I Throw a Mean Martini Party!

I guess I do since I won Molly's Martini madness competition with my version of the perfect martini party.


I am so excited because this is what I won:



Thanks so much to Molly & to Jerry at MartiniArt.com for providing the wonderful prizes! You might want to visit as Jerry is offering a 10% discount, which is good until August 23rd (use promotion code MG189).

Some Bloggy Love

I received the following two awards this past week & I wanted to share them. They were really nice surprises because they came from two people I had just started to read & found so interesting. I will pass the love on this week but really wanted to acknowledge Jason & Jennifer's kindness to me.

Jason from the The Jason Show shared the love with this one. I just began reading him last week and then he came by for a visit & loved my Martini Party. To repeat what he said, too bad I live on the other side of the country! If I was to have a real martini party Jason is someone I would want there. He is someone who has really lived, he lives authentically & with a big heart!











And the Blogging Friends Forever Gold Card comes from Another Online Mom. I was fairly new to her trials & tribulations of a stay at home mom when she gave me this but I was hooked when she was so desperate to weigh herself one day while at Target she just ripped a new digital scale right from the box, and that was her 2nd attempt!!!! The first being a regular scale that needed batteries. Oy vey!

Friday's Odds & Ends

Hi all! Took a day off yesterday, from work & blogging, and headed over to my best friend's house for a few hours. There's this fun thing we do now where we always seem to bring something over for the other one to try & the hostess also usually has a new drink to try. So, I brought over some Omaha Steak burgers for her to put in her freezer & she had some of these awesome grapefruit margaritas for me. She made them with Stirrings drink mix, which is popular around this way, and tequila & some lime. They were so refreshing. I didn't have my camera on me, a blogging shame, so she used her Iphone. I love the way the drinks match the chairs we were lounging in.

Then, she had me try some of these & I'm so glad because I normally don't stop to check these kinds of mixes out. Too many are loaded with sugar & salt so I don't bother. But I fell in love with these.

They are from Mareblu Naturals. She got 'em at Marshalls but they can be bought online which I am about to do now. I can't tell you how delicious they were, little clusters of pistachio and pumpkin seeds, two of my favorites, with just a touch of sweetness. Check 'em out here if you're interested.

And for my Friday Foto here is my little Batman. To the batmobile let's go!!!!!!!!

Have a great weekend everyone.

Happy 4th Ya'll

Happy Fourth of July to All.

Hug your children & loved ones. Tell them how much you love them. Why?

BECAUSE YOU CAN.