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Ultimate Blog Party With 5 Minutes for Mom 2011

It is time to party like a rockstar. Oh yea, come on, let’s party like a rockstar!

Let’s put on a video to get this party started.

Now, that we are all in the party mood, let me serve you with my southern charm. Have a glass of sweet tea please:

I am so excited that you have come to join in the fun here at One Moms World. I am an over scheduled mom that is just taking life one day at a time. Being a mom to two beautiful girls and wife to my husband is what I always dreamed of when I was a little girl. Now, I am able to live that dream in real life.

We are a family that loves to travel and love all things healthy living. When the weather cooperates, we love to spend time outdoors and see what this great country has to offer. We take multiple random road trips throughout the year. The girls have been traveling with us since they were babies, so they love a good road trip just as much as we do.

Mom, here is a tech geek and is passing that onto lil sis and big sis. My droid is always with me (yes, even when I am sleeping) and the girls have known how to run a computer since they were 2 years old. As much as we love technology, I love to have tech free nights as well. Families do need that one-on-one time you know? 🙂

Enough about me, I would love to get to know you. Tell me about yourself in comments and I look forward to getting to know you.

Giveaway: To help celebrate the upcoming holiday, I am doing a giveaway of the Original Here Comes Peter CottonTail Movie.

Peter Cottontail wants to be the #1 Chief Easter Bunny and everyone in April Valley agrees…except for his archrival, evil Irontail. Hop along with Peter and his friends as they race through time celebrating all of your favorite holidays to deliver the most eggs…and save Easter for children everywhere!

2 Lucky Party Go-ers will get their very own copy to help celebrate Easter this month!

All you need to do is leave a comment and we will use random.org at the end of the Ultimate Blog Party to pick our two winners. Good Luck!

Gap Casting Call Photo Tips Plus Gap Giveaway

Did you hear?! It is that time of year again! The Gap Casting Call is going on right now. You know I have to enter my little fashion diva L. She is just too adorable and loves to ham it up for the camera. Gap has asked for my help to spread the word about the Gap Casting call and in return they are going to give one of my readers their own free pair of jeans. So cool right?

I did want to share a few tips with you so you can capture that perfect photo of your child.

1. Make sure to not pose your child. Let them be natural and snap away with your camera. If you pose them, they will start getting aggravated and will possibly have meltdowns.

2. Stage the photo shoot in front of a solid background. If you have busy distractions in the background, your camera flash may focus on the background noise instead of your precious model.

3. Keep continuously shooting with your camera. Do not stop so you will not miss that perfect shot. Kids move and change poses fast, so keep snapping away.

4. Be upbeat. If you are upbeat throughout the photo shoot, then the child will be happy.

5. Ask the child questions throughout the photo shoot, to spark their creativity. Keep them smiling with crazy sayings. Happiness will equal one awesome photo shoot!

I did aÂ mini photo shoot with L and did a short video of the photo shoot to showcase the tips above. Watch the short minute and half video to see what photo we ended up entering in the Gap Casting Call!

Now it is your turn to create a photo shoot. Hurry and go grab your camera, your child and start snapping away. Here are the 4 categories:

â€¢ Baby Girls (ages 0 to 4 years of age)
â€¢ Baby Boys (ages 0 to 4 years of age)
â€¢ Girls (ages 5 to 10 years of age)
â€¢ Boys (ages 5 to 10 years of age)

GIVEAWAY!

Enter to win a free pair of gap jeans by:

1. Leaving a comment below with your email address.
and/or
2. Tweet about the Gap Casting Call. Example Tweet: I really want to win a free pair of Gap Jeans on @OneMomsWorld Casting Call Giveaway http://ow.ly/2OJYs

Make sure to leave another comment each time you tweet. Good Luck!

* This post is sponsored by BabyCenter and Gap. All tips, photos and video are of my own judgement!

Enjoying God’s Creation at Ocean Isle Beach

Taking a moment while the girls are on 3 week Fall break to enjoy God’s creation. We so get caught up in the hustle and bustle of life, that sometimes we forget to just stop and cherish what is around us. The girls and I are having a blast enjoying the sights and sounds of Ocean Isle Beach. The weather is beautiful. Enjoy!

Black Bean Brownies

The other day on the Dr. Oz show they showed how to make a more healthier version of chocolate brownies. Now, you all know my family is all about eating healthier. I am not a big chocolate person, but I do have to say my husband and our girls definitely are! Even though, I couldn’t imagine how black beans would make brownies taste good, I decided to give it a whirl.

I grabbed a box mix of brownies (any mix will do)

1 can of 15.5 oz of Black Beans

and I blended them all together in the blender. I did want the beans to be smooth after all ;). I poured the mixture into a 13 x 9 dish that was sprayed with PAM. I placed the dish in a pre-heated oven of 325 degrees. The wait was on. My husband was giving me weird looks and saying, I know you don’t expect me to try them. Oh of course I do honey.

The time was here… let’s open up the oven door and see our creation.

Phew… they do look like brownies. That is a relief! Let’s now get down to the real stuff and taste test them. We love whip cream on our brownies, of course make sure it is the fat free kind. We are keeping it healthy you know!

M is our first person to taste test.

L is our second person to taste test.

I think we have a winner with the Black Bean Brownies. Hubby and I really enjoyed them as well and now we can eat brownies without feeling so guilty eating them. Let me know if you try them and how you like. I know.. I know… it does sound like a weird combination, but I can say you will not be disappointed!

Olive Oil Kills Lice

That is right my friends, Olive Oil does indeed get ride of lice. I wish I could say that I did not have to experience this firsthand, but a few weeks ago, we indeed did have lice invade the girls and my hair. Oh my, my head is already itching again just thinking about it. I totally was freaked out about this and the first thing I did was email my partner in crime over at BabyCenter Dina. She brought me back down to my senses and told me not to be embarrassed, it just happens.

I immediately went out to the grocery store and bought RID. I did not one, not two, but three treatments on our hair and I was STILL finding nits in our hair. I was really over lice at this moment. A good friend back in my hometown Boone, NC had called me to check on the girls and I to see how we were liking our new home and I spilled the beans to her. She said Jen, RID does not work. You have to try Olive Oil. That is what worked for us. You are kidding me right? I just went and spent almost $100.00 on a product that does not work!

I immediately went to the store at 9:30 that night and bought bottles of olive oil (only needed 1 but you know) and 3 shower caps. I drenched the girls and my hair all over with olive oil and made sure our scalps were really saturated in the olive oil. Then I adored our pretty heads with the pink shower caps and we went to bed. Woke up the next morning and washed all our hair out with dish detergent and then regular shampoo. We not only had soft smooth hair but also there were no nits or lice to be found. Ever since that night, we have not been bothered either. I cannot believe I put all those awful chemicals on our head and still had remnants of lice and then one night of olive oil soaking in our heads all night and all the remnants are GONE!

So there you have it… do not use RID or any of those other awful chemicals on your head. Just get some olive oil and a shower cap and you can say goodbye forever to the lice that are so not welcomed in your home or your personal bubble of your head.

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