Growing Tree Toys - Wish List Contest

Holidays are upcoming right?

We all could use gifts for free this year, goodness knows I do! I’ve been a giveaway entering freak for about two weeks now. We have 11 weeks until Christmas and I need all the help I can get.

So when one of my favorite toy stores told me about their Win your Wish List contest I jumped at the chance. I can get Eco-friendly original toys for my kids, my boyfriend’s nephews and a few friends children that I love to spoil.

Here are the top three items I’d LOVE to have for my kids:

I won’t be selfish, I’ll show you how to do it so we can all join in the fun of this contest!

Go to: Growing Tree Toys and follow the directions, Easy Peasy!

Anyone who creates or edits a wish list at GrowingTreeToys.com from Oct. 1-31, 2010 is eligible to win - up to $1,000 in toys!

Good luck ya’ll! If you win, let me know!

~This post was written with a contest hopeful through the Growing Tree Toys Blog Network~

If you won.... A contest worth day dreaming about! Hampton Hotels

If you could call your friends and invite them to visit you… who would you call?

If you could call ALL your friends to come and visit you for the weekend, stay in a 100 room hotel all by yourselves… for free… who would you call?

My list is huge…. It has my group of friends, Dave’s friends, my siblings, Kara’s high school friends. I know I could add enough people to fill a 100 room hotel for the weekend.

What a fun time that would be!

Hampton Inn is offering a way to make it easier than ever to connect with your friends and family with their Chain of Friends Sweepstakes. One grand prize winner will win an entire hotel for a weekend (100 rooms for two nights). 100 other lucky folks will win a free weekend stay for them and three friends. Visit hampton.com/friends for more details and your chance to enter.

If you're ready to make your travel plans now, then you should know that Hampton Hotels is launching the Great Getaway Advance Purchase promotion so you can maximize your stay and play. They're offering guests 20% off the best available rate at participating hotels when you book at least seven days in advance for stays until July 15, 2010. Visit hampton.com to take advantage of this great offer.

Now go…. Sign up… day dream and if you win, come back and let me know, those pictures would be so fun!

~Huge Thanks to MomSelect for the opportunity to enter, write about this and a chance to win a one night stay at any Hampton Hotel~

Colorado Parents- Win a Photo Shoot!

See all those pictures on the right side of my blog.... Yep... None of them are professionally taken.

I'll wait while you contain your shock.

That being said, I'd love to have professional photos of them up there, showing all the pearly whites and great hair.

So... I entered a contest at Wilson Family Adventures to win:

A free 2 hour photo session at the local location of your choice. You will also receive a high resolution CD of all of the photos so that you can print them yourself. That’s a $200 package for FREE!!

Yep... Free...

So, to try and win it.. I'm going to give you all the chance to win it as well!

Don't say I never gave you anything!

Head on over and check it out!

Blue Ribbon Photos- Colors

Lori over @ A Cowboy’s Wife is hosting a Blue Ribbon Photo Contest. Her theme for this month is colors.


I have never fancied myself a good photographer, I never saw things like some people do. The symmetry of a tree that frames a child on a swing, or the way the hole in the dryer door could act as a circular frame.

However, then Picasa came out, and I fell in love with change.

Cropping, highlights, sharpening... so here it is.
Here is my contribution to this month's Blue Ribbon Photo Contest. Come over and join... I'd love to see what you have taken a picture of!

(Please click on the picture so you can see the full side of this photo.. it is amazing!)
(Boat of Vivid Dreams)
(Image by: Suzanne Bastien)

This picture was taken at the Desert Botanical Gardens this past weekend. It is part of the Chihuly: Nature of Glass exhibit. Amazing colors!