Book Reviews by Ehlen Administration

Ok, my mom bought David a wagon at a garage sale, which he loves. However, it's missing a seat, where there used to be a flip top seat for extra storage. I'm thinking, surely I can find a replacement part online. Well, turns out I can't find any trace of the toy company - Today's Kids. Seriously, they've disappeared off the face of the earth. I even tried calling the 800 number on the bottom of the wagon, and the message asked me to pay $5 to call directory assistance for info on the number! Yeah right. I guess I'll have to troll the Ebay and Craigslisting to see what I can find, but it looks like Matt might just have to cut a board to size. Yeah, really annoyed, since it's an otherwise cool wagon.

So pregnancy has totally zapped my scrapping mojo, I think, but I did make this one in the last couple months to round out a shutterfly book I made. I don't know what it is about Wheel that David loves, but he doesn't miss a night if he can help it. Actually, I'm ok w/ that b/c he's actually starting to repeat the letters that come up on the screen, so I figure it's somewhat educational. And it doesn't drive me out of my mind to watch w/ him, so that's always a plus. Credits are on my DST gallery, should you be interested.

Ok seriously, this Bloggy Giveaways is making up for the grand winnings of NOTHING in the last couple. I just found out I won another one, and it's a good one! Joanie of Fairy Tale Jewels let me know I won a Diva Glam Pack! The pics below are what's included, all in little girl sizes! As I just found out yesterday I'm going to have a little girl in Dec, this works out perfectly! Also posting the pics of the other mom-friendly jewelry I won and talked about in the last post but couldn't link to last time. Yes, you can be jealous. Diva Glam Pack - can't get necklace pic to work but it is the Pampered Princess Smart Mom Jewelry Mother of Pearl pendant and bracelet - yes, baby can teeth on it safely!

Ok, I'm shocked. This is the 3rd time I've entered 100's of giveaways in the span of a few days, and the 1st time I've won any of them. So without further ado, here's what I've won, and thanks to the lovely ladies whose random number generators selected my post! Casey is giving me the Night Trilogy by Elie Wiesel . For those of you who don't know the author, he is a Jewish author and Holocaust survivor. I read a little of his nonfiction stuff in college, but haven't read any of his fiction so I'm really looking forward to this read. Lyndsey from Girls Dig Sports is giving me a sports trivia book, which is headed for Doug's Christmas stocking, and which I will probably use to annoy him and Uncle Steve. The last thing (so far!) that I won is a Smart Mom necklace and bracelet set from Katie . I can't get their website to work right now, but basically it's a jewelry set that your baby can chew on without destroying it or choking the baby. Y...

Ok, seriously, I've entered these things like a million times (i'm pretty sure anyway) and never won one. so any bloggy giveaway people who want to give me lots of wonderful things, feel free to comment here!

Matt and I were contemplating having our kitchen redone, and even had an estimate done. But it looks like it was not to be. We managed to talk down the salesmen to a monthly payment we could do, but then when the finance people came back w/ the actual price it was waaaaay off the estimate. Not cool finance people. Lost yourself an expensive sale there. It's not a huge deal, since it was kind of a dream kitchen, well at least for the tiny kitchen we have right now, but it would have been so nice. A new island, granite countertops, an undermount sink.....maybe next year. BTW, if you're wondering I didn't care so much about the granite countertops, but I did care deeply about an undermount sink, and apparently you can only do that w/ stone countertops b/c of the weight. I want easier to clean, since I dislike cleaning, and an undermount sink would do a lot to help me clean less. So no, we didn't lose the new kitchen b/c we're totally unreasonable, just slightly unreaso...

I won another online contest! This is serious business. I won the new American Beauty Beloved perfume. Now, much like w/ the foot stuff, do I wear perfume? No, not really. But I'm thinking that this might be the perfectly pink birthday present for my sister...