Red Tricycle Big Peach #Giveaway!

 
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Red Tricycle  is a digital city guide for parents, delivered to your inbox, and has recently launched here in Atlanta. If you aren't familiar with Red Tricycle and you are a parent in the metro Atlanta area or one of the seven other markets they can be found in you should take the time to get to know more.

Our mission is simple, to help parents have more fun with their kids.

To help you have fun with your favorite little people Red Tricycle offer ideas for cool things to see, eat, make and do with your kids in your area.  So not only are you getting the convenience of entertainment ideas being delivered to your inbox they are also saving you time from scouring through the never ending happenings here in the Atlanta area to find the  ones that not only spark your interest but are kid- friendly as well. So with all that extra time on your hands what are you going to do with yourself. Well you can start by entering some of the awesome sweepstakes and contest they have listed on their site including the Big Peach Giveaway!

Help Red Tricycle celebrate their launch in Atlanta by entering to win one of 17 awesome giveaways from Atlanta's best businesses! The list of giveaways alone will give you great ideas for kid- friendly entertainment starting your relationship off right with Red Tricycle!

You will be entered to win:

• Graco Children's Products Jogger Stroller
• 4 Tickets to Tree Top Quest
• $300 Child Portraiture Session from Kate Byars Photography
• cinda b Baby Bag & Travel Friendly Pouch in Scala Ivory
• 2 Family Memberships to Chattahoochee Nature Center
• Family Membership to Southeastern Railway Museum 
• Family 5 Pack to AREA 51 - Aurora Cineplex and The Fringe Miniature Golf
• 1 pink and 1 green Highchair Organizer 
• The Music Class, Fall Session 
• Build your own bday party for 6 at Hippo Hop
• $200 B. Baby Braithwaite Gift Certificate
• emerald august $250 Gift Certificate
• 4 Pair of Babiators, 2 original, 2 polarized
• $200 Family Photo Session with Deana Levine Photography
• Southern Sitters & Nannies Annual Membership
• Rhubarb & Custard $75 Gift Certificate
• $300 Youth Technology Center Gift Certificate

Want to double your chances to win? Share with friends and family on Facebook and get an extra entry for each person mentions your name in the referred by box!

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This is a sponsored post on behalf of Red Tricycle. All opinions are 100% mine.

Making Healthy Living Easier- Salad In a Jar

When starting a journey of healthy living the first complaint is always that its inconvenient.  Well at least that WAS my complaint, but I have decided to finds ways to make living a healthier life more convient for me and my family to make it easier for us to maintaing this lifestyle. All it takes is a little bit of creative thinking and planning.  While putting salad into a Mason jar is not a new idea (check out Pinterest) it is definitely new to me and my family.

So I went on an adventure to my local grocery store and bought quart sized Mason jars. A pack of 12 was less than $10 dollars, I am a very frugal person and even I think that's a great deal.  After purchasing the jars  I set down to craft a plan and after a few minutes online I came across this one site in particular named TheKitchn.com that made it super easy to understand the proper way to layer your salad. So I enlisted the hubby and we commenced to chopping and layering. 

First thing in is your choice of dressing we used a Vinaigrette. Next pile in your "hardy" vegetables  they will act as a barrier between  your dressing and  any other ingredients you don't want to get soggy in our case our hardy vegetables were cucumbers, carrots and cabbage.  Now you pile in the "fun stuff" tomatoes, chickpeas, onions, almonds, cranberries or strawberries, eggs  and low fat cheese made up this section for us. And last but not least comes the Mixed Springs and Spinach you want to save this for last to keep it as far away from the dressing as possible to avoid having a soggy salad. Seal with the lid and you have a meal thats ready to go and stays fresh in the refrigerator for 4-6 days.

In the end we prepared six ready to go salads to be used as our lunch for the remainder of the week. If you layer your salad loose enough you could simply shake it up to mix all the ingredients together and eat it right out the jar.As you can see ours is pretty tightly packed so we will use a separate bowl to pour the contents in to enjoy our flavorful masterpiece. 

Once the boys saw what we prepared they were disappointed to find out that these colorful meals did not belong to them. Note to self buy pint size jars  for the kiddies on the next run to the grocery store!

What are some of your tips for making healthy living easier?

World of Coca Cola- Mother's Day Giveaway!

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At the World of Coca-Cola you can experience the history of the world's most famous soft drink at the dynamic, multimedia home of the 125-year-old secret formula for Coca-Cola. Get closer than ever before to the vault containing the secret recipe, and see the fully-functioning bottling line that produces a commemorative glass bottle of Coca-Cola for every guest. View more than 1,200 never-before-displayed artifacts, take a trip around the world in a thrilling 4-D movie experience and tempt your taste buds with more than 60 beverages from around the globe.

Everyone has there go to places for taking their out of town guest, mines is most certainly World of Coca- Cola mostly because it gives me the excuse to experience it all over again! World of Coca- Cola is definitely a place that can bring moments of happiness to the young and old alike. In honor of  Mother's Day I would love for you to share a moment of happiness that you've had with your own mother. 

Photo Courtesy of World of Coca Cola

I'll go first! One moment that stays at the forefront of my mind was May 27th 2009. This was the day that my oldest son was born. Both the baby and I was pretty groggy after being in labor (induced) for nearly 72hrs, but I recall looking over as my mother held my son as she rocked in the rocking chair and a smile creeped over my face and than my mother said "My baby had a baby". In that moment I felt like a Girl Scott who had just been given the highest badge of honor from their troop leader, I was officially a mom and who better to deem me so than my own mother.

Enter to win! Share a moment of happiness you shared with your own mother and you could win four (4) tickets to World of Coca-Cola, assuming two adult and two youth tickets, the total ticket value would be $56! 

Make sure to Like and Follow the World of Coca Cola on Facebook and Twitter!

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Disclaimer: The tickets were provided by the World of Coca-Cola no compensation was received. All opinions are 100% my own. 

Best Dessert Atlanta 2013

I had the greatest time at  Best Desserts Atlanta 2013. The hubby and I were able to enjoy fine desserts from some of Atlanta's primer restaurants including Seed Kitchen and Bar, Rathbun's and 4th & Swift. There was a distinguished panel of judges Dolvett Quince a Trainer from the Biggest Loser,  Joshua Russell from the Food Network Challenge and Michelle Rickett the president of She Is Safe (SIS), an international nonprofit that frees and empowers women and girls from abuse and exploitation in 8 high risk countries, just to name a few.There was also a silent auction with a wide selection of items and experiences to choose from. All this excitement was housed inside the beautiful showroom of Hennessy Porsche North Atlanta. 

As impressive as the desserts, judges, auction and locale was and is sure to be next year, the star of the event was without a doubt  Faith Hope Adoption. Faith, Hope, Adoption (FHA) is a 501c3 non-profit organization that exists to help prospective adoptive parents successfully navigate the often-complex adoption process. The Best Dessert Event is held to support and raise funds for Adoption Discovery which is the mission program of Faith Hope Adoption. Their goal is to reduce the numbers of orphans one child at a time, they do so by helping those who have already decided to adopt navigate from beginning to end of the sometime complex adoption process.

Hubby, Dolvett & I

Michelle of She is Safe & I

Joshua Russell of The Food Network & I

Members of my very own family have had the joy of expanding our family through adoption. While the end results makes the journey worth while it was certainly an experience that could have been less stressful and more efficiently executed had my family been aware of and had access to Faith Hope Adoption. So if you or someone you know are considering adoption definitely seek out assistance to help you/them navigate the process. 

If you would like to support FHA you can find out more about volunteering and donating here. 

Disclaimer: I received complimentary tickets to the event, but as always my opinions are 100% my own.