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September 7, 2009

Disney on Ice GIVEAWAY!

Emily and I are excited to give Cincinnati and Dayton area families the opportunity to win tickets to a SUPER fum family event -Disney on Ice Presents 100 Years of Magic! As you may remember, Emily is slightly Disney-obsessed, and I may or may not be holding out hope that my little Sophie comes to love Cinderella and Snow White as much as I did when I was a girl. Who doesn’t have a great Disney memory?

This show, packed with all your and your kids’ favorite Disney characters, is coming to Dayton’s Nutter Center September 17-20 and Cincy’s US Bank Arena September 23-25.

One of our lucky readers will win a family four-pack of tickets to the Cincy opener at US Bank Arena on Thursday, September 23rd. Here’s how to enter:

1) Leave a comment on this post telling us which Disney character is your favorite.

2) If you are on Facebook, become a fan of Disney on Ice here, then come back to this post and leave a comment on this post telling us you did so.

3) Tweet about this giveaway on Twitter, and then leave a comment on this post with your tweet URL.

One winner will be chosen by random.org on Saturday, September 12th. Good luck!

If you don’t win, don’t worry! You can get tickets via Ticketmaster for the Cincy show here and the Dayton show here. You can get a discount with the coupon code “MOM” – enter it in the MC promotion box at the Ticketmaster site.

Don’t live in Dayton or Cincy? Go to Disney on Ice’s site here to find a performance in your area.

September 6, 2009

Weekly Winners – My Friends Have Cute Kids

Yesterday my wonderful hubby invited a few family and friends over to celebrate my birthday. We had a great time. And there were kids EVERYWHERE! So we I had some great kiddie photo ops. Here are a few of my favorites from the festivities.

Here’s Emily’s little Sammers. He was loving the bubbles!

And Cortney’s little guy Carter was loving the sidewalk chalk (in a slightly unconventional way):

My friend Andrea’s little guy Leland was keepin’ it real, ’cause he knows it ain’t a party until someone takes their clothes off!

My friend Beth’s little boys, Eban and Benji – I had to capture them while they were sitting still!

This is Joshua’s kindergarten buddy Ethan making some sweet bubbles!

And here are my own cuties playing with my father-in-law, their “Pop”:

It was lots of fun! For more Weekly Winners, go visit Lotus at Sarcastic Mom.

September 5, 2009September 5, 2009

Excited! About! CVSing!

This week I had my first good, fun CVS run in a few weeks. I have been kind of lazy about it, but when I saw that two of my fave new products were on sale this week AND that I had really good coupons for said items, I got myself together, threw (not literally!) Sophie in the car, and headed over to CVS. The two products I was excited about were Tide Stain Release and the Bounce Dryer Bar. Now, it takes A LOT to get me excited about laundry, but I got samples of these babies at BlogHer and they both rock my socks off. Now that I am on a schedule and am doing laundry more regularly (instead of only when NO ONE in my family has clean clothes), these products are really making my laundry life easier and I LIKE-A DA EASY.

So, anyhoo, here’s what I got at CVS!

Tide Stain Release $3.99
Bounce Dryer Bar $3.99
Two Skippy $6
Glade Soy Candle $6.99
Mountain Dew $1.49
Total = $22.46

Coupons used:
$4/$20 CVS email coupon (way expired but my CVS takes them for 30 days after)
FREE Tide Stain Release coupon from BlogHer swag bag!!
$2.50 off Bounce Dryer Bar coupon from Vocalpoint mailer
$2 printable Glade manu q
total= $9.97

I paid with 5.88 ECB, paid $4.85 in cash and got back 11.99 ECB! 1 each for the Tide & Bounce, 1 for the Mountain Dew (you had to buy 2, I had bought one previously), 6.99 for the Glade Candle and 2 for the Skippy.

I was pretty pumped getting all these products I love & use for such a great deal!

To see what great bargains everyone else got this week, check out Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom.