I Never .. ok Bold I did... :D

Thanks for the steal, Somewhere over the Rainbow! Make sure to stop by her blog and check her list out, too!

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland - WORLD
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung Karaoke.
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Seen the Lincoln Memorial in person
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square - Worked in Times Square too..
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox - I've been tested as having them but I never had a symptom!
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Totally copied a post (hence this post) :):)

FFF-- SLUMBER Party Mania!!!!

My brother asked what I wanted --- this was all I wanted... and a slumber party with the girls...


Breakfast, in the living room, surrounded by toys, watching Backyardigans eating whatever we wanted!!!
Pumpkin pie and breakfast casserole for breakfast is so much fun at a slumber party!!



Grandma made us washcloths, and we are going to the "cell horse" at the mall to ride..

Head on over to Carries place for more fun!

Sad but true..I got this note from my sister in law..

I got this note and it just re-confirms our handmade holiday this year...

I wanted to give everyone a heads up that if you tend to give gift cards around the holidays, you need to be careful that the cards will be honored after the holidays. Stores that are planning to close after Christmas are still selling the cards through the holidays even though the cards will be worthless January 1. There is no law preventing them from doing this. On the contrary, it is referred to as Bankruptcy Planning.
Below is a partial list of stores that you need to be cautious about.

* Circuit City (filed Chapter 11).
* Ann Taylor- 117 stores nationwide closing.
* Lane Bryant, Fashion Bug ,and Catherine's to close 150 stores
nationwide.
* Eddie Bauer to close stores 27 stores and more after January.
* Cache will close all stores.
* Talbots closing down specialty stores.
* J. Jill closing all stores (owned by Talbots)

Pacific Sunwear
(also* owned by Talbots.
* GAP closing 85 stores.
* Footlocker closing 140 stores mo re to close after January.
* Wickes Furniture closing down

Levitz closing down remaining
stores.
* Bombay closing remaining stores.
* Zales closing down 82 stores and 105 after January.
* Whitehall closing all stores.
* Piercing Pagoda closing all stores.
* Disney closing 98 stores and will close more after January.
* Home Depot closing 15 stores 1 in NJ ( New Brunswick).
* Macys to close 9 stores after January.
* Linens and Things closing all stores.
* Movie Galley Closing all stores.
* Pep Boys Closing 33 stores

* Sprint/Nextel closing 133 stores.
* JC Penney closing a number of stores after January.
* Ethan Allen closing down 12 stores.
* Wilson Leather closing down all stores.
* Sharper Image closing down all stores.
* K B Toys closing 356 stores.
* Loews to close down some stores.
* Dillard's to close some stores.

Be Thankful -

Time to show your thanks to friends and family...
We want to thank you friends... :D

Vote for us- Give to Charity!

Wow, we are in the TOP 3 in Rhonda's contest!! Oh my!!



Go Vote for us!!! Our Post Giving to Give



We are giving to the St. Louis Crisis Nursery, we adopted a family and this will help with their utility bills!

Llama, Llama Lazy Momma Tip #4

Library friends... Try to remember what a great time the library is even for younger kids.. Don't go buy DVD's or CD's until you test them out. No point in getting things for Christmas that you can't return just because your kids don't like them. Get some Nick Kids DVD's and some fun music CD's to test out first.. you are going to listen to them a million times, you may as well have a little say in it!!

Look at this awesome site..

Called One Pretty thing.. they highlight everything going on in the crafting world.. It's so pretty and when you mouse over a picture it highlights what the project is and where to ind it. it's great.

Traditions...Giving to Give

We started a tradition with the nieces to start giving back to others. We also are doing a 2 in 1 contest here. 1 contest over at Candid Carries to talk about traditions and the other at Rhonda Rants to talk about things we've lost that helped others.

So, the last few years the nieces and I went to the salon and donated our hair to Locks for Love. You are not going to believe it, but the younger one was FOUR when we started this. Also, unfortunate but true is I got pregnant and the whole time I was preggers my hair did not grow almost at all.
This is the only before shot I got when we were leaving the house, I wish I would have taken more but I am a ditz sometimes.

There are a kazillion mid photo's but because miss S is not a fan of hair washes we had to take a few photo's of the Elephant that washes hair so she could show everyone she was not afraid at all.

The before and after... Can you believe she was ready again last year and again this year too!!

Number Two Miss A. Before, she looks, I would say 12 or 13.
After, she looks like a kid again here... She did her's again this year too.

The girls also got new shirts, and 2 hair products each for giving to others things that could not be bought.
Miss S got body wash (bubble bath) and shampoo, Orange Sherbet Shampoo.
Miss A got Conditioner and Detangler. Rootbeer Conditioner and Pineapple Detangler
The girls don't have as much as some other kids and because the salaon we went to is designed for kids, they 1. cut their hair for free, and 2. gave them each 2 hair clips and did the pictures on top of doing all the donation work for us.

I forgot to get a before shot of my hair butmay find an after one somewhere...
Gulp. sorry! But go on over to Candid Carries and Rhonda's to see more!

Cute little Peep.. Costume GIVEAWAY!!!!

We are falling in love with Grosgrain and her shop and her giveaways and her models.. Everything is so cute and so great and she sews way better than we do but we will get there one day...
look at this amazing outfit set.. I love it, and of course Miss T will too!!


Nordic Bo Peep and Long Lost Sheep Costume GIVEAWAY!!!!

Llama, Llama, I'm a lazy momma Super secret hiding posts

I have been slacking off on my posts over here.. Uggg.. Things have been crazy and it's so hard for me with so many Christmas presents going on, I can't handle not being able to talk about them. This is always the hard part of having a blog that my family looks at....

Sigh...

New Crafts.... fun!!!

Fun Activity - golf ball painting..

Make these cool pendants!

you can also get a free sample of the diamond glaze to finish it...

Seriously, the cutest frog EVER!!

Tropical Tree Frog Costume GIVEAWAY!!!!

Grosgrain is having another contest, we decided to try it out, this would be so great for us for next year..
Cute!! I love it!!

My Favorite Halloween Cartoon :D

Happy Halloween Week

Carve your own pumpkin :D

Check out this fun!!

An awarding history....

Look what we got!!Someone spells worse than me!! (kidding) WE got an award! We just love Z and his Momma and they gave us this snazzy award today!

We are going to do something new this time. We are going to go back in time and see who got this award from whom as far back as we can!
Are you up for it?
Lets go.
Zoo so Silly got this from Zander & Me, who got it from Mamahut's House, who got it from Crazy lady over the edge, who got it from Jill Jill bo Bill, who got it from Amelia Bedelia (and) Cookies, Chaos, & Conversations, We are sticking to Amelia becuase it's going to get too confusing to go with two direcitons. Amelia got the award from her new friend Melissa at Be Careful what you wish for, who got it from Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe, who got it from Life in the Psych Ward, who got it from Blogging Bama's Best Bargins, who got it from Twisted Lisa at her twisted blog *but we had to hunt down the link to find her*, Lisa got it from Back to Barnwell, who got it from My Therapy, who got it from Because I Said So, who got this from Monogrammed Teacher, and we had to search but found she got it from Monogram Chick, who got this from Nina, who got this from All Things Southern & Preppy, who got this from Just Ask Beth, who got the award from Southern Yankee (who again was not linked, nor were her awardee's). Southern Yankee got this award from Preppy Little Dress, who gave it up that Nina (see above) actually REDESIGNED This award from this Preppy little dress got this award from Petunia in Paradise, who got this from Happy Daily, But we have to stop for a minute and say Check out Happy Daily's blog, she's got GREAT RECIPIES!! EASY ONES!! ok Happy Daily who got the old award from Life of a Southern Belle, who got this from Jillian Inc, she got the award from justabeachkat, this was in August and from Sunbonnet Cottage, coming from Jan and Tom's place, they got it from A Picture is worth 1,000 words, and Diane got it from Alamo North, who got it from someone named Brenda and we can't fid her blog... It all ends here...
We may never find the real creator.... reminds me of that old tootsie roll commercial

It's a "We Made" Friday!

Our friend Lolly made these birds, so we tried it :D

Llama Llama Lazy Momma Tip 3.

Save your boxtops! Everything by Kimberly Clark has them. Even mommy items and diapers! Save them in the kitchen in a small open container so you can always drop them in. Save all of your proof of purchase in he same container then separate later when your ready to send off. This makes your search so much easier!

Halloween Fun --

We found Mummies ---Cute and make your own!

and look at this skeleton.. YUM!

Spider Snacks! How fun! Stop in at Delight in the day!

We went to the Crafty Crow and they have GREAT Halloween crafts from all over!!

Llama Llama Lazy Momma Tip 2.

Make a "momma" basket for the side of your bed. All of those first year baby things go in there. Emergency pen (for thank you cards when you feel like your nursing all the time and can't get out of bed)
chapstick (of course)
a place for the monitor not to shine in your face for that one hour nap (oh please Lord a whole hour)
Glasses (if needed)
Lotion (just a small sample)
Pony tail holders, random ones go in and out depending on the day and time.
baby saline solution
My migraine meds made their way back into my stash, while I waited for the Doc to call me and let me know if I could take it
A few random cut outs from magazines made their way in and some makeshift bookmarks (to go with the stack of books to the left and thank you cards)
nursing pads are always a good thing to keep in there, you never know when your going to spring a leak.

Llama Llama Lazy Momma Tip 1.

Replace your soap in the kitchen dispenser with cleaner, it works so fast to clean your sink before your company comes over, and won't accidentally leave the bottle out!