Thursday Thirteen~ Dog Days of Summer!

Thirteen awesome giveaways in the Dog Days of Summer Bloggy Give-away! These are but a small portion of the items, and there are some I don't want you to find because I want them, but alas, they all have at least 100 entrants, lol.

1. Rocks in My Dryer is hosting the most amazing mass blogging give-away ever!

This is a first in bloggy history, I would imagine. There are over 500 bloggers giving away prizes or multiple prizes on their blogs, all linked up here for one week of bloggy love!

2. Skimbaco is giving away this cute swimsuit with matching sandals and hairbow! Isn't it cute? Trinity would look so cute in it and she needs a new suit.

3. Are We There Yet is giving away a Bath and Body Works lovtion and shower gel, plus two books. She is even giving them in my favorite scents, lavender and vanilla!

4. Love, Laughter and Laundry is also giving away a Bath and Body Works Shower gel!

5. Jesus and Dark Chocolate is giving away........ guess.......... yep, chocolate! Super awesome chocolate!

6. Highlights from Higher Ground is giving away this incredible crocheted doily name. Well, not that one, unless your name is White, she'll custom do your last name, or someone you'd want to gift it to. Plus she has two other things up so far, too.

7. These gorgeous earrings are being given away by a very generous and talented lady at Fruit of Her Hands. They are real silver, and I hope to win them for Kaytlin. She loves silver jewelry and I am a gold only lady.

8. I love, love these baby leg warmers! Crawler Covers is giving away a pair of these and a fancy little tutu! You can even pick the colors you want.

9. Heartsong is giving away a $10 gift card to Starbucks!

10. Sgt. and Mrs. Hub is giving away a $25 gift card to Starbucks!

There are at least 3 more if you search for them at Rocks in my dryer!

11. Sugarfoots is giving away this awesome blanket, and it can be personalized.

12. Multitasking Moma is giving away this awesome Scrabble Blog bracelet! Please don't go enter, I want this!

13. Praise the Lord and Pass the Prozac has 12 books to give away, and I want the first one, its an awesome book!

Check out all the wonderful blogs and their generous gifts! I've gone through over 400 of the blogs so far, and yes, my house is completely trashed now! LOL

Minnesota's Ten Commandments

1. Der's only one God, ya know.
2. Don't make that fish on your mantle an idol.
3. Cussing ain't Minnesota nice.
4. Go to church even when you're up nort.
5. Honor your folks.
6. Don't kill. Catch and release.
7. There is only one Lena for every Ole. No cheatin'.
8. If it ain't your lutefisk, don't take it.
9. Don't be braggin' about how much snow ya shoveled.
10. Keep your mind off your neighbor's hotdish.

Bloggity goodness!

My dd, Kaytlin has a friend who is in India with his parents as missionaries. His name is Alex. I haven't met him, but I think he must be a neat kiddo. Well, my kids like him, so that's one reason, lol. But the stories we hear about him lead me to think he is a good kid.

The other day Kaytlin says she has to read something to me. Its an email that Alex wrote to their friend Emily. It cracked us all up! So I got his permission to post it. Cause its true bloggity goodness!

The "you" would be Emily! Its a really funny and eventful dream!...


I came back home and we were gonna start Worship practice! So I walk in....and all the chairs in the Church are gone! And there's this black dude standing in the middle of the floor with a mic! So I walk up to you and I'm like "who's that?" and you said" hes are Worship leader" So I was kinda freaked out that Rommel had left and you had never told me! And so this guy tells me that I got sing, because all the other parts were filled! So the music starts and he starts singing like a black man! And you and Joy are his back round ladies! But you were singing black style! It was crazy! So I was sitting on this chair watching you guys(cuz I didn't know the words to the song) and you walk over and hand me these TINY barbie size pieces of paper....so I asked you what they were, and you said they were the words to the song! So I'm sitting there trying to read the words and I fall over and smack my head! And when I wake up(in my dream) I'm somewhere in Africa with you, Dad, Erik, Mom, and some friends of ours that are from Ireland! And were walking down this little channel type thing! The water is about 3 fee high..and it's super clear! And theres fish, squids, and and octopuses(sp) And so were walking and talkin...and we get to this village....so we go up to one of the shops and you asked for salt!! So I asked you why you wanted salt..and you turned around and you had his leach stuck to the back of your neck! And just to let you know right now...I hate leaches! So we realize that we had tons of them on us! So we get this bag of salt and start dumping it all over us! And when we were done my friends from Ireland come floating along the lake in this House Boat type of thing! So they ask of if we wanna come on...and you were like "Duh" so we got on and pretty much everyone was on there!......from the outside of the boat it looked like it was about 10 feet tall! But when you walked in there the place opened up into a ball room! And massively huge one! And so we were standing there look at this big room where tons of people were dancing! And I was like"I don't know how to dance" and right then this little skinny guy with a Italian accent walks over and says"You can't dance huh? You come with Bambino, he teach you how to dance" So me and you went and took dance lessons.....when we got there Elise was taking the lessons with Dad, and Hans was taking it with Eva! So we learned how to dance! And we pretty much partied all night! But at one point me, you, Elise, Kaytlin, and Ryan were walking around and we walk into this room...and there...sitting on a table of glory was.............LOADS OF MOUNTAIN DEW!!!!! So I started crying cuz I was so happy! And so we pretty much got drunk on it!! And then we(me, you, Elise, Kaylin, and Ryan) got off the boat and went into this van that Dad was driving! And we fell asleep! And when we woke up we were in this little cement building being bombarded with bombs! It was awesome! There was a stash of guns in the corner of the room! So we all grabbed one and started making a plan! You wanted to run around in the woods and try to kill the bad guys from the woods! Kaytlin wanted to jump out and run straight at them! And Ryan wanted to sit in the building and not die! So we decided to both yours and Kaytlin's Idea, so we ran out into the woods..and ran towards the sound of the gun fire! And all of a sudden you dropped onto the ground and rolled! So rest of us pretty much thought you had gone crazy! Then we saw it....a massively massive bad guy doing his nightly check of the woods! So we all dropped also! Then we realized that Ryan wasn't with us anymore! And all of a sudden we heard a weird screaming noise over by the massively massive bad guy! So we looked over there and saw Ryan running at the guy with a stick! And he stopped two feet from him and stared him in the eye ...and said something that we couldn't hear! And the massive dude dropped his gun and ran away! So we ran up to Ryan and asked him what he said! But he just shrugged, smiled, and started walking! So we walked, and walked till we saw some lights! So we crept along till we got a clearing with guys standing around a bunch of big guns! While other guys were firing the guns! And there were tents all over the place! And in the middle was one Huge red one with a black and white flag sticking out of the top! So we thought that it was probably the commander's tent! So we crept into the camp and started walking towards the red tent! We got to the tent in one piece! But we had to knock out a few guys on the way! Anyways....we Burst into the commander's tent and pulled out our guns........and demanded to see the man in charge!! So this totally freaked out guard pointed to the back in the tent! So we walked through the back hanging cloth/door thing! And there, sitting in a chair behind a big desk was Dad!! So I was pretty much weirded out! Cuz my Dad had been trying to kill us! So I asked him why he was trying to kill us! And he gave me this evil smile and said " because......you opened the jam jar when I couldn't" so I started laughing really hard! And I walked out of the tent(you guys followed me) and there was this dude standing there pointing a gun at me! And right when he was about to pull the trigger you shot him!And I was like "Thank you" and you were like "no problem."
Then I woke up

Looky what I found!

Ok, so I'm lazy. I put everyone I like to read on a fairly hourly basis on my blog roll, line, whatever its called??? I just click down the list every day. I have more that I read often in my favorites, but it is messier and more time consuming.
So I'm trolling along my blog list over there, cause I'm so cool and all, and what do I find? Go check it out over at Don't Give Him Crackers. I'll wait for ya.

(doo, doo, DO DO, doo doo dooooooo)

Someone blogged about ME!!!!! Ha! How cool is that? And do you know just how cool I am? I immediately cut and pasted her blog address into my msn messenger to my mommy! "Mommy, mommy, look at this!" Haha! I'm just so cool. I know. You don't have to tell me. But you can, I'm cool with that.

Yep, that totally made my day. And then I went off to my monthly ladies night out, gabbed all night with my girlfriends, and found out what a loser I am because all I had to talk about was all the things I find on blogs. But, to Raising Future Esthers, (way at the bottom of the page) where I found the story of drinking too much tea in a mexican restaurant and having to pee, but the bathroom stalls were locked with no one in them, well, lets just say a pregnant friend of mine was near peeing her pants laughing hearing your tale. Well, actually, all of us nearly peed ourselves laughing at that one!