Scentsy Giveaway WINNER!!

AND...WE HAVE A WINNER!  

MADALINE from madaline.designer.wife.regular person. is our LUCKY winner!  Congratulations Madaline for being the winner of my very FIRST Giveaway!  Thank you so much for entering, & if you would e mail me at alongfortheryde{at}yahoo{dot}com I'll get you all set up!  =)

Thank you to ALL of your who participated, & I hope you will participate in my next giveaway, whenever that may be!  My Scentsy Holiday Party is still open if you still want to purchase anything!

my FIRST giveaway!

UPDATE:  11/18/11  This giveaway has now been closed!  A winner will be announced Saturday morning, November 19, 2011.

I decided to host my first giveaway--since it is SO close to the time for giving & sharing with others! =)

My Scensty Holiday Party is coming up next Tuesday (e mail me if you want details) & I want YOU guys to be included, even though you may not be able to attend!  Some of my best customers live out of town & even out of state by purchasing things on my website & having them sent straight to their front door!

I'll be giving away one SNAPSHOT warmer--it's a picture frame!  How fun is that?!  Along with 3 scent bars of your choice!

If you're not familiar with Scentsy--now here's your chance!  If you are already familiar with Scentsy...who doesn't want a FREE warmer & 3 bars?!

I love selling Scentsy so much, it honestly doesn't even feel like a "job" to me & I want to share the goodness with you guys for being such fun, love & caring blog readers & friends!

So...Here's the delio!

1.  Must be a follower of my blog!-Leave a comment telling me you are.

& FOR ADDITIONAL ENTRIES...
2.  If you have a blog, add me to your blogroll!-Leave me a comment telling you did so, with a link back to your blog.

3. Tweet about the giveaway with a link back to my blog & @ me {@kati__b} so I can see it!-Leave a comment telling me you did so.

4.  BLOG about it-Leave me a comment telling me you did so, with a link back to your blog.

FOR FIVE ADDITIONAL ENTRIES!
5.  Make a purchase on my SCENTSY WEBSITE UNDER MY HOLIDAY PARTY & leave me ONE comment telling me you did so (I will add the addition entries)


I'll draw for a winner probably a week from today (after I get my wisdom teeth out)!  Ha!--SO...get on it!


& I think that's all folks...feel free to e mail me alongfortheryde{at}yahoo{dot}com if you have any questions!

school & our weekend...

I am finally back to life with the WWW!  My 4 year old computer charger completely stopped charging my computer.  I went to get a new one here at our Best Buy & they didn't even have any!  I waited till the Apple store opened on Saturday & went & got one there!  Let me just say that place is AH.MAY.ZING.  I didn't have time to look around because I was just in & out, but wowzers!  I'll be going back!

So mommy started back to school on Thursday & it wasn't too bad--just yet!  I do not LOVE school like a lot of people do, & I have trouble "learning"...espeically stuff I don't care about (aka GEN EDS).  I seem to always "memorize" stuff for the time being (test) & then forget it afterwards....I try but it's just not always easy for me.

I am taking "Chemistry in Society" & I think I'm really going to like the class!  We are taking the "forensics" route & learning about how birth control works in the body, how legal & illegal drugs become addicts to people & why it happens in the body, all the details of breast feeding.  These are all things that are very interesting to me & we should all actually be knowledgeable about!  So maybe I can teach y'all a few things!  =)

The other class I had on Thursday was American Nations & I have it with two of my brother's friends...one being one of his roommates!  Ha!  So...this should definitely be an interesting semester!  I might cook them dinner & have them over to study!

I had a CRAZY busy Saturday yesterday!  Mary Beth moved in as our new roommate which is exciting!  Ryder & I got up early & went & ran errands.  We had to return some books to the school bookstore, drop some stuff off at Goodwill & return some stuff to Hobby Lobby as well.

I went shopping at the Rhea Lana Pre Sale after that & got a few goodies, not as many as last time, but better than nothing!  & THEN I had a Scentsy party out of town!  It was such a fun party & I just love what I do!  I was glad to get home to my Punkin' last night though & snuggle with him!

This will be my first full week of class.  I am very much looking forward to a routine & Ryder starts KDO next week!

Hope you all had a great weekend, sorry I am slacking on the pics lately, I guess I have gotten too lazy on wanting to upload them etc.  The weekends sure do seem to go by awfully fast!  =(

Phone Pics!

I have been so behind on phone pics...so there are ALOT!

{Dad rockin' his Beta Beta shirt on Father's Day!}

{We went to get sno cones & Ryder fell in love with the automatic carwash.  Hanging out with Mr. Grant!}

{Crazy Punkin' one morning when he got up while mommy was at school & Mary Beth was watching him!}

{This is how I try to do homework while Ryder is awake...}

{Miss Abby telling Ryder a story on the patio!}

{Sweet Punkin' & Mary Beth in the nursery one Sunday!}

{Playing in his sandbox for the first time!}

{He snuck on top of Uncle G's new toy!}

{Rockin' Uncle G's Costas!}

{Asleep with all his friends....including Chuck}

{Friday night date with Uncle G--Chick & a trip to Target!}

{He put his flip flops on one morning WITH his socks on!  Ha!}

{& then he got some of my bracelets & necklaces & stacked them on his arm!}

{From a book my brother got for graduation--1000 things you should know before leaving the house.  I'll let #506 speak for itself...}

{Thought this was a great quote...}

{Ryder's first very own FroYo!  Orange Sherbert & Birthday Cake!  YUMM!}

{Sno cone run with the friends!}

{This child has learned to LOOOVE some watermelon!}

{This kinda made me sad...I've always wanted to believe in the Lockness Monster}

{Sweet boy with his FAVORITE babysitter!}

{Cow appreciation day @ Chick (more pics to come!)}

{He has gotten brave & now jumps in the water without me catching him!}

{I got my first Campus Collection warmer in the other day...I loved it!}

{My sweet brother tweetin' about his Scentsy!}
That's all folks...I'm gonna try & do better with my weekly phone pics now that I'm out of SS!
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Outside Fun!

We are back to playing outside all day again & I LOVE it!  That's what we did yesterday besides coming into take a nap (& Mama took a nap too!  ;))  I just haven't felt myself lately & a lil more sleep definitely helped!

Ignore my child's CRAZY hair!  It is passed the point of needing a hair cut & Jennifer couldn't get us in till NEXT Wednesday!  I usually call & we get in the next day or something!  I guess it's a good problem for her to have!  I will no let ANYONE else cut his hair again besides her...already made that mistake once!  :O

I looked up & saw him just laying like this under the slide!  I don't know what he was doing, but it was awfully sweet!  =)

Mama got a BIG Scentsy delivery yesterday!  THREE boxes!  I was so excited!  The UPS man said he was sad to get the good smelling stuff off his truck!  Ha!  (For those of you that know you had stuff on this order, & are wondering why you haven't gotten it yet!  I am waiting till tomorrow when I am getting the NEW June Scent-of-the-Month to make you your own personal sample to try out so that I can give it too you with your delivery!  ;)  I hope that's okay!  :P  The scent is Peach-a-la-mode & all I have heard a WONDERFUL things about it!)

We had lunch with Abby today at Stoby's as usual!  Punkin' was good most of the time, & loved the fries & chips!  Abby taught him how to say "Cool Dude" & do a thumbs up!  He actually did it too...it was too funny!  

Abby followed us home so we could talk Scentsy stuff! I laid Ryder down & we got to talkin'!  She booked a party with me & bought a warmer & some bars!  =)  It was so good to catch up on life & talk about the future!  Thanks for the visit!  I know Ryder enjoyed it just as much!

 He woke up from his nap & we headed outside.  He INSISTED on wearing the crown & bringing his "Tangs" (all stuffed animals are Tangs to him) outside.  I was so worried about him dropping them in the DIRT!  He didn't though!  He finally put all his "stuff" down & went & played!

 This is how he likes to swing...I don't know why!  Ha!  It's funny though!  Ms. Donna, Kelly & Molly were in the neighborhood & stopped to say hey when they saw us outside!  Believe it or not...we didn't make it to Sonic Happy Hour today.  Hard to believe!

Ryder also likes me to swing beside him, even though it is a BIT uncomfortable & I rock the swing set a bit!  :P  When I sit down he says "hands" because he wants to hold hands!  You can just tell by the look in his eyes that he is so happy & loves it so much!  I love my sweet boy!

We have just recently discovered "Free on Demand"!  Oh my word, there is so much stuff on there!  SOOO many kids shows!  So we watch Micky Mouse Clubhouse all the time now!  There are only 5 shows on there...so we have watched all of them just about 20 times!  But it's just nice I don't have to put in a DVD all the time...it's just RIGHT there!  Pretty much any show on TV any time of day for Punkin!