to add your info once for it to be seen on all the blog hops)
3. Grab our Welcome Wednesday button and include it in a post about the event on your blog.
4. Go to as many blogs on the MckLinky as you want and Follow them. Be sure to tell them you are from Welcome Wednesday!
5. Be sure to Follow back any followers you have gained from our Welcome Wednesday event!

------Blog Spotlights of The Week-----

1.) Jenny from The Freebie Addiction wrote: "Hey guys and gals! My name is Jenny and I'm from Vancouver, WA, just right across the bridge from Portland, OR. I originally started my blog to showcase different ways I was getting stuff for free, like on GPT and incentive sites. But, then blogging started taking up more of my time - which left me neglecting the other sites I used to participate on. So, I started focusing more on frugal needs, since everyone loves deals. Now, you'll find that you can save and make money online by visiting my blog. I post work at home opportunities occasionally, when the good ones come around. I'm still learning and have a lot to improve on blog wise, but with time, I hope to accomplish the ways of the bigwigs when it comes to frugality." 

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2.) Page from Thrifty, Nifty, and Wise wrote: "I have to tell you folks, I'm a happy girl. I'm married to a Navy man and we're living a seemingly chaotic life - but it's perfect for us, you know? I love to spruce things up - add some flair, if you will. I adore fabric, especially when I can use it without running my sewing machine. Organization is my friend. Cooking is also my friend. I really can't believe how much I love to read a cookbook. My real favorite color is purple. My practical favorite color is green. The truth is, I'm excited about being able to take a new house in a new town, umpteen times in the next umpteen years, and turn it into a home. And bring life - our life - into this place. Otherwise, it just wouldn't be a home."

What's neat about our Blog Hop:

-Put the same linky list code on your blog and you'll have the exact same list!

- Your blog visitors can add their blog to your list and it will show up on Everyones lists!

- By adding your blog YOU MAY BE RANDOMLY CHOSEN FOR OUR BLOG SPOTLIGHT OF THE WEEK!!!!

Wedding Day!

Tomorrow is my "wedding day!  Yes, I am already technically married, but it is my 15th wedding anniversary and we are celebrating my renewing our vows and celebrating a dinner with our family and friends.  My hubby and I got married in October of 1995 after just three months of dating and a lot of people never gave our marriage a chance.  Some were even betting on it not lasting six months and there were time where I thought they might be right.  Hubby and I have been through a lot together, deaths galore within our family, a lot of fights where I thought we would never stay together, among a lot of other devastating and heartbreaking tragedies.  Through all of this, we did have two beautiful girls and manage to stay close together.  For this, I am truly grateful.  He has helped me through a lot of dark days and we have had the worst of times, but also the best of times as well.  So, I could think of no better way to spend my 15th anniversary than marrying my best friend and love of my life.  He is definitely the guy that I imagine spending the rest of my life with for sure and I can't wait to begin a new chapter of our life together. 

Tuesday Blog Hopping!

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It's everyone's favorite day of the week again, Tuesday..

So that means it's time to link up & follow for

Follow Me Back Tuesday

Hosted By:   Survey Junkie, Little Yaya's, 
Review Retreat  &  Boobies,BabiesAndABlog 
 

This week joining us as our Guest Host is:

Stacie from Simply Stacie

 

 How F.M.B.T Works

• Follow all 4 Hosts & Guest Host - Spots 1-5   leave a comment w/ link so we can follow back  ( only leave a comment that you follow if you actually follow )

• Snag our button & make a F.M.B.T. post. 
• After you post use that link to add your blog to the hop along with blog name  

( NO BLOG HOPs & GIVEAWAYS PLEASE  ) These entries will be deleted.

• Follow the blogs you like & Follow Back who follows you

Link up every Tuesday at 12:00 am est

 

 
Welcome to this week's Tuesday Tag-Along blog hop, hosted by Twee Poppets Review and Giveaway! This is a great way to discover new blogs while increasing the number of followers for your own blog. Please feel free to grab the TTA button for your blogroll to help bring more bloggers to this blog hop!

<a href="http://tweepoppets.blogspot.com/search/label/tuesday%20tag-along"><img src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/Weezarrgh/TTAButtonSize-1.jpg" alt="Tuesday Tag-Along" width="150" height="150" /></a>

Tuesday Tag-Along button art adapted from the "Follow the Leader" illustration by Diana Jones. I encourage you to visit her at her blog, Sketch & Jones, and her online shop to see more great illustrations and all sorts of wonderful crafts!


Without further ado...
Here's how it works:

• Create a new Tuesday Tag-Along blog post. Include the Tuesday Tag-Along button by copying and pasting the code above. (You are also welcome to copy and paste these instructions in their entirety, or any portion of this Tuesday Tag-Along blog post!)
• Add your blog name and the URL of your TTA post to the MckLinky below.
• Follow Twee Poppets, the hostess blog listed in the first slot. Twee Poppets will follow you back! (Note: If you want Twee Poppets to follow you back, you MUST leave her a comment saying that you are a new follower and leave a link to your blog!)
• Follow the Blog Hopper of the Week, listed in the second slot. To learn how to be chosen as the Blog Hopper of the Week, read the red text below.
• If you can, please follow the blogs in the three slots before you (e.g., if you're number 20, follow numbers 19, 18, and 17). This is not mandatory, but it will help ensure that everyone who signs up gets a few new followers!
• Follow as many other blogs as you want. The more you follow, the more that will follow you back! Be sure to tell them that you're following from Tuesday Tag-Along! You may also want to leave a link to your blog so they can return your follow more easily.
• When you get a new follower through Tuesday Tag-Along, be sure to follow them back! It's just common courtesy. :)

The weekly Tuesday Tag-Along MckLinky opens every Monday night at 8:59pm Pacific Standard Time (that's 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time), and the TTA blog post will be posted well in advance of that time. The MckLinky will be open to add your blog until 11:59pm Tuesday night. You then have all week long to visit blogs and return follows!

There is a new list every week. The link you enter one week will not carry over to the next week's MckLinky. Please link up again each week to join in the fun!


Tuesday Tag-Along Blog Hopper of the Week:
Note: To be eligible to be Blog Hopper of the Week, you MUST place the Tuesday Tag-Along button somewhere on the main page of your blog or website (Inside a blog post does NOT count; it must be on the actual page, e.g. in the sidebar. And since I'll be checking for it manually, I must be able to actually find it). If the randomly-drawn winner does not meet this condition, a new winner will be randomly selected. If you do not want to place the TTA button on your site, you are still more than welcome to join in the blog hop, you will just not be eligible to be the Blog Hopper of the Week.

Each week, one blog will be chosen randomly from all the links, and that lucky blog will be placed in the desirable second slot for the following week's MckLinky!

This week's lucky blog hopper is #30 - Burciko's! Congratulations!

Saturday Spectacular-Link Up Your Giveaways-10/16-10/23

Good Saturday morning to you all, hope this weekend is everything you wanted and more!  Heading off to the oldest daughter's soccer game later on this afternoon and hoping that all the kids on her team show up, quite a few of them have been sick this week-one even has strep throat.  Sorry I forgot to post the Saturday Spectacular Linky last week.  Do you have some giveaways going on right now on your blog?  Run across some great giveaways on other blogs that you would like to share?  Link them up here today and all week on the Saturday Spectacular giveaway linky!  Have a wonderful weekend!

Friday Blog Hopping

Good Friday everyone, hope you are all having a great weekend so far!  It has been a really long week, this was the first week that I had to work four straight days at work instead of my usual three.  I guess I should be lucky that I have a job and am able to help my hubby with the bills, yet I really miss just staying at home, being mommy and working on my blog.  Really sorry about the lack of updates, am going to not only be working around the house today to get caught up on housecleaning and laundry, but I hope to send out giveaway winner emails as well as "maybe" pop up a couple of new giveaways as well.  Have also been hard at work planning a "wedding".  My hubby and I are celebrating our 15th wedding anniversary this coming Wednesday and are renewing our vows Wednesday evening.  The first time we got married was at the courthouse and I really wanted to get married in a church.  We were going to renew our vows at 5 years, then 10 years, now finally going to at 15 years.  My oldest daughter is going to walk me down the aisle too!  I hope to have pictures posted either Thursday or Friday of next week.  Hope you all have a wonderful weekend, going to be a little chilly here in Michigan this weekend, but at least dry.  Now onto the Friday Blog Hops!

A Little Late....Friday Blog Hopping!

Thursday Blog Hopping and a Couple of Twitter Hops Too!

Happy Thursday all!  Well, I have finished another exciting week of work, I really miss being a SAHM!  How about we do some blog hopping and Twitter hopping too?  Have a great weekend!