Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner!

It's Friday! Luckily this week has flown by and I am loving that it is almost the weekend! I have plans to drag my husband to see The Time Traveler's Wife on Saturday and I am so excited! We just watched The Notebook this week...so I am on a Rachel McAdams high! Oh I just love her!

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Other than that...we have no plans! I just love relaxing weekends where we can simply enjoy the extended amount of time we can spend with just each other! I'm inching my way through My Sister's Keeper...so hopefully I can finish that this weekend. Oh what I would give to be a speed reader...


Now onto the winner of the garden stakes giveaway!! And I actually did make chicken for dinner last night...just saying.


And the winner is...

Annie from Chapters of Our Life!!

Congratulations Annie!! Please e-mail me at mavester34(@)hotmail(dot)com with your name, e-mail address, shipping address, and phone number as soon as you can and I'll get you your new garden stakes!

Thanks for entering!! Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!! XOXO

Eek! Giveaway Time!!

I have a very exciting announcement to make...















I am hosting my very 1st giveaway! Are you excited?? You should be!!


Check out what I'm giving away!

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It's a set of 6 small garden stakes! Aren't they the cutest!?! And you get all of them...the tulip, daisy, leaf, ant, butterfly, and birdy! Eek!

They are 15" tall and made from steel...so super durable for all of you with those outdoor gardens. But...they are also a fabulous addition to indoor pots and window boxes as well.

These garden stakes are being provided by Living Rooms Direct, which as you may've guessed, offers a great selection of living room furniture as well as fun home accessories! Check them out!


So what do you have to do to get these little babies you ask?? Well...here are the rules:

**1 entry if you leave a comment on THIS post**

**2 entries if you leave a comment & become a follower (let me know in your comment if you already follow!)**

**3 entries if you leave a comment, become a follower, and post about this on your blog (let me know in your comment if you do this!)**

So you have up to 3 chances to win these cutie pa-tootie garden stakes! I am just in love with these colors! Aren't you!?!

The giveaway will close at midnight (Eastern) on Thursday evening and I will announce the winner on Friday morning! Good luck!!

P.S. All of my dear Canada friends...please enter! They can ship to you as well!!

I said CANTALOUPE!

The date: Monday, July 27th, 2009

The time: 7:30 p.m. A usual return from work time for my husband.

The scene: I'm in the kitchen making dinner. Matt heads out to the patio to check up on his garden and water the plants.

Matt: "Hey! Something is growing from the cantaloupe plant! It's long and skinny though. Is it supposed to be like that?"

Me: "I want to see!"

I walk outside on the patio and see this:





Me: "That looks like a huge pickle!"

Upon further investigation, aka Google Images, we discovered that we most likely have a cucumber plant growing in our garden...not cantaloupe. Um, what? We don't even like cucumber.

Maybe this is God's way of telling us that we need to eat more veggies.

Green Progress

Have I ever told you that my husband has a green thumb??

Not literally.

He gardens!

Check out the before picture of the little garden my husband and FIL built over Memorial Day weekend!




And now...how is it doing today you ask?? Well...here's the big reveal!




Wow!! We have green onions growing EVERYWHERE! Anyone need any?? Ha! We are throwing them into everything these days!

That's our cantaloupe over there in the far right corner.




She has some flowers on her, but no fruit just yet. Apparently bees are needed to pollinate the flowers in order for them to grow fruit...so we'll see what happens.

But speaking of fruit...



Look at our little, baby, green strawberries!! They are starting to grow! Oh, I just can't wait to pick these babies!


Matt is also growing green peppers and jalapeno peppers in separate pots.


Look at those little guys! They are getting so big! Aw...they grow so fast, don't they?? :)


Besides the enormous amount of onions, these were the first babies to grow up and be picked.




Check out the size of that sucker! I swear it doubled in size with one good rain.


Now I must give 100% full credit to Hubs on this one. I am NOT a gardener. I tried to grow herbs in the house once and they all died. I have one houseplant and I hardly EVER water him. Luckily, he is resistant to my lack of nurturing and has been steadily growing for 5 years. I'll have to post a picture of him sometime. He is a rubber plant. His name is Durex. Clever...I know :) He used to have a brother that belonged to my roommate from college. Can you guess his name?? Give up? Trojan.

Anywho...Matt is out there every day watering those things and weeding. I am so proud of him! It is really sweet to see how much care he is putting into his work.

How are your gardens doing??