summer giveaway week @ fabulous k

My blog designer, Kelly, at Fabulous K Creative is hosting a Summer Giveaway Week. You can click here to get to her blog. It's going to be so much fun!!! She will have 2 giveaways each day all week. All the items that she will be giving away will come from different Etsy shops she has selected. One of the giveaways happens to be from my Mom's shop Tried and True Designs!!

So be sure to check it out Thursday because that is when she will giveaway one of my Mom's personalized diaper bags.

Good luck!!

These are the giveaways she has posted so far....

The Vintage Pearl

Seven Cupcakes

Sonicstef Designs

Custom Designs by Mimi

Small Words

Joy's Hope

Doodle Bugs Paper

Tried and True Designs

Two Five Cloth

Back 40 Life

blog makeover: before & after

Before:

After:

Much better huh??

there's a target in town

There is a new Target in town. That's crazy!! There is a Target in my small not so small hometown. My Mom and I went and checked it out today. They had some really great Grand Opening sales, and when combined with the Target coupons they mailed out and manufacture coupons, I got some great deals. Yay, Target!!

welcome

Don't you think a wreath makes a house look so inviting?

My Mom and I made this wreath the other day for super cheap. I bought the grapevine wreath at Hobby Lobby for $1.99. It was 50% off. And all the flowers are leftover from all of these things that Mom made me for Christmas. She got all the flowers at Hobby Lobby on a 90% clearance shelf. So the wreath probably cost about $5. I love cheap decor!!

gecko in the house

The other day I was letting Izzie back in the house and little gecko came in with her. Matt calmly got a little rake and got him out of the house.

I, on the other hand, was freaking out!! I don't really care for creepy, crawly creatures.

doggie sprinkles

Izzie has been on an antibiotic because she has a little infection on her toe nail. The vet gave me capsule antibiotics. I tried putting them in her food, wrapping them in treats, and even wrapping them in people food.

Izzie would have nothing to do with them.

My only option was to open it up and sprinkle it over her dog food,

but I was afraid it would taste bad and she wouldn't eat at all.

But she ate her food right up. I don't think in slowed her down any.

I think she actually liked her doggie sprinkles!!

ritz university

I went to my first photography class today!!

When you buy a camera at Wolf Camera, you get 6 free photography classes through their program called Ritz University. I don't know how great they will be, but they are FREE, so I'm not going to pass them up. I'm excited to learn more about using my Canon. After I finish these classes, I hope to find some more classes to take. I am really excited to be jumping into the world of photography.

I have always thought it would be cool to be a photographer. Maybe someday.....

and the winner is.....

Thank you so much for taking time to enter my first giveaway. I had so much fun hosting it!! I plan on doing more giveaways in the future, so become a follow of my blog under the sidebar "Our Visitors" and you will be the first to know when I host another one.

And the winner is......

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Timestamp: 2009-07-18 13:36:33 UTC

The Mosiers said...

Entering again today!

Erin

10:53 AM

Erin, e-mail me at katymlink@gmail.com com and I will get you hooked up with a sweet diaper bag for your little man!!

For the rest of you who entered.........

You can get $5 off a diaper bag if you order on Etsy by Saturday July 25th. You must choose design from my Mom's Flickr website under one of the sets titled "Unfinished Bags for Girls" or "Unfinished Bags for Girls ". The $5 off coupon is only good for the $32 bags. You must become a member of Etsy before you can order. When ordering, you will add any $32 dollar bag to your cart. In the final stages of checking out, you will leave a message to the seller telling my Mom the correct spelling of the name on the bag and what design you want. If you have any trouble ordering off of Etsy, you can contact my mom at triedandtruedesigns@yahoo.com and she can help you!! You can also contact me at katymlink@gmail.com if you have any questions!!

look who's 1

Happy Birthday Carson!!

I can't believe that you are already one. You are such a big boy!!

Carson did a really good job digging into his birthday cake.

He was so dirty that his Mommy had to give him a quick

bath before he came back to his party!!

After he was cleaned up he was ready to play with his

abundance of new toys!!

Happy Birthday sweet boy!! Uncle Matt and Aunt Katy love you!!

our family trip to lake greeson

My whole family packed up our stuff for the weekend and headed to the teeny tiny city of Daisy, Arkansas.

The only thing to do in Daisy, Arkansas is to spend time on Lake Greeson. My Dad brought his boat and we spend a long weekend on Lake Greeson.

Here are the top ten highlights of our trip.

{in no particular order}

**The last 5 will get their own post, so be sure to click on the link to get to whole story.

10. Watching Carson drive the boat.

He was only happy if he was sitting in the driver's lap.

9. Chilling in the hot tub after wakeboarding each day.

We got so sore from wakeboarding, so this felt so good on our muscles.

8. Kicking the guy's butts in Rummy
They said that I cheated, but I know in my heart that I didn't. They were just jealous at how good I was.

7. Having to tow the boat on the last day because it wouldn't start.

Luckily this happened on the last day, so we didn't really miss any time on the lake.

6. Taking TONS pictures with my new DSLR camera and lots of videos with Mom's video camera.

I took 345 pictures, to be exact. As soon as I get the videos loaded onto my computer I will work on editing a video of some really great crashes we had on the lake!! I'll be sure to post it!!

5. Watching the guys jump off a cliff.

You can go here to see the pictures of all of the guys take a leap of faith.

4. Spending time with my whole family.

You can go here to see lots of pictures of our family from the trip.

3. Wakeboarding

This is what we went to Arkansas for. The water on Lake Greeson is amazing because there are mountains surrounding the lake. It is so beautiful!! You can go here to see the good and the bad side of wakeboarding.

2. Pulling up a surprise with our anchor.

We anchored the boat down to swim for a while, and when we tried to pull it up we pulled up a surprise. You can read all about it here.

1. Having a drunk stranger spend the night in our cabin.

I'm not even going to try to give a short explanation to this story. You'll have to go here to read all about our uninvited visitor.

takin' a leap of faith

*Jordan is a friend of my little brother.
**Click on the pictures to enlarge them!!

i love my family

I love spending time with my husband!!

Carson was mesmerized with Uncle Drew and his guitar.

Drew was so sweet, he even let him pick at the strings.

Hanging out on the boat with Carson.

He loved to watch the water splash up on the side of the boat.

Relaxing on the boat with my hubby.

We had no internet service and barely any phone service, but I spend some time on my computer loading and editing photos.

Our cabin overlooked the lake. It was beautiful.

Carson being a little mischievous and pulling the stickers off of Drew's guitar case.

We spend a lot of time on the boat.

Carson loves wrestling with his Daddy.

My brother, Ryan and his wife, Ashley hanging out on the boat.

Thanks Mom and Dad for a wonderful trip to Lake Greeson. I look forward to many more family trips to Lake Greeson.