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Loving Heart Designs: Olay Total Effects Body Wash Giveaway.

Check out this great giveaway! It ends on March 27th, so hurry on over ladies!

Lately, the weather here in Oregon has been nothing to complain about . We are having beautiful spring time weather that I am sure many people are wishing was coming their way. My family which resides in Georgia, have been getting pretty chilly weather which includes snow. Yes, snow in Georgia in March… I could hardly believe it myself.

2010 and already three months in,  it’s hard to believe I know.  In just a couple of months, my daughter Melody will be two years old. I no longer call her a baby because she is far from it. She’s a very smart independent little girl, a beam of sunshine to all that she knows. People tell you these years pass by ever so quickly and now I totally know what they meant by it, because it does.

Don’t sweat the little things and even the big ones, each day is a blessing in one way or another and it’s good for us to be reminded through it all that nothing is ever more than we can bear because we have God bigger and greater than all of our issues. A Bible verse that I commonly go back to and have hidden in my heart is 1 Peter 5:7 which reads ” Let the Lord have all your worries and cares, for He is always thinking about you and watches everything that concerns you”.

In just two weeks time, my family and I are relocating from a third story apartment into a duplex. I look forward to this next step in our journey. I know a huge stress will be lifted from me as I don’t have to worry about many issues that I’ve encountered living in an apartment. Another plus is that our new place is minutes from a park and librarythat my daughter and I can walk to daily if we so choose. I would’ve loved to rent a place with a yard but was willing to not be very picky.  I was ready to get out of our current place in a very short amount of time because it’s been making me sick due to our new neighbors smoking. At our new place we won’t have to worry about smoking because there’s no smoking, which was my biggest concern.

What else does our new place have to offer? (other than the Starbucks literally a skip away?) Well, I’ll have a much bigger kitchen, a dining area that doesn’t have carpet (w00t!), a larger living room with a wood burning fire place, two deck/patios,  a huge garage that I’m planning to set up into a nice storage/workshop, 2 bedroom, and a bath. So, we did have to purchase our own washer and dryer, thankfully we have a nice sized tax refund back to contribute. We actually went washer and dryer shopping today and found exactly what we were looking for.  I’ll blog more about my thoughts on them and experience later on!

I’ve still got a bit of packing to do. I had to slow down because I’ve been having some major sinus and possibly stress related headaches. Prayer are appreciated there. I did manage to pull something while moving boxes and I am sure that didn’t help either. It goes to show me how out of shape I am and how I should make it a must to find time to work out and stretch each and every day.

I’ll write more later but just wanted to post a little update

Can you believe Easter is right around the corner! In fact, Easter will be upon us in less than a months time! It seems to me lately that it’s been sneaking up sooner every year that passes my way! Are you ready? I know I most certainly am not! I wanted to take the time to make my daughter a Easter basket but with moving in less than two weeks and the whole process of getting situated, I know I’m not going to have the time to do so.

The company Gourmet Gift Baskets has got my back, as they offer the most adorable Easter gift baskets that I’ve seen around! I was blessed with the opportunity to review the Hippity-Hoppity Easter Gift Stack. The Gift Stack I received varies from the one in the picture above. For instance my basket was instead a sweet little polka dotted tin pail that will most definitely be reused by my daughter long after all the Easter goodies are gone. In pointing this out, substitution may be made but I’m sure all baskets will come out looking adorable!

As I mentioned before in the Hippity-Hoppity Easter Gift Stack you’ll find well knows Easter candies such as PEEPS, M&M’s, Sour Patch Kids, Reeses, and a few others. My daughter loves plush dolls and animals so I know she’s going to love the 12′ Harry Hare Rabbit that is included! I can’t wait to see her face when I give it to her as I know she’ll love it and I like that the quality of this basket isn’t cheap either as some you might purchase elsewhere.

Purchasing premade gift baskets, save you time and money so that you can be investing in other important things. The Hippity-Hoppity Easter Gift Stack retails at 29.99, if you are interested! They have many other popular Easter Gifts to browse through as well on their site.

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One Connected2Christ.com reader will have the chance to win an Hippity-Hoppity Easter Gift Stack of their very own!

To enter: You must become a fan of Gourmet Gift Baskets on Facebook here. Please leave your Facebook name in your comment. And when you post on their Facebook wall, please let them know about another gift basket that they carry that you like! (this must be done or no other entry will count).

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2. Blog it, link back to this post. (2 extra)
3. Favorite my blog on Technorati
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5. Follow on Twitter @erinlowmaster & Tweet (daily entries available)
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This Giveaway is only open to U.S and Canada, No PO Boxes.

Giveaway running till 03/15/10 . Winners will be notified shortly afterward by email. Please respond within 48 hours or you forfeit your prize to another participant.

**Disclaimer: I was given  the Hippity-Hoppity Easter Gift Stack to review from Gourmet Gift Baskets. This review is 100% my opinion and has not been edited or reviewed by anyone. I was not compensated in any other way for this product review.**

Not to miss out on!

I’m very excited to inform everyone about the Cart Savings Event Kroger is having! I don’t know about everyone else, but I know I could always use the extra savings when it comes to purchasing numerous things, especially my groceries! So now until March 14th you can save big when shopping at all Kroger and Kroger Family stores which include; Fred Meyer, Ralphs, King Soopers, Dillons, Smiths, Frys, Bakers, Owens, Food4less, to name just a few.

I bet you are wondering what brand products that are participating in the event! The brands participating include Honey Nut Cheerios, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Hamburger Helper, Yoplait, Progresso, Totino’s, Green Giant, Cascadian Farm, Tide, Charmin, Bounty, Pampers, Pantene, Crest, Iams, Febreze, Old Spice and many more!

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Kroger and General Mills are teaming up through My Blog Spark to give one of my blog readers a $25.00 gift card to spend on groceries!

To Enter: Let me know what you are looking to stock up on when out grocery shopping!

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1. Add me to your blogroll or add my button.
2. Blog it, link back to this post. (2 extra)
3. Favorite my blog on Technorati
4. Subscribe by email/RSS. (2 extra)
5. Follow on Twitter @erinlowmaster & Tweet (daily entries available)
6. Email a friend about this giveaway. (Leave name of friend)

Tweet: (copy/paste)

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This Giveaway is only open to U.S and Canada

Giveaway running till 03/10/10 . Winners will be notified shortly afterward by email. Please respond within 48 hours or you forfeit your prize to another participant.

**Disclosure: General Mills and My Blog Spark provided the above information and sent me a complimentary $25 Kroger gift card **

Protecting your pet is protecting a member of the family and one of the most reliable ways to ensure the safe return of any pet is a pet id tag. I learned after doing some research of my own that shelters have reported that 90 percent of tagged animals are returned to their owners, so I knew I had to start looking for the right tag for our cat.

While browsing the internet for personalized  pet identification tags, I came across Love Your Pets. While on their site, I learned that Love Your Pets was established in 1981 and to this day is a family owned and operated business that promises affordable pet id tags with a lifetime guarantee.

I was given the opportunity  to review several styles and colors of Love Your Pets ID Tags that are currently available on their site. I found the whole ordering process very easy to use! I  first choose from the three available shapes which are a circle, heart, and bone that I wanted. I then choose what material I wanted the tags to be made of, which includes brass, plastic, and stainless. After deciding which type of tag, I was brought to a drop down menu which offers suggestions for the lines of text for the type of tag you are creating such as pet, medical, luggage, and custom to create whatever you so choose. Each tag can have up to six lines of text.

An added feature that I love is that I could preview what my ordered tags would possibly come to look like with text as I typed it out! This feature helped me know the limit of letters for each line and how it would possibly look like once engraved upon the tag! Once my order was placed in the system, I received my tags in just days! They weren’t kidding when they promised fast delivery!

Love Your Pets ID Tags are extremely durable! I was very impressed with quality of each of the tags I ordered. The tags are thick and durable and the the letters are perfectly stamped with no flaw at all. Note that with each tag you order, the jump ring you’ll need to attach it is also included.

Usually when you pay less for a product there’s a good chance it won’t last or stand up over time but that is not the case with Love Your Pets ID Tags at all! These tags will definitely stand up to time and for the price of $3.95 you won’t find a better id tag for your pet or for any other custom need you may have elsewhere!

**Disclaimer: I was given several id tags to review from Love Your Pets. This review is 100% my opinion and has not been edited or reviewed by anyone. I was not compensated in any other way for this product review.**

I received a copy of this book to review from BookSneeze.

Love Your Heart by Tim McGraw and Tom Douglas
Genre: Children’s book
Pages: 32
Date Published: February 2010
Publisher: Tommy Nelson

Love Your Heart is the second book in Tim McGraw’s My Little Girl series. This book is hard covered and beautifully illustrated in a colorful yet subtle style by  artist Abigail Marble, whom lives literally minutes from where I live.

In this story, you’ll find the main character Katie, attempting to figure out what particular skill that she has and should preform off at her schools talent show. I love despite all her hard work and brain storming back and forth with her father, that in seeing a particular friend of her own unable to perform after an accident, she selflessly gives up her own act to help her friend out. Love Your Heart is perfect in illustrating a child’s selfless act of kindness towards another.

I personally loved this book and found it to be very heart warming and sweet from the forward written by Faith Hill to the last page of this story. I also think that little girls would would really enjoy this book if read by their own fathers since a dad is featured in this story. I would recommend this book for all the little girls in your life up to age ten. I know I will be looking for more titles in the My Little Girl series for my own daughter.

**I received a copy of this book for review from the publisher, Thomas Nelson, through their BookSneeze book review bloggers program **

Baby Legs $10.00 Gift Certificate is – #37 Jennifer C.

C. Belly Belts giveaway winner is – #31 Stephanie LaPlante

( all winners have been chosen using a random.org)

Congratulations to you all! Please reply back to the email I send with your full name and address.
NO PO Boxes allowed! Winners have 48 hrs to contact me or another winner will be chosen.