Family vacation

It's 6:55am and we are about five hours into our road trip. We are driving 1300 miles to visit family. It will be the first time Emmy gets to meet most of the family including my brother, dad, aunt, uncle, and cousins. We have so much planned its going to be busy busy busy but fun fun fun!!!!

Dream Belly Butter by Fairhaven Health - Review + Giveaway!

Good morning everyone!  I am so pleased to be doing my first blog and vlog review and giveaway!  I am going to be doing weekly reviews and giveaways of products we could all use!  This week I am reviews the Dream Belly Butter by Fairhaven Health.  Fairhaven has many wonderful products and this happens to be one of my favorites!  The cream is designed to prevent and repair stretch marks.  I only started using it about 3 weeks ago and am in love with it!  It is so thick and moisturizes like no other cream I have used in the past.  I also use it as hand cream and I only have to apply it once or twice a day and I'm good.  With other lotions I find myself reapplying 4,5,6 times a day!  The sent of this cream is heavenly.  I wish everyone could smell it as they read this :-)  If just smells so fresh and clean!  I really can't think of anything negative about this cream.  Would like to have a chance to win some Dream Belly Butter and pregnancy wheel of your own?  Leave a comment below about what you used to prevent or repair stretch marks and how you think it worked!  For added entries subscribe to my blog, subscribe to my youtube channel, like the video and leave a comment under the video as well! You can also like my Facebook page! All links and info below!

http://www.fairhavenhealth.com/dreambelly-butter.html

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFSrQxd9Lh0

GROVIA DIAPER GIVE-A-WAY!!!

Ok so here is the rules for this give away!

RULES:
1) Like the youtube video HERE
2) Leave a comment about what your favorite "green" thing you do is and why.
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4) FOR AN ADDITIONAL 5 ENTRIES: send (Email to britneymajor@live.com) in a few paragraphs about something Eco friendly that you do and explain some about it or how to do it. Pictures are great as well!  This can be about anything from cloth diapering to recipes to laundry tips you pick!

GOOD LUCK!

Monday morning breakfast

I am in desperate need of going to the grocery store.  I normally go on Saturdays but this week I just did not make it.  We are out of eggs and are down to about a quarter gallon of milk.  So I got online last night and had to find something to make.  What I came up with was scones!  I have had a box of gluten free Simply Organic Chai Spice Scone mix in my pantry for awhile as well so while I whipped up some traditional scone for the kids and hubby I made myself the gluten free ones so I could enjoy some as well. These when great with the homemade jam I made yesterday.  This is the recipe I followed for the "normal" scones that got great reviews by the family even my picky eater Payton!

2 cups organic whole wheat flour
3TB sugar
2tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
4 TB cold butter cut into 8 chunks
3/4 cups raw organic milk
You can then add dried fruit, nuts, chocolate chips, or whatever you want.  I did not add anything to mine.

Preheat oven to 425
Mix dry ingredients
cut in butter ( I threw every thing but the milk in the food processor.  I then pulsed it for about 30 seconds then added the milk.)
Add milk until dough forms a ball
kneed on floured surface for a few minutes then press into 8-10 inch ball and cut into 8 triangles
place on greased baking sheet and bake for 12-15 minutes.

The kids and hubby loved these and ate them ALL up in about 5 minutes!

For my gluten and now dairy free scones luckily there is a vegan recipe on the box!  It says to add 1/4 cup ground flax seed and 2/3 cups water but I just did 2/3 cups silk soy milk and left out the flax seed (I did not have any on hand, like I said VERY low on groceries!)  These turned out so Delicious as well! Click HERE for more info on the gluten free scone mix.

What do you like to put in your scones?  What is your favorite recipe?  Leave me a comment!

WANT TO BE A GUEST BLOGGER???

Hi I am looking for about 5 guest bloggers to write about various topics.  These can be tutorials, tips, reviews, whatever you think would benefit us!  If you are interested in guest blogging and possibly continuing to write every once in awhile Email me with some info on what you want to share about.  Hope to hear from a lot of you! Happy writing :-)

Strawberry freezer jam

Hello Mamas!  Today I made strawberry freezer jam for the FIRST time!  I will NEVER buy jam from a store again.  This is SO easy quick and saves a ton of money.  The cost break down is like this (rounded up to the nearest dollar so this is even a little over): 

(12) 8 oz. freezer safe glass jars with lids $10

One container of freezer jam pectin $5

8lbs of strawberries HERE $11

Sugar (I buy in bulk so this is an estimate) $1

Toltal = $27 

I ended up making about 136 OZ (with about 2 cups of strawberries leftover I just ran out of pectin).

So it came out to be about $.19 per oz. or $1.58 per 8 oz. jar.  That is not to bad if you ask me for fresh strawberry jam.  I am hoping this will last us about a year or close at least.  The recipe I followed was just on the back of the freezer pectin container but it was really simple.

1 2/3 cups crushed strawberries

2/3 cup sugar

2 tablespoons pectin

Mix pectin and sugar together add strawberries mix for 3 minutes.  Fill jars leaving 1/2 at top, let stand 30 minutes and thats it!  Hope simple is that!!!  I hope you all take some time to try this because it truly is SO easy my little helper Abbagail loved helping and zonked out on the couch after.  ENJOY! 

Don't forget to write the date on your lids!

Abbagail passed out after we finished and she had her toast with jam :-)

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Welcome to my blog!!!

Hi everyone as you can see this is my first blog post!  I am so happy to be starting this blog as another way to reach out to similar minded mamas and to share what I know and to hopefully learn something from all you awesome mamas!  I will be looking guest bloggers on a number of topics so if you have something you would like to blog about PLEASE Email me and let me know!  I would really love for this to be a place for a ton of mamas to come and share info, vent, learn new skills, and just have fun!