What's A Chick Chat Day Without A Giveaway?

We feel that it is our Chick Chat duty to connect you not only with fun and interesting bloggers, but also to help you look great…on and off camera. After all, if you are going to be a part of Chick Chat, then you should be, as Oprah says, “your best you.”

As part of the today’s kick-off, the Three Bay B Chicks, Hot Chocolate Caramel Mocha, Pooba, Optimistic Cynicism, and The World According to Me, will be hosting a give-away beginning at 12:00 am EST Thursday morning and ending at 12:00 am EST Friday morning. To enter, visit the sites participating in today’s discussion and comment on the giveaway post. Since there are five bloggers with something to say, you have five opportunities to enter our give-away.

Want something more? To earn an extra entry on each site, simply follow the Chick Chat participants. Ultimately, 5 Chick Chat participants x 2 entries per site = 10 total entries.

To entice you to start clicking away, three winners will be chosen at random from the five sites participating in today’s Chick Chat. At stake are two $50 gift certificates to Lisa Leonard Designs and a SHHH…MOMMY’S BLOGGING tee-shirt from Hot Chocolate Caramel Mocha. Winners will be announced on all five sites on Monday, April 13.

Now about those prizes…






Lisa Leonard’s designs show us that all that glitters is not gold. Her desire is to create simple, lovely pieces that can be worn with jeans or your little black dress. Each piece is meaningful and a work of art. Lisa’s custom jewelry is hand-stamped with your children’s names or a special phrase or verse. Check out Lisa’s site and figure out how you might not only spend your gift certificate, but perhaps also splurge on something for yourself!


Also up for grabs is also a newly released SHHH…MOMMY’S BLOGGING tee-shirt from Hot Chocolate Caramel Mocha. Honestly, who has time to chat when the blogging world awaits? Certainly not us! Silence family and friends without uttering a single word by wearing your SHHH…MOMMY’S BLOGGING tee.
The fun doesn’t stop there! Join us today at 1:00 pm CST for a live Twitter party regarding Chick Chat, upcoming video topics, and more on the giveaway. We hope that Lisa Leonard herself might even join our chat and talk more about her lovely designs.

Tell Us What You Have To Say

Blogging is a funny thing. You can get to know everything in the world about a person, but never see their face or hear their voice.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could somehow change that? Even for only a little while?

The Three Bay B Chicks and Hot Chocolate Caramel Mocha will be kicking a video series known as Chick Chat this Thursday, April 9. Twice a month, they will post a clip of themselves chatting on a particular topic, as well as link to a few bloggers who respond to what they have to say in their own video.

Interested? Swing by the following blogs tomorrow and see what we are talking about:

Three Bay B Chicks
Hot Chocolate Caramel Mocha
Optimistic Cynicism
Pooba
The World According to Me

Yeah I know what you're thinking, who wants to listen to me talk?

I'm warning you right now that I sound like a man when my voice is recorded so don't be confused, it will be me talking and not some transgender guy going through hormone treatments on his way of becoming a woman. Just so you know.

For the kick off of this awesome idea there will be giveaways! Hell yeah right?! So come back tomorrow to check the chicks and the chat!

Chick Chat participants will change regularly, so be sure to let us know if you might like to join in the fun. We want to hear what all of our bloggy friends have to say.

Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.

So we did it, we celebrated Lin's birthday yesterday. It was so sad to see her youth slip away like that, but we all held hands and got through it together.

It's a known fact that my family loves our nephews and if you ask Lindee, she will tell you that we all love Logan way more then we love her. So my baby sis Lyse thought of the brilliant idea to buy birthday presents for Logan rather than Lindee.

So here is Lindee pretending to be happy with these presents that were really for Logan, happy until she realized she wasn't gettin anything for herself!

Ok, so she wasn't too upset really and of course Logan LOVED mom's presents! (Please excuse Al's huge size 14 in the way!)






So after putting her through all that torture, we finally brought out the real presents. She mostly received cards full of dough which is the usual gift in my family, but because I have given Lindee such a hard time with her birthday I decided to actually put some effort into her present, yes I did the unthinkable.

I. Went. Shopping.

If that doesn't show my love for my sister, nothing else does! So here are her reactions to her real birthday presents!








When wrapping Lin's presents I only had one box at home to put them in. It was a Christmas box. A big no-no I know, but I made it better. It's still winter right?




So after presents we all pretty much chilled. This is Logan showing me his teeth, LOL he is so cute! (Don't ask me what Alyse is doing in this pic)

(Oh and for all you old people, LOL stands for laughing out loud)








Okay, now it's time to brag about Brolan. Check out this picture, isn't that the most adorable thing you've ever seen? Those dimples! I mean come on I can't handle this much cuteness!








I am failing as an aunt. You see how he is smiling with everyone else? This is what happens when he looks at me:




My quest at becoming the favorite aunt is failing miserably. Maybe it's due to the fact the I NEVER get to see this pooper! I'm not bitter, really. Below is my niece Kelsi, bro Chad, cutest lil Brolan in the world, and my sis in law Amy.

Baby sis Alyse, Lyse or Lyser.

My hunk-a hunk-a burnin' love:

Really old woman, me, and hubster:

The beautiful madre:

The handsome padre:

Okay, now that I've overloaded you with Dunn goodness, I will leave you with this. I'm warning you, this isn't pretty. In fact you may not want to scroll down, just close the window right now.




Be afraid.





Be very afraid.

Someone is Really Old Today.

It's my lil sis's birthday today! Well, yesterday. She is so old. She was born on April 2, 19something something which makes her 22. But she is a mom which adds 10 years so she actually just turned 32.

Which makes her older than me, really really old.



So everyone needs to go tell this gorgeous devil that she is very old and give her 32 birthday spankings!

Go on, get outta here!

Lin, you can thank me later.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

She-Man

Okay everyone, so I don't know how to spell diarrea or diareuh or annieharper or how ever you spell it!

That's not the only thing I can't do, I can't read either. Well maybe it's not that I can't read, but it's that I don't bother to read or pay attention. To anything.

Case in point.

As I told you before, I am taking prenatal vitamins.

I keep these vitamins in the kitchen cupboard which is a very reasonable place don't ya think? Me too. So everyday I do the same thing, open the cupboard, take out the bottle, pop two pills in my mouth and down a glass of water.

It's a routine. It's never failed me. Until now.

Yesterday I reached into the cupboard to pull out my trusty bottle of vitamins and pull out these instead.



Fine print:

Exclusive P-450 Estrogen-inhibitor
Rapid Bio-Diffusion Delivery
Increases Muscle Mass, Strength, & SEX DRIVE.

You think I'd notice the difference between my husband's testosterone bottle and my vitamin bottle right?

Wrong.



It wasn't until after I was humping my refrigerator that I realized what had happened.


Yes, I am now sporting a nice full mustache, but on the plus side I was able to rearrange the living room furniture this morning with just my pinky finger!