Winners

I have been a bit behind with things lately. With Christmas, family visiting, New Years Eve/Day, friends visiting, and running around everywhere....time really flies. I apologize for my tardiness with posting the winners to the recent contests. So, without any further delay...here is the lucky winners! Thanks to all who signed up to win, did the extra work to help promote the giveaways (and my site)...I greatly appreciate you all! Thanks to our generous sponsors, too! They have offered so many wonderful prizes!

Build-A-Bear Workshop (review & Giveaway!) Great Christmas gift~ : sohamolina
Automoblox Minis make for a great Christmas gift! ... (Maukilo gift certificate): Jen Mc
Great Gift idea for Christmas: Darda Victory Lane ... : packerfantimmy
Hallmark for Christmas (plus 2- $25 gift card giveaways) : darlanpaulsmamma & Victoria
Crayola makes great products for Christmas gifts! (review & giveaway) : Danetta

Congratulations to the winners! I sent an e-mail to the winners and they will have 3 days to contact me with their information. I will have the option to pick a new winner if I don't hear from the original winner.

More contests/reviews/giveaways coming up! Plus, I have a TON of personal blogging to catch up on! Happy New Year everyone! I look forward to another year of blogging and making friends!

I have been featured!

What an honor and acknowledgement when another blogger seeks you out, and not only reads your blog...but features you specifically on their site! Thanks goes out to Womb to Bloom for featuring my site in their top 5 pick for the week! Thank you so much for the kind words and the "research" you have done on my site. I feel it a high honor.

Thanks!

I want to make a public "blogger" thank you to Mommy in Pink for picking me as the winner of Relaxing Baby Massage Oil from Nature's inventory! I am looking forward to using this Organic baby massage oil on Cole! I haven't yet used it, but I am sure it will be something my husband and I use to help calm him down after bath time. Thank you so much, Mommy in Pink!
I was also ecstatic to be chosen as a very lucky winnerof one of three Samsung Omnia Smart Phones from Mom Central! WOW~ what a win! I love being on the Test Panel for Mom Central and being "in the know" about great products, services, websites, and more. Thank you so much, Mom Central, for hosting this amazing giveaway~ and for picking me as the winner!

Sending out some thanks~

I won a few prizes from some great sites! I wanted to shout out a big THANK YOU to them for hosting the giveaway and for being the lucky winner!

First of all, thanks to MomCentral for having their Holiday Gift Guide Giveaway! It was 16 days of giveaways and I was a runner up to win a Sleep n' Grow DVD (0-10 months) from Itsy Bitsy Yoga! This will be great to use with my new baby (due in less than 2 weeks). Thanks so much MomCentral for all your work and hosting of the giveaway! Thanks for picking me, too!

Secondly, thanks to Lisa from Our Seven Qtpies for hosting the Polliwalks giveaway! My son, Caleb loves his new shoes, and is wearing them around the house! Since we live in the Arctic MN, he needs to wait until summer to wear these outside of the house. Thanks so much for bringing joy to the feet of Caleb! He is digging the frogs!

I would like to thank Kailani from An Island Review for hosting a Build-a-Bear for Wii giveaway, and for picking me as the winner! We love our Wii and it is fun to have a new game!

Thanks so much for your generosity everyone!! I am very grateful for the wins!

~~Thanks for a super baby shower~~

I just want to thank all the guests/sponsors for the gifts and visits for the cyber baby shower hosted by the wonderful Pamela Kramer of Happy Panda Baby! It was a great party, and I enjoyed seeing the great photos, and the fun creations! Congratulations go to the winners of the prizes! Go see who won by clicking here! Thanks again!! My Baby and family send out our gratitude in huge measures! We greatly appreciate it!! I am sure the winners will love their prizes, too!

Awards received~Awards to share

I have recently received a few awards (THANK YOU) and I need to acknowledge my dear, sweet bloggy friends! Jenn, from My kids are my world, gave me the Marie Antoinette Award! Thank you Jenn! You are very thoughtful and sweet. Here are the rules of the award:
1) Please add the Marie Antoinette award photo on your blog
2) Place a link to the person from whom you received the award
3) nominate 7 exceptional blogs to receive the award
4) put the links to those blogs on your blog
5) leave a message on their blogs to tell them they are the chosen ones!

I would like to give this award to these great bloggers:
Jody @ Jody's Joys, Angela @ 7 dogs and a baby, Alicia @ Our Little Guy, Lisa @ Our Seven Qtpies, Jeannie @ I'm Losing It, Jenna @ Jenna's life, and Susan @ 5 Mangoes!

I would like to thank my wonderful friend...Alicia for the super award ofthe "coolest blog award" which is the Butterfly award! Alicia and I share a pretty amazing
connections right now...we are both pregnant! Go wish her congrats on her first pregnancy~ you can find her on her site: Our Little guy! Her and I have become great friends through the blog world, and I am so thankful for her! You will see what a sweetie she is if you go visit her site! Thanks Alicia! You rock!
I would like to pass the award to Jennifer @ JP and the Boys!

Also, anyone else can feel free to use these awards and pass them on to other wonderful bloggers! Share the love!

Some tank-ewes!

I want to send out a big thank you to a few fellow bloggers! I have won three contests lately, and I am truly grateful!
First of all, thank you to MommyDaddyBlog for choosing me to win the Dole Giveaway! I won a ton of coupons for FREE FREE pack of Dole Fruit Bowls, Dole Fruit Bowls in Gel, or Dole Fruit Parfait cups! My kids are totally loving these, too! SO~ THANK YOU!! Second, I won a Baby Mozart Music Festival DVD from Deuce's World! I just got this today, so we have yet to watch it! I am sure my kids will enjoy it! Thank You so much!
Then, I won a Playskool set (for boys) from iMommies! This kit contains a blue and green Playskool Easy Grip bowl and spoon, and four Playskool baby bibs with embroidered messages. Thank you so much! Maybe this baby will be a boy??

Awards and thanks

I am a Schmuck!pregnant lady needing some grace because of losing my mind and not keeping things in order forgetfulness, but I got this award a few weeks back from my dear friend, Lisa. She is such a sweetheart and my real life friend! I am so thankful for her, and she is a great friend! Thank you for the award Lisa! Now I would love to pass it on to a few friends of mine:
Jennifer, Alicia, and Sarah.

I feel extra loved tonight, because I got this next award from two special ladies~

Thank you tollesons4him and Alicia! I really enjoy reading your blogs, too! I would love to pass this award along to a few people to share the love.

Lisa, Pauline and Sniz.

Thanks so much ladies! I appreciate the awards! Sorry about not posting this sooner, Lisa. I've got pregnancy on the brain.

danke sehn!

Thanks to these blogs who participated in the bloggy carnivals! I won a $10 gift card for Target from Alaina at Three Ladies and a Dad, and I won a $10 gift card to Starbucks from Christine at Are we there yet mom!
Thanks so much ladies! I greatly appreciate your giveaways, and the lucky draw of picking me! :)
Sorry I am a little late in posting this, but I wanted to make sure to give appropriate thanks!

I got an award, thanks!

I was awarded this from my bloggy friend, Jen! You are so sweet, Jen! I enjoy reading your blog, too! Your kids are so cute! It was fun to get this award after I got back from vacation! Now, I would like to award some other blogs, and here are the rules for passing it along:

1. The winner can put the logo on his/her blog.
2. Link the person you received your award from.
3. Nominate up to 7 other blogs.
4. Put links of those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message on the blogs of the people you’ve nominated.

Alicia, Sarah, Lisa, Jeannie, LeAnn, and Miss Daisy....You gals rock!

An Award for smiles~

Thank you Frazels, for making me smile, 'cuz you said I make you smile! Thanks for the award, I tote it with glee!! I would love to nominate a few of you ladies who make me smile~

Jennifer, Sniz, and Jeannie! You ladies are a hoot!

Winners of past contests

Here are the winners of some past contests. Thanks for all the participation with entering for contests, and especially a big thanks to the companies for sponsoring the giveaways! Keep coming and visiting my blog for updates about our family adventures, product reviews and giveaways!



Sungrubbies: Paint a hat~ Winner is Jennifer



Nana Star (soft plush and book)~ Winner is Sonya



Wishful Daisy (2 winners)~ MaryBeth and Michele



Oopsie Dazie clips~ masonsgranny59



CONGRATULATIONS!!

Thanks, Alicia!

My dear (bloggy) friend, Alicia, is expecting her first baby...and I am just tickled pink for her and her hubby! (psst...I knew awhile ago, but now the fantastic news is out so I can scream it from the blog roof!) She is such a sweetheart, and she gave me a gift...
Thanks, Alicia! Know that I am praying for you, too, and that little, amazing miracle baby God is forming in you! God bless you!!

Arte Y Pico Blog Award

Mary, from Adventures in Mommyland, nominated me for the Arte Y Pico Blog Award. Thank you Mary...you are so sweet to think of me for this!

I would also like to pass on this award to the following:

**Alicia, from Renewed in Him
**Sarah, from Mommyology
**Kailani, from An Island Life
**Jennifer, at JP & the boys
**Stephanie, from Metropolitan Mama
Here's the rules for those that were nominated:
1. Pick five (5) blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and also for contributing to the blogging community, no matter what language.
2. Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone.
3. Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the award itself.
4. Award-winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of “Arte y Pico” blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award (http://arteypico.blogspot.com/)

Sharing the Love

My friend, Sarah from Milk Mama, gave me this sweet award! Thank you, Sarah! You are too sweet!!

Crystal at Memoirs Of A Mommy created this award in honor of the donor that saved Noah's Life. Noah is her son and he had a heart transplant when he was under one month old. He just turned one earlier this month!! Her hopes are that in passing this award around, we are creating more awareness of the importance of organ donation.

As Sarah did, now it is my turn to pass on the award to Share The Love and spread the word about Organ Donation. I am passing this on to~

Alicia, Gretchen, Fratzels, and Tollesons4him!

Thanks so much!

I was so excited when I found out I won the O-Mega Body oil giveaway at Hip Mama's Place! I tried it out this last week, and can I just say that I LOVE it! It is so smooth going on, smells great, and feels wonderful! I love that the Mama-Mio products are safe to use. They are Paraben Free, Petrolatum Free, Sodium Laureth and Sodium Laurel Sulphate Free, Xenoestrogen and Phtalates Free, Colourant and Synthetic Fragrance Free! Thanks Hip Mama'a Place, and thanks Mama Mio!

Thank you MotherTalk!

I won a great sounding book because of a "Dirty Little Secret" that I shared online. MotherTalk had a fun contest going on where mom's could share their secrets of what makes us a less-than-perfect mom. You can check out all the entrants here and read mine here.

Thank you MotherTalk for having a great contest and picking me as a runners up! I think this book will be fun to read!

A Big THANK YoU~~

Have you noticed my great looking new blog design? I have two wonderful creators to thank!

I won a contest from The Good Stuff blog: a Silver Design package from RS Designs. So, I chose a 3 column layout, a custom button, and a custom signature.

Didn't Linda do a great job?? Thanks Linda!

Then, I won a blog header, a blog template, and a custom footer from a cyber baby shower for Margie Gunn, sponsored by Shauna from See my Designs! She did a great job, too!

Didn't Shauna do a super job?? Thanks so much Shauna!

Considering a blog change? Check out these great places, and see what these gals can do!

Happy Panda giveaway!

UPDATE: Contest is now closed! Thanks for entering! Winner is Angela & Janie !!Congratulations! Thank you Happy Panda for this great Prize!

Remember reading my review of the very adorable Happy Panda Snappie and Lap T shirts for Madelyn and Caleb? They were so cute in the St. Patrick's Day attire, and I love that they match!
I love the shirts, especially because they are tagless!
Caleb and Madelyn love the Panda! Caleb thinks it is funny that there is a Panda on Maddie's bum.
Pam, from Happy Panda, would like to sponsor a giveaway for TWO Sassyfrazz readers!! The winners will get to pick out a Tagless Beach Panda in a Snappie or a Lap T. Isn't she generous? Here are the rules: Go see what Pam offers at Happy Panda and come back to leave a comment about what you found there.
You must live in the United States. You can be a blogger, or not...but you should blog 'cuz it is so stinkin' fun! I will leave the contest up until April 11, at 7:00 PM CST. If you would like to have a second entry, blog about this contest and leave a second comment. For three chances to win, you can subscribe to my feed reader....then, leave a comment. PLEASE---->>>PLEASE Do not just leave an anonymous comment without an e-mail address...you might win, and I can't contact you.

Thanks and Happy reading!

Hip, Hip, Hooray...we are all Health-ay!

Thank you so very much for all the prayers and concerns for our family...especially Madelyn. We are all healthy at this time! Madelyn really took almost an about face. I really believe that having two of the elders come to pray over her specifically and our family, that God completely healed her. Thank you to our loving church family, and thank you to everyone who prayed. I almost feel worried anytime we go anywhere now, because I am a bit germ phobic right now. We did make it to church on Sunday. People were coming up to us and saying it was great to see her, and that she looked healthy now...and is this the little girl who has been so sick? Yes, yes, and YES....also, people kept touching her, and shaking her hand...almost touching her face! I was just clinging to her and trying to back up a bit to keep out the germs. I know people just care, and want to love on her, but I think I have a right to be concerned. I went in the bathrooms and washed her hands before we left. I know that she will get sick, if she is going to get sick, but I will do whatever I need to for preventions! :)