<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983</id><updated>2011-09-30T11:51:12.599-06:00</updated><category term='reviews'/><category term='ALS'/><category term='birthday'/><category term='The Melody Of'/><category term='Fiday Follow'/><category term='Friday Follow'/><category term='Security Tools'/><category term='sick'/><category term='music monday'/><category term='Wordless Wednesday'/><category term='Zoodles.com Review and Giveaway'/><category term='award'/><category term='giveaways'/><category term='useless rambling'/><category term='American Idol'/><category term='MIA'/><title type='text'>HALF CRAZY MOMMIE</title><subtitle type='html'>for Moms who have days when you wonder what you did in a previous life.... when your kids make you want to pull your hair out!</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>46</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-756222826042607047</id><published>2010-07-17T17:01:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2010-07-17T17:14:23.408-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ALS'/><title type='text'>Donations for ALS- also known as Lou Gehrig's disease</title><content type='html'>Hello everyone out there in blogger world.  I know I have been MIA for a very long time but I wanted to try to get this out there.   Two weeks ago we had a death in the family.  My brothers wife's father died of ALS.  I know when I first heard of this I wasn't exactly sure what this disease was.  Persons with ALS have a loss of muscle strength and coordination that eventually gets worse. This eventually makes one unable to do routine tasks such as going up steps, getting out of a chair, or swallowing.  In ALS, nerve cells (neurons) waste away or die, and can no longer send messages to muscles. This eventually leads to muscle weakening, twitching, and an inability to move the arms, legs, and body. The condition slowly gets worse. When the muscles in the chest area stop working, it becomes hard or impossible to breathe on one's own.   ALS affects approximately 1 out of every 100,000 people.  &lt;br /&gt;There is no known cure for ALS. The first drug treatment for the disease is a medicine called riluzole. Riluzole may prolong life, but does not reverse or stop the disease from getting worse.     This is a horrible way to live and slowly die from.  That is why I am asking for donations to help the ALS Association Greater Philadelphia Chapter.  Anyone in the East Coast area can also participate in their 2010 Ocean City Board... Walk to Defeat ALS.  Any donations will be grealy appreciated.  As little as $5 makes a difference.  &lt;a href="http://walk.kintera.org/faf/search/searchTeamPart.asp?ievent=340840&amp;lis=1&amp;kntae340840=312A641410AC4AE481A520961547EBEE&amp;team=3806818"&gt;Here is the link to donate or Sponsor a walker&lt;/a&gt;.  Thanks!  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-756222826042607047?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/756222826042607047/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/07/donations-for-als-also-known-as-lou.html#comment-form' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/756222826042607047'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/756222826042607047'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/07/donations-for-als-also-known-as-lou.html' title='Donations for ALS- also known as Lou Gehrig&apos;s disease'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-7755008100443024588</id><published>2010-03-29T16:41:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2010-03-29T16:50:15.492-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music monday'/><title type='text'>Music Monday</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8JXdbn2ao5A&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0xcc2550&amp;color2=0xe87a9f"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8JXdbn2ao5A&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0xcc2550&amp;color2=0xe87a9f" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love this song by Lykke Li featured in New Moon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-7755008100443024588?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/7755008100443024588/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/03/music-monday.html#comment-form' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/7755008100443024588'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/7755008100443024588'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/03/music-monday.html' title='Music Monday'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-6242728055461411766</id><published>2010-03-24T00:00:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-03-24T00:13:55.650-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wordless Wednesday'/><title type='text'>Wordless Wednesday! Well Almost....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S6mojS5hz5I/AAAAAAAAADE/9p4G3W7lVO8/s1600/SSPX0012.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S6mojS5hz5I/AAAAAAAAADE/9p4G3W7lVO8/s200/SSPX0012.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452074148230713234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My daughter A with her best buddy A.  They are only a couple months apart and some days get along great like this day and others not so great..... lol&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-6242728055461411766?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/6242728055461411766/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/03/wordless-wednesday-well-almost.html#comment-form' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/6242728055461411766'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/6242728055461411766'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/03/wordless-wednesday-well-almost.html' title='Wordless Wednesday! Well Almost....'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S6mojS5hz5I/AAAAAAAAADE/9p4G3W7lVO8/s72-c/SSPX0012.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-7151991181242317895</id><published>2010-03-11T14:12:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T23:49:22.298-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reviews'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giveaways'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Melody Of'/><title type='text'>Etsy Shop TheMelodyOf Review and Giveaway!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_430xN.119784520.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 430px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 286px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_430xN.119784520.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I was in high school I took a photography class and loved it. I always thought I could be a pretty good photographer. Corinne from the Etsy Shop &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/themelodyof"&gt;The Melody Of&lt;/a&gt; is a wonderful photographer. She has a way of capturing the pure beauty of nature. Her photos are breath taking. She really has an eye for the perfect shot. I only wish I could be as good a photographer as she is. She has also embarked on a 365 project.  A 365 project is where you take a self-portrait everyday for a year.  The purpose of this project is to improve your skills and to be able to have a way to see your improvements.  I have seen her photos so far and you can already tell the improvement she has made in just a short time.  I know she will continue to improve and be an incredible photographer. If you would like to see these pictures and others click &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/exactlyy"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  I had a couple questions for Corinne and this is what she said.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Q. Have you always wanted to be a photographer?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A. &lt;em&gt;Honestly, no! When I was younger I wanted to be a pop star, then a veterinarian, and then it was totally up in the air for a while. I didn't pick up a digital camera until 2003, and I didn't get a DSLR until 2007. It was around 2008 that some inkling of what I wanted to do with my life surfaced. I was snapping pictures outside of my house one day and just thought, "Wow, if I could do this forever, I would." and since then, I've been trying to make it as much of a part of my life as possible.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Q. I noticed that you major in English, do you plan on pursuing photography as a career or just a hobby?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A. &lt;em&gt;Yes, I am majoring in English. So many people are dumbfounded when I tell them that photography is not part of my academic career, and that I'm majoring in English instead. At the moment, I do some side jobs, where friends and family will hire me to take portraits and photos for them. My big dream is to just be able to take pictures and sell them for a living, but if this portraiture thing takes off, I wouldn't mind doing that either! If it's a part of photography I want to be a part of it&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Q. What is your favorite type of photo to take?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A. &lt;em&gt;This one is a toughie. I guess if I had to narrow it down, it would be landscape shots. If I had to narrow it down further, it would be sunrises/sunsets. I can see the sunrise through the trees of my backyard, so I'm always running outside or running upstairs to take a quick shot through the window (I'm usually up early for school &amp;amp; work). I recently purchased a wide-angle lens for my camera (great for landscape shots!) and I can't wait to get outside somewhere and take pictures of the sun. PS - I love lens flare, too.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ny-image1.etsy.com/il_430xN.119808017.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 430px; HEIGHT: 286px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://ny-image1.etsy.com/il_430xN.119808017.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Corinne is offering one of my readers a 5x7 of her Sunlight and Trees photo.&lt;br /&gt;Here's how to enter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;I was not paid in any way by The Melody Of. I was given a product for review purposes only. The opinions stated here are solely my own.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please include you e-mail address if I'm not able to contact you by clicking on your profile.&lt;br /&gt;CLOSED&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;~*~ Mandatory Entry~*~&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visit &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/themelodyof"&gt;The Melody of &lt;/a&gt;and leave me a comment telling me which photo you like best&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Extra Entries&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt; - Please leave seperate comment for each that you do&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.) Follow my blog ( 1 entry)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.) Subscribe through e-mail (1 entry)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.) Follow me on &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/Katie_bug24"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; (1 entry)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4.)Tweet about this Giveaway can be done 3x daily (2 entries)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Win a 5x7 Sunlight and Trees photo from The Melody of at Half Crazy Mommie http://bit.ly/97YXlX PLS RT"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5.) Become of Fan of The Melody Of on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Woodbridge-VA/The-Melody-of-ArtPhotography/293358778188"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; (2 entries)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6.) Follow The Melody Of on &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/themelodyy_of"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; (2 entries)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7.) Heart (favorite) &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/themelodyof"&gt;The Melody Of &lt;/a&gt;on Etsy (2 entries)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8.) Purchase something from &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/themelodyof"&gt;The Melody Of&lt;/a&gt; (10 entries)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Winner will be chosen from Random.org. Winner will have 48hrs to respond or a new winner will be chosen.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-7151991181242317895?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/7151991181242317895/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/etsy-shop-themelodyof-review-and.html#comment-form' title='14 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/7151991181242317895'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/7151991181242317895'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/etsy-shop-themelodyof-review-and.html' title='Etsy Shop TheMelodyOf Review and Giveaway!'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-5102759557269543125</id><published>2010-02-27T22:52:00.011-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-08T02:38:49.338-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reviews'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giveaways'/><title type='text'>Spoiled Sweet Review and Giveaway!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://ny-image2.etsy.com/iusb_760x100.7062782.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 469px; HEIGHT: 44px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://ny-image2.etsy.com/iusb_760x100.7062782.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever seen anything cuter than a girl in her tutu? I received this beautiful tutu for my daughter. As soon as I put it on her she started dancing all over the house. She refused to take it off saying "No my tu, my tu" It was too cute. So do you want to know where I got this adorable tutu? I know you do.. Ok, I will tell you. I got it from &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/Repunzelsbowsnclips"&gt;Spoiled Sweet by Repunzelsbowsnclips&lt;/a&gt;. They make these beautiful tutu's along with a variety of bows. They make the perfect birthday outfit or gifts and they are very resonably priced. You can get these great items from &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/Repunzelsbowsnclips"&gt;Spoiled Sweet &lt;/a&gt;Etsy shop. &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/Repunzelsbowsnclips"&gt;Spoiled Sweet &lt;/a&gt;also offers a color chart so you can design your own custom tutu and bow. They also treat every bow to prevent fraying, and use the highest quality ribbon for a long lasting bow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ny-image1.etsy.com/il_430xN.115241085.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 430px; HEIGHT: 397px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://ny-image1.etsy.com/il_430xN.115241085.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My daughter has been obsessed with her tutu, she doesn't want to take it off. So I can without a doubt tell you that their tutu's hold up against the daily torture given by a 2yr old. They withstand being stuffed in a car seat, taken off and put back on a million times in one day, sliding down a slid, landing on the ground when she fell. &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/Repunzelsbowsnclips"&gt;Spoiled Sweet by Rapunzelbowsnclips &lt;/a&gt;really make incredible products that are meant to last. But you don't have to believe me because one of my lucky readers is getting the chance to win a custom tutu and bow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;I was not paid or compensated in any way by Spoiled Sweet. I was given the item to review. The opinions stated here a solely my own.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ENDS- 03-06-10- CLOSED&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please include you e-mail address if I'm not able to contact you by clicking on your profile.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;~*~ Mandatory Entry~*~&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Must be done first&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tell me what colors you would choose if you won&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Extra Entries&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; - Please leave seperate comment for each that you do&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.) Follow my blog ( 1 entry)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.) Subscribe through e-mail (1 entry)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.) Follow me on &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/Katie_bug24"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; (1 entry)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4.)Tweet about this Giveaway can be done 3x daily (2 entries)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;   "Win a Tutu from Spoiled Sweet on Half Crazy Mommie! http://bit.ly/cZCZCX PLS RT"&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5.) Follow &lt;a href="http://spoiledsweetblog.blogspot.com/"&gt;Spoiled Sweet Blog&lt;/a&gt; (3 entries)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6.) Favorite &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/Repunzelsbowsnclips"&gt;Spoiled Sweet on Etsy &lt;/a&gt;(2 entries)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7.) Purchase something from &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/Repunzelsbowsnclips"&gt;Spoiled Sweet &lt;/a&gt;(15 entries)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Winner will be chosen by Random.org. Winner will be notified by e-mail and will have 48hrs to respond. New winner will be chosen if 1st winner does not respond.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-5102759557269543125?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/5102759557269543125/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/spoiled-sweet-review-and-giveaway.html#comment-form' title='148 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/5102759557269543125'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/5102759557269543125'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/spoiled-sweet-review-and-giveaway.html' title='Spoiled Sweet Review and Giveaway!'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>148</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-5399572151725400134</id><published>2010-02-26T11:53:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-26T11:55:24.953-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friday Follow'/><title type='text'>Friday Follow!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.middayescapades.com/search/label/Friday%20Follow" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Friday Follow" src="http://blogrockmaryrc.com/followfriday01.png"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's how YOU can join the celebration:&lt;br /&gt;•* Link up your blog name and URL using the MckLinky below. Only need to add on one blog to be seen on all the blog hops. &lt;br /&gt;•* Follow the Friday Follow hostesses listed in the first 3 slots. &lt;br /&gt;•* Follow as many blogs as you like &lt;br /&gt;•* Comment on the blogs telling them you're from Friday Follow &lt;br /&gt;•* Follow back when you get a new follower through Friday Follow&lt;br /&gt;The Blog Hop is the same at each of our three hosts blogs so you do not have to add your blog at each site.  Just one - but you can follow each blog.  Follow a few or follow them all&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- Begin Blog Hop --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mcklinky.com/blog_hop.asp" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.mcklinky.com/images/MckLinkyBlogHop160.jpg" alt="MckLinky Blog Hop" width="160" height="52" border="0" longdesc="http://www.brentriggs.com" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://www.mcklinky.com/linky_include_bloghop_public.asp?id=18258" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-5399572151725400134?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/5399572151725400134/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/friday-follow.html#comment-form' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/5399572151725400134'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/5399572151725400134'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/friday-follow.html' title='Friday Follow!'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-251857927764256035</id><published>2010-02-26T11:41:00.005-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-26T11:50:02.276-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Security Tools'/><title type='text'>Caution!</title><content type='html'>So a few days ago my husbands friend was on our computer.  He was on facebook when something came up on the screen for Security Tools.  I guess he looked at it and then clicked off it when it wanted you to pay.  Well it embedded itself in my computer.  It's malware.  It basically said that everything in my computer was infected with a virus and that I couldn't access anything (and I mean anything) unless I put in my credit card number and paid for the program.  My husbands friend is a computer guy and he said it is the hardest thing to remove from your computer because it hides itself so well that you can't find it anywhere.  The only way to get it off is to wipe the hard drive.  Thankfully when we got the computer we had our friend go through and program everything, so he put on Malware Bytes.  This program is amazing.  I had to go in and start my computer in Safe mode and run the Malware program several times but it saved my computer.  It's a free program and if you don't have it you should seriously consider getting it.  I run it atleast once a week.  But word of wisdom stay far away from Security Tools.  Do not put your credit card number in because my computer guy said one of his other clients did and Security Tools drained their whole bank account.   So that happening further delayed my posting so I apologize.  Tomorrow I will be posting a giveaway!!  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-251857927764256035?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/251857927764256035/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/caution.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/251857927764256035'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/251857927764256035'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/caution.html' title='Caution!'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-6611375968512446391</id><published>2010-02-21T10:53:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-21T10:57:21.384-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MIA'/><title type='text'>MIA</title><content type='html'>Hey everyone, I know I have been MIA lately.  My parents are coming today.  They drove all the way from Texas.  They haven't seen my new house yet so I have been frantically cleaning all week.  And recleaning and cleaning some more. Because as soon as I get one room clean my kids trash the one I cleaned before that.  I also scrubbed down the bathrooms for my 6yr old to pee all of the toliet again.  So my day will involve recleaning everything I have cleaned 50 times this week. So I'm sorry if I am missing for a little since they will be staying with me and I only get to see them 2-3 times a year.  So thank you all for being patient with me, I really appreciate it and when they leave I have some great giveaways to post for you guys!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-6611375968512446391?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/6611375968512446391/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/mia.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/6611375968512446391'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/6611375968512446391'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/mia.html' title='MIA'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-567217461353406914</id><published>2010-02-17T19:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-18T19:34:44.109-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='American Idol'/><title type='text'>Officially Addicted</title><content type='html'>Ok, I can finally admit it....  I am completely and utterly addicted to American Idol.  I have a dvr and I faithfully record every episode.  I have even enstilled feat into my children if they even think about canceling the recording.  I don't even know why I love it so much but I do.  I like Ellen but I wasn't sure how much I would like her on Idol, but she is great.  I can't imagine what it will be like without Simon.  He's my favorite one on there.  He is brutally honest and I think it is a good character trait to have.  Well hopefully some of you are addicted as well so I'm not the only one.  Well gotta go because Idol started 20 min ago and I can fast forward the commercials now..  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-567217461353406914?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/567217461353406914/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/officially-addicted.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/567217461353406914'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/567217461353406914'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/officially-addicted.html' title='Officially Addicted'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-6575433093651523399</id><published>2010-02-16T16:11:00.006-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-16T22:23:06.521-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reviews'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giveaways'/><title type='text'>Shake'N Bake Review And Giveaway!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.kraftrecipes.com/assets/images/ocpimages/43000/00079cl.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 164px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 164px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.kraftrecipes.com/assets/images/ocpimages/43000/00079cl.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;I remember when I was little and my mom would buy &lt;a href="http://www.kraftrecipes.com/home.aspx"&gt;&lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Krafts&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Shake'N&lt;/span&gt; Bake&lt;/a&gt;. I used to love helping my mom. She would always let me shake it. It made me feel so grown up. Now I let my kids help and they enjoy it just as much as I did. It's a great way to add a little family time in while making dinner. As always &lt;a href="http://www.kraftrecipes.com/home.aspx"&gt;&lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Shake'N&lt;/span&gt; Bake &lt;/a&gt;tastes great. My favorite thing about &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Shake'N&lt;/span&gt; Bake is that you get the taste and texture of fried chicken without all the mess and added calories. It's also a fast and easy way to bake chicken. &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;Especially&lt;/span&gt; for the working moms and those that stay at home and had a rough day with the kids. A little shaking and 45min. in the oven and dinner is ready! They also provide recipes for delicious simple meals that are under 500 calories.&lt;a href="http://www.kraftrecipes.com/home.aspx"&gt; Kraft &lt;/a&gt;is giving two of my readers the chance to win coupons to get 4 free boxes of &lt;a href="http://www.kraftrecipes.com/home.aspx"&gt;&lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Shake'N&lt;/span&gt; Bake&lt;/a&gt;. See below on how to enter.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;Ends- 2.23.10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;I was not paid in any way by Kraft foods. Kraft Foods Inc. provided me with their product for review purposes. The opinions stated here are solely my own. Kraft Foods also provided coupons for giveaway purposes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please leave you email address in comment if I'm not able to contact you from your profile.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;~*~ Mandatory Entry ~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Must be done first&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Go to &lt;a href="http://www.kraftrecipes.com/home.aspx"&gt;Kraft Foods &lt;/a&gt;and tell me one of their recipes you would like to try&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Extra Entries&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;1.) Follow my blog (1 entry)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2.) Subscribe my email (1 entry)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;3.) Follow me on &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/Katie_bug24"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; (1 entry)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;4.) Tweet about this giveaway! Can be done 2x daily (2 entries)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;"Win! 4 boxes of &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Shake'N&lt;/span&gt; Bake at Half Crazy &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Mommie&lt;/span&gt; http://bit.ly/cfWwuB&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5.) Follow &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/kraftfoods"&gt;Kraft Foods &lt;/a&gt;on Twitter ( 2 entries)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;6.) Blog about this giveaway with a link back to here. (5 entries)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;6.) Tell me a childhood memory of cooking or baking with your family. (2 entries)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;7.) Enter the Spoiled Sweet Giveaway on &lt;a href="http://twentytolifeblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/spoiled-sweet-tutu-bow-your-choice.html"&gt;20 to Life &lt;/a&gt;(3 entries)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The winners will be chosen by Random.org. The winners will be notified by email and will have 48hrs to respond if not another winner be chosen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-6575433093651523399?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/6575433093651523399/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/shaken-bake-review-and-giveaway.html#comment-form' title='102 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/6575433093651523399'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/6575433093651523399'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/shaken-bake-review-and-giveaway.html' title='Shake&apos;N Bake Review And Giveaway!'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>102</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-7640158603839713804</id><published>2010-02-13T11:53:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-13T11:59:04.208-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='birthday'/><title type='text'>Help! Need Some Good Ideas!</title><content type='html'>Tomorrow is my son's birthday.  Yes I know I just had to give birth on Valentine's day.  It's ok though I have come to grips with the fact that I won't have a romantic Valentine's day for awaile. I need some ideas on what else to get for a 6yr boy.  He likes fire trucks but if I have to buy another one I wll rip my hair out (I have probably bought over 50 fire trucks since he was born).  Every time I ask him he says " I dunno another game for the PS3"  I just don't want him sitting on his butt playing video games all day long.  So please help, any thoughts would be great!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-7640158603839713804?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/7640158603839713804/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/help-need-some-good-ideas.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/7640158603839713804'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/7640158603839713804'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/help-need-some-good-ideas.html' title='Help! Need Some Good Ideas!'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-4978518699656198450</id><published>2010-02-13T11:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-13T11:53:27.121-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reviews'/><title type='text'>BusyBuzzyBees Review</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://ny-image2.etsy.com//il_430xN.118741498.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 430px; HEIGHT: 405px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://ny-image2.etsy.com//il_430xN.118741498.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't you all hate how the winter affects your lips. Mine always get so dry, and most chapstick doesn't help much. Well, I got to try &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/BusyBuzzyBees?page=1"&gt;BusyBuzzyBees'&lt;/a&gt; Exfoliating Lip Srub. It has Sugar crystals in it that gently exfoliate any dead or dry skin from your lips, giving fresh new skin a chance to grow and thrive. It's really cool because you can feel the roughness of the sugar crystals and yet at the same time you can feel how smooth it is making you lips. It really made a huge improvement in the softness of my lips. &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/BusyBuzzyBees?page=1"&gt;BusyBuzzyBees&lt;/a&gt; uses a mixture of oils that help promote the natural healing process as well as moisturize your lips. &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/BusyBuzzyBees?page=1"&gt;BusyBuzzyBees&lt;/a&gt; Lip Srub and Balm come in some really great flavors. They also have a variety of other products available. They have Soaps, Lip Balms, mini Perfumes ( I also got to try this out in the Pear scent and smells great!), and other great products.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ny-image1.etsy.com//il_155x125.101191265.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 155px; HEIGHT: 125px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://ny-image1.etsy.com//il_155x125.101191265.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/BusyBuzzyBees?page=1"&gt;BusyBuzzyBees&lt;/a&gt; loves to make natural and functional products for you to enjoy. A lot of her products are completely natural, those that aren’t are still at least 90% natural. They also have Vegan friendly products. So if you suffer like I do, you should go over to &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/BusyBuzzyBees?page=1"&gt;BusyBuzzyBees&lt;/a&gt; and try one of her amazing products.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-4978518699656198450?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/4978518699656198450/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/busybuzztbees-review.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/4978518699656198450'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/4978518699656198450'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/busybuzztbees-review.html' title='BusyBuzzyBees Review'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-6497711775216611115</id><published>2010-02-12T09:34:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-12T09:41:37.933-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fiday Follow'/><title type='text'>Fiday Follow!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;Happy Friday Follow!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.middayescapades.com/search/label/Friday%20Follow" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Friday Follow" src="http://blogrockmaryrc.com/followfriday01.png"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's how YOU can join the celebration:&lt;br /&gt;•* Link up your blog name and URL using the MckLinky below. Only need to add to one blog linky.&lt;br /&gt;•* Follow the Friday Follow hostesses listed in the first 3 slots. We will follow you back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;•* Follow as many blogs as you like&lt;br /&gt;•* Comment on the blogs telling them you're from Friday Follow&lt;br /&gt;•* Follow back when you get a new follower through Friday Follow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mcklinky.com/blog_hop.asp" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="MckLinky Blog Hop" src="http://www.mcklinky.com/images/MckLinkyBlogHop160.jpg" width="160" longdesc="http://www.brentriggs.com" height="52" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.mcklinky.com/linky_include_bloghop_public.asp?id=16946"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-6497711775216611115?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/6497711775216611115/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/fiday-follow.html#comment-form' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/6497711775216611115'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/6497711775216611115'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/fiday-follow.html' title='Fiday Follow!'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-1233471460293538633</id><published>2010-02-12T00:01:00.007-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-12T00:01:01.535-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giveaways'/><title type='text'>Etsy StrollerBlanketMom Jumper with Headband Giveaway!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://ny-image1.etsy.com/il_430xN.118177861.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 430px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 437px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://ny-image1.etsy.com/il_430xN.118177861.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I stumbled upon an Etsy shop named &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/StrollerblanketMom"&gt;StollerBlanketMom&lt;/a&gt;. Annette, owner of &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/StrollerblanketMom"&gt;StollerBlanketMom&lt;/a&gt;, handmakes some adorable jumpers, blankets, booties and many other cute things. Her blankets are made so the size is perfect to take along in the stroller or for nap time. Annette decided her love for sewing could make someone else happy as well. She has been sewing all her life, dolls for her nieces and halloween costumes each year (she says until her boys refused to wear them anymore). She hopes you will like her work and something will bring a smile to your little ones face. She is offering one of my readers a handmand "cute as a button" jumper with matching headband. This will make a fantastic shower gift or an addition to a little girl's wardrobe. It is lined with a brown/white dot fabric and has a decorative stitch for the hem Available in sizes from newborn to 24 months. Winner will be able to chose size. Enter this great giveaway below!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;I was not paid in any way by &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/StrollerblanketMom"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;StrollerBlanketMom&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;. I did not receive a product to review, I allowed the use of my blog for the giveaway. Any information here is from StrollerBlanketMom&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Ends 2.19.09&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;~*~ Mandatory Entry~*~&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Must be done first!&lt;br /&gt;Go over to &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/StrollerblanketMom"&gt;StrollerBlanketMom &lt;/a&gt;and leave me a comment telling me what you like from her shop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Extra Entries&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; -Please leave seperate comment for each that you do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+1 Follow my blog&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+1 Subscribe by email&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+2 Grab my button&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+1 Follow me on &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/Katie_bug24"&gt;Twitter&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+2 Tweet about this Giveaway Can be 2x daily&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+3 Favorite &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/StrollerblanketMom"&gt;StrollerBlanketMom&lt;/a&gt; on Etsy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+10 Purchase something from &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/StrollerblanketMom"&gt;StrollerBlanketMom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Winner will be chosen by Random.org. Winner will be notified by email and will have 48 hrs to respond or new winner will be chosen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-1233471460293538633?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/1233471460293538633/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/etsy-strollerblanketmom-jumper-with.html#comment-form' title='56 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/1233471460293538633'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/1233471460293538633'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/etsy-strollerblanketmom-jumper-with.html' title='Etsy StrollerBlanketMom Jumper with Headband Giveaway!'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>56</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-8729252530717041481</id><published>2010-02-11T00:01:00.006-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-11T00:01:00.907-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reviews'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giveaways'/><title type='text'>Head Huggers Headbands Review and Giveaway!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://ny-image1.etsy.com//il_430xN.116766205.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 430px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 573px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://ny-image1.etsy.com//il_430xN.116766205.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How many of you have had bad hair days? I know I have. I have pretty long hair, and it's always in my face, or the wind is blowing it all over the place. A major pain in the butt. So when I saw these headbands I definitely wanted to try them out. &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/HeadHuggersHeadbands"&gt;Head Huggers Headbands &lt;/a&gt;are really cool. They look like a bandanna but fit like a head band. I also suffer from migraines and it's hard for me to wear headbands. Well not these headbands, after about 15min of wearing it I totally forgot it was on. It stayed in place all day (even with my 2yr old trying to get it,lol), my hair was never in my face, it didn't bother my head like most headbands do. These are really great headbands. &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/HeadHuggersHeadbands"&gt;Head Huggers Headbands &lt;/a&gt;come in all different patterns and fit most people. &lt;a href="http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_430xN.121919530.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 430px; HEIGHT: 322px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_430xN.121919530.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I tried it on my 2yr and it was a little big but stayed on. These headbands are great for everyone. &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/HeadHuggersHeadbands"&gt;Head Huggers Headbands &lt;/a&gt;all started with a mom tired of her daughters hair in her face and turned into a great shop. &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/HeadHuggersHeadbands"&gt;Head Huggers Headbands &lt;/a&gt;has offered one of my readers one of their Hawaiian headbands. Please see below to enter!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I was not paid in any way by &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/HeadHuggersHeadbands"&gt;Head Huggers Headbands&lt;/a&gt;. I was given their product for review purposes. The opionions stated her are solely my own.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ends 2.18.10&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;~*~ Mandatory Entry~*~&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Must be done first!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go over to &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/HeadHuggersHeadbands"&gt;Head Huggers Headbands &lt;/a&gt;and tell me what pattern you like best&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Extra Entries&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+1 Follow my blog&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+1 Subscribe by email&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+2 Grab my button&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+1 Follow me on &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/Katie_bug24"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+2 Tweet about this Giveaway Can be 2x daily&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+3 Favorite &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/HeadHuggersHeadbands"&gt;Head Huggers Headbands&lt;/a&gt; on Etsy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+10 Purchase something from &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/HeadHuggersHeadbands"&gt;Head Huggers Headbands &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The winner will be chosen by Random.org. The winner will be notified by email and will have 48hrs to respond if not a new winner will be chosen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-8729252530717041481?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/8729252530717041481/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/head-huggers-headbands-review-and.html#comment-form' title='25 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/8729252530717041481'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/8729252530717041481'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/head-huggers-headbands-review-and.html' title='Head Huggers Headbands Review and Giveaway!'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>25</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-4060581567759796595</id><published>2010-02-10T00:01:00.009-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-18T16:40:29.214-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reviews'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giveaways'/><title type='text'>FlowerzInHerHair Review and Giveaway!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436511318737812498" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S3JePZLB_BI/AAAAAAAAACs/xsouwejAcxU/s200/HPIM0845.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Don't little girls just look so cute with a flower in their hair? Boutique prices can be outrageous though. But not to worry I have found a wonderful company that has the cutest hair accessories and great prices!! &lt;a href="http://flowerzinherhair.com/"&gt;FlowerzInHerHair&lt;/a&gt; has an amazing variety of flowers, bows, headbands, beanies and bracelets. &lt;a href="http://flowerzinherhair.com/"&gt;FlowerzInHerHair&lt;/a&gt; was kind enough to send me some of there items and boy are they cute. I got to try one of their beanies and my daughter loves it. My husband wears a beanie all the time and my two year went up to him with hers on and said "Daddy mine pretty yours no pretty, mine pretty." She likes it so much she fell asleep with it on for about 3 nights in a row. I also got a headband and 2 bows they are just adorable. The best part is that they are so well made they can withstand a toddler pulling on them. &lt;a href="http://flowerzinherhair.com/"&gt;FlowerzInHerHair&lt;/a&gt; is a great company that understands the importance of low prices and high quality. They provide an assortment of colors and styles to fit all personalities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S3Jf8OUmEWI/AAAAAAAAAC8/rZo5uTs72Jk/s1600-h/HPIM0850.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 200px; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436513188430877026" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S3Jf8OUmEWI/AAAAAAAAAC8/rZo5uTs72Jk/s200/HPIM0850.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These flowers, bows, beanies and so much more make great gifts. &lt;a href="http://flowerzinherhair.com/"&gt;FlowerzInHerHair&lt;/a&gt; is offering one of my readers a $20 Gift certificate to their store. This is a wonderful giveaway, see below to enter!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;I was not paid in any way by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://flowerzinherhair.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;FlowerzInHerHair&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;. I was given products for review purposes only. The opionions her are my own.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Ends 2.17.10&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;~*~ Mandatory Entry~*~ Must be done first!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go over to &lt;a href="http://flowerzinherhair.com/"&gt;FlowerzInHerHair&lt;/a&gt; and leave me a comment telling me something you like.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Extra Entries&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+1 Follow my blog&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+1 Subscribe by email&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+2 Grab my button&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+1 Follow me on &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/Katie_bug24"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+2 Tweet about this Giveaway Can be 2x daily&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;"Win! $20 GC to FlowersInHerHair Giveaway @Katie_bug24 from Half Crazy Mommie Pls RT http://bit.ly/bZxTYV"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;+2 Follow &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/amysflowerz"&gt;FlowerzInHerHair on Twitter &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+2 Become a Facebook Fan of &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Roy-UT/Flowerzinherhaircom/150874976538"&gt;FlowerzInHerHair&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+10 Purchase something from &lt;a href="http://flowerzinherhair.com/"&gt;FlowerzInHerHair &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Winner will be chosen by Random.org. Winner will be notified by email and will have 48hrs to respond if not a new winner will be chosen.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-4060581567759796595?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/4060581567759796595/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/flowerzinherhair-review-and-giveaway.html#comment-form' title='76 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/4060581567759796595'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/4060581567759796595'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/flowerzinherhair-review-and-giveaway.html' title='FlowerzInHerHair Review and Giveaway!!'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S3JePZLB_BI/AAAAAAAAACs/xsouwejAcxU/s72-c/HPIM0845.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>76</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-7203810867390743330</id><published>2010-02-09T18:24:00.010-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-18T16:39:52.664-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reviews'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giveaways'/><title type='text'>Sweetthingspretzels Review and Giveaway!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_430xN.121224872.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 430px; HEIGHT: 322px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_430xN.121224872.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had the honor of trying out some of &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/sweetthingspretzels"&gt;Sweetthingspretzels's&lt;/a&gt; chocolate covered pretzels. No lie, they lasted about an hour in my house, They were beautifully decorated. I was given the variety pack which had some very tasty toppings. I really loved the white chocolate covered pretzels with mini chocolate chips on top. Yum yum yum! &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/sweetthingspretzels"&gt;Sweetthingspretzels&lt;/a&gt; chocolate covered pretzels are perfect party favors. She will custom decorate them to match any party theme, such as a baby shower, bridal showers and birthday parties. Nicole, owner of &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/sweetthingspretzels"&gt;Sweetthingspretzels&lt;/a&gt; also makes some beautiful Bridal Shower Towel Cakes, Platters, Candies and soon will be doing chocolate lollipops. &lt;a href="http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_430xN.119952950.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 430px; HEIGHT: 573px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_430xN.119952950.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nicole is a stay at home mom that made these delicious goodies for friends, family, and teachers (don't you wish you were one of them, I do lol) when she decided to make a business of it. I'm sure glad she did. Nicole says "I truly love making these awesome delicious pretzels, it allows me to be creative and the possibilities of what I can do are endless. Nicole over at &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/sweetthingspretzels"&gt;Sweetthingspretzels&lt;/a&gt; has allowed me to do a giveaway, so one of you lucky readers are going to get the chance to try these wonderful pretzels! She is going to make a dozen pretzels in a variety of flavors and designs. Don't miss out, enter below!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ny-image1.etsy.com//il_430xN.119941209.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 430px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 322px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://ny-image1.etsy.com//il_430xN.119941209.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;US Entries Only Please&lt;br /&gt;Ends 2.16.10&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;I was not paid in any way by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/sweetthingspretzels"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Sweetthingspretzels&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;. I was given an item for review purposes only. The opinions stated here are my own.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;~*~ Mandatory~*~&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Must be done first!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tell me something you like at &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/sweetthingspretzels"&gt;Sweetthingspretzel's&lt;/a&gt; shop&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Extra Entries&lt;/span&gt; -Please leave me a separate comment for each that you do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+1 Follow my blog&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+1 Subscribe by email&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+2 Grab my button- please leave your link in comment&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+3 Favorite &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/sweetthingspretzels"&gt;Sweetthingspretzels&lt;/a&gt; on Etsy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+1 Follow me on &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/Katie_bug24"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+2 Tweet about this giveaway Can be done 2x daily&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;"Win! Dozen Chocolate Covered Pretzels from Sweetthingspretzels at Half Crazy Mommie. Pls RT http://bit.ly/cuwagg"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+5 Purchase something from &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/sweetthingspretzels"&gt;Sweetthingspretzels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The winner will be chosen by Random.org. Winner will be notified by email and will have 48hrs to respond or a new winner will be chosen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-7203810867390743330?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/7203810867390743330/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/sweetthingspretzels-review-and-giveaway.html#comment-form' title='59 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/7203810867390743330'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/7203810867390743330'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/sweetthingspretzels-review-and-giveaway.html' title='Sweetthingspretzels Review and Giveaway!'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>59</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-587475291357629250</id><published>2010-02-08T16:38:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-08T16:52:34.886-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giveaways'/><title type='text'>Divine Designs Winner!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RqVKd90dKAo/Sl1l4hlpMMI/AAAAAAAAAKY/q7Ztp5DNQe8/S45/DSCN1441"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 45px; height: 45px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RqVKd90dKAo/Sl1l4hlpMMI/AAAAAAAAAKY/q7Ztp5DNQe8/S45/DSCN1441" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A big Congratulations to #109 &lt;a href="http://bellasbowtique.blogspot.com/"&gt;Bella's Bowtique &lt;/a&gt;for winning the Divine Designs Giveaway!!    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just a little reminder- the Calabasas Giveaway ends tonight so if you haven't entered yet go and do so!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-587475291357629250?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/587475291357629250/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/divine-designs-winner.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/587475291357629250'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/587475291357629250'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/divine-designs-winner.html' title='Divine Designs Winner!'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RqVKd90dKAo/Sl1l4hlpMMI/AAAAAAAAAKY/q7Ztp5DNQe8/s72-c/DSCN1441' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-5625681402031652117</id><published>2010-02-05T11:19:00.009-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-12T09:09:42.554-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reviews'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giveaways'/><title type='text'>nolamera Jewerly Studio Giveaway!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://ny-image1.etsy.com//il_430xN.119984173.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 430px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 285px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://ny-image1.etsy.com//il_430xN.119984173.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While on the Etsy site, I stumbled apon &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/nolamera"&gt;nolamera Jewerly Studio&lt;/a&gt;. From what I've seen she is a true artist. She makes some absolutly beautiful pieces that I know you all will love. All of &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/nolamera"&gt;nolamera Jewelry Studio's &lt;/a&gt;pieces are handmade by her using Lampwork glass, Freshwater Pearls, Gemstones, Swarovski Crystals, Sterling Sliver, Goldfill, Silver or Gold Plated or Pewter. Mera has been designing jewelry for 2 and a half years but has been an artist for 20 years.She has degree in Graphic Design and is also a ceramic artist. Mera said she has always been influenced by the natural world and it is often reflected in her work. Botanicals, the ocean, our own beautiful Gulf Coast beaches and all that is New Orleans. She finds her wire work inspired by the elegant and intricate wrought iron work so prevelant in New Orleans and Louisiana. &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/nolamera"&gt;nolamera Jewerly Studio &lt;/a&gt;is offering one of my readers a pair of &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=39692647"&gt;Fleur de lis Chandelier Earrings&lt;/a&gt;. Don't miss out on this great giveaway-enter below to win!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I was not paid in any way by nolamera Jewerly Studio. I did not receive a product to review, I only allowed my blog to be used for giveaway purposes. The opinions stated here are soley my own and all information regarding shop was provided by shop owner.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ENDS 2-11-10 CLOSED&lt;br /&gt;Winning comment is #20- Winner was notified by email&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;~*~ Mandatory Entry &lt;/strong&gt;~*~ Must be done first!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go to &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/nolamera"&gt;nolamera Jewerly Studio &lt;/a&gt;and leave me a comment telling me something you like from her shop!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Extra Entries&lt;/strong&gt;- Please leave a seperate comment for each that you do!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+1 Follow my blog&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+1 Subscribe by email&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+3 Favorite &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/nolamera"&gt;nolamera Jewerly Studio &lt;/a&gt;on Etsy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+2 Grab my button!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+1 Follow me on &lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/Katie_bug24"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+2 Tweet about this giveaway - Can be done 2x daily&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Win! Fleur de lis Chandelier earrings from nolamera jewerly studio at Half Crazy Mommie Pls RT http://bit.ly/amubYb"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+3 Enter the Zoodles.com giveaway on &lt;a href="http://twentytolifeblog.blogspot.com/"&gt;20 to Life&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+5 Blog about this giveaway with a link back to me. Please leave your link in comment&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+10 Purchase something from &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/nolamera"&gt;nolamera Jewerly Studio&lt;/a&gt;. (Must be verified)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Winner will be chosen by Random.org. Winner will be notified by email. Winner will have 48hrs to respond or another winner will be chosen.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not to be rude in any way,because I love all comments I receive but the comments for this post are for giveaway purposes only. Because it messes up the numbering. So in consideration to those who have entered and others that will please leave comments not related to the giveaway on another post.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-5625681402031652117?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/5625681402031652117/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/nolamera-jewerly-studio-giveaway.html#comment-form' title='54 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/5625681402031652117'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/5625681402031652117'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/nolamera-jewerly-studio-giveaway.html' title='nolamera Jewerly Studio Giveaway!'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>54</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-1144475371825460486</id><published>2010-02-03T14:03:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-03T14:10:57.131-07:00</updated><title type='text'>New Look</title><content type='html'>What do you guys think about the changes I made to my blog?  I love having the nav bar now.  I also finally got a button!! I owe it all to Cory at &lt;a href="http://www.scrap-e-blog.blogspot.com/"&gt;Scrap-e-blog&lt;/a&gt;!  She is so amazing.  It only cost me $12 to have her make the nav bar and the button.  Also she has a bunch of free backgrounds on her blog.  She is so friendly and helped me out alot since I am still new to all this.  I just wanted to give her a huge thanks for all her help!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also I wanted to let you all now about a great giveaway going on over at &lt;a href="http://www.twentytolifeblog.blogspot.com"&gt;20 to Life&lt;/a&gt;,  she has a beautiful necklace up for grabs from &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/BellaRayDesigns"&gt;Bella Ray Designs&lt;/a&gt;.  You all should go check it out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-1144475371825460486?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/1144475371825460486/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-look.html#comment-form' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/1144475371825460486'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/1144475371825460486'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-look.html' title='New Look'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-2872146381064126049</id><published>2010-02-02T10:12:00.006-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-02T11:11:49.037-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='award'/><title type='text'>My first Blog Award!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SfTeDNOa3mo/S2b8d1r9ZYI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/GTZ5VX5peUE/s320/sunshineblogaward.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 175px; height: 170px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SfTeDNOa3mo/S2b8d1r9ZYI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/GTZ5VX5peUE/s320/sunshineblogaward.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey guess what?  I got my 1st award!!  I won the Sunshine Award!!!  I was nominated by Joe over at &lt;a href="http://twentytolifeblog.blogspot.com"&gt;20 to Life blog&lt;/a&gt;. Joe has a wonderful blog with some really great giveaways!  If you haven't seen her blog yet, you should go over and check it out! Huge thanks to her!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rules for accepting:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Put the Logo on your sidebar, or within a post. &lt;br /&gt;•Pass the award onto 12 Bloggers&lt;br /&gt;•Link the nominees within your post.&lt;br /&gt;•Let the nominees know they have received this award by commenting on their blog.&lt;br /&gt;•Share the love and link to the person from whom you received this award&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So  here's who I nominate!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. &lt;a href="http://jamielz.blogspot.com/"&gt;Cake Mom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. &lt;a href="http://mommyknow.blogspot.com/"&gt;Mommy Know&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. &lt;a href="http://bridget3420.blogspot.com/"&gt;Readaholic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. &lt;a href="http://justanothermomof2.blogspot.com/"&gt;Just Another Mom of 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. &lt;a href="http://all-about-the-savings.blogspot.com/"&gt;It's All about the Savings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. &lt;a href="http://dealightfullyfrugal.blogspot.com/"&gt;"Deal"ightfully Frugal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. &lt;a href="http://massholemommy.blogspot.com/"&gt;Mass Hole Mommy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8. &lt;a href="http://hooksofhope.blogspot.com/"&gt;Hooks for Hope&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9. &lt;a href="http://dealwisemommy.blogspot.com/"&gt;Deal Wise Mommy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10. &lt;a href="http://familyliciousreviews.blogspot.com/"&gt;Familylicious Reviews &amp; Giveaways&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;11.&lt;a href="http://girlygirlgiveaways.blogspot.com/"&gt;Girly Girl Giveaways&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12.&lt;a href="http://mamaof3munchkins.blogspot.com/"&gt;Mama of 3 Munchkins&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks again to Joe!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-2872146381064126049?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/2872146381064126049/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/my-first-blog-award.html#comment-form' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/2872146381064126049'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/2872146381064126049'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/my-first-blog-award.html' title='My first Blog Award!'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SfTeDNOa3mo/S2b8d1r9ZYI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/GTZ5VX5peUE/s72-c/sunshineblogaward.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-6833717125188410599</id><published>2010-02-01T11:19:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-01T21:29:08.637-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reviews'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giveaways'/><title type='text'>Country Bob's Review and Giveaway!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.countrybobs.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/category/All_Purpose_Sauc_49d378f2bc7a0.png"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 143px; height: 238px;" src="http://www.countrybobs.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/category/All_Purpose_Sauc_49d378f2bc7a0.png" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  In 1968 &lt;a href="http://www.countrybobs.com/"&gt;Country Bob&lt;/a&gt; perfected the sauce of his dreams.  After years of giving it to friends and family he began to sell it in 1977.  And to this day Country Bob's sauce is still used in kitchens world wide.  So when I received a bottle of Country Bob's All purpose sauce I thought I'd give it a try.  So I went to &lt;a href="http://www.countrybobs.com/"&gt;Country Bob's &lt;/a&gt;website and found this recipe. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.countrybobs.com/index.php?option=com_rapidrecipe&amp;page=viewrecipe&amp;recipe_id=33&amp;Itemid=77"&gt;Country Bob's Meatballs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Ingredients&lt;br /&gt;3 lbs ground beef&lt;br /&gt;2 eggs&lt;br /&gt;1/2 cup Country Bob's All Purpose Sauce (or may substitute Spicy)&lt;br /&gt;1 envelope onion soup mix&lt;br /&gt;Salt and pepper&lt;br /&gt;1/2 cup Parmesan cheese&lt;br /&gt;1/2 tsp garlic powder&lt;br /&gt;Spaghetti sauceMethods/steps&lt;br /&gt;Combine all ingredients. Shape into golf ball sized balls. Brown in pan. Add spaghetti sauce and simmer until done. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't know about you guys but I love meatballs.  My dad made so much spaghetti when I was a kid ( my mom went back to get her masters degree and it's the only thing he knew how to make) that I can't eat it without either sausage or meatballs.  So I gave the receipe a try (which is a very easy receipe).  They were one of the best meatballs I ever had.   This sauce really is a universal sauce you can use it in so many different recipes.  It's tastes great on meat, chicken and pork. My daughter loved it with chicken nuggets and you guy all know how picky toddlers can be. It is definately a must have in any house. Guess what? The great people at &lt;a href="http://www.countrybobs.com/"&gt;Country Bob's &lt;/a&gt;have offered 2 of my readers a bottle of their All Purpose Sauce!  Keep reading to see how to win!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I was not paid or compensated by Country Bob's in any way.  I was given their product for review purposes only. The opinions stated here are solely my own.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;   ENDS 2.07.10&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; ~*~ Mandatory ~*~  &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  Must be done first&lt;br /&gt;   Go over to &lt;a href="http://www.countrybobs.com/"&gt;Country Bob's &lt;/a&gt;and tell me what recipe you would like to try&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Extra Entries&lt;/strong&gt;-  Please leave a seperate comment for each that you do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    +1  Follow My Blog&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;    +1  Subscribe by email&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    +2  Grab my button!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    +1  Follow me on &lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/Katie_bug24"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    +2  Tweet about this giveaway- Can be done 2x daily&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;       Win! Country Bob's All Purpose Sauce at Half Crazy Mommie     &lt;br /&gt;      http://bit.ly/aFDNbD Pls RT&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    +1  Follow &lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/countrybobs"&gt;Country Bobs &lt;/a&gt;on   Twitter&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt; Winners will be chosen by Random.org.  Winners will be notified by email and will have 48hrs to repond or new winners will be chosen.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-6833717125188410599?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/6833717125188410599/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/country-bobs-review-and-giveaway.html#comment-form' title='35 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/6833717125188410599'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/6833717125188410599'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/02/country-bobs-review-and-giveaway.html' title='Country Bob&apos;s Review and Giveaway!'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>35</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-5160443096160586062</id><published>2010-01-30T12:25:00.012-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-01T10:56:41.462-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reviews'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giveaways'/><title type='text'>Calabasas Candy Co. Review and Giveaway!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://ny-image0.etsy.com//il_75x75.119462424.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 75px; height: 75px;" src="http://ny-image0.etsy.com//il_75x75.119462424.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WOW!  I'm not usually left speechless ( well almost speechless).  I had the honor of trying &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/calabasascandyco"&gt;Calabasas Candy Co.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=39539728"&gt;Red Chocolate Hearts&lt;/a&gt;.  The wonderful people over at &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/calabasascandyco"&gt;Calabasas's&lt;/a&gt; say that they strive to provide the best quality chocolate, well believe me they do. They have perfected it.  As soon as I walked in the door with the box everyone asked "hey what did you get?'  My response was "nothing you would like"(I'm not a good liar but I thought they bought it).  So I hurried into my room.  No lie as soon as I opened that pretty red box it comes in my nephew and son stormed in the room.  I swear they could smell it from across the house.  After kicking them out I tried one and let me tell you it was complete and utter bliss.  It's one of those times when you know you probably shouldn't eat it but you're gonna anyway.  It was well worth any addition it may have caused to my thighs.  Seriously ladies (and men) you need to indulge yourselves sometimes and there is no tastier way than with some chocolates (or carmels and marshmellows-they have those too) from &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/calabasascandyco"&gt;Calabasas Candy Co&lt;/a&gt;.  I thought maybe I was being bias cause I like chocolate so much.  Nope not just me.  I was obligated to share with my husband and he loved them.  He is a chocolate snob. He only likes classic candy bars like Snickers and such and turns his nose up to anything else.  I definately got  two thumbs up from him and he told me to order some more.  So here's some info on, in my opinion, one of the best chocolate companies I have tried.  &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/calabasascandyco"&gt;Calabasas&lt;/a&gt; is located near the California coast, and famous for a relaxed, health consious attitude. They  work closely with a local chocolatier who selects only the finest exotic cocoa beans from around the world. Their cocoa beans are all organic and are ethically traded.  Their caramels are made from their own exclusive recipe using only the finest fresh ingredients. Believe me I will be trying some of those.  But you guys don't have to take my word for it go over to &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/calabasascandyco"&gt;Calabasas Candy Co&lt;/a&gt;. and order some for youself.  Their prices are great!  &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/calabasascandyco"&gt;Calabasas Candy Co&lt;/a&gt; has offered their &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=39539728"&gt;Red Chocolate Hearts &lt;/a&gt;to one of my readers.  Read below to see how to enter&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href="http://ny-image3.etsy.com//il_75x75.119462427.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 75px; height: 75px;" src="http://ny-image3.etsy.com//il_75x75.119462427.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I was not paid by Calabasas Candy Co. in any way.  I only received their product for review purposes.  The opinions stated here are solely my own.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ENDS 2.08.10&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;~*~ Mandatory Entry~*~&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Go over to &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/calabasascandyco"&gt;Calabasas Candy Co&lt;/a&gt;. and leave me a comment telling me which one of their wonderful products you would like to try.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Extra Entries&lt;/strong&gt;  Please leave a seperate comment for each (Those who have entered before I wrote this your comments will still count)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;1. Follow my blog (1 entry)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;2. Subscribe to my blog  (2 entries)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;3. Favorite &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/calabasascandyco"&gt;Calabasas Candy Co on Etsy  &lt;/a&gt;(2 entries)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;4. Follow me on &lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/Katie_bug24"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;  (2 entries)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;5. Tweet about this giveaway  Can be done up to 3x daily  (2 entries)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Win Red Chocolate Hearts from Calabasas Candy CO. http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/calabasas-candy-co-review-and-giveaway.html"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6.  Go over to &lt;a href="http://twentytolifeblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/gerbo-designs-valentine-day-card.html"&gt;20 to Life Blog &lt;/a&gt;and enter her Gerbo Designs Giveaway! (3 entries)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Winner will be chosen by Random.org.  Winner will have 48hrs to respond or a new winner will be chosen&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-5160443096160586062?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/5160443096160586062/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/calabasas-candy-co-review-and-giveaway.html#comment-form' title='125 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/5160443096160586062'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/5160443096160586062'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/calabasas-candy-co-review-and-giveaway.html' title='Calabasas Candy Co. Review and Giveaway!'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>125</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-769406812128824961</id><published>2010-01-28T17:57:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-28T18:11:11.947-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Twilight Fans Need to see!</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XVy8Dr_SxWg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XVy8Dr_SxWg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;   &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;   This video is from Shallow Day.  The lead singer, Mike, has a great voice and the drummer and guitarist can hold their own.  You should all go over to You Tube and check all the other videos they have.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; I got this from Joe over at 20 to Life blog.  She suggested that I put here for you guys to see.  It's hilarious.  It's so true to, my husband got mad at me through the whole Twilight series, he said all I did was read all day and night lol.  I hope you guys like as much as I did.  Oh yeah my dog had her puppies last night!  EIGHT of them!!  I can't believe she had that many.  Oh well!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-769406812128824961?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/769406812128824961/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/twilight-fans-need-to-see.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/769406812128824961'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/769406812128824961'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/twilight-fans-need-to-see.html' title='Twilight Fans Need to see!'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-6726507255508816637</id><published>2010-01-27T14:28:00.013-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-11T00:15:58.799-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reviews'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giveaways'/><title type='text'>Design Divas Wall Vinyl Review and Giveaway</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5EB2laLTVv8/St5zBHPaIwI/AAAAAAAAAcc/4cNVsX2EvqY/S220/smalllogo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 220px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 110px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5EB2laLTVv8/St5zBHPaIwI/AAAAAAAAAcc/4cNVsX2EvqY/S220/smalllogo.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m just gonna go ahead and admit it, I’m addicted to wall vinyl. It makes it so easy to give your room that extra little pizzazz and I love the beautiful quotes. It can be very expensive though. As most of you know I just moved. My new house is bigger than my old house so I was in need of some more things to put up. So I went to a craft store here in town and was amazed at how much their wall vinyl was. Some quotes were $50. As much as I may love wall vinyl, self preservation won out and I didn’t buy it (my husband would have killed me if I spent that much on a “sticker” for the wall as he calls it. Men…). So when I found &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/DesignDivasGallery"&gt;Design Divas on Etsy &lt;/a&gt;I was in vinyl heaven. You can also find them on the &lt;a href="http://www.designdivasgallery.blogspot.com/"&gt;Design Divas blog&lt;/a&gt;. I was given the chance to review one of their designs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ny-image2.etsy.com//il_fullxfull.116186102.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://ny-image2.etsy.com//il_fullxfull.116186102.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was sent the &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=38580105"&gt;“I love you to the moon and back” quote&lt;/a&gt;. As soon as I got it I went on the search for where I wanted it to go. I chose my son’s room. Since my son has a bunk bed and I wanted it on the wall above the bed, my husband had to put it up for me (my knee won’t allow any kind of flexibility). So I read the directions to him (&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/DesignDivasGallery"&gt;Design Divas &lt;/a&gt;sends them out with all their orders or you can watch a &lt;a href="http://designdivasgallery.blogspot.com/search/label/Application%20Instructions"&gt;video demo&lt;/a&gt;). It was very easy. If you follow their directions it goes on perfectly and looks great. It was the perfect final touch to my sons room, I love it. So, enough about me lets get to know &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/DesignDivasGallery"&gt;Design Divas&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/DesignDivasGallery"&gt;Design Divas &lt;/a&gt;is a mother &amp;amp; daughter team. Although they live in two different cities in Canada they started their business 6 months ago in an effort to combine their respective talents. Alison, a mother of 5, is legally blind. Despite that fact she has successfully run several businesses, and taught her family that you can achieve anything with the right attitude. Rachel is a mother of 3 (all under the age of 4) and although life is crazy, she is happy to use the skills she learned in University getting her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Both mother and daughter share a love of crafts and want to share their love with everyone else. &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/DesignDivasGallery"&gt;Design Divas &lt;/a&gt;Vinyl Lettering &amp;amp; Wall Art creates original design vinyl wall quotes and wall art products that you can apply yourself to any clean, flat surface. Their vinyl quotes come in 4 standard sizes and are measured in inches. All of their standard sizes are $9.95 with the option to upgrade the size for an additional cost. They also do custom orders. All of their vinyl lettering and vinyl wall art products are made from the highest quality removable indoor vinyl (not reusable). Their vinyl is removable for at least 3 years without leaving any residue. They have a wonderful selection, so definately check out their site. The lovely ladies at &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/DesignDivasGallery"&gt;Design Divas&lt;/a&gt; have offered one of their quotes to one of my readers. The quote they are offering is their &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=36036283"&gt;“Don’t Dream your life, live your dreams”&lt;/a&gt; (6x24 inches). It’s a beautiful quote and would look great in one of your homes. See below on how to enter this great giveaway!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ny-image2.etsy.com//il_430xN.107645762.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 430px; HEIGHT: 274px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://ny-image2.etsy.com//il_430xN.107645762.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was not paid in any way by Design Divas, I was given an item for review purposes only. The opinions stated here are solely my own.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ENDS 2.10.10&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Winning Comment was #102&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;~*~ Mandatory Entry~*~ &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Must be done first! Please do this I do not want to choose you and you not be able to win because you didn't do this&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.designdivasgallery.blogspot.com/"&gt;Follow Design Divas Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Extra Entries&lt;/strong&gt;- Please leave a separate comment for each that you do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.) Follow my blog (1 entry)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.) Subscribe via email (1 entry)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.) Follow me on &lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/Katie_bug24"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; (1 entry)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4.) Tweet about this giveaway ( 5 entries)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Win! Design Diva's Wall Vinyl Giveaway! http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/design-divas-wall-vinyl-review-and.html"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5.) Become a &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Design-Divas-Vinyl-Lettering-Wall-Art/115938252342"&gt;Facebook Fan of Design Divas &lt;/a&gt;(2 entries)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6.) Go over to &lt;a href="http://twentytolifeblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/5000-gift-certificate-to-babys-first.html"&gt;20 to life blog &lt;/a&gt;and enter her "Baby's First Phone Call" Giveaway ( 3 entries)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7.) Purchase an item from &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/DesignDivasGallery"&gt;Design Divas&lt;/a&gt;- must be verified (10 entries)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Winner will be chosen by Random.org. Winner will have 48hrs to respond, if not another winner will be chosen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not to be rude in any way, because I love all comments, but these comments are for giveaway purposes only. In consideration of people who have entered and those who will please leave comments not related to this giveaway in another post.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-6726507255508816637?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/6726507255508816637/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/design-divas-wall-vinyl-review-and.html#comment-form' title='107 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/6726507255508816637'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/6726507255508816637'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/design-divas-wall-vinyl-review-and.html' title='Design Divas Wall Vinyl Review and Giveaway'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5EB2laLTVv8/St5zBHPaIwI/AAAAAAAAAcc/4cNVsX2EvqY/s72-c/smalllogo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>107</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-7151081763917283459</id><published>2010-01-26T22:56:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-26T22:57:43.411-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Tomorrow-New Giveaway</title><content type='html'>Tomorrow I will be posting a new giveaway!!!  Make sure you check back by to enter it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-7151081763917283459?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/7151081763917283459/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/tomorrow-new-giveaway.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/7151081763917283459'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/7151081763917283459'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/tomorrow-new-giveaway.html' title='Tomorrow-New Giveaway'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-7954053853013216820</id><published>2010-01-26T00:01:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-26T00:39:57.002-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My Pregnant Dog!</title><content type='html'>I have a pregnant dog.  Yeah, I know I love puppies but I hate puppies.  I love them when they aren't mine.  I hate potty training.  There is nothing more gross then puppy "accidents". Don't get me wrong I love dogs but I like them a little past the really puppy stage. Like when they are somewhat house trained. I'm hoping she doesn't have a very big litter, it's her first.  But I'm not usually that lucky, with my luck she'll have like 8 or 9.  I have no idea what do to when she goes into to labor.  I don't even know what the signs of labor are other than what the vet said.  He said that her temperature would drop to 100 degrees.  I really do not want to rectally take a dogs temperature.  My husbands the one with the stupid idea to get her pregnant so I will leave that lovely job to him. (hahaha)  Sorry if there are a lot of typos in this post, my husband and his friends are playing football on the PS3 and I have his friend yelling "Get it baby, Get it baby' in my ear.  My fault for having the computer in the game room.  Well pray for me that everything goes well with her, and for me that she only has a couple puppies.  I am going back to the prison called my bed since I'm not allowed to do anything but keep my leg elevated.  I now feel extremely sorry for pregnant women that are forced to bed rest.  I have read litterally six (300 + page) books just since Friday.  (my grandfather owned a book store so I grew up reading a lot) Oh yeah make sure you enter Divine Designs Giveaway if you haven't it's a beautiful necklace!  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");&lt;br /&gt;document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;try {&lt;br /&gt;var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-12662791-1");&lt;br /&gt;pageTracker._trackPageview();&lt;br /&gt;} catch(err) {}&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-7954053853013216820?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/7954053853013216820/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/my-pregnant-dog.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/7954053853013216820'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/7954053853013216820'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/my-pregnant-dog.html' title='My Pregnant Dog!'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-7163185539498377719</id><published>2010-01-23T13:09:00.016-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-07T01:38:57.045-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reviews'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giveaways'/><title type='text'>Divine Designs Boutique Giveaway!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://ny-image2.etsy.com//il_75x75.112924698.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 75px; height: 75px;" src="http://ny-image2.etsy.com//il_75x75.112924698.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.divinedesignsboutique.com/store/Default.asp"&gt;Divine Designs Boutique&lt;/a&gt; is a Family owned and operarated business that offers high quality handcrafted jewerly.  Their Sterling Impressions Collection features beautiful handstamped/engraved jewerly and gifts.  You can visit &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/divinedesignsbyjen"&gt;Divine Designs on Etsy&lt;/a&gt;.  They also have their own website- &lt;a href="http://www.divinedesignsboutique.com/store/Default.asp"&gt;Divine Designs Boutique&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;a href="http://divinedesignsboutique.blogspot.com/"&gt;Divine Designs &lt;/a&gt;has also just started their own blog.  To check out their blog click &lt;a href="http://divinedesignsboutique.blogspot.com/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  The wonderful people at &lt;a href="http://www.divinedesignsboutique.com/store/Default.asp"&gt;Divine Designs &lt;/a&gt;have offered a beautiful necklace to my readers. This necklace is a &lt;a href="http://www.divinedesignsboutique.com/store/WsDefault.asp?One=248"&gt;Sterling Impressions Handstamped Precious Petites Child's Single Initial Birthstone Necklace&lt;/a&gt;.  It's a beautiful necklace and any child would love it. Every purchase comes with a 60 day jewelry warranty, and the item for this giveaway will definately be included in that.  Don't miss out- enter below!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;     I was not paid or compensated in anyway by Divine Designs.  I just offered my blog to do a giveaway. I did not receive an item to review.  The information listed above was received from their website.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Giveaway ends- 2.06.10- Sorry their company can only ship to the US        &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Please leave you email in the comment if I can't contact you by clicking on your profile.&lt;br /&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;~*~ Mandatory Entry~*~&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;   Must be done first&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.divinedesignsboutique.com/store/WsAncillary.asp?ID=14"&gt; Join Divine Designs Boutique's Mailing List&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;         &lt;strong&gt;Extra Entries&lt;/strong&gt;-  Please leave a seperate comment for each that you do&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      1.)  Follow my blog through Google Friend Connect  (1 entry)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      2.)   Subscribe through email   (1 entry)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      3.)  Follow me on &lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/Katie_bug24"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;    (1 entry)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      4.)  Tweet about this Giveaway- (3 entries)  Can be done daily&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      "WIN! A Divine Designs Children's Engraved Necklace RT http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/divine-designs-boutique-giveaway.html"   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      5.)  Follow &lt;a href="http://divinedesignsboutique.blogspot.com/"&gt;Divine Designs Blog &lt;/a&gt; (2 entries)  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      6.) Go to &lt;a href="http://twentytolifeblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/country-bobs-all-purpose-sauce-giveaway.html"&gt;20 to life Blog &lt;/a&gt;and enter her giveaway for Country Bob's All Purpose Sauce.  (2 entries)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The winner will be chosen by &lt;a href="http://www.random.org/"&gt;Random.org&lt;/a&gt;.  After the winning comment is verified, the winner will be notified by email and will have 48hrs to respond.  If winner does not respond a new winner will be chosen.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CLOSED NOW!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not to be rude in any way,because I love all comments I receive but the comments for this post are for giveaway purposes only. Because it messes up the numbering. So in consideration to those who have entered and others that will please leave comments not related to the giveaway on another post.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-7163185539498377719?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/7163185539498377719/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/divine-designs-boutique-giveaway.html#comment-form' title='139 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/7163185539498377719'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/7163185539498377719'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/divine-designs-boutique-giveaway.html' title='Divine Designs Boutique Giveaway!'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>139</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-8515842890941148509</id><published>2010-01-22T15:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-22T15:01:04.656-07:00</updated><title type='text'>New Giveaway for Tomorrow!</title><content type='html'>Hi everyone, I'm gonna leave todays post short.  I went to the doctor and I guess I have something called Compartment Syndrome in my calf.  Which basically means I have way to much blood sitting in my calf and its affected my calf muscle. I guess its something pretty serious.  If it doesn't get better they will have to cut open my calf to let it drain and they won't stitch it up, they'll just leave it open. YUCK! So I've been told to stay in bed.  But tommorrow  I will be posting a new Giveaway along with &lt;a href="http://twentytolifeblog.blogspot.com"&gt;20 to Life Blog &lt;/a&gt; and I know you will all love it.  So check back by tomorrow to enter it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-8515842890941148509?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/8515842890941148509/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-giveaway-for-tomorrow.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/8515842890941148509'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/8515842890941148509'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-giveaway-for-tomorrow.html' title='New Giveaway for Tomorrow!'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-950173992034522206</id><published>2010-01-21T00:31:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-21T13:14:33.346-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='useless rambling'/><title type='text'>Useless Rambling</title><content type='html'>I finally got to take a shower last night! It was about time. My husband had to help me get in and out.  I also got my stitches out yesterday.  I had to sit there forever and only saw the doctor for 5 min.  He didn't even look at my knee.  Don't you think thats wierd.  I thought he should have but no he had his MA take the stitches out and told me to come back in 3 weeks.  So I have to have this stupid knee brace on my knee for a LONG time.  They said they are gonna keep it straight for 3 weeks, then start bending it.  So who knows how long that will take.  A is started to feel a little better.  She still sounds awful.  Her voice is all messed up so she sounds like a little mouse. C is getting ready for his 100th day in kindergarten.  So he's all excited.  And I just found out that my parents will be coming to see me the end of Feb!!  I'm so excited.  I don't care how old you get you always need your mommy and daddy.  I can hardly wait for them to get here. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-950173992034522206?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/950173992034522206/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/useless-rambling.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/950173992034522206'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/950173992034522206'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/useless-rambling.html' title='Useless Rambling'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-8156884401716580720</id><published>2010-01-20T00:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-20T00:17:21.488-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wordless Wednesday'/><title type='text'>Wordless Wednesday- Pool buddies :)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1ajh7detJI/AAAAAAAAACQ/_nqvBnQKF-w/s1600-h/Trip+to+Texas+085.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; 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margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 187px; height: 126px;" src="http://www.zoodles.com/images/zoodles-logo.png" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How many of you have kids that want to play games on the internet? I know I do. My son is always asking me. It's hard because you want to let them but there's so much unpleasant stuff on the internet that you don't want them to see. So when I heard of &lt;a href="http://www.zoodles.com/"&gt;Zoodles.com &lt;/a&gt;I had to check it out. It is one of the easiest and best thing I have done. It only took me five minutes to set up and it's literally hours of educational fun for my son. So you're probably wondering what's &lt;a href="http://www.zoodles.com"&gt;Zoodles.com&lt;/a&gt;? Well &lt;a href="http://www.zoodles.com/"&gt;Zoodles.com &lt;/a&gt;provides a virtual "toybox" filled with puzzles, games, and all sorts of educational activities that are age-appropriate. With &lt;a href="http://www.zoodles.com/"&gt;Zoodles.com &lt;/a&gt;your child only has access to websites that have been carefully screened by their educational experts. While using &lt;a href="http://www.zoodles.com/"&gt;Zoodles.com&lt;/a&gt; your child can only see their browser. They even have an interactive dog that your child can feed treats to that they earn though playing. My son absolutely loves it, I can't get him off the computer. It's easy for him to use and he's learning while having fun. And guess what? Their browser is free. Yes I said free. And for even more protection for your little one &lt;a href="http://www.zoodles.com/"&gt;Zoodles.com&lt;/a&gt; offers a Premium Membership. Their Premium Membership includes Ad Blocking, Parental Monitoring, Educational Reports and much more. It's totally affordable and well worth it. You can do monthly for only $7.95 or they offer 6 month for $39.95 and a whole year for $59.95. Peace of mind for your child's internet safety at an affordable price what could be better? Well the wonderful people at &lt;a href="http://www.zoodles.com/"&gt;Zoodles.com &lt;/a&gt;are offering five (yes you read right 5) of my readers 3 months of Premium Membership. So don't miss out-enter below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ends 1.25.10 11:59pm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I was not paid or compensated in any way by Zoodles.com. I was only given their product for the sole purpose of reviewing. The opinions stated here are solely my own.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*~* Mandatory Entry *~* Must be done first &lt;br /&gt;Become a fan of &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Zoodles/101184214655"&gt;Zoodles on Facebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Extra Entries&lt;/strong&gt; -  Leave separate comment for each that you do &lt;br /&gt;Leave your email address in comment unless I'm able to get in touch by clicking your profile.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.) Follow my blog through Google Friend Connect (1 entry)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.) Subscribe through email (1 entry)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.) 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Winner will be notified by emial and will have 48hrs to respond.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THIS GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-2762165143779666714?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/2762165143779666714/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/zoodlescom-review-and-giveaway.html#comment-form' title='23 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/2762165143779666714'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/2762165143779666714'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/zoodlescom-review-and-giveaway.html' title='Zoodles.com Review and Giveaway!'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>23</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-133395070292297227</id><published>2010-01-18T12:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-18T19:02:11.455-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sick'/><title type='text'>Sick Baby :(</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1TQbJ9qywI/AAAAAAAAACI/wTWvdHTyApg/s1600-h/SSPX0074.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1TQbJ9qywI/AAAAAAAAACI/wTWvdHTyApg/s320/SSPX0074.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428192615837911810" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi everyone! First I would like to thank everyone for all the great advice given on my last post.  I think for right now I will leave C in the school he goes to.  Another thing I wanted to say was that since I am new to blogging I never knew how many people care enough to give their time to write what they think.  It's wonderful, I loved hearing from every one of you. Thank you for that.  &lt;br /&gt;   Well last night A went to bed around 10.  She was so tired and pretty much cried her self to sleep.  I thought it was because she hadn't had a nap all day and was just so tired.  Well since I got my knee done I haven't been able to sleep very well so it was about 12 by the time I went to bed.  A still sleeps with us and was on my side of the bed.  My husband moved her and she woke up and sounded like a dog barking.  I couldn't believe it, she sounded fine (other than really upset) when she went to bed and 2 hours later sounded awful.  So I sat in the bathroom with her while the shower was on hot to see if the steam would help.  It did as long as she was in there so I did that several times last night.  Today my husband is going to take her to the doctors but I'm not sure what else to do for her.  Anyone have any ideas?  I think she may have croup.   Well wish us luck at the doctors that it's not anything to bad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Follow up on A&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Well the doctor said it's some kind of viral infection. He gave her a steroid to take. Which I hate to give her. It just makes her even crabbier than she already is. He also gave her medicine to give her breathing treatments which should help a lot. He wants me to bring her back in a couple of days if shes not better to do a chest x-ray. I guess to make sure she doesn't have pnemonia. She's still miserable so it's gonna be a long night. C also seems to think that he needs to irritate her all day. I'm ready to beat him ( I want to but I never do). Have you ever notcied that when one of the kids is sick the other one fights for your attention. I'm gonna go nuts! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-133395070292297227?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/133395070292297227/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/sick-baby.html#comment-form' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/133395070292297227'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/133395070292297227'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/sick-baby.html' title='Sick Baby :('/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1TQbJ9qywI/AAAAAAAAACI/wTWvdHTyApg/s72-c/SSPX0074.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-5859202224525720593</id><published>2010-01-17T03:05:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-17T03:25:29.938-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Switching School?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1LlYMmEw2I/AAAAAAAAABU/BzbbXLlOED4/s1600-h/Trip+to+Texas+103.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1LlYMmEw2I/AAAAAAAAABU/BzbbXLlOED4/s320/Trip+to+Texas+103.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427652704795411298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi everyone!  As you all know I have a 5yr old.  Well in December we moved into a new house and a new school district.  So far C is still in the same school ( I have to drive him every morning)and I don't know what to do.  I don't know if I should just leave him in the same school or switch to the one closer to my house.  It's kindergarten so he only goes for half a day and it takes me 15min. to get him there.  It doesn't really bother me to drive him but he hates having to get up earlier. I just want whats best for him.  I don't know how it will affect him to have to meet all new people all over again especially when there's only about 5 months of school left.  He's a pretty big kid (4 1/2 feet tall and 80lbs.) and so far the kids at the school he goes to get along with him great and I don't want that to change.  Also his teacher told me that it would be hard on him educationaly to switch schools.  The school close to my new house is supposed to be a nice school, it's a lot bigger than the one he goes to now and is only 2 blocks down the road.  I'm so torn on what to do, one day he wants to stay at the school he's in and the next he wants to switch. My parents say leave him and my husbands parents say switch him even though they live 3 blocks from the school he's in now.  He's my first child so I am new to all of this and it's so hard to know what the best thing to do is.  So if anyone has any advice for me I could sure use it!  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-5859202224525720593?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/5859202224525720593/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/switching-school.html#comment-form' title='30 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/5859202224525720593'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/5859202224525720593'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/switching-school.html' title='Switching School?'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1LlYMmEw2I/AAAAAAAAABU/BzbbXLlOED4/s72-c/Trip+to+Texas+103.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>30</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-4061906346588162881</id><published>2010-01-16T16:44:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-01T08:34:06.676-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Lazy Day!</title><content type='html'>Hi everyone! I'm so excited!  I have a couple of great reviews and giveaways lined up.  I think you guys are going to really like what these companies have to offer. As soon as I get all the details sorted out I will let you guys know.  As for my agenda for the day I have been ordered to stay in bed, my leg is HUGE!  So I have to listen or everyone is gonna just keep yelling.  Hopefully sooner rather than later it will feel better.  Wish me luck!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-4061906346588162881?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/4061906346588162881/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/lazy-day.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/4061906346588162881'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/4061906346588162881'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/lazy-day.html' title='Lazy Day!'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-4102167296136456865</id><published>2010-01-15T18:58:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-01T08:34:39.598-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Upcoming Giveaways!</title><content type='html'>Hi everyone! I just wanted to let everyone know that I will be doing a couple of reviews this month and will also be having a couple of giveaways. So be sure to keep checking back to see what great stuff these companies have to offer and also a chance to win some cool stuff. I'm also teaming up with &lt;a href="http://twentytolifeblog.blogspot.com"&gt;20 to Life&lt;/a&gt;, and we're gonna have some great stuff so go check her out as well!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/19E955498A0C557EEDC84A6FF309FAFD.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-4102167296136456865?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/4102167296136456865/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/upcoming-giveaways_15.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/4102167296136456865'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/4102167296136456865'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/upcoming-giveaways_15.html' title='Upcoming Giveaways!'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-5696729337434386679</id><published>2010-01-14T21:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-14T21:31:50.137-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Worse than child birth pain</title><content type='html'>Hello everyone. I had my surgery (ACL) yesterday and I would just like to say one thing... Nerve blocks are great until they wear off.  This morning I woke up feeling pretty good, painful but not like I was dying.  Around 2pm I definately felt like dying and no amount of pain pills or ice is changing that.  And of all days my kids deceided that they would absoulutly lose their minds.  They are driving me insane and terriorizing the house.  So wish me luck that I will survive till tomorrow.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-5696729337434386679?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/5696729337434386679/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/worse-than-child-birth-pain.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/5696729337434386679'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/5696729337434386679'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/worse-than-child-birth-pain.html' title='Worse than child birth pain'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-5146288161327461782</id><published>2010-01-12T15:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-14T23:11:08.290-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Short but not so sweet</title><content type='html'>So a really long time ago I went outside to take the trash out.  Seems like a simple thing right?  Wrong. I was wearing flip flops and slid down a very small hill and hyperextended my knee.  Ouch!  It hurt for a couple of weeks, then got better or so I thought.  Well now 4yrs later I finally got tired of it acting up and went to the doctor.  He then sent me to an orthopedic surgeon.  Finds out I tore my meniscus ( I probably didn't spell that right sorry).  So I had surgery in October of last year.  Six VERY long weaks on crutches and it STILL hurts.  So I went back for the 2 month check up on it the end of November.  He then tells me that my ACL is bad and needs to be fixed.  My first thought was shouldn't he have done that when he did the last surgery?  Well he said he thought it would still work right but apparently its not.  So tommorrow I get to have my ACL fixed.  I am extremely nervous and dreading another 6 weeks on crutches.  So if you are all wondering where I am tomorrow I'll be starving from 12 tonight till 2:30 tomorrow afternoon ( I know could they have made it any later?) then off to have my knee done.  So wish me luck!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S.&lt;br /&gt;I actually got a babysitter, have any of you ever wondered why it takes surgery or the birth of another child to finally get a babysitter?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-5146288161327461782?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/5146288161327461782/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/short-but-no-so-sweet.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/5146288161327461782'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/5146288161327461782'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2010/01/short-but-no-so-sweet.html' title='Short but not so sweet'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-4159024225672014580</id><published>2009-12-24T11:08:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-12-24T11:10:26.558-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Christmas Eve!</title><content type='html'>I can't believe it's Christmas Eve already, time goes by so fast!  I'm pretty much ready for tomorrow, I get a little OCD.  I get stuck on this mind set that I just need to get one or two more things for the kids, and then end up with like five.  So I am staying far far away from the stores today before I am broke.  I just wanted to write this to tell everyone to have a wonderful Christmas!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-4159024225672014580?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/4159024225672014580/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-eve.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/4159024225672014580'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/4159024225672014580'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-eve.html' title='Christmas Eve!'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-6450841585943474218</id><published>2009-12-23T20:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-12-23T20:44:42.545-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Heely's Giveaway!!</title><content type='html'>How many of you have kids that keep asking for Heely's?  I know my son does, so when I found this giveaway I had to tell you to go check it out.  It's at &lt;a href="http://heckofabunch.blogspot.com/2009/12/heelys-review-giveaway.html"&gt;Heck of A bunch&lt;/a&gt;.  So head over there and check out her site and enter this giveaway. Hurry up though cause it ends on 12/28/09 at 8pm CST.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-6450841585943474218?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/6450841585943474218/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2009/12/heeleys-giveaway.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/6450841585943474218'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/6450841585943474218'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2009/12/heeleys-giveaway.html' title='Heely&apos;s Giveaway!!'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-1713609995577328317</id><published>2009-12-21T22:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-12-21T22:30:05.192-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Your Baby Can Read</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XVU7lhjZjqg/Sy_umWhlXII/AAAAAAAAI6I/4k0WSUBkEJ0/s400/flash_place_holiday.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 334px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XVU7lhjZjqg/Sy_umWhlXII/AAAAAAAAI6I/4k0WSUBkEJ0/s400/flash_place_holiday.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Wouldn't it be cool it you could help your baby (yes I said baby) learn to read?  Well with &lt;a href="http://www.yourbabycanread.com/default.aspx"&gt;Your Baby Can Read&lt;/a&gt; your child can learn.   All it takes is 30min twice a day, and a month for each video and your child will be reading!   They are very entertaining so your child won't get bored!  What better to have your child learn to read and get a 30 min break twice a day while your child is having fun.  Do you want some better news?  Jennifer at &lt;a href="http://www.jleighdesignz.com/2009/12/your-baby-can-read-dvd-starter-kit.html?showComment=1261459078100_AIe9_BHx3EiQD2TqOWzmFkq6iwWH3MQaC2RgLOedv1WMyUhVAayWSrAm_Ky00DxdtAExEbOlOfRPx-gWIOfiOslD6ax50VoO8VoKdw_lFzOSrRCkhzKK29x6WD7_34dpOhWeiemfqvh_a2B50zgx1bDGPZx0tfCJPAZDC0_vI-PujBd3aESnjs5_kQFvIxSSWfWXwCMUCRR-ZrO4nKHAddeajo6vaq6MTo4fmy0Te3P7EC-hnM7x3GVydOUX_Olc0e-aCsXJzzgp#c5340420246122521523"&gt;J.Leigh Designz&lt;/a&gt; is doing a Giveaway where you can win a starter kit from Your Baby Can Read!  So you all need to go over to &lt;a href="http://www.jleighdesignz.com/2009/12/your-baby-can-read-dvd-starter-kit.html?showComment=1261459078100_AIe9_BHx3EiQD2TqOWzmFkq6iwWH3MQaC2RgLOedv1WMyUhVAayWSrAm_Ky00DxdtAExEbOlOfRPx-gWIOfiOslD6ax50VoO8VoKdw_lFzOSrRCkhzKK29x6WD7_34dpOhWeiemfqvh_a2B50zgx1bDGPZx0tfCJPAZDC0_vI-PujBd3aESnjs5_kQFvIxSSWfWXwCMUCRR-ZrO4nKHAddeajo6vaq6MTo4fmy0Te3P7EC-hnM7x3GVydOUX_Olc0e-aCsXJzzgp#c5340420246122521523"&gt;J. Leigh Designz &lt;/a&gt;and check out her Giveaway and the rest of her wonderful blog!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-1713609995577328317?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/1713609995577328317/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2009/12/your-baby-can-read.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/1713609995577328317'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/1713609995577328317'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2009/12/your-baby-can-read.html' title='Your Baby Can Read'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XVU7lhjZjqg/Sy_umWhlXII/AAAAAAAAI6I/4k0WSUBkEJ0/s72-c/flash_place_holiday.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-8676558690304453219</id><published>2009-12-20T23:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-12-20T23:17:29.442-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sleepless nights</title><content type='html'>When do kids finally deceide to sleep in their own bed?  My five year old still tries to sleep in my bed.  If you don't catch him sneaking in he will lay at the bottom of the bed till he gets kicked out.   My two year old on the other hand sleeps in our bed all night long.  At least we have a king size bed.  But still there comes a time when you would like your bed back.  I wake up every day with a kink in my back.  So when I heard that Mommymandy.com (&lt;a href="http://mommymandy.com/sealy-posturepedic-signature-series-giveaway/"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;) was giving away a Sealy Posturepedic Innerspring Signature 11 Series Bed (Sealy's &lt;a href="http://www.sealy.com/"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;) I was so excited! One of Sealy's beds is what I need to maybe get a good night sleep with or without the kids.  So you should go to there sites and check out what they have!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-8676558690304453219?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/8676558690304453219/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2009/12/sleepless-nights.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/8676558690304453219'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/8676558690304453219'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2009/12/sleepless-nights.html' title='Sleepless nights'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-2231944509376005358</id><published>2009-12-20T09:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-12-20T21:43:56.718-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Santa</title><content type='html'>&lt;A href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/Sy5TuStMycI/AAAAAAAAAAY/CGjcMeQKgk8/s1600-h/HPIM0708.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417359456533793218 border=0 alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/Sy5TuStMycI/AAAAAAAAAAY/CGjcMeQKgk8/s320/HPIM0708.jpg"&gt;&lt;/A&gt; Yesterday was the big day that Santa came in a helicopter. He lands in the parking lot of a store in our town. For the last 4yrs my son talks about this for half the year so we can't miss it. My daughter being 2 didn't remember last year and was a little nervous of the helicopter. After that we went to the mall where Santa took his "secret tunnel" to get there so fast. Cameron was all about getting his picture like usual but Autumn was not having it. She just kept saying "No Mama Santa Scary". So I didn't force her to take a picture. And of course Cameron asks Santa for the one toy I didn't get him, so I'm gonna have to go out and find one. Here's the video of Santas Landing!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-b4eeda61ea2f65f2" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v14.nonxt1.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3Db4eeda61ea2f65f2%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1331040133%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D43CB28125AD7EB770E0F95DA390606F56F60DDAE.3335231A54EA1C79D7B0297198D7235D8DF21CEF%26key%3Dck1&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Db4eeda61ea2f65f2%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3D01M6BrQrO2AoFuQZPZFxKtg4hvM&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="320" height="266" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v14.nonxt1.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3Db4eeda61ea2f65f2%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1331040133%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D43CB28125AD7EB770E0F95DA390606F56F60DDAE.3335231A54EA1C79D7B0297198D7235D8DF21CEF%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Db4eeda61ea2f65f2%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3D01M6BrQrO2AoFuQZPZFxKtg4hvM&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I stumbled across this site "The Suburban Jungle" You guys should go by there and check out there giveaway for a $25 American Express Gift Card and check out the great receipes they have! &lt;br /&gt;Click on this &lt;a href="http://thesuburbanjungle.blogspot.com/2009/12/hellmanns-real-holiday-helpings-review.html "&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; and enter&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-2231944509376005358?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/2231944509376005358/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2009/12/santa.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/2231944509376005358'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/2231944509376005358'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2009/12/santa.html' title='Santa'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/Sy5TuStMycI/AAAAAAAAAAY/CGjcMeQKgk8/s72-c/HPIM0708.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-8435140154368844071</id><published>2009-12-17T22:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-12-17T22:05:29.663-07:00</updated><title type='text'>LONG DAY!</title><content type='html'>It's been one of those days that you wish you had stayed in bed!  My son didn't want to get up this morning to go to school so that was a fight...  Got him to school, took some clothes back to the store and tried to go to work.  My friend and I drove a half an hour to get there and we were locked out!! So we just went home.  I was cleaning my house when my two year old climbed up on the counter and then fell off.  So that was a trip to the instacare.  Atleast she doesn't have a concussion....  Very very long day! Can't wait till the weekend!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7410822398951090983-8435140154368844071?l=halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/feeds/8435140154368844071/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2009/12/long-day.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/8435140154368844071'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7410822398951090983/posts/default/8435140154368844071'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://halfcrazymommie.blogspot.com/2009/12/long-day.html' title='LONG DAY!'/><author><name>Katie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08230774738786630933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lWhhbqaO60/S1AI9FffE4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/mlETpeaBFu0/S220/Trip+to+Texas+044.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7410822398951090983.post-5564662830977457108</id><published>2009-12-16T00:34:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-01T18:16:26.481-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Contact Me</title><content type='html'>For PR requests you can contact me via email at Katiebug0084@yahoo.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For all other requests please feel free to leave me a comment here!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for stopping by!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/49/E24286E81B1DCD62D448CC3D9AC55C3E.png" style="border: 0 !important; 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