Remember

Don't forget today is the last day of the giveaway!! You need to post to be entered in! Also I wanted you to see this most beautiful picture I took of the DC temple, which is actually in Maryland. I love it, and it is such a testimony to see it when you are driving and its above the trees. So beautiful.

So I will announce the winners soon! And I will contact you through email (google profile email) and go from there! Don't forget to post!

GIVEAWAY!!! ON MY BLOG!!!!

That's right people I am having a splendid giveaway. On this very blog. No crazy link to another blog, no catch. It's free if you win. It's totally free!! And its so AWESOME!!!! I can't stop being excited about it. Wahoo Wahoo Wahoo.  Be excited with me. These are the things you need to be/do to qualify. But make sure you read further down for more details, this is just to get your gears goin.

1. Comment saying your favorite flavor of body butter from these options: lemon, lime, chocolate, lavender, orange or peppermint.

2. Can't be my sibling. . . Sorry :) Anyone else qualifies, relatives, friends, friends of friends, I have never met you in my life...you're in.
3. Enter before Midnight on Sunday the 18th of July. So you have Friday, Sat, and Sun, get to it!

Now with what you win!!!!!!!! Wahoo!

Products.

My sister has an All Natural Skincare Line called Essentially Basic Skincare...she has been working on it for 3 years now so it is next to perfect :) And I am giving away three products from her line, because I love you all so much, and because I use all of her product and I know that it works for me and it has saved me in so many ways.

Three products, valued around 60 dollars, so you need to jump on this.

The grand prize is a skin toner.

It is an anti-aging toner with bergamot and ginger, what does that even mean you ask!?!??

Read THIS and you will see exactly why a toner is NECESSARY for your skin. Not just a store bought toner, but an accurately established toner that is ALL NATURAL. Gosh toners help your acne, decrease pore size, and with that keeping dust and dirt out of your pores.

So, all you need to do is tell me your body butter fav and you are in the runnings for this wonderful product.

Check out the ingredients, and notice the essential oils and wonderful ingreds. (short for ingredients)

 2nd Prize!

Herbal facial cleanse. Basically a fancy way of saying 'all natural face wash'.

Check out the ingredients and it does have almond extract, so if you are allergic to nuts, make sure you also write that in your blog comment and if you win I will give another prize! So don't eliminate yourself. For those of you that are not allergic, it smells DIVINE!! I love using it on my face, and it takes off my mascara, which is a problem for me.....most face washes don't conquer the mascara, but it also is all natural and good for your skin. Great for your skin. You all know why you need face wash...duh, I don't need to tell you.

3rd Prize

Mmmmm Body Butter, yum.... so creamy and wonderful for your skin. This one in particular is peppermint. And wow, you will love it. 

This has peppermint, oregano oil, rosemary extract, shea butter, coconut oil, and other divine stuff. Seriously its a best seller. People put it on their skin then they walk away with it because it is divine. Divine I tell you. 

So post away to win away.

I myself wish I could post....but I guess I don't qualify.

Also check out her blog/website to purchase products.

You can purchase right through paypal.

essentiallybasic.com

Happy posting.

I have some really great

Nieces...
They are so great and man are they ever cute!

You see we had Mad Mad's party, and I took some shots of their faces. Cute faces. SO cute faces.

Maddie, she is the oldest of my sister's children, she is also the first grandchild on both sides!!!! It was her birthday, and she has a lisp, just like Hannah. We don't make fun of it though, we embrace it. Or embrath it....Get it? Embrace with a th....like I have a lisp. Ya, okay, moving on.

Then there is Molly, she doesn't have this weird underbite in real life, she just was a little confused at my desire to shove a camera in her face. Her swim suit was to die for cute, it had that ruffle factor going on, makes you wanna squeeze cheeks and cuddle with the cute baby wearing it. She is a doll and we love her, she gets attached to people and never leaves their side.

And this doll is Halle. No way you can't pick her up and kiss her and shake her making sure she is real, because she is so cute. No stinkin way. Especially when she does this..

Goodness, look at those teeth, and those cheeks, and those eyes....I need a baby to stare at. Because this is unreal. If you are a mom out there, did you crave babies before you had one? And after you had one?

I'm an addicted craver. Then I look at my bank account, years left in school for Brad, and say...there will be plenty of time for babies. But I still crave them, addictively.

Mother Hannah, I just hope I look as good as she does after three girls.

Father Jeremy. He's a dentist. So they all have picture perfect teeth. Brad and I can't afford the dentist, so its been awhile.....new topic.

You know, I have lots of nieces, and don't feel I love these nieces more than the others, by no means do I. I love them all the same.

This is Sophia. She is Tanner's baby. I love her, and so does Brad apparently, because when she fell in I said. BRAD! She fell in! GRAB HER!! And she was grabbed immediately by Brad. Amanda is her mama.

So, I promise my nieces are the greatest thing. You just have to experience them, but don't think I left out my favorite toddler...

Faith, my sister. She's 3 now. And thinks she owns the world.

But this is about my nieces, so get your own blog post Faith. 

Oh, and my other needy friend.

Brad. Can't you see him? With that adorable tube that makes him nerdy? Well there he is.

How to Clean a Ceiling Fan: Boring, I think not.

I decided to start a 'how to' portion of my blog. I felt like I could benefit many readers. Who doesn't need to know how to clean a ceiling fan? Nobody! Everybody needs to know this. Everybody.

And this is stuff that not everybody knows. This is secretive, valuable stuff that I am sharing with you.

Stuff that you won't find in books, or anywhere else online.

Nobody teaches you how to clean a ceiling fan, not even your mom. Ask her, she probably will not even know HOW to begin to give you a step by step process. If you stopped reading here. ..GEt BACK TO READING THIS IS NEVER SEEN BEFORE STUFF.

Okay I'll stop with all of that. Truth is..you need to know this.

This is the fan in my bedroom. This is the wing to the fan. Look at the dirt and grim build up. You know its a high quality fan by the way it cuts through the air and gathers all this dust. Boy its a good fan. Or, we use it 24/7 cuz our house is hot hot hot.

Here is a more open view of the wing of my fan. See the dirt build up, needs cleaning and I am about to show you how.

This is one way how. I also suggest clorox wipes, but the problem there is, with wings this dirty, we are going to use 20 clorox wipes, and does a ceiling fan need to be disinfected? Not necessarily, you aren't eating off of it, sucking on it, or cutting your meat on it, so...its a better bet to get rid of the dirt and grime and hope this does the job, since you wont be you know sucking on it. So get your Pledge multi surface spray.

So the first thing you need is a delicate hand like mine, and a paper towel. I buy the 70 cent rolls at Macey's, Smith's or wherever else you can find these high quality rolls. The need for expensive high roller rolls is not needed in this job. I will tell you when it is needed, like cleaning toliets. When you clean a toilet you do not want your towel to rip and get on your hands. YUCK. You need high quality rolls then.

 Then take your Pledge multi surface spray, and spray a few squirts on the paper towel, not too much, not drenched, because remember these paper towels are NOT the high roller rolls, they will rip if they get too damp, they aren't bounty, HELLO be careful with the squirts.

Then take a few squirts on your wing. Once again, lightly this isn't a swimming pool on here, its a misting pool chair, lightly damp people.

Then you wipe along the edge. It's a nice feeling its a liberating feeling. It's a successful feeling. I take my thumb and put it under the wing, then I take my four fingers above the wing and slide my hand along it. And this is my result. Grime Dirt, great feeling.

Then you keep going with that sliding motion. You may need to reapply the

a few times.

This may happen. This may drip on your bed, or whatever is below you. No worries just pull out your

and pick it up.

Please dispose of your trash. Please. It has black grime on it. Throw it away and say goodbye. 

I hope you have learned everything you have ever dreamed of today.

Remember that sliding motion with your hand.

It's crucial in cleaning a ceiling fan.

Late Night Monop.

What do you do when you are bored, its 10:00 PM, and you feel like being adventurous?

You guessed it. Monopoly. Not just any Monopoly, but Disney Pixar Monopoly.

You see ever since I was a kid, I love Monopoly. Sally Landon and I would lock ourselves in a room and play for hours and hours and hours. I know the properties upside down, and inside out. (What does that even mean?) I know the rules. The money, the system. I played Brad when we were dating and I murdered him. But I was kind and let him do well.

This time...I was not so fortunate. 

By the end of the game...Brad was the bank. this is is money stash. He had all of it.

He had this many properties the entire game. Except three of them I gave him in payment of one of his 21034923095 dollar rents. He landed on all of them. It was luck beyond luck. All the railroads, all the utilities. All the yellows (my favorite). He was so lucky. And he was so stingy. He wouldnt trade me anything!

Here are my ownings. He justified that because I owned the most valuable properties, he didn't need to trade me. He landed on them once.

Oh my cash flow is nothing. And he landed on free parking 1039834237 times.

Sorry for all this monopoly talk. I may still be a little bitter about it.

DI Hards.

Ya, thats right. DI hards. We love DI. And I personally think that there are some real gems there.

We always get so lucky when we get there. Whenever we just stop by. Just driving by and decide to plop in, we get gems. real gems. 

Like three bags of golf balls for six dollars.

With lots of pro v1s. 

Apparently those are the best. Buying these motivated Brad to clean his golf clubs. See what the DI does for us. Some great things, some really great things.

Also, this stamp kit I found digging through a tupperware. It's making memories, magnetic stamps. Which retail for like 30 bucks. I didn't even tell the guy that. I just said, "I found these stamps." He said,"Um...... 1 dollar okay?" I kinda choked. "Yep that's perfect."-Brittany

Oh I can't wait to use those stamps. And now for the grand prize.

 A working handheld catch phrase. 

$1.50

Can you believe that? It works too!

Brad and I always used to play this while we were dating, just him and I, we were so good at it. He could say a few words and I would guess it. Then we would switch. Since we were on the same team, it didn't matter who buzzed :)

DI hards. 

Check out the DI sometime. You will become a DI hard too.

Just a bit of did you know..

Did you know my grandma has miniature ponies.

And when kids come over. She saddles them up with little mini saddles. 

I sit on them and my feet touch the ground. Its like a walk ride. When I feel like walking I do, but the horse does all the work.

And did you know that my grandma is an amazing woman?

While all the guys are watching T.V. she walks right out into a snow storm to put some eggs that her chickens laid in somebody else's car. Then I say, "BRAD HELP HER!"

She is an amazing woman, and she always gives me Salt City Candles for birthdays, graduation, and Christmas.

Oh Mad Mad.

It's her birthday today.

She turns five.

I think five is such the age. You get to go to kindergarten. You get to be a big girl. FINALLY!

You are old enough to play with the big kids, but young enough to still play with the 3 year olds. 

You begin to read, and reading brings so many other opportunities.

Maddie is my niece. She is the oldest niece. 

She has so much energy. Loves butterflies, lady bugs, and junk in her purse.

She is a gasper.

You know like, Ahhhhhhhhh a suck in air when anything happens. 

We are celebrating by going to my uncle's pool. 

We cannot wait. 

Starts in an hour :)

Every little thing...

Despite the trials in our life right now...

We know, that every little thing, is gonna be alright.

(Signature song to sing to each other when its rough going, Thanks Bob Marley). 

Out South

So we drove south...South to the Cedar Hills...or more like Cedar City Utah to the Utah Summer games.

As sisters we didn't win one game.......

That's to be left unsaid :) But it was fun, and I loved playing with my sisters and spending time with them. Faith needs to grow up so she can play. Maybe she will seal us a win.

We went to Vegas on our anniversary which I explained our hotel experience earlier.

This here I think we are eating at Pampas :) A Brazilian grill that doesn't hold its own next to Tucanos. I did like their bar though.

I heard this rule that once you get married, sins don't count? Am I wrong? Hmmm...its a thought for everyone.  I asked for rare, because the meat just was too done for me. Then this maggot filled raw piece of meat was slabbed on my plate.

Brad said, "You know its too raw if Brit won't eat it." 

He was right. I wouldn't eat it. They cooked the outside and that's it.

The middle smelled like I just thawed it from the freezer. To give to my dog. I didn't want to leave with a poison from food. FBI. Food Bourne Illness.

Wouldn't that be wonderful, "Happy Anniversary BLAHHHHHH Brad."

The Blah was a throw up.

If you didn't catch that. 

We went swimming. We took some scandalous pictures of me in my bikini. I have this rule where I can wear a bikini if nobody else knows me but Brad. Its a good rule for us. But I'll keep this blog safe for your eyes. Cuz...that might be too gross for you.

Woo Brad...lookin good. In this trip I got so much sun oil on my glasses, now no matter how much I wash them. Still smudged and oily. Oh well it was well worth the tan.

We also went to PF Changs...twice. Uhhhh so good. So out of our budget. But so good.

We accidentally got free lettuce wraps, as I believe I mentioned earlier in my previous blog post.

Our room was quite nice. I loved the toilet. Who has a black toilet. I know I plan to after this. 

I know its creepy to show the bed on honeymoon or anniversary trips, but I loved this head board, it was so soft. And...it had this fancy lighting all the way around.

We loved our trip and we were so happy Brad's car made it the entire way.

We have had a rough week this week.

My car engine blew out (I may or may not share those details), its still a little sensitive.

I didn't get the job I was so excited for.

And I stopped working at info (something else I am so sensitive about.)

But through it all, I think being jobless, losing my car, and not getting a job, are devestating to me but are so minor in my happiness. It was depressing and hard, we had long days full of tears (for me, not really for Brad). We had an amazing fourth of July, We went to Brad's aunt's house for the stadium of fire fireworks, and I  helped Tosha at her makeup booth. 

Monday we went to Brad's other aunt and uncles house the Nemrow's where we ate barbecue and watched fifty great grandkids hit pinatas. It was quite devastating for some, and very victorious for others.

Guess what!!??!? I have so much time on my hands, that I cleaned the disaster room. So if somebody needs a twin bed to sleep on, I got it, and a clean room. :) Also, I tutor two boys, and yesterday we made the world from Playdoh. 

Ya his North America is a circle, but that still counts right?

He was a little more specific about his world.

I thought this would be a good way for them to learn the continents. 

Tomorrow I'm going to Heber City Farmer's market to sell all natural skincare. You know you wanna come up!!