Category: Contests & Giveaways

I Have a Giant Suprise!

We recently got to try the new Green Giant Veggie Snack Chips.  We tried the Roasted Veggie Tortilla Chips & the Mulitgrain Sweet Potato chips.  They tasted so good who knew there was a surprise hiding in each chip…..VEGGIES!

Everyone loves a good surprise right?  Well, did you know I have a secret talent?  It’s actually something my whole family does.  My Dad used to do it with his brothers and they taught their kids and so on…..

So what is it?  Well, it’s silly, but we take great pride in our squeaking abilities.  My Dad and his brothers can squeak entire songs by just blowing out their lips and making tunes.  I can squeak too, but I’m not as good at carrying a tune as they are.  It’s more difficult than you might think.

Put your lips together and try blowing out…..did you make a noise?  Do you think you can carry a tune or even squeak a song?  It takes talent and by golly my Dad has it and I’m proud to say I carry on that “secret” family talent too!  It’s taken years to perfect but I’m getting there.

Who knew these delicious looking chips are containing a GIANT surprise?
The Green Giant™ Roasted Veggie Tortilla Chips – Zesty Cheddar Flavor are made with real vegetables, 17 grams of whole grain per serving (48g are recommended daily), and are naturally flavored.
 
The Green Giant™ Multigrain Sweet Potato Chips – Sea Salt Flavor are made with real sweet potatoes and made with 14 grams of whole grain. Plus, they contains 40 percent less fat than regular potato chips!
 
Green Giant Multigrain Sweet Potato Chips (6g per 28g serving) have 40 percent less fat than regular potato chips (10g per 28g serving).
 Roasted Veggie Tortilla
 Mulitgrain Sweet Potato chips

I’m a working Mom and Wife.  Often times it’s hard to feed my family, let alone feed them healthy things.  I always have snacks in the car with me.  DFW traffic+snacks=my sanity!  Often times those snacks are very unhealthy and I end up feeling guilty for giving Connor something to eat that isn’t good. 

It’s so nice that Green Giant has these healthy options.  I loooooooved the sweet potato chips!  Connor really liked the cheesy roasted veggie tortilla.  I mean what 3 year old doesn’t love anything with cheese?  It’s a much better option than the cheese puffs he prefers, and honestly he couldn’t put the bag down.  HE LOVED THEM.

Any way I can get nutrition or a vegetable in this child is wonderful!

 Obviously enjoying those chips ey?
 

Check out the Green Giant Facebook page and upload a video or picture of your secret talent!

You can also print off a coupon for 85 cents off Veggie Snack Chips HERE

Check out the surprise talents the Green Giant has unearthed.

Thank you to The Green Giant™ for being a sponsor. Show the Giant your surprise talent at www.facebook.com/greengiant

Blogger Biggest Loser: The Finale

So here we are a little over two months after this Biggest Loser challenge began.  I’ve been encouraged by so many of you!  I hope that the friends you’ve met while participating will continue on and you’ll continue to encourage one another.
 
I started this weight loss challenge feeling icky.  I feel like things have gotten better, yet I know it’s a continuing process and a lifestyle change.  I am not looking for a “quick fix”. 
 
Here we are at the end and here are my results:
 
I’m down -8 lbs!!!
 
Yay!  I know it’s not a ton, but for a couple months it’s darn good.  Especially considering how stressed things have been lately.  Thanks for the support and we had a pretty good darn team too.  I’m so excited to read how each one of you did!!!!
 
No matter if you didn’t lose a thing, at least you tried and you made some great friends 🙂
 
So everyone who is still in the game please post your link below & I’ll announce a winner next Monday. 
 
We celebrated Terence’s Grandma’s birthday today at Red Lobster.  Oh my gosh.  Those cheddar bay biscuits are so hard to have self control…..but feeling good is so worth it & it’s okay to eat the things you want, just in moderation.  If you haven’t done so yet I would recommend My Fitness Pal.  It’s a great way of tracking your daily calories & I would have never known about it without ya’ll!
 
xoxo Becky
 
 

 

Preppy Plates {A Giveaway}

Have you all heard of Preppy Plates?  They make the cutest custom plates, platters, and several other customized items. 
 
I just adore this Trellis Sea Platter with our initials.  It’s so dainty.  Displaying things is so much fun when you have something pretty to put it on.

Connor also got some adorable airplane dishes.  The airplane bowl and plate are so cute!  When we opened it he got so excited and has been wanting to eat on it every single night.

Here is a closer view of the platter:
 
It’s very lightweight and you can pretty much use it for just about anything.
 
Preppy Plates has excellent quality and customer service too!
Preppy Plates has generously offered to give a Java Mama reader a
 
$40 gift certificate to their shop!
 
Yay!!!!!
 
(Also if you’d like to place an order use coupon code “javamama” for 20% off any purchase through March 7th)

 

Enter Below Using Rafflecopter:


a Rafflecopter giveaway 

 

Weekend Wrap-Up+Biggest Loser Link Up

We had a super duper weekend.  Terence hasn’t been feeling that great due to allergies.  The weather is 40 one day and 70 the next.  Who knows?  Back at work today and feeling the end of month crunch.  Looking forward to Connor boy’s 3rd birthday and family and friends visiting.  It’s always nice to have something to look forward to right?
 
So here is our weekend:
 
We ate with our good friends Hyung and Sarah at the Olive Garden
Mom & Dad gave us a gift card for Valentines Day so we used that
Thanks Mom & Dad!

 We got yummy tiramisu for dessert!

I drove up to Frisco to meet one of my favorite bloggers.  Kelly from Kelly’s Korner Blog!  I’ve been reading Kelly’s blog for what seems like forever and have always wanted to meet up.  I think we started reading each other’s blogs in 2006 and were both wanting babies…..it’s amazing to see how God has brought us through that struggle and we have beautiful kiddos now.  Kelly has always been so down to earth and humble on her blog and she is just like that in person.  Even though she is quite the celebrity now 😉 I was laughing because several people wanted to get a picture taken with her while we were sitting there….I don’t know how I would deal with that!  But she handles everything with such grace and is so sweet.  I was glad she made time in her busy schedule to meet up with me and Connor.  It was also nice to meet sweet Laurie too 🙂  The Dot Mom conference looked like so much fun!  I didn’t know about it until last minute so wasn’t able to go-but looking forward to meeting a lot of you at Blissdom too.

Of course while I was up that way we stopped by Coffee Bean & tea leaf=LOVE.

 Connor, Me, and Kelly

Connor woke up dry two times this weekend!!! yay!!!  I also don’t understand why he has to sleep with 1,000 toys?  If I rolled over on them seems like that would hurt???

We got my car cleaned.  Amen!  It was full of crumbs, goldfish, sticky out of this world matter I don’t even want to say….plus we had a spilled milk incident and my car smelled like a sewer for about a week. ICK!  I felt sorry for the poor guy cleaning it.

Looking forward to this mini-series on the History Channel.  It’s called “The Bible” and it’s sort of a remake of “Moses” by Mark Burnett & Roma Downey. 

 

Okay now down to the nitty gritty….

 

Biggest Loser ends next week and I’m so proud of all of you!  I’ve been doing okay despite all the sweet treats.  I’m down -1 lb this week.  I really intended on putting a lot more effort into this…but some things have happened at work that have kept me working late and on weekends.  I’m not trying to make excuses.  Just some things going on in my life right now that I hadn’t planned.  Prayers are always appreciated!  Deep breaths too 🙂
 
NEXT WEEK WILL BE OUR FINAL LINK UP!  IF YOU WANT TO KEEP GOING AND LOSING DO IT GIRL!  NOBODY’S STOPPING YOU….I’M SLOW BUT STEADY BUT THAT WINS THE RACE!