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It is giveaway time again! This giveaway is for bareMinerals Flawless Definition Mascara. This mascara retails for $18 and is made by bareMinerals so it must be great right? I will be receiving a free one for doing this giveaway and I can not wait to try it out!

Rethink What Matters invites women nationwide to shake up their foundation and sound off on topics that are more than just skin-deep—from going bare in public to discussing what freedom really feels like.

THE MASCARA

• Infused with nourishing 100% pure bareMinerals
  
• Jojoba Oil, Meadowfoam Seed Oil and Shea Butter condition and fortify lashes
  
• Vitamin E provides antioxidant protection
  
• 360° fine-toothed comb brush separates for clump-free definition and length
  
• Available in Black and Espresso shades
  
• Paraben-free
  
• Ophthalmologist tested
  
• Safe for contact lens wearers
  

This giveaway ends February 27th at midnight. You must have a US Shipping address to enter.

Make sure to also check out our other Current Giveaways!

HOW CAN YOU ENTER?
Your main entry will be to comment on this post.

EXTRA ENTRIES

* Blog about the giveaway and include a link back to this post. Make a new comment here with the URL to your post. (This is 3 entries!)
* Follow this blog - It is on the left sidebar. If you are already a follower it still counts. Make a new comment here that includes your follower name.
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Each one counts for one entry so each should have a separate comment. It must include the link where it can be found to count.

I will be deleting comments that do not follow the rules so others get a fair chance. Make sure that I have a way to contact you if you win! If I can not find your email address on your comment, profile, or website you can not win.

We have a winner to announce in the 250 Custom Printed Stickers Giveaway!

The winner is Yona Williams Congrats!

Thank you to UPrinting for sponsoring this blog and providing us with tons of products and giveaways.

We are still doing a lot of giveaways so make sure to check out our Current Giveaways.

It is giveaway time again! This giveaway is for one of the new Rainbow Brite dolls. Rainbow Brite has been around for over 25 years now so they did a redesign.

We got a free Rainbow Brite doll for doing this giveaway. As soon as we got the doll my girls pulled the boots out of the package. They wanted to check out the boots right away. I guess I passed on my love for funky shoes!

1 lucky winner will receive one of the new dolls. There is no guarantee which doll will be received. They are sponsoring a few giveaways so dolls will be shipped out randomly.

This giveaway ends February 27th at midnight. You must have a US Shipping address to enter.

Make sure to also check out our other Current Giveaways!

HOW CAN YOU ENTER?
Your main entry will be to comment on this post.

EXTRA ENTRIES

* Blog about the giveaway and include a link back to this post. Make a new comment here with the URL to your post. (This is 3 entries!)
* Follow this blog - It is on the left sidebar. If you are already a follower it still counts. Make a new comment here that includes your follower name.
* Subscribe to the RSS Feed (left side bar) and make a new comment.
* Add the Your Fun Family Blog to your blogroll. Make a new comment and be sure to use your URL when you post it. (This is 2 entries!)
* Fav the Your Fun Family Blog on Technorati and make a new comment.
* Follow us on Twitter and make a new comment.
* Share this giveaway post on Kirtsy, Digg, Twitter, Stumble, or anything else you can think of.

Each one counts for one entry so each should have a separate comment. It must include the link where it can be found to count.

I will be deleting comments that do not follow the rules so others get a fair chance. Make sure that I have a way to contact you if you win! If I can not find your email address on your comment, profile, or website you can not win.

We almost have the living room all ready. The second color should get painted in the next couple days and then hopefully the furniture will be ready to get delivered. We are almost to the fun stuff!

I can not wait until all of the hard stuff is over. Then I will be able to concentrate more on decorating. The whole color scheme has changed so I will need to go shopping for more things right? I want more things for the ledge and more things for the walls.

James and I have also discussed ideas for Window Coverings. Right now we have plastic Window Blinds. James hates blinds so he wants to either add drapes over them or change to something else. I actually like the functionality of window blinds but I do not like the look of plastic blinds in the living room.

James wants drapes but I do not think full drapes would look good in our living room. The hard thing with our living room is that two of the windows have the bottom of the window on a ledge and one does not. It would look wierd to have drapes that are two different lengths. It would look even stranger if they were the same length because then one windows drapes would stop very high off the ground in order to match the windows on the ledge.

I think a good option would be to get Window Shades. Tear Drop Roman Shades have a nice warm fabric feel but are still very functional like blinds. They are also just the size of the window so it would eliminate the problems we would have with drapes.

I am starting to get excited about getting the living room finished! Maybe if I keep thinking about all of the shopping I can do later I will get the painting done faster! I just need to get past the stuff that I hate.

This is week two of my work as a The View brand ambassador. Have you watched the show lately? They have some great guests and topics. Today they will be talking live with the controversial cast of MTV’s Jersey Shore. I can not wait! That should end up becoming one of the shows that will be talked about for a long time. I think the women will eat them alive!

This weeks schedule...

• Monday, Feb 22: Senator Evan Bayth of Indiana will be making his first and only television appearance since announcing that he is not running for re-election in 2010.
  
• Tuesday, Feb 23: The controversial cast of MTV’s Jersey Shore will be joining the Women live on Tuesday. This will be an interesting show to see how the cast and the women interact!
  
• Wednesday, Feb 24: Nadya Suleman who famously gave birth to octuplets last year will be making her first trip to NYC to chat live with the Women of the View. Author Danielle Steel will also be a guest
  
• Thursday, Feb 25: A one hour show Themed “trying to have a baby?”Guests include Giuliana And Bill Rancic
  
• Friday, Feb 26: Regis and Joy Philbin will perform a song from their new CD: Regis & Joy: Just you. Just me.


If you miss one of these shows you can still watch the full episodes on their website.

“I am a participant in a Mom Central campaign for ABC Daytime and will receive a tote bag or other The View branded items to facilitate my review.”

I have been chosen to be a The View brand ambassador. So what does this mean? I will be talking to you about the show in the next 4 weeks. I get some free The View merchandise and I get a sidebar button to show that I am one of the cool kids that got chosen!

I have watched The View for years. I started watching when the girls were just babies and I was stuck at home all day with no adults to talk to. As many moms know this is a very boring and lonely time in our lives. Babies are wonderful but when they are the only ones you talk to all day you crave adult conversations.

There are many morning shows but none of them give you the same feeling that you can relate. The average mom can not relate to people like Kathy Lee and quite frankly her nasty attitude really puts me off.

I love that The View has women that are very different from each other and they have real conversations. I want more from a morning show than just what shoes people are wearing this season. I want more than just having the news read to me. The View gives me real topics discussed by real women with a few great stars thrown in.

It is like having coffee and a good conversation with your girlfriends even though you are so busy with the kids that you have not even gotten out of your pajamas yet. If you have not seen The View lately I suggest you set aside some time for yourself and sit back with a cup of coffee. You deserve the break!

“I am a participant in a Mom Central campaign for ABC Daytime and will receive a tote bag or other The View branded items to facilitate my review.”

I recently got to check out the new Rainbow Brite. I was sent a stack of computer disks to review and hand out to other moms with little girls. Rainbow Brite has been around for 25 years now so they have unveiled a more grown up version.

The old Rainbow Brite was a little chubby girl. The new Rainbow Brite is older, taller, thinner, and has makeup. I guess everyone has to grow up eventually!

The cd I received had some information about Rainbow Brite, video clips, coloring activities, and games. My younger two girls had a lot of fun with the games. They loved the matching game and the puzzles. The levels progressively got harder so it was really a fun challenge.

After we had our fun with the cd we got to hand some out to other little girls. Each time we handed one out the moms seemed almost as excited as the little girls. It is always nice when you can share something you loved as a kid with your own kids. The cd really brought back some memories!

The Old Rainbow Brite Team


The New Rainbow Brite Team

We are planning on going shopping this afternoon for a sectional sofa. This means that I will have to take the coffee table that I love out of the living room. It is huge with four large drawers and beautiful woodwork. I loved that table and the matching end table so much when we got it.

I was actually a little nuts about it. I would freak out if the kids put drinks or food on it. They used to even say that I worried more about the table than I did about them. It was a bit of an obsession!

The coffee table has gotten damaged from all of times we have moved so I am no longer as obsessed but I will still hate to see it go. Maybe we can put it in the rec room so I do not have to actually say goodbye.

With our new furniture we will have to look at new Coffee Tables. The main issue is that it can not be as large as our current one.

I have been looking online but I just have not found one that jumps out at me. Maybe it is because I just do not want to buy a new one. I have found some really cool ones on Spacify. They have all kinds of tables including Conference Tables and Dining Room Tables. They have such great modern designs.

They have a huge array of prices so I decided to check out what the most expensive coffee table would look like. The coffee table in the picture is $2,790.00. My main question is... How the heck did they make it? The household that buys that must not have kids. I would be hovering over the table trying to protect it from children all day long! It looks really cool though.

Have you entered the Chocolate Cheerios giveaway yet? The giveaway is over on our other blog and ends tomorrow at midnight so hurry on over!

One lucky winner will receive a Chocolate Cheerios gift pack. The gift pack includes a box of Chocolate Cheerios, a ceramic cereal bowl, a bar of chocolate soap, chocolate body wash, and a shower puff.

Make sure to also check out all of our Current Giveaways!

We have talked about getting new living room Furniture for awhile now. When we got our current furniture I was in love. It looked great in the living room we had. Now our living room has an odd shape and too many doorways to fit all of our furniture.

We have only been able to have the sofa, love seat, and coffee table in the living room. We have a matching end table and chaise but they do not fit in the room. My 14 yr old is using the end table as a night stand and the chaise creates a reading area in the front hall. It does look nice in there but that means we do not have enough seating in the living room.

I love looking online at furniture! There are so many cool designs. I keep finding furniture that I would love but we would not be able to buy. We are still restricted in what will fit so I think we will go with a sectional. We are also restricted by the fact that we have animals. We can not do some of the cool designs that include leather and other things that animals can ruin.


Just for fun I was checking out some of the cool Contemporary Furniture on Spacify. I love some of the designs and I wish that we were not so limited. Some of the Modern Furniture really makes me wonder though. This sectional would really appeal to someone with a very large ego. There is a definite master and servants look to it.

It is giveaway time again! One lucky winner will receive a Fiber One 90 Calorie Gift Pack. The new Fiber One 90 Calorie Bars are a healthier way to satisfy your sweet tooth. The gift pack includes a box of Fiber One 90 Calorie Chewy Bars, a water bottle, a pedometer, a reflective wrap bracelet for walking or running after dark, and a diet and exercise journal.

This giveaway ends February 19th. You must have a US Shipping address to enter.

Make sure to also check out our other Current Giveaways!

HOW CAN YOU ENTER?
Your main entry will be to comment on this post.

EXTRA ENTRIES

* Blog about the giveaway and include a link back to this post. Make a new comment here with the URL to your post. (This is 3 entries!)
* Follow this blog - It is on the left sidebar. If you are already a follower it still counts. Make a new comment here that includes your follower name.
* Subscribe to the RSS Feed (left side bar) and make a new comment.
* Add the Your Fun Family Blog to your blogroll. Make a new comment and be sure to use your URL when you post it. (This is 2 entries!)
* Fav the Your Fun Family Blog on Technorati and make a new comment.
* Follow us on Twitter and make a new comment.
* Share this giveaway post on Kirtsy, Digg, Twitter, Stumble, or anything else you can think of.

Each one counts for one entry so each should have a separate comment. It must include the link where it can be found to count.

I will be deleting comments that do not follow the rules so others get a fair chance. Make sure that I have a way to contact you if you win! If I can not find your email address on your comment, profile, or website you can not win.

*Fiber One provided me with free products and will be providing the products for this giveaway.

I was really looking forward to getting a third vehicle but now that the time has come I am sick and tired of searching through websites. If it was not for the fact that James wants to start driving the Land Rover again I would just say forget it and put it off for awhile.

It was easier before I had three kids that are getting bigger everyday. I could look at a chevrolet corvette pics and drool. There is no way that can be an option now. I used to be interested in sporty cars and concept cars like the chevy Volt but being a mom for all these years has made me no longer even look.

I have also gotten sick of people recommending vehicles and dealerships. No, I do not want to look at a dealership that just has ford taurus pics. No, I do not want to check out a kia. I can not fit three growing girls in a Kia.

The only reason we are getting a third vehicle is because we want a vehicle that has third row seating. We have been doing more long drives on weekends and we want something that will allow the girls more room in the back. I want to have fun on trips and not listen to the girls fighting because they are squished and grumpy.

We want 3rd row seating and 4x4 so we there are not many options. It is pretty much narrowed down to an Expedition or a Yukon. They do not all come with 3 rows and 4x4 so that narrows it down even more. It will be a very long weekend but hopefully by the end I will have a vehicle.

I have another great giveaway to announce. Our sponsor UPrinting will be giving away 250 Stickers/Labels to One (1) of our lucky readers. These stickers are custom made to whatever you want.

We have been given stickers by them before and we made "Donated By" stickers out of them and they look awesome! We receive a lot of free books so once we have read the books we donate them. I figured that a donated by sticker with our website on them would be a nice.

We are doing a lot of giveaways right now so be sure to check out the Current Giveaway list and enter them all.

Uprinting is providing me and the winner free custom printed stickers. You can learn more about their Custom Stickers and Label Printing on their website.

The Prize: 250 Stickers/Labels for One (1) lucky winner
Sizes: 2” x 3.5”, 2” x 4”, or 3” x 3”
Paper: 70lb Label Matte
Specifications: Full color front, blank back; 4 Business Day printing
Shipping: FREE UPS Ground Shipping
Eligibility: Limited to US Residents only
Ends: February 25nd


HOW CAN YOU ENTER?
Your main entry will be to comment on what you would use custom printed stickers for.

EXTRA ENTRIES

* Blog about the giveaway and include a link back to this post. Make a new comment here with the URL to your post. (This is 3 entries!)
* Follow this blog - It is on the left sidebar. If you are already a follower it still counts. Make a new comment here that includes your follower name.
* Subscribe to the RSS Feed (left side bar) and make a new comment.
* Add the Your Fun Family Blog to your blogroll. Make a new comment and be sure to use your URL when you post it. (This is 2 entries!)
* Fav the Your Fun Family Blog on Technorati and make a new comment.
* Follow us on Twitter and make a new comment.
* Share this giveaway post on Kirtsy, Digg, Twitter, Stumble, or anything else you can think of.

Each one counts for one entry so each should have a separate comment. It must include the link where it can be found to count.

I will be deleting comments that do not follow the rules so others get a fair chance. Make sure that I have a way to contact you if you win! If I can not find your email address on your comment, profile, or website you can not win.