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Rayovac is having a wonderful contest where you can share you pics and win wonderful prizes. You can read the details below.

Snap, Share & Win! Rayovac Summer Photo Contest:

The Snap, Share & Win! Rayovac Summer Photo Contest will begin August 2, 2010 and will conclude on August 29, 2010.  Each week will feature a different photo theme.  Eligible contestants will be able to complete the entry form on Rayovac’s website, upload a photo and specify the theme.  Contestants may upload 1 photo each week for a maximum of 3 photos.  Once photos are posted, viewers can vote for 1 photo a day and add an unlimited number of comments.  Contestants and viewers can share the contest with their friends (eighteen years old or older) utilizing the “Invite Friends” button or by sending an email.  The photos receiving the most votes for each theme will win prizes.  Rayovac Powers Fun, have fun and be creative with your photo entries! All levels of photography welcome!

PRIZES
For each of the three themes there will be:
Grand Prize- a Digital Camera Package, complete with a Photo Printer and Rayovac Rechargeables and a Digital Photo Frame for three of the Grand Prize Winner’s friends.
Second Place Prize- Photo Printer
Runner Up Prize- Digital Photo Frame Keychain.

Phase One: Submit photo entry August 2, 2010- August 22, 2010.
(Week 1: Fun with Water Photo. Week 2: Fun Pet Photo. Week 3: Summer Fun Photo)
Phase Two: Public Vote August 2, 2010- August 29, 2010.
Phase Three: Winners Announced September 8, 2010.

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“The first 50 bloggers to promote the Rayovac  Summer Photo Contest won a prize from Rayovac.”

These pictures were taken on the same night out my front door.  One side of the sky was icey blue and stormy and the other was firey orange.  So beautiful!!!!!!!!!

Fire and Ice

I haven’t been online much lately, because I am getting ready for a garage sale.  I willl be glad when it is over because my house looks like World War three in here.

It was a day like any other and the boys were playing, and fighting over some toy.

One of the boys came to me upset and the conversation went something like this:

Bubba:  “Mommmmmy, brother is not being nice!”

Me:  “Why isn’t borther being nice?”

Bubba:  “He isn’t sharing the toy and is being selfish.”

Me: “Well what should we do about that?”

Bubba: “We should sell brother in the yard sale.”

Me: (can’t stop laughing)

I have been telling them that in order to get new toys for their upcoming birthday, we had to sell their old toys.  So his solution was to sell brother so he could have his toy  LOL!

Congrats to the winner!!!!

So, our community garage sale is right around the corner.  I think I have about two weeks left, and I am feeling overwhelmed.  I have big grand plans to gut the entire house, organize, and get this place in order.  My blog has been ignored so I could tear up my house.   So if I have been missing, I am at the bottom of a pile somewhere.

The house is a big big mess, and the toys are everywhere, but I don’t care.  I figure when its all over, I will get it all back into shape.  I am currently going through every cotton picking thing in my kitchen and filling up the trash bags, and overwhelming the corner in my den.  Ive got miscellaneous Christmas mugs, fine crystal from auntie so and so, that has about 6 inches of dust on it.  I don’t use this foo foo stuff, so…OUT THE DOOR is goes!

I had to relinquish my sentimental, teary eyed saving of every baby toy the boys own and widdle them down to just a few for the next little one.  I saved the favorites and the rest are getting slapped with a price tag.  Clothes are getting sorted, drawers are getting cleaned out, and what we don’t sell is getting donated.

My hope is to earn money for a new couch in the basement, take care of a few repairs, and pay to get the carpet cleaned, which is in great need.

What I hate the most about cleaning, is the stupid odds and ends piles I have laying around.  They are the ones that you just stair at, and wonder what to do with.  Some of it you need, but you don’t really have a good place for it.  I just toss it into a bin.  If you cant find the doo dad…go look in THE BIN.  It’s almost always there!

I hope I survive!  Call 911 if you don’t see me come up for air.

I hate garage sales!

Brown Eyes

(one of my sweet baby boys)

There is one topic that is hard for anyone to talk about and that is rape. It is such a violent and senseless crime and having a line of defense is always a welcomed thing. This is one of those things that made me say “now that is a great idea!”

It reminds me of the ink on stolen money concept but this might hurt a little more!  Talk about getting caught with your pants down!

A South African doctor has invented a female condom with teeth. Yes, you read that right, it has teeth. How it works is, the woman inserts the latex condom like a tampon. Rows of jagged (ouch!) teeth-like hooks line the inside and attach on a man’s apparatus and well you can imagine.  The thing looks like something out of science fiction  lol.

Once those teeth like things get in there, only a doctor can take it out. It certainly says, here is the guilty party, but I can see where this may have some down sides. The main idea behind this specialized condom is that a woman can wear this out on a date with a new person or when she is in an area she isn’t familiar with. There have been many times where I have felt leary about my surroundings and felt unsafe. The world isn’t as safe anymore, so I can see why you would want to protect yourself.

I can see a few minor drawbacks and how it could be abused in some ways.

How bout the angry girlfriend or wife getting back at the cheating husband? I can only imagine the story here. Wild thoughts are swirling through my head now.

Or what if you forgot you put it in there and then well the innocent one night stand?

It might have it’s downsides but for the most part it is a really awesome invention.

I would love to hear your thoughts!

More on the female condom with teeth can be read here.

I am on a mission to improve my photography skills, so I can live out one of my dreams to become a published nature photographer.  I still need to overcome the fact that I dislike bugs (whole nother story!)

As a Mom it is so hard not be in love with these two faces!  They are the ones I wake up to and end my day with.  I simply cannot imagine my days without them there to smother me with kisses, to ask me a million questions, or even to make me feel like I’m losing my  mind.  I cannot believe they will be four in just one short month.

For me it feels like I will blink and they will be leaving the house.  I never realized having kids would be so hard.  I never knew that even the thought of sending them to school would well up feelings of a mini major depression.

I am learning how difficult it is to be a Mom and a parent.  You have to learn how to let your children grow and learn, you have to let go at various milestones in their life, and learn how to cope with your own mixed feelings without letting them know.  Being a mother is magical and emotional all at once.  I’m just wondering if i’ll survive!