Bloggy Carnival Summer Giveaway!

Can you believe it's time for another Bloggy Carnival? I can't! But I'm totally excited because of the giveaway that I have this time. It's not one, but 4!

Last week I was contacted by Jessica to see if I wanted to give away some full size boxes of a new Cocoa Puffs cereal! How exciting! I am thrilled to be able to give away to four lucky winners their own full size box of New Whole Grain Cocoa Puffs Combos! Cocoa Puffs usually has their standard style cereal but has added a new product to their line-up.......a cocoa puff that combines their chocolate and vanilla puffs into one puff!

To enter, all you have to do is to leave a comment on this post. You do not have to be a blogger to enter or win. Please make sure that your email address is in your comment so I am able to get ahold of you should you win!

This giveaway will remain open until Friday, August 1st until Noon (EST).

I will be doing a random drawing for the winners. I will then contact the winners by email, if any winner does not reply or if I am unable to contact them by Wednesday. August 6th, I will do another drawing for another winner!

Please be sure to visit the other giveaways at the Bloggy Carnival~

Thanks for visiting my blog!

A little of this and a little of that........

Ok, I'm having a mental block lately on what to write about. So I thought I'd just do some mismatch of thoughts.................

Why don't parents act like parents? I think this is on my mind because of a neighborhood kid and his Mom. Let's just say that when parents act like immature little kids, it's not hard to see where the kids get it!

Why are products that are good for the environment more expensive then those that pollute our world??

Well, I'm off to watch Tori & Dean..............have a great night!

Cypress Gardens

I have finally had a chance to upload some pictures from our two days at Cypress Gardens. Unfortunately I don't have pictures from the waterpark area and that's because I was enjoying the water park as well. They have a really nice lazy river that we floated in for about an hour and then got out and let the kids go down the slides and sit near the HUGE kids park. After that we went back to the lazy river and floated some more. It was quite peaceful and the water was really nice as well.

I'm not usually a water park person only because I worry about the germs and such. But the kids really wanted to cool off so we went ahead and enjoyed that part of the park as well.

The front entrance of the park has an area called 'Bugsville' where there are all sorts of rides.......roller coasters (which the boys all loved) and kiddie rides (which Shelby really liked).

Here we are in the front of the park.

Little Miss Trucker in her beach truck!

Little Firefighter on her way to help save a kitty cat! LOL

They had a beautiful ski show and the boys kept telling their daddy that they want to ski now. Music to his ears since he loves to water ski. Next to the waterski show, they had a beautiful water fall. It reminded me of either northern GA, near Dillard or even Hawaii with the landscape. It was so beautiful!

One of the great things at Cypress Gardens has always been the way they take flowers and sculpt them into different things. The park used to be all about these flowers and had very few rides. But I think because of all the other parks and their rides, Cypress Gardens had to include some other features if they were going to survive. Not that I'm against those new rides, as they were fun. But I'm glad that they left the beauty of the original park. Nestled all together near the lake you could stroll around the entire area of decorated flower animals. Here is Shelby with a seal.

And with a lady bug.............and a huge bunny!

And finally Craig and I with Shelby.

It was a great family day (days)! If you are ever in Winter Haven stop by Cypress Gardens for the day.

Birthdays, Lush, and the weekend!

Where does the time go? My oldest will be 13 on Saturday.........it still feels like just yesterday that he was born. We are usually away on some sort of family vacation around his birthday every year but this year he has asked us to go another time. LOL So we decided to go back to Cypress Garden's on Friday (tomorrow). The park gives out a free admission for anytime within the next week, so we'll go back tomorrow and hang out in the water park area for most of the day. I have to still upload the pictures from Saturday so I'll do that this weekend and post. LOL

We are also going to the mall so I can head to the Lush store! Have you experienced any Lush products?? Oh my goodness..........you must! Lush products are vegan/natural products. I am in love with the shampoo bars and the bubble bars. For those of you who like to take a good bubble bath, these are just the ticket! They smell heavenly and bubble like you wouldn't believe. One little bubble bar lasts for a good 8 to 10 uses.

The other great item is their shampoo bars! I've never used a bar for shampoo and when a friend of mine told me about the shampoo, I didn't believe it. But these bars actually do exactly what they say! I have the seanick bar which says it will give volume to your hair. Guess what? It does!

One of our family traditions is that we allow whoever is the birthday honoree the choice of their dinner........whether it is going out somewhere to their favorite restaurant or having me cook their favorite meal. I'm not quite sure where we will go this weekend but I'll be sure to report on it when I post again. LOL

Happy Birthday D! We love you!

Woo Hoo It's the weekend!

Hey everyone~ It's not technically the weekend yet, but we'll be starting early today. We have to head down to take our RV to the shop to finish the repairs from the lightning storm a couple of weeks ago. Then we are going to PF Changs for some lettuce wrap and shrimp fried rice and then to IKEA to see the office furniture they have displayed.

On Saturday we are going to Cypress Gardens. We are so excited to spend the day at the park because we haven't been there in years. In fact they had actually closed it until someone bought it and redid the park. There is a water park included now, which the kids are very happy to visit.

Have a great weekend! I'll post pictures from the day next week!

Happy 4th of July weekend!

Happy 4th of July ( a little early!)!!

I hope you all have a fabulous holiday weekend. Be safe!