Weekend Blog Walk

Weekend Blog Walk

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What is a Blog Hop Anyway?  There's Etiquette?

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Interested in being a Guest-Host?  There is a $10 fee to Guest Host, but reserve your spot now to receive a 30% discount.  Send an email (athometake2 at gmail dot com) to reserve your spot.  Be sure to put Guest Host in the subject line.

Rules for the Weekend Blog Walk are simple:

1) Follow your Co-Hosts and Guest Hosts (1-6 on the Linky) via GFC, Feedburner, Facebook, Twitter and/or Pinterest. Please leave a comment if you are a new follower.

Jessica from At Home Take 2
Jillian from Hi! It's Jilly.
Jenna from Call Her Happy
Hayley from Hayley's World 
Anissa from Chasing Hailey(Guest Host) 
Kerrie from Family, Food and Travel (Guest Host)

2) Post our button on your sidebar, or add a link on your Party List. 
3) Hop around and visit at least a few new blogs and meet some new blogging friends.

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Have Giveaways or want to enter? Do that here.

Southern Mamas Blog Hop

 

Welcome Y’All

 

We are thrilled to have you!

The purpose of this blog hop is to connect with other Mamas

(Pet Mamas are welcome too!)
who are, have, or have ever secretly desired to live on Southern soil.

Not from the South, you say? No problem! We’d still love for you
to join us.

We’ll gladly adopt you and make you an honorary Southern Belle!

So go grab yourself a glass of sweet tea and let’s party!!

 

The Rules:

1. Kindly follow each of the hostesses via GFC as a way of saying Thank You for the opportunity to connect with other like-minded bloggers. Please leave a comment to let them know that you are following along so that we can return the favor.

Megan

Host
 

Sonja

Co-Host
 

Kimberly

Co-Host
 

Allie

Co-Host
 

Anissa

Co-Host of the Week
 

2. Grab a button and spread the word.
3. Mix and mingle with other bloggers.
4. Leave a comment and show them some love!

*Tip* Be sure that your email address is connected to your blogger profile or leave a comment with you info... this makes it much easier for those who wish to reply to your comments

5. First and foremost....have fun!

 

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Hello Fall Cash Giveaway

Welcome to Hello Fall $1000 Cash Giveaway

Happy Home and Family and Jenn’s Blah Blah Blog together with the most amazing group of bloggers are bringing you once again another FABULOUS event where one very lucky reader will win $1000 cold hard cash!

 

Special thanks to: Diva Fabulosa & Beauty and Fashion Diva  

So what would you do with a thousand dollars if you win, tell us your plan :)?

Hey guys,
This is an awesome opportunity for everyone. I don't know about you, but I'd be ALL over this. Who can't use an extra $1000 (especially right before the holidays)? I have so many things I could use it for...I don't even know where to begin.
Good luck to everyone!
Anissa 

 

• Giveaway will run September 22 at 12:01 am EST – October 22 at 11:59 PM EST
• OPEN WORLDWIDE
• You must be 18 years or older to enter.
• Must have a paypal account
• Entries will be verified so please don’t cheat, it’s a waste of time.

 

Goodluck everyone!   Disclaimer: This blog is not responsible for shipment of prize, nor did I accept any form of payment to promote this event. All entries will be verified.

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Wordless Wednesday

Hailey at her pre-Elmo breakfast.

We took the girls to go see Sesame Street Live, Elmo Sings this weekend.

Needless to say....Hailey LOVED it!!!

Mug Swap

 

Two weeks ago I signed up with Dalayna @ Pointing Up and Britt @ Yellow Umbrella for an awesome mug swap. In the swap we were each assigned a fellow victim… a hum….blogger to “legally” cyber-stalk via all avenues of social media they had available. All this was to be done in order to obtain as much info about them without their actually finding out (I woulda done this anyway…I HATE giving bad presents).

The much anticipated box arrives!

The goal was to get to know our intended target in order to get them the best mug that fit their life and personality. I don’t know about everyone else, but I take this bidnis (that’s business in southern speak) seriously!

My unsuspecting fellow blogger was Jessica from Sewing Our Life Together, little did she know that neither of us actually drinks coffee…sorry ya’ll! I kinda figured with her currently expecting that, that might be the case. Hope she enjoys it as much as I did finding the stuff to send to her!

My personal cyber-stalker was Myranda from Pretty Living PDX. She did a great job, because I was clueless as to who was watchin’ my every move…LOL! Myranda sent me an awesome travel mug that I could change the design and/or add pics of the kids to it! Trust me…if I change that the way I change the design of my blog…it’ll be frequently! Her thought process was that I’m a total non-stop mom and constantly on the go…I’d say that was a pretty spot on assessment. Thanks Myranda…love it!

I am so glad I did this…it was a lot of fun and I got to meet some great new people!

Ta da...my handy dandy customizable mug!

 

Wordless Wednesday

 

 

I LOVED this when I found it on Facebook....all I gotta say is the girl is a mini mommy! :-)

(and NO we don't have a problem admitting how awesome we are or anything)

Progresso Recipe Starters

A couple weeks ago I finally finished up my Buzz Agent info and received an offer to try out Progresso’s new Recipe Starters. I’m like HEY…free stuff, bring it on! Not to mention I’m ALWAYS looking for new ideas of things to make for dinner. I don’t know about you, but I sometimes find myself getting into a rut of what I’m making for us to eat. It gets kind of boring. If I’m gonna eat…I want to like what I’m eating!

I chose the creamy parmesan basil version (there are four other yummy looking versions as well… you can find more info on those here). The container comes with a recipe on the inside of the wrapper, but they also have a slew of additional recipe options that you can get. Not to mention they have a code you can scan to get a months’ worth of recipe options. I’m all about EASY and ideas or prompts on what to make!

I picked the recipe on the can for Creamy Chicken Alfredo. It was quick and easy to follow (even if you aren’t a person that cooks all the time, which unfortunately IS NOT me).

Easy Weeknight Creamy Chicken Alfredo

• Ingredients
• 8 oz uncooked fettuccine
• 1 package (1 1/4 lb) boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into 3/4-inch pieces
• 2 tablespoons butter or margarine
• 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
• 1 can (18 oz) Progresso™ Recipe Starters™ creamy Parmesan basil cooking sauce
• 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
• 1/2 cup whipping cream or half-and-half
• Directions

1. Cook and drain fettuccine as directed on package.
2. While pasta is cooking; in 12-inch skillet, heat 1 tablespoon vegetable oil over medium-high heat. Add chicken; sprinkle with 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Cook 5 to 6 minutes, stirring frequently, until chicken is no longer pink in center. Add butter and garlic; cook until garlic is softened. Stir in cooking sauce, Parmesan cheese and cream. Simmer 5 to 8 minutes, stirring occasionally, until well blended.
3. Serve over fettuccine.

I did tweak the recipe a bit by adding more cheese, garlic and pasta (there’s enough sauce to use a whole box of pasta instead of half a box) then what was called for and I would suggest cutting the chicken into smaller pieces. Around here we like LOTS of cheese, garlic and pasta! With increasing the pasta and chicken you could definitely feed more than the four servings it states on the container (we had leftovers). I would say we would definitely try another of the sauces and recipes in the future.

 

Pin it Monday- From Bananas to Cleaners

Pinterest

Ok, so this week I did several small things from pins on Pinterest.  The first being this pin I found on making your bananas last longer banana pin (the link then takes you to here). They don’t really last that long around here because Hailey can eat her some bananas (like at EVERY meal…not that I’m complaining). I don't know about, but I prefer my bananas to be JUST ripe so they haven’t gotten to the point of brown and mushy…yuck! Anyways, the gist of the pin is that you wrap saran wrap around the stem of the banana bunch and it will make them last several days longer…I’m kinda meah about the whole thing. I guess it did make them last longer, but it was kind of a pain in the booty to keep the saran wrap on them. Needless to say, I’ve stopped doing it!

Pinterest

The second pin that has been repined like a million times (for good reason) is the miracle stain remover! This is the one from my Pinboard here .With kids of all ages (including the hubby) you have stains out the wazoo (well… we do). Take equal parts hydrogen peroxide and dawn dish detergent and combine in a spray or squeeze bottle (they say use the blue Dawn, but I have used several different ones and they ALL worked). This mix has been touted as being able to take out old stains as well, but I personally have not been able to get it to do that. I also saw someone saying to use it to clean your carpet…not so good on that either (I use Windex for that one). But all in all…I’ve been using this stuff on ALL our stains for months! With Hailey's stuff I wet the item, apply the stain remover and then rub it in...I can then let her clothes sit till I'm ready to wash them (which at times can be days). It works awesome and is SUPER cheap. Whoever thought this up originally out to be knighted or something.