Vitalicious - Review

I have recently had the pleasure to review some vitalicious products.

The Facts:

Vitalicious fortifies its products with nutraceuticals, vitamins and nutrients your body needs
to stay healthy and energetic. Vitalicious also takes pride in producing only all-natural
products, without any artificial additives or preservatives of any kind.

My thoughts:
I was able to review the SuperSampler Pack

This pack was a large box full of yummys!! 

Here is what the box included:

4 Deep & Velvety VitaBrownies
2 Chocolate Mint VitaTops
2 Banana Nut VitaTops
2 Triple Chocolate Chunk VitaTops
2 Deep Chocolate VitaTops
2 Fudgy Peanut Butter Chip VitaTops
2 Golden Corn VitaTops
2 CranBran VitaTops
2 Apple Crumb VitaTops
2 RaisinBran VitaTops
2 Pumpkin Spice New!

 My favorite vita top turned out to be the Golder Corn, I love the sweetness of this little cornbread treat.  I ate mine all by it's self gut this would have been great with a bowl of soup or chilli.  

When I first opened the box I was super excited about all the yummy chocolateness!!  It turns out I enjoyed the other varieties more.  I liked the chocolate but they were a little bland for being chocolate.  From a dieting perspective they make a great little sugar boost!! 

I have also been sending these in Baby bug's lunch a bit.  I like the fact I can send something that is low calorie but not unhealthy.  I love that she is getting variety and nutrients.  She has not turned down any flavors I have sent so far.  

I do think overall these make a good healthy snack!!!  Next time you are at the grocery store take a peek in the freezer section and see if they have and of these vitalicious treat available or order straight from the website!!  

Disclaimer: This review is sponsored by vitalicious, I was given the products to review .  The opinions in my review are my own and not influenced by the company.  

Book Review- Family Life Marriage Bible

 Bible Review:

Family Life Marriage Bible

Devotions from: Dennis and Barbara Rainey

Overview:

The FamilyLife Marriage Bible features:

52 devotions for couples

Over 250 Bibical insights articles

80 Parenting questions answered

Hundreds of romantic tips, quotes,  and notes

66 bible book introductions

FamilyLife Family Manifesto

Topical index to features

8-page family tree section

30 days with Jesus Bible reading plan

My opinion:

 I love this Bible.  The devotions, and side notes are such a nice addition.  The Bible arrived in a hardcover format.  It is white with some golden designs and two marriage rings on the cover.  The scriptures are black and the devotions and extras are written in green so it is easy to tell the difference.  The Index to the different devotions and notes is very nice it allows the reader to quickly find pieces to go with a topic they are interested in.  Their are blank lined pages in the back for notes, and spaces for family tree, marriages, births etc in the front. 

I give this Bible a 5 out 5 stars a very good addition to any couples bible reading time.  This would make a wonderful wedding present!

Disclaimer: Thomas Nelson sent this book, through Book Sneeze, to me for the purpose of this review. I have not been compensated for this review in any other way and all opinions in this review are entirely mine.

Book Review- DG The Dopple Ganger Chronicles

Book Reveiw:

The Dopple Ganger Chronicles - The First Escape 

By: G. P. Taylor

An Overview:

From the best-selling author of Shadowmancer comes an enthralling new series of illustra-novellas. The First Escape is the first book in the Dopple Ganger Chronicles, a six-book series following three children—Sadie and Saskia Dopple and Erik Morrissey Ganger. Sadie and Saskia are mischievous identical twins living at an orphanage, where Erik is their only friend. They are separated when Saskia is adopted by Muzz Elliott, a wealthy woman searching for her long-lost family treasure. While Saskia stumbles into the center of a crime only she can stop, Sadie and Erik embark on a quest to find her. This book is in an exciting new format called an “illustra-novella,” in which the story is told alternately in graphic novel format and plain text with occasional illustrations.

My opinions:

This book is written in a novel/comic format, this made it a quick read.  I was not extremely fond of this writing style.  I struggled to understand the details of what was happening.  I believe that things were intentional left mysterious to leave room for interpretation.  I did not want to interpret, I wanted it told directly. The drawings have avery unique almost dark side to them, I can not sure how to explain them. 

There were some great parrels from this story and I think that it could lead to some good conversations with young teens and parents.  My sister also reviewed this blog and she and my niece read it and discussed the many aspects of it you can see that review here. 

Over all this was not my favorite book but I realize that part of my dislike is in my own personal writing style preferences.  Through the whole book I was just so so I could take it or leave it, but some how at the end I realized that the last little adventure actually held my attention and I wanted all the sudden to see the sisters safe and happy!  

 Bottom Line:

I would give this book 3 out of 5 stars.  I could see it being a real crowd pleaser with the younger generation, but it still is not my cup of tea.

Disclaimer: Tyndale House sent this book to me for the purpose of this review. I have not been compensated for this review in any other way and all opinions in this review are entirely mine.

My Baby Clothes Boutique- Giveaway

I have a great giveaway for you today!! 

My Baby Clothes Boutique is a cute little online store with several adorable clothing pieces for the little ones, they are offering one of my readers a $25 gift card.  

They have all kinds of great things- Tutus, baby clothes, baby headbands and baby hats.

If I had a $25 gift card to spend here are my top 3 favorites from the store:

1. Mud Pie Rumba Top and pants set

2. Spring Breeze Corker Bow

 

3. Simple Smocked DayGown

Ok On to the good part the giveaway!! 

I am trying something new with this giveaway - I am using a form instead of comments for entries please note you must fill in the form to enter.

  Mandatory Entry:

Go to My Baby Clothes Boutique and tell me your favorite item.

Mandatory Entry must be completed before other entries!!

Extra Entries:
1. Follow this blog using google friend connect.

2. Blog about this giveaway leave a link to the post in your comment- 3 entries 

3. Tweet about this giveaway

4. Follow me on twitter

5. Tell me how you found this giveaway in a comment below

6. Enter this giveaway into a giveaway linky -

7. Like me on facebook  

8. Post my button on your blog and leave me a link where I can find it. - 3 entries 

(code can be found on side of blog) 

9. Follow MY Baby clothes Boutique's blog

10. Follow MY Baby clothes Boutique on twitter 

11. Follow My Baby Clothes Boutique on facebook

12. Become a newsletter subscriber of My Baby Clothes Boutique

 This giveaway is limited to US Residents only, 18 years of age and older.  Contest ends Wednesday April 30, 2011 at Midnight Central Time, 1 winner will be chosen by random.org

Disclaimer: This giveaway is sponsored by My Baby Clothes Boutique,    

Wandering Through Wednesday!!

It's time for another Wandering through Wednesday!!

This is a blog hop with only one rule please follow either my blog or Katie's Bolg - Life with the Dietrich's! Or if you want to you can follow both :)

If you do start following me, leave me a comment letting me know and I will follow you back!

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While you are here check out my current giveaway for a Bath Luve

And be sure to add your Easter Posts to my Easter Link up

 

Happy Hopping!!!

 

 

Busy!

I am sure you have notice things have been a bit slower here lately, that is because life is busy!  This time of year is always filled with things to get the year wrapped up for a teacher.  Summer is just around the corner and I have a ton to do before I call this year finished at school.  So there may be a few less posts between now and June but don't worry things will get back into full swing soon.  

What is your busiest time of year?  

Some random things:

I did just get my Buth Luve review and giveaway posted last night be sure to enter it before May 4th. 

I have lots of Book reviews coming I have my nose in several books!

Can you believe Easter is almost here?  I finished babybug's Easter Basket with a few goodies!  Anyone have anything really special in the baskets this year?

Don't forget to add your Easter posts to my Easter link up I would love to see all your ideas!!

Well I guess that is the end of my rambling for now have a great week!! 

Tori

Bath Luve - Review and Giveaway

I was recently given an opportunity to review the duck from Bath Luve. 

Baby bug is older now and we did not use the bath luve in the traditional cover the tiny baby up during bath time way.  She enjoyed playing with it in the tub and wore it around as a cape, the little feet are perfect for cape wearing.  (I had a cute picture of Baby bug wearing it as a cape but I have somehow lost my camera cord!  I will add the pictures if I find the cord!)  I love the size of the bath luve.  It was perfect for baby bug to play with and covered all of her back up.  I can see how it would be a great cover up to keep a young baby comfortable during bath time.  Those sweet little ones can get cold so fast this is an easy solution!  When baby number two comes around this will be a must have during those first bath times.  It is also a great size to hang up on a towel rack between baths to air dry. 

One other off the wall use I found for this cute little duck is as a bib!! Pin those feet and create a bib that is perfect for a messy toddler during meal time.  

Bath Luve has three sweet little animals to choose from- the fish, the duck, and the frog.  At $6.99 these are a great bargain.  I think they would make a super cute baby shower gift.  

 

Bath Luve also carries a line of small  bath luve buddies small little matching sponge wash clothes the perfect little friend to the bath luve.

 You can keep up with all that is happening with Bath luve by visiting their blog.

I have good news!! Amy from Bath Luve is offering  one Learning to be Thrifty reader a bath luve of their very own.

  Mandatory Entry:

Visit Bath Luve's website and tell me what your favorite product is they carry?

Mandatory Entry must be completed before other entries!!

Extra Entries:

1. Follow this blog using google friend connect.

2. Blog about this giveaway leave a link to the post in your comment- 3 entries (leave three separate comments) 

3. Tweet about this giveaway (may be done once a day) 

4. Follow me on twitter

5. Tell me how you found this giveaway?

 

6. Enter this giveaway into a giveaway linky - one entry per linky it is entered into please leave the link to the linky in your comment 

 

7. Like me on facebook  

 

8. Post my button on your blog and leave me a link where I can find it. - 3 entries 

(code can be found on side of blog) 

 

9. Be a GFC follower of Bath Luve's Blog

 

10. Follow Bath Luve on twitter

 This giveaway is limited to US Residents only, 18 years of age and older.  Contest ends Wednesday May 4, 2011 at Midnight Central Time, 1 winner will be chosen by random.org

 

Disclaimer: This giveaway is sponsored by Bath Luve, I was given a  product  to review as well.  The opinions in my review are my own and not influenced by the company.    

Better Late than Never!!

This has been a busy week and I have been very bad to put off announcing the winner of the coupon giveaway!!

So with no more delays the winner of the coupon giveaway is: 

Number 3: 

Megan said...

3

I follow!

 

I will be contacting you shortly Megan!! 

Guest Post on Tight Wad

Hey Guys I have a guest post up over at tight wad all about fun things to do at Easter. Click here to check it out.

Wandering Through Wednesday

It's time for another Wandering through Wednesday!!

This is a blog hop with only one rule please follow either my blog or Katie's Bolg - Life with the Dietrich's! Or if you want to you can follow both :)

If you do start following me, leave me a comment letting me know and I will follow you back!

Don't forget to visit the Co-Host! - Life with the Dietrich's

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Happy Hopping!!!

Wandering through Wednesday!!

Wandering through Wednesday!!

It's time for another Wandering through Wednesday!!

This is a blog hop with only one rule please follow either my blog or Katie's Bolg - Life with the Dietrich's! Or if you want to you can follow both :)

If you do start following me, leave me a comment letting me know and I will follow you back!

Don't forget to visit the Co-Host! - Life with the Dietrich's

We have two buttons you can add:

A larger one perfect for a blog post-

<a href="http://thriftytori.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i850.photobucket.com/albums/ab70/ktdietrich/WTWbutton-2.jpg" border="0" alt="Life with the Dietrichs"></a><br /> 

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Happy Hopping!!!

 

While you are here be sure to check out my coupon giveaway

Also Please check out my Easter Link up post a great place to find some fun Easter Activities as well as link up your own Easter related things. 

Free 8X10 at walgreens

Walgreens is doing their 7 days of deals this week.

Today's deal is a free 8X10!  Yes that is free!  Use the code: DEAL8X10 at checkout to get the photo free.  If you choose to pick it up at the store it will be completely free!  I love these deals.

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An Educational Easter

I love using Eggs in my classroom.  We always hunts Easter Eggs that I have set up with something Educational.  In the past I have had children hunt eggs with coins to practice counting, rhyming words to match, and even numbered the eggs and have the students put them in order.  You can check out an article I wrote, for other ideas on making Easter Educational if you need some other ideas. 

Also as you make little Easter crafts make sure to use the craft for educational purpose crafts are a great time to work on fine motor skills, following directions, and positional words.  My favorite site for crafts is DLTK's Site they have so many great ideas for a wide variety of subjects. 

Do you do anything to use the holidays to make learning more engaging for your children?  

Spring Has arrived to Pier One

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Pier 1 for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

Spring has arrived to Pier 1.  They have a large selection of stylish outdoor furniture to choose from.  You can see all they have to offer in their outdoor furniture section.  There are choices for every style.  I really like this coco cove outdoor wicker rocker,  doesn't this remind you of something you would find on the back porch of a  beach house overlooking the ocean.  We have a nice big deck behind our house that is very poorly furnished.   I would love to give it a makeover!  Pier 1 has all the great furnishings to give any back porch or deck a makeover.  For our deck I would love to have the rocker I mentioned before as well as the matching end table.  I think these two pieces would give the deck a very peaceful feel, it would be the perfect set up to curl up with a good book.   I think it is great that so many of pier 1's outdoor furniture can be used indoors this really adds to the versatilely  I can easily see that same rocker and end table in a little corner of the living room. 

Pier 1 has some great Papasan chairs as well.  These are another great example of indoor outdoor furniture.  I think these would be a great addition to the patio or family room.  Pier 1 not only has the regular papasan chairs but also rockers, double papasans and even a swingasan chair.  The swingasan chair is adorable I  am sure it would be the highlight at any family or friend get together.

For those on a budget one easy way to update your patio is with cushions.  Adding new cushions to your current furniture is a simple cheaper way t spruce up the outdoor furniture.  Pier 1 has a great selection of colorful cushions to choose from. 

Pier 1 is hosting two Pier 1 Tweetups  in the month of April.  What a great event for bloggers and tweeters in the local area to meet up.   The Pier 1 tweetups will be April 5th in Atlanta and April 20th in NYC if you are in those areas you should think about attending to meet some great who tweet and blog just like you.

So Spring officially began March 20th, What are some of your spring favorites from Pier 1? 

Party Giveaway - Coupons

Free Coupons!! 

Are you enjoying the Ultimate Blog Party?  Well what is a party without a door prize? 

How about a envelope of coupons?  

One lucky Learning to be Thrifty Follower will receive an envelope full of mystery coupons!! 

Feel free to jump over to the party post and party with us!! 

  Mandatory Entry:

Follow me Via Google Friend Connect

Mandatory Entry must be completed before other entries!!

Extra Entries:

1. Blog about this giveaway leave a link to the post in your comment- 3 entries (leave three separate comments) 

2.Tweet about this giveaway (may be done once a day) 

3. Follow me on twitter

4. Tell me how you found this giveaway?

 

5. Enter this giveaway into a giveaway linky - one entry per linky it is entered into please leave the link to the linky in your comment 

 

6. Like me on facebook  

 

7. Post my button on your blog and leave me a link where I can find it. - 3 entries 

(code can be found on side of blog) 

 

9. Leave a link to your blog so I can come party :) 

10. Follow my Sister's blog: The Growing Gibson

 

 This giveaway is limited to US Residents only, 18 years of age and older.  Contest ends Friday April 8, 2011 at Midnight Central Time, 1 winner will be chosen by random.org

Party Post!

It is time to party! 

I am joining 5 minutes for mom in the Ultimate Blog Party

Welcome to my blog party buddies!

This blog is all about how to be a thrifty momma!

While you are here check out my Easter Link Up I would love for you to add your Easter Links!!

Don't forget to jump over to the party giveaway here at Learning to be Thrifty - Free Coupons!! Click here 

Check it out my Big Sis has joined the fun and she has two great giveaways going on!!

Enjoy the party I look forward to meeting lots of new blogger mommas!!