Enjoying the Chaos

Captain loves to color! You all know we love our KwikStix paint sticks, so when we were approached by the same company to try them Captain was super excited. What I was excited about was the 7 day cap off guarantee. Now I don't normally find markers all over the house with the lids off. What normally happens in my house is that "someone" swears they put the caps on correctly - but they don't click it all the way and the marker dries out. Well these new markers from  The Pencil Grip called Magic Stix  are awesome! They are available on prime from Amazon and I would definitely recommend them. The colors a bright and believe me I am a marker snob. There are no 'non' named brands in my house. I just can't stand wishy washy markers. When we use them I like to see the color and want it to last. You can see my Instagram post as soon as they came in the mail Captain started coloring with them. I left him on his own to see what he would create and we weren...

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At the end of November we welcomed a new family member into our home. She is adorable and has won the hearts of everyone here. She is such a loving little fur ball and is such fun to have around.  Isn't she just adorable! She lives in a a safe area of the house when we go out (she is still a puppy after all) Well last night we had an adventure. Hubby and I popped out with Captain and the older kids were at swim practice. On our return home, I was chatting on the phone with my mom who is on vacation so hubby went into the house first. He could hear the puppy jumping around excited for us to be home, but couldn't see her and she didn't come up to him. Finding it strange he looked around only to see this little fur-ball on the wrong side of the baby gate. Now this gate has small holes so there is no way she could have squeezed through. So after putting her back over the other side (to see if she tried to get over again). Yep within a few minutes she backed up as far...

I was invited by Hormel Gatherings to try some of their party trays! I am sure you all are always looking for an easy way to impress at your next gathering! My kids love the party packs from Hormel that include the pepperoni and salami choices. They are not as keen on the ham version. I am going to try the deluxe tray next. These packs can be kept in your refrigerator until you are ready to use them. The tray is perfect for storing and serving, which is perfect for when you don't want to worry about forgetting your special serving dishes. The packs we chose for our Thanksgiving get together had two kinds of cheese, 2 packs of crackers and a packet of salami and pepperoni. Disclosure of Material Connection: Some of the links in the post above are “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive an affiliate commission. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will add value to my readers...

While on a scavenging trip with her father, Amy is accidentally trapped in New Lithisle in Rondi Bauer Olson's All Things Now Living . At first her only goal is to escape, but when she meets Daniel, a New Lithisle boy, she begins to question how less-than-human the people of New Lithisle are. Amy's feelings grow even more conflicted when she learns she didn't end up in New Lithisle by mistake. Her father is secretly a sympathizer. Time is running short and Amy has to decide if she will bring the computer program her father wrote to his contact or save herself. Installing the program could prevent the dome's collapse, but if Amy doesn't find her father's contact in time, she'll die, along with everyone else. Stay up all night reading this thrilling new book from Rondi and enter to win a Kindle Fire! One grand prize winner will receive: A copy of All Things Now Living A Kindle Fire Enter today by clicking the icon below, but hurry! The giv...

This has been one of the best books I've read in a long time! It's a fun mystery with just the right amount of suspense for me! Plus I was fooled at the end I didn't guess who did it! Which is amazing because normally I know straight away. It's not full of all that junk stuff I don't want my kids to read so Boo got to read it too which is nice! She really enjoyed it as well. Here's a little blurb about the book! In the biggest case of her career, attorney Kate Sullivan is tapped as lead counsel to take on Mason Pharmaceutical because of a corporate cover-up related to its newest drug. After a whistleblower dies, Kate knows the stakes are much higher than her other lawsuits. Former Army Ranger turned private investigator Landon James is still haunted by mistakes made while serving overseas. Trying to forget the past, he is hired by Kate to look into the whistleblower's allegation and soon suspects that the company may be engaging in a dangerous g...

Boo and I have already started our Christmas cheer! Boo made her first pumpkin pie and then I helped deliver over a hundred pies to our local Salvation Army in time for their Thanksgiving dinner. It was a a very simple thing but one that hopefully brought a few smiles. I'm a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. My church is promoting the #LightTheWorld campaign again this year. Last year the kids and I followed along. We weren't perfect at doing something everyday but we tried and I think it helped improve the feeling of Christmas. This year I'm going to try and be more diligent. Boo and Captain have already printed off their calendar HERE   I don't believe in recreating the wheel - so I didn't make my own! You can also find all 25 videos HERE. You can have some fun with some Christmas GIFS HERE . I am so excited to see the joy this will bring to our family this Christmas season! We are already busy collected stuffed toys and socks to d...