Wordful Wednesday/Wordless Wednesday

Our Knights of Columbus council hosted a flashlight easter egg hunt last weekend. I snapped this picture of the kids running to get the eggs, but all that showed up was the eggs! (They had reflective tape on them.) I thought the picture turned out pretty cool!




To join in on Wordful Wednesday visit sevenclowncircus.com
To join in on Wordless Wednesday visit Serendipity is Sweet

Peeps!

Our newspaper has a Peeps diorama contest each year. This year claire made one. She just made a small one, but it turned out real cute. She chose a snow theme since we've had so much snow this year. She didn't make it into the top 10, and she was disappointed. I told her we could do a bigger one next year. Here is her diorama:





If you'd like to see the 10 finalist you can see them on our paper's website. Some of these people really go all out and make big, extravagant ones!
http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/03/24/2061973/which-peeps-diorama-are-you-sweet.html#tvg

Rent 1 Get 1 Blockbuster movie!

Another great offer from MomSelect. I didn't even know Blockbuster had the express kiosks. That is great, and I LOVE the online feature. I'm definately going to be using this coupon code! Use the link below to search for a kiosk near you.

Here is what MomSelect sent me...

BLOCKBUSTER Express™ kiosks. They make renting DVDs fast, easy, and affordable! You can rent DVDs online for only $1 per night at blockbusterexpress.com and you don't even need a membership to do it.


Through the rent online feature at blockbusterexpress.com, you can create a favorites list, browse available movies at your preferred kiosk, complete the rental of up to three movies at once online and then pick up the DVDs from the kiosk at your convenience.

The coupon code is 555G13B.

What movie would you rent?

Virtual Easter Basket

My friend Amy at Keeping up with the Schultz Family gave me this virtual Easter Basket. Read below about the cool thing Hershey is doing for the Children's Miracle Network.

Here is some information on the Hershey's Better Basket Blog Hop:

"This Easter season Hershey is all about helping you to create Better Easter Baskets with their special limited edition Easter candies found at Walmart.
More importantly, Hershey wants to promote the idea of going good in our own communities. The Hershey Company is committed to making a difference in the communities where we live in, and has a heritage of giving back to the community."
Thanks to Hershey's and 20 different bloggers looking to blog for a good cause, baskets like the one above were created and given to charities of each bloggers choice to spread Hershey's ongoing message around: We are ALL working together to do good in and out of our own communities!

In addition to those 20 baskets donated to charity, Hershey's is also sponsoring a Better Basket Blog Hop where Hershey will donate $10 per blog post entry for the Children's Miracle Network, up to $5,000.

If you want to be apart of the blog hop, here are the rules:

Copy and paste these rules to your blog post.
Create a blog post giving a virtual Easter Basket to another blogger – you can give as many
Virtual Baskets as you want.
Link back to person who gave you an Easter Basket.
Let each person you are giving a Virtual Easter Basket know you have given them a Basket.
Leave your link at BetterBasket.info/BlogHop comment section. You can also find the official rules of this #betterbasket blog hop, and more information about Better Basket with Hershey’s there.
Hershey’s is donating $10 per each blog participating to the Better Basket Blog Hop to Children’s Miracle Network (up to total of $5,000 by blog posts written by April 4th, 2010).
Please note that only one blog post by each blog url will count towards the donation.

So now it's my turn to give away some virtual Easter Baskets:
You can use the same basket I used to pass on to your friends.
Now join in if you would like it is for a great cause.

I'm passing this on to ...

Kara @ Eskimo Kisses Home Grown Kids

Jen @ Frugal Fabulous

Melissa @ Serendipity is Sweet

Snowy Spring Sunday

Yesterday, the 2nd day of spring, we woke up to this...





Yes, that is snow you see. Now, I realize that may not be such an odd thing in Mid March for some, but we live in TEXAS!! We just got a dusting. About an hour north of us got several inches.

Thank goodness Mother Nature has returned our spring weather today. It's a beautiful day out there today. No more snow, ok, Mother Nature??

Homeschool Talk: Magic Tree House

Claire has not had an easy time learning to read. I've tried everything I can think of. She's been doing better, but still struggling some. Well, yesterday we got the first Magic Tree House book from the library. She started reading it on the way home. She couldn't put it down. She finished it this morning! I'm so proud of her. Maybe I just haven't been giving her the right things to read...or maybe...that tree house really is magic! Either way, I'm so excited. She can't wait to get the next book. Thank you, Thank you, Mary Pope Osborne for writing those wonderful books!!

If your child is starting to read check this series out. It great for boys and girls. My son loved them as well and will still read the new ones as they come out.

Postcard Friendship Friday #45

We have been having beautiful spring weather here lately. Trees are blooming and its been nice and warm so I thought I'd post a card of bluebonnets....can't wait until they start popping up along the highway! Unfortunately, our weather forecast is pretty gloomy for this weekend: cold and rainy. Can't wait until the spring weather is here to stay!

Beth at The Best Hearts are Crunchy is hosting PFF today. Head over to her blog to see more.