Doggie Date

We are in the process of heading to Kansas City to celebrate Joe's grandma's birthday! We had to make a pit stop as we left town for Joe to go to a quick meeting at the hospital. So Boomer and I had a date at Sonic while we waited. We do this a lot!! (yeah, I should probably try to make more human friends. Ha!)

No worries. It's only ice water! But I'd like to think he appreciates Sonic ice like his mama! :-)

Happy Friday!

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Winner!! Come On Down!!!

I enlisted Boomer to help me randomly draw our winners for the Summer 'O Fun giveaway. After all, he is completely un-biased because he couldn't read the slips as he drew each name. That's because he can't read English.

Only Spanish.

So let's get down to it!!

For the turquoise ring, the winner is...

Kendra @ Kendra Diaries!

 

For the Waverly kitchen towels and Kitchen Aid ice cream scoop, the winner is...

 Mrs. Dawker @ Champagne & Bon Bons!

For the Gold Canyon candle in Sugar Cookie, the winner is...

 Carie @ Life of Carie!

Congrats girls! :)

Please email me your address so I can send you your goodies!

(Y'all, trying to get these pictures was "paw-thetic". It took two humans, two pockets of treats and many re-takes. I don't even know how people take pictures of their children. Ha!)

Things You Should Know About

I decided to put a list together of all the internet sites I wish I would have known about sooner. Sites that I found, or was told about, that are awesome and I wanted to kick myself for not finding it sooner. But really, you found my site and nothing can top that. ;-)

Polyvore
The web's largest fashion community. Mix and match items from any shopping website and create collages or outfit inspirations.

Picnik
The best online photo editing site. For those of us who don't have PhotoShop. It's like the poor man's PhotoShop. But probably not as good. But still really good.

Pandora
The best online radio site where you can create unique music stations. And it's free. Absolutely free. Take that, iTunes!

Photobucket
Online photo hosting site. It's awesome for photo organization.

Okay, up until now, all the sites started with 'P' and the OCD part of me panicked a little when I had to list something starting with another letter. Hold me, I am ill.

TripAdvisor
The best site for researching vacations, with info on activities, hotels, food and more. You can plan out and save the details for an entire trip and the reviews on everything are spot on.

SeatGuru
You shouldn't book a seat on a flight without referring to this site. It's a guide to the best and worst seats on any plane.

Shop It To Me
You add your shopping preferences (size, brands, department, etc) and it scours the internet for items that match them and puts them in one spot. I used to think I was too lazy to shop in the mall because it required walking from store to store, so I shopped online. Now I guess I'm too lazy to click through multiple websites. Ha!

ING Direct
Joe and I have our savings here - ING has about the best interest rate and also allows you to divide up your savings into several separate funds, like we have a "vacation" fund and so on.

That's all I got for now. However, YOU probably know of some websites that I never have. And they're probably really cool. So, go on, tell me all about your favorite websites!!

P.S. Don't forget tomorrow is the last day of the Summer 'O Fun Giveaway! All you have to do is leave a comment to win one of three prizes!

Summer 'O Fun GIVEAWAY

I'm so excited to be doing a giveaway today! I LOVE Summer so I thought I'd do a mid-summer giveaway to celebrate! Plus, Christmas is five months from yesterday - let the season of giving begin!! Ha!

Instead of doing one big pot of goodies, we here at Living Life Abundantly, LLC decided to pick three separate prizes so you have a bigger chance of winning. Sounds good, no?

The first winner will receive a gold and turquoise cocktail ring. I thought this was so cute and it's my favorite color and perfect for summer! It's size 7 and I think it would like great on any of your fingers. Except maybe your thumb... ;-)

The second winner will receive a beautiful Waverly kitchen towel set and a new matching Kitchen Aid ice cream scoop. For some reason I'm loving this lime green for summer!

The third winner will receive a 5oz Gold Canyon candle in the Sugar Cookie scent. These are my ULTIMATE-ULTIMATE favorite candles. I order them from Jacki - they burn so clean and they are more affordable than other candles on the market. I just spent 40 something dollars and brought home two sacks of candle goodies! I was burning the Pool Towel candle in my living room last week and Joe kept going on and on about how good our house smelled!

So here's how you enter!

First, make sure you're a follower!

You get 1 entry for a comment under this post.

You get 3 entries for posting about this giveaway anywhere on your blog.

I'm drawing names on Thursday, July 29 so you don't have much time! :)

Happy Monday - I hope you win!!!

My Yesterday

My yesterday was a day of complete random! 

I got up first thing in the morning and loaded up some old clothes into my car and took them to Goodwill. Somehow Joe's old ratty flannel pajama pants and 1980s-esque Chiefs Football sweatshirt made it into the bag and I accidentally gave them away (sorry babe!) ;-)

Then, I ran over to Borders to buy Eat, Pray, Love. Have y'all read this book?? It's good so far! I promised my BFF I'd read it before the movie came out (nothing like waiting until the last minute!)

Then, when the temperature maxed out to about 400 degrees, Boomer and I took a walk around the neighborhood. He managed sniff every blade of grass in our neighborhood and I managed to sweat through my t-shirt. Ha!

Last night Joe and I sanded and primed my little FIVE DOLLAR twin bed. I think I'm going to paint it ivory but I'm still deciding. What do you think?

And we also booked a vacation for September last night! Well, not really a vacation for Joe, but a convention for work but I get to tag along too (which I think if fair because the last time we were in Las Vegas I was the one working!) We are going to stay in the Planet Hollywood towers. I thought their rooms looked really cool and modern.

I decided to put on a Summer 'O Fun Giveaway on Monday! So don't forget to check back then!

The Details

The devil is in the details. 

I'm not really a detail person myself; I'm usually best able to see the big picture in situations.

But I have an exception. I love details in people's homes. I love to see how people arrange their magazines on their end table. What things they sit out on the bathroom counter. What kind of silverware they have. It's the little details that really describe who we are, right??

So, here are some of the new details at my house today.

Throw blankets in an apple pickin' basket.

Leopard print jewelery organizer I just hung up.

Brownie with german chocolate cake frosting.

My quote of the day.

Nest on the coffee table.

What are some of the details at your house?? :)

Playing Catch-Up

I had so much fun spending the week at my parent's house but I missed Joe like crazy. And my parents don't have wireless internet.

I don't know which is worse.

My email is overflowing and I haven't read any blogs all week! I've never felt so out of the loop!! Ha!

So today I'm going to play catch up on everything. Housework. Laundry. Blogs.

Oh, but I did want to show you something. I found this antique wood twin bed at a garage sale on Friday. For $5! I can't wait to paint it and put it on our office as a day bed. But not today. Housework. Laundry. Blogs.

Don't forget I'm also going to be doing a giveaway this week that I'm super excited about! :)

Happy Monday!!