Lovely!

One of my favorite sites is having a sponsored giveaway for a beautiful camera strap (pictured above) from *Shey* [B]. I think they are so LOVELY!  If I'm not lucky enough to win the one being given away, I'll be putting the LOVELY one below on my wish list...with added padding, a pocket for my camera lens (which I ALWAYS misplace...drives J-rod CRAZY!!!!) and "ZIPPY" embroidered on it!! 

Only 28 days until my birthday, and 36 'til Christmas...hint, hint! 

If you think these straps are as LOVELY as I do and want a chance to win one, RUN, don't walk on over to V & Co. and enter to win, NOW! The giveaway closes Friday, November 20 (that's TOMORROW) at 10 am MST. Hurry!

A Serving of Cupcake

One of my all-time favorite blogs, V & Co. is hosting a kati cupcake giveaway from the ever-so-talented Amy.  Here is what the winner will receive:

 7 patterns from kati cupcake!!!

Zippy wants to win!!

And the winners are...

How fun to have such a nice group of ladies respond to the first-ever give-away at Life...our daily adventure--this was fun!  I may just do another in the future. : )

Yes, the correct response I was looking for ladies was, "Mountain is misspelled."  I took the pictures and didn't even notice until J-rod came home and said, "Um, why did you take pictures of the misspelling on the box?"  Once he pointed it out I couldn't help but see it and then of course I had to ask my friend J if it was on her boxes as well, and sure enough, it was!  So to all that caught it, good job!

After reviewing the comments, and realizing that I wasn't very clear in my instructions, this is what I decided:  All who participated will receive something from Zippy--yay!

First Place Winner:

To my favorite Georgia Peach, Cocoa from Chocolate On My Cranium, for being the first to respond to the question correctly: the Fall Care Package.  Cocoa, I will let you know once it's on it's way.

To all the "Runners-up":

Jenny, Jaime, Lallie, Marie, Brenda, and Amy...I will let you all know once your surprises are on their way. : )

Thanks for playing ladies!  My love to you all!

Pretty in Peach

(click on the collage for an enlarged version)

When we lived in the East we had a FUN yearly fall tradition of picking and eating lots and lots of yummy, fresh apples, making, eating and canning applesauce, and of course, making and eating apple pies. Since moving away from the East, we've had to replace that tradition with a new one. Where we live now, early fall is ALL about peaches that come to us from beautiful UT. Even though we don't get to pick them ourselves, we get them while they are still very fresh and oh-so-YUMMY!!

The last two years we've ordered 1-2 30 lb. boxes of peaches and eaten most of them, and then frozen what was left. This year we got a bit more adventurous and tried our hand at canning peaches! Our good friend J came over last week (before we left for UT), and graciously gave up an entire day to help teach us how the entire process works. Our fun-filled day of canning included shopping (for some canning essentials we hadn't yet acquired), eating, laughing, and of course making a nice, big, sticky mess! Isn't that always part of the process when canning? I am happy to report that out of our 2-30lb boxes, we ended up canning 28 quarts of peaches (it would have been 30, but two wide-mouth jars broke while in the water bath--ugh)! I am so excited to can peaches again next fall, though I think we'll be ordering more than just 2 boxes next time. Didn't our jars turn out so nice and pretty? Thanks J, you're the best!

This give-away is now closed.

Thanks to all who played!
A post will follow announcing the winner.

Bonus: The first person to leave a comment answering "What's wrong with this picture?" will win a fall care package from Zippy... including a jar of our yummy canned peaches!